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The greater number went to Cape Breton, but about fourteen families Bourques, Pitres, Chaissons and peters removed to Rollo Bay

where they purchased lands from the late John Cmmbridge upon

which they settled in the year 1801 or 1802. TWO families of Longue-epee went to Souris, where the Chiveries of Little River removed some years later. The old burial ground at Bay Fortune

is stillzfiscernible on the property of Mr Charles Aitken.

There had been in the time of the French Occupation a Catholic Church at Bay Fortune, but it fell into ruins and was never replaced by the Acadians. Travelling missionaries frequently held stations in thesettlement in the house of Honore Michel who was

a prosperous blacksmith without a family. The first priest of whom there is mention made as having served these Acadians is Monsieur Magdand; then came a Mons eur Ledru whose letters to

the BiShOp Of Quebec may be seen in the Archives of the Diocese

of Charlottetown.

After Monsieur Ledru's departure the next priest to visit Bay Fortune was the Abbe de Calonne who, sent by the BishOp of Quebec to make inquiries as to the state of the Church in Ile St Jean, established himself near Port-La-Joie, on what is now called

the Warren Farms, whence he started on various missions throught-

out the Island.

Soon after his arrival it chanced that one, Germain Chaisson, of Bay Fortune fell ill of the small-pox. A messenger was diSpatched to Port-La-Joie and the priest set out to administer the consol- ations of religion to the sick man.

There was no "royal road" to duty for the brother of a first minister of France. Through dense forests and treacherous togs, over meadows on which the summer sun beat piteously, across bays and rivers, on foot and by canoe the good priest pursued his

weary way. When he arrived at Chaisson's house, he found the sick man almost smothered for want of air, and proceeded to give a lesson in hygiene by opening all doors and windows. Having revived the patient, he heard his confession and remained with him until his death which oocured shortly after. This Germain Chaisson

was considered quite a scholar in his day and was also a very

good man, one who made a point of collecting the inhabitants of tflm:sttlement and reading the prayers of the Church to then on Sundays and Holy Days when they were without a priest. Naturally

he was much esteemed and all his neighbours, protestant as well as catholic flocked to his funeral. The Abbe de Colonne seized the opportunity to preach a very clear and practical instruction

over the grave, one which made a deep impression upon all who heard it, and of which their descendants talked about for years.

After the Abbe Calonne, cane Abbe Gabriel Champion and then

Father Aeneas Bernard NacEachern, afterwards first Bishop of Charlottetown, under whose direction was built the first log

chapel in the year 1804. At this time there were but eighteen families in the parish and they all assisted in the building of the little church which was but thirty feet in length by twenty in