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the Catliolics- inSt. John’s Island wiould have grown intolerable?" din‘ all probability they Wflllld have emigrated e éwhere. Their religion to them was <leai-ei' thaniliie, its practices their only consolation, for be itfre red that the early Scotch settlers,

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the Western Highlands ‘were simply hounded out of Scotland, to suit the-new ideas of the chlefie or the Southern landlords who had superseded the broken power of the old clan chiefs. These poor people mostly went to, Prince Edward Island, now cal ed the Garden of the magnificent Dominion of Canada, and if we can judge from the Catholic Directory of the Dominion and the statistics _of the Island, these gallant Highlanders still cling in their. newchoines to the faith for which they suffered so muchiacross. the sea, Shoulder to-shoulder, has ‘been a watch - word of the splendid Highland soldiers, who, have made ‘history and _won victories for the ‘British the,

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In December iaet-awnovemermwasimdu arageddo commemorate in fittin‘ "iflahnerthef _ ‘flilllydlts: ary of the landing of t e-flist-Scothiihfilfizhtflicsefa, tlers in what is now the ‘province’ ofilPfliilleiEdward Island. . ._ ‘ - ' This landing took pIaceTa-longitheiHfllsbdilougfliiror East River, twelve miles inland fromwtlsipresent‘ city of Charlottetown, atlFtlie" Scotchfort.Here a small >ciruréh*ms1éreet$d3.arm¢+in.

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first given to a regiment of Catholic Highlanders raised for King George III. ‘liy a Catholic ehiefbain‘ inwthe year 1778. The distance of the _Western Ocean has not dismissed the marvelous ‘powers of Highland cohesion. Like the dispossessed" of jibe martyr nation, Ireland, the Highland Catholics ‘carry with them‘, wherever they go, the faith which is dear- ' er to them even than the land of the “Mountain, and the flood”--the nurseland of the race ofheroesjto which they belong. : t. . -I' m? ~~ = . a ,- The death of Father James was ia grievous blowhto the Catholics of St. John's Island. Amongst the _ adians it revived the memory of flhe gloomyweavs *‘ "" that followed their expulsion, whilst for the Scottish, it ushered in a state of things of which till now they had had no experience-to live deprive Al. ‘ I‘ istrations of a priest. It is true that’ ' = ‘ this time a few missionaries on the Mainlan occasionally visited the Island bu't a casual,

WOFId, over, ami the fallldlls steadying brdel‘ W3? close vicinity to it their pitineericdbfififihfileéublisliil-iy. ,

ed. i The cemoteryhnear at bandpinflflhich many ofi, _- -

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It is the intention to commemorate the arrival, not alone ofltliose _w‘ho made, their landingptficotchfogt, but also in subsequentlimmiglratjons to various parts of the province,'and foi-“t relfisgn a drrionul-

