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To return to the Charlottetown Hbspital. that it does a good work will be shown by the fact that during the past year (1885) 137 patients were admitted and 265 outdoor patients treated at and prescribed for from the Hospital Dispensary.

On anday evening the 15th of December 1879. a number of leading men of the congregation of St. Dunstan's Cathedral, at the invitation d? the Rev. Alexander McGillivary, met in St. Patrick's Hall and formed the Charlottetown Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. At that meeting forty members were enrolled,

His Lordship the Bishop was made patron, and Father ECGillivary, Spritual Director, John Caven. Esq. was unamiously chosen President. and he. in accordance with the Rules oi the Society. named as his officers, James Heddin. Esq. First Vice President, J.G. Eckstadt Esq.. Second Vice President. Hon. A.A.NacDonald, Treasurer. and P.R.Bowers. Esq. Secretary. 0n the 6th of February 1888 the Charlottetown Conference was aggregated to the Superior Council of the Society in Paris. Since its found- ation. the conference has done much good in its charitable sphere. The confraternity of the Sacred Heart was established among the Congregation G? St. Dunstan's the

same year.

The Jesuit Fathers having for some years been desirous of establishing a college of their order in the Maritime Provinces, in 1879 the Rev. Father Purbrick S.J. came to Prince Edward Island to look out a suitable site for the proposed foundation. After some deliberation on the part of the Bishop and the Society an agreement was

entered‘into by which St. Dunstan's College was handed over to the Canadian Province

of the Society for a term of years, and in the year 1880. a community of three fathers, three scholastics, and four lay brothers, with Father George Kenny as Superior, arrived to establish the new_foundation. At the conclusion of the second scholastic term, Father Kenny decided that Prince Ehward Island was not suited for an educational establishment of the Jesuit order, and cancelled the agreement

made between Father Purbrick and the BishOp withdrawing his conmunity to bbntreal. Thus St. Dunstan's saw another change of management. It had Opened with aclat in 1855; its first rector the Rev. Angus Lthonald secured for it a brilliant and

successful term of years. It then passed under the management of the Very Rev.