Charge of St. Columba’s, East Point. He continued there for nine years, during which he built a beautiful church at St. Margaret’s. In 1861, he was named senior priest of St. Dunstan’s Cathedral and Vicar General. In 1878, he removed to St. Dunstan’s College where he taught .the class1cs, English rhetoric and philosophy for three years. In 1881. miss10nary work again claimed him, and he was associated with his nephew, Rev. J. Charles MacDonald, in the Pastoral Charge of Georgetown, Cardigan and Sturgeon where he continued in active work until the time of his death, January 3,

1886.

The same community was also the birthplace of Rt. Rev. Dougald MacDonald. “Father Dougald” was born on July 18, 1838 and was or- dained to the priesthood by Bishop MacIntyre on November 21, 1861. He was for two years curate at Tignish and, from 1863 to 1867, at St. Margaret’s, East Point, Rollo Bay, Souris and Little Pond. He returned to Tignish in 1867 and remained there until 1923 when he retired from active service. Ministering to a mixed parish, he became as fluent a speaker in French as in his mother tongue. During the early years of his priesthood, he endured the most trying hardships, often covering fifty miles a day as he travelled the extent of his parish on horseback. He was honoured by the Pope in 1911, on the occasion of his Golden Jubilee, by being made 3. Domestic Prelate. At the time of his death, December 15, 1925, he, at the age of 87, was the oldest priest in Canada.

Rt. Rev. James Charles MacDonald, D.D., Bishop of Charlottetown, was born on June 14, 1840 at Allisary, the son of John and Ellen Mac— Donald. He entered St. Dunstan’s College in 1866 and from there pro- ceeded to the Grand Seminary, Montreal. After his studies, he was or- dained to the priesthood by Bishop MacIntyre on July 4, 1873. He was at first a professor at St. Dunstan’s; however, in 1875, he became mis- sionary to the parishes of St. James, Georgetown, All Saints, Cardigan, and, for a time, St. Paul’s, Sturgeon and St. Teresa’s, Baldwin’s Road. In 1884, he was promoted to the rectorship of St. Dunstan’s College Where he remained until 1890, at which time Bishop MacIntyre petitioned the Holy See for a coadjutor, and the Papal choice fell upon Bishop Mac- Donald. In the same year he was consecrated titular Bishop of Irina, and coadjutor, with right of succession to the See of Charlottetown. Highly esteemed by all classes and creeds, he administered the affairs of the

diocese with excellent judgment.

The Guardian for April 20, 1950 recorded the death of Bishop James Morrison, a native of Savage Harbour. Born in 1861, he was educated at Savage Harbour, St. Dunstan’s University and in Rome where his ordination occurred in 1889. He was curate of St. Dunstan’s for some years, and, in 1912, he was consecrated Bishop of Antigonish. During the year prior to his death, a Jubilee Mass of Thanksgiving was celebrated at St. Andrew’s in honour of his brother, Rev. Vincent Morrison, whom he had ordained to the priesthood in 1924. Rev. Vincent had then pro- ceeded to the China mission fields where he worked in the parishes of the Lishui Prefecture. During World War II, his mission property was bombed out, and he himself wounded. He received passage over the “Hump” to Calcutta, and, upon his return to Canada, was attached to the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society in Ontario.

_An excerpt from the poem, “The Infant Saviour,” by W. J. Logan of “Birchwood” is included in recognition of the contribution made by the laity of the parish over the years. The lines were suggested to the

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