priest, and thatfor a short time, was onl". solation for-a people of such deeply r ments. ,_ . < z ~ v Soon after Father James’ death, Bishop who in the previous year had succeodedi" __ Briand, commissioned John Doucet, anwA6adij1 ,2, Rustico, to. perform marriages and administer-late}: ' - tism throughout the Island. The followiirgis a jan- slation of the letter containing the colnmissidhzf”, - “Henry Francis Grave, Vicar "General of the -»Dio- _ . v z cese of Quebec, -to Mr. John Doucet, of Rustico, in " ‘ " ’ i ~ - " ‘ , St. ~John’s Island.” - ' 1 §~ it‘? PH!‘ ~ " “Seeingthat your Island is deprived of a mission- a W’- " '" ‘i i? . ary» sincefthe death of Father Macdonald, your late A ‘ wi pastor, our desire ‘to procure for you all spiritual advantages moves us to appoint you, John Doucet, and bytlfése presents we appoint you in the‘ name or, His hard-ship the Bishop of Quebec, to baptize, in__ every part of the Island, all children and adults pre- , sented to you, and to receive the consent ofinarriage of persons wishing ‘to enter the conjugal state, pro; vided there exists no impediment of consanguinity’ or affinity. These powers, however, shall continue, ionly till you have another missionary, or hav-e a. visit ‘ from Father Bourg, our Vicar General, who may re- new tihem if he sees fit to do so.” ' This document is dated at Quebec, October 6th, 1785, and bears the signatureof Father ‘Grave, Vicar General, andth!‘ counter-signature of a young deacon named Plessise who subsequently became Bishop of Quebec-e. , . -; In tlfeyear=1787 Bishop Desglis sent apastdraflet- » Y ter to the Catholics of the Maritime Provinces. ‘Hav- .i'ng paid ajust tribute to ‘their fe1=,vent,fai_ qglgii “Lordship fgoeson to say that ‘he feels eveflfirxehalh ‘more tlielscaigcity of priests. Though all,'_];li_e’,;‘7(3a§li ‘ lic population, from Newfoundland to Mississippi, look to him for spiritual succour, still even in the m-ent has _ [central and more populous localities there are manyggf j those- _l_ " ' , 13 ttlers. With souls spiritually unprovided for, A I t is end i:n,v1e"w th ttish ‘C e7 __ a the Diflcese 0f Addressing himself specially tQ-v-his flock in St. Prince Edward Islaridiicalled a. ‘ ,J_ohn's.and Cape Breton Islands, he Fexhorts them to " cpttish l‘ '_ en to be presen be faithful to the King; as theyrcannot bié"good Chrise B. Mafiyxcifnald, Bedeque; - _ _ tians nor true Catholics unless they are loyal subjects hair. A ‘Ar considerable discussi the meeting ~ of-f His Majesty. In‘ conclusionfihe says; “Love one decided to appoint difierent commit to gather as another as Christ loved you. Let; 5thériil5lbe no divi- much information as possible and '

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like the Acadians were intensely devoted to their with. On this point the following testimony of an jiustiuilian writer is worth recording. “The extra- ril‘<llflill‘_\’ emigration of Scottish Catholics to Canada, and especially to Prince Edward Island, commenced

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‘ r God, the same faith; ‘the’ same sacrame kg C HON. servnon» PROWSE 100k forward t0 the same eternallinhel? ance. A ' , _ This was all the assistance that Quebefl could offer ‘l’ i, long" ziftcr Culloden, and was the result of that land- to the people in St. John’s ilslandi“ Five years thus f lord policy in the west 0f Scotland, which had led to passed during which the,‘ little 50-10113,’ i-gighed and l the crofter disturbances and others of our own times. prayed fora missionary, piive’ year-Bi bf hopeful f Y The simple truth is that about twenty-five years af- anxious waiting, til] God in pi¢y...jgmg“]ed out (mé l ier (Julloden avast number of Scottish Catholics from worthy to fill the place made-vacant by the death of ‘ " Father James. » f It is Scotland that again hears the petition of the colonists. A wail of spiritual desoluation goes up from their ‘hearts, it drowns the roaring of the A” ~ lantic billows in its flight, and comes strikiiigiwit ' God-givenyenergy against ‘the rugged hills of Scot- land. A young priest, Reverend Angus Bernard; , . MacEachern; hears the echoes of that ‘agonizing cry; his heart is touched with compassion, and bid- ding adieu to his native land he comes to the aidioi. ._ his " co-religfiohists. ~ . Father MacEachern may justly be called ftlie‘ '. , f, founder of__Catholicity in this Island. Thel Gospel , z seedsowifii by<tlie early French missionaries had grown into a sturdy tree, when the blasting storm of English invasion destroyed its wlealth of foliage, i andleft it, a bare ‘and shalgtered trunks; ‘Ia-revived? somewhat under the fostering care of Father James, and began to_ put forth new shoots, and strike its roots deeper into the soil. But his untimely deatlh arrested ‘its progress. It seemed again threatened with decay and death, for no husbandman was found to till thesoil, whence it ight derive nourishment,- But the work of FatlierMacEacherh is eveir "to"

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nothing can stop its upward and onward march. He shall leave ‘behind him zealous priests‘ to continue the J good work, and they in turn shall be succeeded by f .. oiherflwwho shall bring it to such a degreeiof-develop»

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