W\e vnvvjjvfrw. V^T( MISSION OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Wellington was in the first years of its exi stance an Irish settlement. About the year 1843 a number of emigrants from the South of Ireland took up land in the vicinity of the present location of the village, and commenced farming operations. Dwing to various causes these people ultimately dispersed to other districts and Highland farmers from Grand Biver moved down to the vacant farms so that Wellington became a scotch parish. The settlers for over thirty years attended mass at the church of St. Patrick, West "but on 1 May 1872 they purchased land from one Kr. Donald McDonald and took measures towards the "building of a church 'or themselves. This church was begun in ISfk and was built under the direction f Rev. Father Ronald 3. MacDonald now a member of the Society of Jesus, then astor of the Mission of St. John the Baptist, Miscouche and of St. Patrick's, d Pdver. p. Even McKinnon was the builder of the church which was completed exteriorly in he summer of 1 S 75« A tea party was then given by the parishoners in order to ise some money to asist in defraying the expense of finishing the interior, me years elapsed before a sufficient fund was raised, in the meantime the .stor, Father McDonald resigned his charge and left the diocese of Chariottetown. the year 1882 Rev. N.C.A. Bordreault , pastor of Miscouche brought the work the church to conpletion. Mr. Peter Cameron v/as the carpenter employed and . Gibson the painter. e altar which is neat and tasteful was given to the mission by the late pastor ther McDonald S.J . and was made by Mr. Dempsey of Summerside . The church is fty feet high by thirty five wide, the height of the wall is twenty feet. It very neatly finished within and without. There i -. n the register ted January 1877 which reads n Mrs. Alexander McKinnon " generously presented s church with a chalice, May God reward her".