57c> PAST AND PRESENT OF Doctor McKenna secured his elementary education in the district schools, supple¬ menting this by attendance at College, at Charlottetown , where he gradu¬ ated in 1887. In 1889 he matriculated in the Baltimore Medical College, at Balti¬ more, Maryland , where he graduated in 1893 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and immediately entered upon the practice of his profession at Mill Cove. In 1897 he removed to Oyster Bed, where he has since enjoyed a large and extensive prac¬ tice. He has a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of his profession and keeps in close touch with the latest advances in the healing art. His gen¬ ial personality which inspires confidence in his patients has largely aided him in the sick room and his friends are in number as is his acquaintance. In 1901 Doctor McKenna was united in marriage to Miss Beatrice Frazer , a daugh¬ ter of Daniel and Mary A. (Donahue) Fra¬ zer, of Kensington ; and to this union have been born two children, Joseph R. and Bea ¬ trice M. The doctor has devoted his en¬ tire attention to his profession and has found no time to give to politics, though he takes a live interest in passing events. In reli¬ gion he is a Catholic and gives his support to all moral and benevolent movements. Rev. Dr. Alfred E . Burke—"Father Burke," certainly, to the stranger at least, Prince Edward Island 's best known cleric and citizen, is a native of the pretty little shire town of county. Georgetown , where he was born of the marriage of Capt. James Burke and Mary Moar , in the early '60s. Possessed of brilliant talents, he was a leader from the start in the schools; and, after a three years' course at the Catholic College of the Island, matriculated in divin¬ ity at Laval University, Quebec , from which he was graduated in 1885 with the highest honours. He was then ordained to the priest¬ hood of the Catholic church by the late Cardinal Tagvnereau, and was at once ap¬ pointed secretary to the Bishop of Charlotte - town. Two and a half years afterward he took parochial control at Alberton , in the western portion of the province, and the de¬ velopment of this section, in civil as well as religious affairs, may well be placed very largely to his credit, as he has been indefati¬ gable in industry, wise in judgment and tact¬ ful in management. Doctor Burke hasthrown himself unreservedly into all the movements of the country, and enjoys the confidence of the people, Protestant as well as Catholic, to a greater extent than any other Islander . He is the head and front of about all the associa¬ tions for the material advancement of the province, and often goes to the Federal cap¬ ital to give the benefit of his counsel to the Government and the scientific leaders of the Dominion. The people placed him last year at the head of a provincial delegation to Ot ¬ tawa to secure the fulfillment of the terms of Union with regard to communication; and he covered himself and his co-delegates with glory by the way in which he carried out his difficult and important mission. All of Can¬ ada was instructed, interested and rendered sympathetic. Outside the province he is re¬ garded everywhere as the Island's strongest man. He is president of the Fruit Growers' Association, the Maritime Beekeepers' Asso¬ ciation, the Poultry Association, and the Provincial Branch of the Dominion Alliance; vice-president of the American Pomological Society, the Canadian Forestry Association,