I ■The bell has *he following Inscription! I 5 3 -. Jesu + fene + Joseph nP , Cosse n*a faite, Tdchelin, 1723. + En 1870 J »al ete retiree des ruir.es d'un acien village Acadien, I. P. E. 'in 1882 les paroissiens de m'ont fait refrondre par .leneely et cie de , jj, y on SOuvenir de leurs Ancetres dc l'Acadie." The Priests who have served in the parish of Alexis since the tine of Bishop Aeneas Bernard fecSachern arei Reverend Jean Louise Beaubien Joseph Etienne Cecile Antoine Gosselin Williar: Bernard MacLeod John 1-ss.c Donald R. IficFhee Francis MacDonald Dugald IJacDonald Donald P. MacDonald Edward Walker Reverend Reginald MacDonald Louis Callaghan Alphcnsus L. Slnnott David McTague Wilfred A. Keefe The Reverend Dr. Edward Walker was the first resident priest and he built the present parochial house. There is in this day no vestige nor nark of the trials through which the pioneer settlers passedj° their descendants live in peace and plenty, drawing harvests from land and sea and adhering strictly to that faith for which their forefathers suffered in the cruel days of old. The following were the first settlers of the mission of Alexis, , Paul Fitres , Joseph Pitres , William Pitres , Joseph Bourke , 61son bourke, L 'Aumant Chaisson, Raphael Ghaisson , Jean Chaisson . Jean Longue epee, Jean D »Aigle, Charles D'Aigle N « B, This was copied from a history of the Church written by Rev, A. E. Burke, D ,D,, in 1885, and updated by the lat« Profess or Henri Blanchard , of Prince of Wales College, and published in the Charlottetown Guardian in 1954, A few words have been added. A. M , D. G .