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15. 16. 17. 18.

19.

20. 21.

22.

23. 24.

25.

26.

27.

28. 29. 30. 31. 32.

33.

34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39.

40. 41.

42. 43.

Ibid., p. 2.

L'Impartial, 25 April 1895, p. 2.

Extraits des Conventions. .., op. cit., p. 9.

Minutes for the 1930 annual conference of the Association des instituteurs aca- diens de I'f.-P-E.. The minutes of the Association are on microfilm at the Centre d’études acadiennes.

Minutes for the 1910 annual conference of the Association des instituteurs aca- diens de I’'f.-P-E. Alexandre-J. Savoie. Un siécle de revendications scolaires au Nouveau-Brunswick 1871-1971. Vol. | Du francais en compte-gouttes 1871-1936. Edmundston: Alexandre-J. Savoie, 1978, p. 184.

PE.I. Annual Report of the Public Schools, 1907, pp. XXVI A and XXVII.

In collaboration, Histoire de la Société Saint-Thomas d‘Aquin de I'fle-du-Prince- Edouard 1919-1979. Summerside: Société Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 1979, p. 8. J.-Henri Blanchard. Les Acadiens de I'fle Saint-Jean (lecture given at the 1920 pedagogical conference of the Acadian Teachers Association held in Miscouche; “thanks to the good will of our leaders” (TR), a free copy copy of the lecture was distributed to all the Acadian families in the province), Mont-Carmel, 1921, pp. 25-26.

Histoire de la Société Saint-Thomas dAquin..., op. cit., p. 11.

Father Jean-F. Buote, “Loeuvre de la Société Saint-Thomas d’Aquin”, Compte rendu. La Convention Nationale Acadienne de I'fle-du-Prince-Edouard, op. cit., p. 46.

The young man in question was Monseigneur Jean-Francois Buote, ordained in 1938.

J.-Henri Blanchard, “LEnseignement du Frangais dans les Ecoles publiques de I'fle-du-Prince-Edouard”, Deuxiéme Congrés de la Langue frangaise au Canada, Mémoires, Vol. III, Québec, 1938, p. 229.

Autobiographical notes by J.-Henri Blanchard, Centre d’études acadiennes, 22.24.

Father Jean-F. Buote, loc. cit., p. 46.

Histoire de la Société Saint-Thomas d‘Aquin, op. cit., p. 22.

PE.I. Annual Report of the Public Schools for 1899, Appendix C, p. 65. L’Evangéline, 28 July 1932, p. 2.

J.-Henri Blanchard, “Les écoles acadiennes de I'fle-du-Prince-Edouard”, Rela- tions, No. 18, June 1942, p. 157.

Blanchard, “L’Enseignement du Frangais dans les Ecoles publiques de I'fle-du- Prince-Edouard”, op. cit., p. 225.

Assembly Journal, P.E.I., 1902, Appendix C. p. 25—D.

Blanchard. Histoire des Acadiens de 'fle-du-Prince-Edouard, op. cit., p. 64. Annual Report of the Department of Education, 1936, p. 14.

Assembly Journal, P.E.I., 1888, Appendix A, p. XXVII.

PE.I. Annual Report of the Public Schools for 1916, p. 12.

Blanchard, “LEnseignement du Frangais dans les Ecoles publiques de I’'ile du Prince-Edouard”, loc. cit., p. 226.

Minutes of the 1907 annual conference of the Association des instituteurs acadiens de I'1.-P-E.

PE.I. Annual Report of the Public Schools, 1908, p. XXIII.

PE.I. Annual Report of the Public Schools for 1897, p. 53.

Blanchard, loc. cit., p. 225.