- Ik - Although Charlottetcwn was not the place of residence of Bishop McDonald, he did not neglect its educctional interests, but from his quiet retreat in Rustico , directed the building of St, Dunstan's College and of the old convent of Kotre Dame. The college, which is situate two miles from Charlottetown , is surrounded by a farm of forty eight acres of land; the building is 12C feet in length end ^0 feet in breadth and J >5 ?eet high; it was erected by Bishop. McDonald at his own expense and ^iven a free gift to the diccese. For some years after the college was completed it remained vacant, the Bishop being desirous of accumulating an endowment fund. . In the meanwhile through the generous liberality of the Son. Daniel Erenan , one of the wealthy Ctitaolics of Charlottetown , the old convent of Kotre Dame on Kill3borough Square was commenced. It was completed in 1857» ^nd on the 2fth of September of that year, four sisters of the congregation of Kotre Dame in Montreal, errived to take possession, Bishop Mclntyre , then the priest in charge of Tignish mission, at the request of his Bishop went to Montreal to escort these ladies to the 3cene of their new labours as well as to procure two ecclesiastics to increase the teaching staff of St. Dunstan's college, whicn had been opened on the 17th of January I8f5» the Rev. Angus iacDonald being rector. So intense was the local prejudice against Catholics in those days that the nuns judged it prudent to travel in secular garb, and accordingly made their first apretrance in Charlcttetown attired in bonnets and shawls of a worldly, albeit bygone fashion. These ladies on the 12th October 1857 opened their classes, which were soon crowded by the Catholic children of the city. In I859 Bishop MacDonald, feeling his strength failing, quitted his retreat in Puctico, and removed to his college of St. Dunstan , where he died on the 3Cta December of that year. He was interred beneath the sanctuary of St, Dunstan's Cathedral, and a mural tablet has been erected to his raenory by his successor. Three other priests, Fc-ther Charles I-JcDcnell , Father DeBreuil , and Father Broydrick are buried in the same enclosure.