ST. GEORGE'S

N T] {Ii LATE 17905 a few Scottish immigrant

families settled around Launching Point

and soon other Families joined them. In 1802 they built a log chapel and in 1820 they erected a larger church a mile inland which they dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel.

In 1860 the parishioners built their third church, this time at St. George’s, and dedicated it to St. George, patron saint of England.

On Easter Sunday, 1943 this church was completely destroyed by fire, after which the parish hall became their temporary place of worship. In 1952 the parishioners proudly opened the present beautiful and spacious church.

In 1836 the early settlers erected a small house For the priest and in the early 18605 they built a new one. The third and last one was constructed around 1910 and sold in

1995 when the last resident pastor moved out.

Father Francis MacDonald was very much associated with St. George's Parish. He served all his sixty priestly years in southern Kings County where he supervised the building ofhalf the churches in that region. During all of that time St. George's was part ofhis pastorate. There he died and is buried.

More than twenty religious sisters and a dozen priests were born in the parish. In one neat corner 0F the cemetery there is a nicely designed section containing the remains of ten priests. Two of these parish natives, Monsignors MacLean and MacLellan, were Vicars General under three bishops each and both also served terms as diocesan administrators.

Another parish native, Bennett Campbell, was premier ofP.E.I. from 1978 to 1979.

Today 120 families live in St. George's Parish, a lovely rural setting

| I washed on three sides by splendid

waterways.

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