Morag Weatherston studied art at Edinburgh College of Art (1964-68) in Scotland, specializing in mural design and tapestry weaving. Following school emigrated to Canada. For a time, she taught art in New Brunswick, before relocating to Prince Edward Island in 1991.

St. Joachim's Roman Catholic Church is a large Gothic Revival church built of Prince Edward Island brick located on the crest of a hill overlooking the community of Vernon River and surrounding area. Construction of St. Joachim's RC Church began in 1877 and completed in 1879. It is believed the architect was John McLellan (1820-1887) who also designed St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church in Foxley River (1873), St. Joseph's Convent in Charlottetown and very likely the Church of Christ in Montague (1876-1879). A church bell was installed and dedicated in 1886 and in 1902 a new pipe organ was celebrated. Due to the deteriorating condition of the original 150' spire, it was removed and replaced in the mid-1960s with the current, much smaller scale, spire. St. Joachim's brick parochial house, dated 1868, stands next door.