In 1879, during the pastorate of the Rev. Joseph Seller, who had previously served 
     
     in the Bedeque Circuit, construction of the Methodist Church building was started 
     
     and was finished in 1881 at the same time that the Bible Christians were building 
     
    
   
   
    
     their church in Miminegash. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The land for the new church building was donated by two of the original and 
     
     stalwart members of the Methodist Society in Miminegash, John Wilkinson, Sr. and 
     
     his wife, Rebecca N. Wilkinson, both natives of Lincolnshire, England. This gift of" 
     
     land, a part of the Wilkinson Farm on the Shore Road in Miminegash, was later 
     
     legally designated as the property of the Miminegash United Church and properly 
     
     deeded. At that time the surrounding areas of the Wilkinson Farm were sold to 
     
     Robert Elliott MacInnis by his aunt, Elizabeth Alice (Mclnnis) Wilkinson (Mrs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Albert B. Wilkinson). 
     
    
   
   
    
            
     
    
   
   
    
     Interior of Miminegash United Church 0055 CON. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Supervising the carpentry work was Archibald Johnstone Leard of Tryon and 
     
     Kildare Cape, a man of considerable reputation as a builder and cabinet maker. He 
     
     was aided in the work by several men of Miminegash. The two huge eight-inch- 
     
     square, hand-hewn timbers, used as cross beams connecting the four corners of the 
     
     church, were carried from Richard Costain’s Mill nearby by James Alfred Rix and 
     
     John Green (aged 16). Other men who helped Archibald J. Leard were; Joseph 
     
     Green, a carpenter and cabinet maker, Elijah Costain (aged 16), Robert Mclnnis, 
     
     Richard Costain, John Wilkinson, Sr., James Palmer, Samuel Rix, and Thomas 
     
     Rix. Stones for the foundation were brought from Lot 7, gravel and limestone were 
     
     available in Miminegash, shingles and lumber from Richard Costain’s Mill and 
     
     bricks were brought in by boat for the foundation and flue from the brick yard of 
     
     Francis O’Hughes who operated a brick kiln south of the village of Tignish at the 
     
    
   
   
    
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