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In a letter to the Archbishop of Quebec dated 9th May 1825, he writes:-

I'Our church is greatly improved, but we stand in need of a parochial house. which with slender means we commenced building this morning.’I He further begs that the ArchbishOp will allow him to absent himself from the diocese on a begging expedition. so that he might preach in Quebec and elsewhere. soliciting charity for his poor little new mission. There is no record of this permissiou having been granted,

but Mr. Fitzgerald went on with the building of his presbytery which was situated

on Dorchester Street upon the ground now occupied by the garden of the City Hospital.

In 1825 the Benevolent Irish Society was organised and the Register of the 5th

of th of that year contains the following advertizment:— 'Benevolent Irish Society” "Notice is hereby given that the first quarterly meeting of this society (for the purpose of paying in the quarterly dues) will be held at the Ronan Catholic Chapel on Sunday the 8th. instant at two o'clock. .By order Charles DesErisay Secretary.

1826 was marked by the purchase of the church hell and its christening at which ceremony Mrs. Gainsford acted as a Sponsor.' This bell was first tolled on the demise of Mrs. Brenan nee Fletcher on the let. of August 1827. The next article to be purchased for the church was the pulpit which is the one still in use in St. Dunstan's Cathedral. The stem was lengthened and some alterations made upon it in the time of BishOp thonald. but the pulpit is the one provided by Father Fitzgerald.

In June. 1930, Father Fitzgerald quitted Prince Edward Island, From the records extant, it would appear that Brhqprcfihchern wished to remove him to a

country parish, and that he objected to leave the mission in which he had so