SAINT DUNSTAN'S COLLEGE

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-4- farm of twenty acres and enough land for a large cemetery were given to the parish by

the last Donald MacDonald of Glenaladale.

Tracadie mission comprises portions or Townships thirty-rive and thirty-six, extend- ing from Donaldston on the west to the boundary line between township thirty-six and

thirty-seven on the east, and having Hillsborough as a southern, and Bedford Bay as

a Northern boundary.

The first pastor of this mission was the Rev. James hthonald, who died in 1785. Then came Father (afterwards Bishop Mcnachern, then the Reverend John hacDoandd and the Rev. Charles :cDonell, who was succeeded by the Rev. James Brady. After thirteen

years ministery, he was replaced by the Rev. Thomas Phelan who has been charged with

Tracadie mission for thirty two years.

Although of late, it has become one or the most fashionable watering places in the province, there is not much in Tracadie to interest the average stranger, if we except the Fagnificent mansion of Er. LacDonald or Glenaladale, with its outbuildings which surpass everything of their kind in Canada. For the antiquary, however,

Tracadie has a charm, the very name is matter for reflexion; Tracadie - whence comes it?

Like Acadia, Rassamocadie, Shubenacadie, it is a name of the old Acadian days - but

the origin of it is lost amid many speculations.

The ancient cemetery at Scotch Fort is still the burying place of the thDoaalds or

Glenaladale. A magnificent cross of purest white marble, morticed into a block or Scotch granite, tells the passer by, that:

"Here lie deposited in the peace of christ, awaiting the coming of the judge of the

living and the dead, in the hope of a glorious resurrection, and a happy immortality,

the mortal renains of John .ecDonald of Glenaladale, Esq. a captain in His LhJesty'g