32 CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. ship was opened in 1835, and such was the increase of pewholders that the present more commodious and handsome structure was completed in 1844.—The Scotch Church in progress of erection is for the accommodation of the congregation under the pastoral care of the Rev. Dr. Mathieson. This congregation since the resignation of the first incumbent in 1824, who with the original congregation belonged to the Burgher Seceders in Scotland, has been in con nection with the Established Church in that country. This church, it is understood, will be after the model of the celebrated Cathedral of Salisbury, which is perhaps the most beautiful example of the ecclesiastical architecture of the old country. The tower and spire will together rise to upwards of one hundred and eighty feet.—It is recommended to the tourist now to descend M'Gill Street to the River. On arriving at its intersection by Notre Dame Street, he will discover at a few yards to his left a very antique building, the Recollet Church. When this order was extinguished in Canada, the British Government exchanged the ground, on which their Monastery stood, and the adjoining lands, for the beautiful Island of St. Helen (which lies opposite the lower portion of the city), then the property of the Hon. Mr. Grant. The Seminary purchased from him the Church, and adjoining buildings, for supplying the large influx of Irish emigrants with a separate place of worship. Here the Irish Catholics continued to worship till the more commodious St. Patrick’s Church was opened at the close of 1847.—A few yards south, and on a part of the grounds formerly pertaining to the Recollets, stands St. Paul’s Church (in connection with the Scotch Establishment), a chaste building of cut stone with a well finished Gothic front. It was opened for Divine Service in 1834.—A little farther in the same Street (St. Helen, called after the island of that name in consequence of the exchange just alluded to) is the Baptist Chapel, which was begun and finished for public worship in 1831. It is in connection with the Ottawa Baptist Association.— Tewards the eastern extremity of M'Gill Street on the left is a very handsome edifice, formerly occupied as St. Ann’s Market, but, upon the occasion of the Seat of Government being transferred from King ston to this city in 1844, selected as the most eligible for the use of