However, Ir, Jenkins gave up hit? practice two year? Inter -hen, In 1887, Tr. Archibald A. Alien , a young nan of twen¬ ty-five, took over the responsibility of providing medi¬ cal cnre tc the people of Cardigan district. Tt, Allen wn >orn at Covehead in 1862, and, with hin graduation from McGill University, proceeded to Cardigan where he ministered faithfully for fifty-nine ye«r^t until hi?? death in 1946, to the phyaicol ailments of theoe people,17 fhroughout its history, all generations in the Cardigan district have expreaeed great fervor and sentiment with re pect to the Christian faith, Wo^t of these inhabitants are member-, of the Catholic Churchy but there ia alno a large number who rre members of the lire te<" tent Church, Provioue to the building of a Catholic Church at Cardigan , Roman Catholics attended religious service ft Georgetown , The hose of Captain Joseph McPonald al^o served a • a house of worohip for «hoee people in times of large christening- , Occasionally, the Holy r acrifice of the Macs was offered in thi ease ho una. Uhe contract for the construction of the Catholic Church was let in the spring of 1874* the Construction of thi: holy edifice was described in a book written by 17« SMBS&SaV <l>cceatoer 5»1946),