-6- She settlement, afterwards called Belfast , * corruption of the Ereneh *'Ia Salle yace," was founded on the abandoned 3ite of the Sraneh colony. She clearing had again grown up, tut various evidences of the forn*» occupation, the shallow well, the ditch* the graveyard, still existed, 2ha old cenatery that knew the voice of the Cure, 13. C-irardf das soon requisitioned by the newcooers to fill the purpose for which it was dedicated, and today forcEo? neflibors of a district settled with siailar hopes-, bat alien in race rod relicion, sleep in undisturbed repose v/iihin the sacred confines of the corarccn hallowed spot, fct present but one bruised headstone can "be found within the 3laeh jjrovo eMcfa aarks it off, 2n I960 several acres of this land, including the churchyard, were constituted as the "Sard ." Sech sunroer mm and \soajen from every province in the Dominion and from ovary state in the Union tread this holy soil, but few indeed ace ana** of, or even interested in, the great monenta of history which had their reality right at their very feet. 2h 1824 these sturdy pioneers erected the Belfast Church which still stands and which ha3 become a notable tourist attraction. Tim¬ bers in its construction 'sere carried up the steep 3lopee on the backs of the parishionors. '.The church tins built by the greatgrandfather of ths late ireffiier Jones from an original drawing raade by Sir Christopher i'.ron who designed sany of the famous cathedrals of Surope* Cne of the clsrgyeen of this church, tho Bsvi Alexander Bfecjtoari Sinclair, who was -----------------——-----------.... 2 Ibid., pp. 19-20