MacDonald in . The moving was done by Norman Brown of , who cut the church roof and walls apart, and hauled the parts on a truck wagon to their new location, where they were re-assembled. At Church Union in 1925, the members of the Covehead Road Methodist Church were transferred to the Covehead Pastoral Charge of the United Church of Canada, by action of the Presbytery of Later... in view of the present conditions and the foreseeable future the Presbytery was requested to declare the Covehead United Church closed; permission to dispose of the building was also requested; however the church was fixed up, and continued to be used. The trustees at this time were Victor Deacon , Ernest MacMillan and Harold MacDonald . Eventually, on January 12, 1965, the Covehead Road Church was closed and the building sold by the Presbytery for $1.00 to Norman Hambly , who demolished and removed it. St. Eugene's Roman Catholic Church, Late in the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth century a number of Irish Roman Catholics settled south of Stanhope along the . In these early years there was only one Catholic priest on the Isle of St. John. He was Father James MacDonald of Tracadie , who came with the Glenaladale settlers in the 1770 s. The Covehead Catholics made their way to Tracadie to worship and to be ministered to. Father MacDonald died in 1785 and there was only a layman, John Doucet , who was sent from Quebec to Rustico . In 1790 Father Angus Bernard MacEachern arrived from Scotland . He later became the first Bishop of the Charlotte Town diocese. From then on the Catholics of the district went to worship to Tracadie , Rustico or Charlotte Town , and were fortunate to attend mass two or three times a year. In 1832 the first church in was built, under the supervision of Father John MacDonald , son of Captain John MacDonald of Glenaladale . It was a log building, 30 feet in length, on three acres of land donated by Sir James Montgomery II , and included a cemetery; it was dedicated to St. Eugene, who was the Bishop of Carthage from 481 to 505 A.D. The log church was replaced in 1853, in the time of Father Thomas Phelan , by a fine modern structure built by Michael Walsh . Some of the parishioners were from the following families: Robison, McCormick, McCormack, Reardon, Ready, Power, O 'Brien, Lamphier, Horgan, McCabe, Mclsaac and MacAulay. Many of these were residents of the Stanhope district. Stanhope residents who have become sisters include Sisters St. Margarita and St . John of Sicily (formerly Cecelia and Catherine 67