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A. McLaren; Donald Nicholson; Michael McCormack; Daniel Stewart; Hugh Mc— Leod; G. J. McCormack; Robert Lamont; Murdock McLean; Neil McKelvie; Charles D. McKinnon; Frank McDonald; T. A. Mc- Lean; James Caldwell; John N. McDonald; James D. Finlayson; Alex. R. McDonald; Clarence B. McDonald; J. E. B. McCready; Aeneas A. McDonald; Captain McMillan: Murdoch McLeod; Charles Campbell; Jo- seph W. McDonald; Murdoch Ross: Captain H. McLean; Captain J. Gillis; Doctor Mc- Laughlin; John McLaughlin; Bruce Stew- art; Sixtus McClellan; J. A. McDonald, sti- pendiary; Horace McEwen; James C. Mc- Fayden; J. J. McLeod, Riverdale; Malcolm Gillis; O. S. Gordon; ex-Chief James Mc— Issac; W. H. Scott; Andrew McNair; John A. McNevin, North River; S. A. McDonald, C. C.; Sterling McKay, Summersidc; Her—

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bert McDonald, Summersidc; Alexander McNeill, Summersidc; James Tait; John McInnis; William McNeill; Murdoch Mc— Leod; Gabriel McDonald; Thomas McMil- lan; John McLeod; A. J. McLean; William Bell; John Gillis; Rev. T. F. Fullerton; Al- exander Patterson; David Bethune; Donald McDonald; Eugene McEachern; A. Mc- Leod; A. S. McAulay; C. J. McMillan: D. A. McIntyre; James A. McInnis; John D. McCormack; John Cameron, New Haven; Laughlin McDonald, East Point; John Smith, Rocky Point; James C. McEachern. New York; Robert Angus, Ottawa; Edward McLeod, Boston; Judge McLeod, Summer— side; Angus McLeod, ex-M. P., Montague; Duncan McNeill, Ottawa; Capt. D. Mc- Dougal, Bangor; John Pitblado, Montreal; James \Vaddell; Daniel B. McDonald, Bedeque.

THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.

BY A. MCDONALD.

The history of the Knights of Columbus, —the facts and details of its organization,— are to be handed down through the ages to posterity; its growth in numbers and wealth will be the marvel of generations to come; but the grand story of its saving strength and help in time of sorrow, distress and death is even today written indelibly in the hearts of hundreds of the widowed and fatherless. No parchment scroll will ever bear the testi- mony of those who have been thus sustained. and no record made in this world will ever fittingly commemorate the manifold incidents of generous freindship which have appeared to the afflicted, like beacon lights. in their hours of deepest gloom.

Inspired with the idea that it would be

both wise and beneficial to have an organiza- tion in Connecticut to which Catholics would be eligible, which should combine the best in- surance and social features, and which should be grounded on principles in harmony with the church laws and regulations, the Rev. M. J. McGivney. of New Haven, Connecti— cut. (since deceased). formulated and de- vised a plan to secure the same. This he submitted, towards the close of 1881, to a few friends whom he expected to aid him in carrying out the project to completion. He selected finally as his co-workers nine well known Catholic citizens of New Haven, men of business experience and matured minds. who could appreciate exactly the necessity of organization to a proper fulfillment of the