by locating a place of worship within easy access. A more cynical view was that the location would in reality ensure that the new church would not receive the financial backing necessary to ever challenge the position of the old parish church. The new church was additionally handicapped by the restriction, included in the Resolution moved by William Cundall , that the new church must be designed and constructed for a cost not exceeding 800.00 maximum. One should consider the sum deemed sufficient for construction of this new church building. One hundred years earlier the British Government had seen fit to provide the Colonial Governor (Patterson) with one thousand pounds to cover the costs of constructing the original building intended to house the Church of England in Charlottetown . Since that time, construction costs had risen considerably. Obviously the price stipulation was to have the effect of delegating the new church edifice to a modest size. In effect, especially in view of the financial resources available to the prospective members of the congregation, the Chapel of Ease would remain financially dependent upon the older established parish church. The work of raising money for the new church was begun almost immediately and by February 1867 enough headway had been made that an advertisement was placed in the local Daily Examiner calling for tenders from contractors to construct a "brick Church on ". A Christmas Bazaar was held to aid the work of raising funds for the "Free Church" which was in the course of being erected along . The term "Free Church" referred to congregational seating within that church building. The mode of worship in the new church. The Rector of St. Paul's had not yet given up his fight to retain complete control over the new church. He called a special congregational meeting at the end of March 1867 to discuss the matters of the basis, Ministry, and regulation of the church being built. No definite decisions were taken at that meeting, or at a subsequent meeting held in mid-May on the same discussion topics. At the end of July , E.J. Hodgson reported in a family letter that the new church was progressing well but was not endorsed by all members of the congregation of St. Paul's. Some of the parishioners, he reported, looked on St. Peter 's (the new church) with a great deal of suspicion, others with open hostility. He recounted in good humour an incident of the previous week whereby " Mr. Desbrisay last week denounced us all and solemnly excommunicated every one who had anything to do with 'that Church'. But none of us seem the worse of it and the building still goes on."2 2. Hodgson , E.J. Letter to Robert Hodgson , July 31st, 1867. St. Peter 's Cathedral Archives.