attended. Very few people had 
     
     automobiles; the chief means of 
     
     transportation was by horse or on foot. A 
     
     few wooden shelters accommodated 
     
     some of the animals while the remaining 
     
     horses were tethered to trees or fence 
     
     posts during services. Neighbors and 
     
     friends spent time immediately after 
     
     church socializing in the churchyard. 
     
    

    
     The two Protestant churches were 
     
     smaller, wooden structures and were 
     
     always nicely painted and maintained. 
     
     St. Paul’s was a much larger building, 
     
     constructed of Island sandstone and Nova 
     
     Scotia granite. It was designed by the 
     
     famous Island architect William Harris 
     
     and was built by local, volunteer labor in 
     
     1888 under the guidance of the pastor, 
     
     Father William Phelan, from County 
     
     Wexford, Ireland. His remains rest in a