,.,. _

‘ 1 BRAE

( Immaculate Conception)

the 19305 until 1967 but recently it was sold.

The present church was constructed in 1903 and completed over the next few years. The interior woodwork finish and design are very striking

Over the years the priests serving the Brae usually had another parish as well, such as today when their spiritual leader is also pastor at Bloomfield where

he resides

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lmmacu/ate Concep Ion

131mm) FROM T1115 StiorrisH \voki) for Although the Brae was always a small "hillside", the Brae parish community parish, the parishioners saw fit to build a neat was settled by Scottish Catholic little mission church at Glenwood near West

families around 1828. Occasionally a priest Point which opened in 1913 under

would celebrate Mass at some convenient dedication to ”Corpus Christi”. These place in the settlement. years, the Eucharist is celebrated in each church on alternate Sundays. In 1848 the people built their first Church there, dedicated to the Today some 80 families Immaculate Conception, under the comprise the Brae Parish. a1 1111113) supervision of Father Peter has provided the livelihood for MacIntyre who had spiritual care of manv generations of parishioners all \Vest Prince County. and fishing has too, out of the great p01 ts of BraeH Harbour and

In 1856 the parishioners West Point. From the south side of erected the parish rectory which the parish may be seen the lush always added a pleasant balance waters of Egmont Bay and beyond that those of the Northumberland

Strait,

to the pretty church. Resident

pastors occupied the house from Corpus Christi

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