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ee of the 1938 conference of the Association des instituteurs acadiens de UVI.-P-E.

Annual Report of the Department of Education, 1940, Inspectorate No. 2, FE. Doiron, pp. 17-18.

L'Impartial, 8 March 1894, p. 2.

L'Impartial, 5 March 1896, p. 6; 9 January 1896, p. 3; 6 February 1896, p. 4; 25 April 1895, p. 3; 8 November 1894, p. 3.

PE.I. Annual Report of the Public Schools, 1898, p. 56; 1928, p. 59. These courses were given in 1898 in Urbainville and St. Chrysostome. There were offered in 1928 in the districts of Tignish, St. Nicholas, Mont Carmel, Abram Village, Urbainville, Cape Egmont and St. Andrews.

Gallant. Le Mouvement coopératif chez les Acadiens de la région Evangéline (1862-— 1982), op. cit:, p. 130.

J.T. Croteau. Adult Education in PE.I. A Survey. 1936, P.E.I. Collection, Robertson Library, U.P.E.I., Vertical File. See also: Cécile Gallant, op. cit., pp. 129-139. Léon Thériault, “LAcadianisation de l'Eglise catholique en Acadie, 1763-1953”, Les Acadiens des Maritimes, op. cit., p. 329.

Raymond Huel, “The Irish French Conflict in Catholic Episcopal Nominations: The Western Sees and the Struggle for Domination Within the Church”, The Canadian Catholic Historical Association Study Sessions, Vol. 42, 1975, p. 52. L’Evangéline, 23 October 1924, p. 8.

J.-Henri Blanchard, “LEnseignement du Frangais dans les Ecoles publiques de I'fle-du-Prince-Edouard”, Deuxiéme Congrés de la Langue francaise au Canada, Mémoires, op. cit., p. 229.

Insert in a parish register of Notre-Dame-de-Mont-Carmel.

It is difficult to establish the number of Island Acadian women who entered religious congregations between 1890 and 1945. The historian, J.-Henri Blan- chard, estimated that prior to 1964, there were more than 200 who took the veil in 22 congregations. Blanchard, The Acadians of Prince Edward Island, 1720— 1964, op. cit., pp. 117-118.

Marguérite Michaud, “Mére Evangéline Gallant”, La Petite Souvenance, No. 8 (December 1982), pp. 11-13.

L'Impartial, 20 July 1893, p. 2; 19 October 1893, p. 3.

L'Eglise catholique a 'fle-du-Prince-Edouard 1720-1979, op. cit., p. 144. Madame Emmanuel-J. (Madeleine) Gallant, “Les Associations féminines”, Compte rendu. La Convention Nationale Acadienne de I'fle-du-Prince-Edouard, 1951, pp. 61. The precise date of the founding of the Dames du Sanctuaire is not known. Madame Gallant states that it was in 1939. L'Evangéline published a report of the meeting of the Dames du Sanctuaire in Abram’s Village on 23 December 1936. According to L'Evangéline of 11 March 1935, the Women’s Institute was still operating in the district in 1935.

Madame Emmanuel-J. Gallant. op. cit., pp. 61-62.

History of Saint Anthony Parish 1803-1980, op. cit., p. 172.

Pascal Poirier. Le Parler franco-acadien et ses origines. Québec: Imprimerie Fran- ciscaine Missionnaire, 1928, p. 223.

The Examiner, 5 July 1887.

Centre d’études acadiennes, Eunice Arsenault Collection, ms. No.21.

Prayer which the author learnt from his mother in Abram’s Village.

Centre d’études acadiennes, Eunice Arsenault Collection, ms. No. 2.