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     Notesand References:IV 271 
     
    
   
   
    
     Laurent Gallant from Rustico. Le Moniteur Acadien, 24 June 1880, p. 2. 
     
    

    
     Le Moniteur Acadien, 10 June 1880, p. 2. 
     
    

    
     Chouinard. Féte Nationale des Canadiens frangais. op. cit., p. 445. 
     
     Robidoux. Conventions Nationales des Acadiens. op. cit., p. 9. 
     
    

    
     Ibid., p. 178. 
     
    

    
     Le Moniteur Acadien, 9 October 1884, p. 2. 
     
    

    
     Le Moniteur Acadien, 20 November 1884, p. 2. The Examiner, 6 December 1886. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A PERIOD OF SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVES: 1890—1945 
     
    
   
   
    
     L'Impartial, 22 June 1893, p.1. 
     
    

    
     See Gabrielle LeBlanc and Diane Lecouffe (editors), Inventaire de L’Impartial. 
     
     Summerside: Société Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 1980, 110 p. 
     
    

    
     Placed in an awkward position, the Acadian priests did not openly support 
     
     the project although they could see that it would be a great asset for the 
     
     Acadians. As members of the clergy in the diocese of Charlottetown, they felt 
     
     obliged to give their full and open support to St. Dunstan’s, the diocesan 
     
     college, although little importance was given there to the teaching of French. 
     
     In the light of this position, some laymen favoured a compromise that would 
     
     allow the creation of a chair of French at St. Dunstan’s. This was suggested by 
     
     Sylvain, an anonymous contributor to L’'Impartial who nevertheless left the 
     
     final decision in the hands of the clergy: “I am far from wishing to be stubborn 
     
     with regard to cooperating with St. Dunstan’s. The last word belongs to our 
     
     Island priests. Once they have reached a decision on the matter, we have but 
     
     to follow their leadership...” (TR) (L’Impartial, 20 December 1906, p. 4.) 
     
     L’Evangéline, 10 April 1947, p. 4. 
     
    

    
     Father Charles Gallant. “La Société LAssomption”, Compte rendu. La Convention 
     
     Nationale des Acadiens de I'fle-du-Prince-Edouard, 1951, p. 49. 
     
    

    
     Minutes of 9 December 1933, Beaubien (Rustico) branch of the Société !Assomp- 
     
     tion. Deposited in the Musée Belcourt. They can also be consulted on microfilm 
     
     at the Centre d’études acadiennes. 
     
    
   
   
    
     L'Evangéline, 22 July 1932, p. 1. 
     
    

    
     Blanchard. Histoire des Acadiens de I'fle-du-Prince-Edouard, op. cit., p. 62. 
     
     Ibid., [p. 2]. 
     
    

    
     J.-Henri Blanchard. Acadiens de l'fle-du-Prince-Edouard. Charlottetown, 1956, 
     
     p. 136. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Public Archives of P.E.I., R.G. 10, Minutes of Meetings of the Board of Education 
     
     for PE. Island, Vol. 5, April 23, 1892. 
     
    

    
     Joseph-Octave Arsenault’s position was occupied by Joseph Blanchard, Marin 
     
     Gallant, J.-Sylvére DesRoches, Pierre Gallant, J.-Wilfred Arsenault, Frangois-E. 
     
     Doiron and J.-Albert Gallant. The position was transformed when the school 
     
     system was reorganized in 1972. Inspector Gallant became French pedagogical 
     
     consultant for the Department of Education. 
     
    

    
     L'Impartial, 3 August 1893, p. 2. 
     
    

    
     Article 2 of the Constitution of the Association. For the text of this document, 
     
     see: Extraits des Conventions de l'Association des Instituteurs Acadiens de I'fle-du- 
     
     Prince-Edouard, 1893-1969, compiled by J.-Albert Gallant. After 1910, the 
     
     feminine form of teacher, “institutrices”, was usually added to the name of 
     
     the Association.