730 PAST AND PRESENT OF real as a priest under Father Dowd at St. Patrick's. Upon his return to Prince Edward Island in the fall of 1870, he was appointed rector and parish priest at St. Andrew's and St. Joseph's church at Morrell and St. Pe¬ ter's church at St. Peter 's Bay, having charge of these joint parishes for about ten years. At the end of that time he was re¬ moved to St. Columbus church at East Point and remained there until autumn in 1900. In October of that year he was assigned to his present churches, St. Mary's, at In¬ dian River, and St. James', at Freetown . Father Gillis has been notably successful in his labours since coming to his pres¬ ent church, not the least among his achieve¬ ments being the erection of the present mag¬ nificent church building costing in the neighbourhood of twenty thousand dollars, and which is nicely finished and fur¬ nished throughout. Father Gillis is a man of wide general information, a forceful and ef¬ fective pulpit orator and has a marked per¬ sonal influence on all with whom he comes in contact. He has endeared himself to his parishioners and enjoys the sincere respect of all who know him, regardless of denomi¬ national lines. He has travelled extensively over the United States, Europe, and all parts of Canada . Father Gillis has always proved himself to be a strong advocate in the cause of tem¬ perance, and to his untiring efforts is due in no small measure the advanced stage of the temperance sentiment in Prince Edward Is ¬ land. He is also a man of great executive ability, and in the different missions which he attended succeeded in placing them in a strong financial position. He was created Monsignor by the late Pope Leo XIII , and the same honor was bestowed upon him by the present Pontiff, Pope Pius X. Hon. William Henry Pope , eldest son of the Hon . Joseph Pope , was bom at Be- deque, Prince Edward Island , on May 29, 1825. He received his education in Eng¬ land, studied law in the* office of the Hon . Edward Palmer and at the Inner Temple, London, and was called to the bar in 1847. The routine of his profession had for him fewer allurements than the excitement of po¬ litical life, in the controversies of which his pen played no unimportant part. The times in which his lot was cast justified such pref¬ erence. Important questions, that of the land tenure of the colony and of confedera¬ tion, had begun to occupy men's minds and to furnish matter for discussion. As editor of "The Islander " he grappled vigorously with these and other questions of almost equal importance, and did much to mould public opinion thereon. In 1859 he was ap¬ pointed Colonial Secretary . In 1863 he took his seat in the House of Assembly as representative of Belfast , and was at once invited to enter the Cabinet. In furtherance of the settlement of the "Land Question" he, in conjunction with the Hon . Edward Palm ¬ er, visited London in 1863 and laid the case of the colony before the British Govern¬ ment. He was also one of the "Fathers of Confederation"—that historic group of dele¬ gates who in 1864 assembled in Charlotte - town and afterwards in Quebec . In 1865 he was appointed one of a commission, by the Canadian Government, to visit the and the with a view to negotiating a treaty of reciprocal free trade. Yet while finding his chief pleasure in the strife and turmoil of political life, in which his cheerful disposition, engaging con¬ versation and good fellowship disarmed all enmity, he found time to keep himself well