52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57.

58. 59.

60. 6l. 62. 63.

65. 66. 67. 68. 69.

70.

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p. 21, “La fondation du Couvent de Miscouche: Un extrait des annales du couvent”.

Annales du Couvent de Miscouche, 6 July 1865.

Ibid., 19 November 1864.

The Summerside Progress, 16 July 1866, p. 3.

Annales du Couvent de Miscouche, le 10 March 1871.

Ibid., 8 January 1872.

Ibid., 6 July 1865 and 10 March 1871. See also: The Summerside Progress, 22 February 1869, p. 2. Father Miville was the priest in Egmont Bay.

Le Moniteur Acadien, le 30 July 1869, p. 3.

Father Quévillon also wanted to set up a teaching establishment in Mont Carmel. In 1868 he helped the parishioners construct a building designed as a college for boys. But for various reasons, partly financial, he was unable to complete the project. (See: Macmillan. The Catholic Church in Prince Edward Island from 1835 to 1891, op. cit., p. 293. The Summerside Progress, 12 October 1868, p. 2.) Father Azade Trudel, the priest in Egmont Bay, also wanted to establish a convent in his parish where boys could receive their secondary education. A hall was thus built around 1868, but the convent was never built. (The Examiner, 28 September 1868; Le Moniteur Acadien, 30 October 1868, p. 2.) Oral tradition has it that the bishop refused to authorize the project because he had not been consulted.

Assembly Journal, P.E.1., 1886, Appendix A, p. 57.

Assembly Journal, P.E.I., 1883, Appendix B, p. X.

Reports of the Visitors of Schools... .for 1875. Charlottetown: 1876, p. 55. Assembly Journal, P.E.1. 1887, Appendix A, p. 41.

Report of The Visitor of Schools for Prince County, 1873, p. 60.

Le Moniteur Acadien, 20 November 1884, p. 2.

Reports of the Visitors of Schools. . .for 1875, Charlottetown: 1876, p. 56.

Ibid. and Assembly Journal, P.E.1., 1864, Appendix X.

Assembly Journal, P.E.I., 1861, Appendix W.

The Examiner, 22 May 1876, p. 1. “The Education Law. Report of Investigation Committee.”

On the 19th of January 1882, the Board of Education authorized the use of the “Graduated Series of French Readers” in public schools (P.A.P.E.I., R.G. 10, Minutes of Meetings of the Board of Education for PE. Island, Vol. 5, 1877-1892). According to several sources this was the Montpetit series. Gilbert Buote states that he was “the first person to submit the Montpetit series for the approval of the provincial Board of Education in 1879, and with the help of the Superin- tendent of Schools, Mr. Donald Montgomery, succeeded in introducing these books into our French schools” (L’Impartial Illustré, 1899, p. 60.). André Doiron, a former teacher in the Acadian schools on the Island, wrote in L’Impartial in 1902: “Around 1884, after the revolutionary fever had passed, so to speak, several very dedicated men of whom you, Mr. Editor, are perhaps the sole survivor, went to the Board of Education to demand that the books in the Montpetit series be adopted. The aim was to fill the gap for the fourth and fifth French books (I should say “half French”) in the series from Nova Scotia. [...] The efforts of these men bore fruit. The Superintendent responded favour- ably to their request and not long after the Montpetit series was adopted it was used throughout our schools. Only the speller from Nova Scotia is being