Ephrem Boudreau wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated. The priests of River Bourgeois. Michael MacKenzie (1846-?) served from August 25,1888 to November 14, 1891. Fr. MacKenzie was born at Red Islands (today Johnstown) some 20 miles east of River Bourgeois on the Bras d’Or Lake. He was ordained at Quebec…
