- 3o - St. Dunstan's College. at which the visiting prelates and priests and many invited guests of the laity assisted. In the evening the different Catholic Societies nade a torchlight procession. Nhny of the principal buildings of the city were illum- inated and there was a grand pyrotechnic display on the Palace grounds.

The following afternoon His Lordship entertained his guests with an excursion on the Hillsborough which gave to the strangers a fair notion of the fertility of our island soil. and the comfortable condition of the island farmer.

This celebration marked an eopch in the history of the diocese. During the twenty five years of His Lordship's episcopate. the Catholic population has increased from 38,852 to 55,000. and the number of priests from fourteen to thirty nine. Twenty one churches have been erected. many of them handsome and substantian edifices. and eight educational institutions have been opened, seven of which are in charge of the sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame.

The past eighty years have wrought a wonderful change in the aspect of Charlottetown. In the beginning of the century. it was but a tiny cluster of houses. grouped on the bank of the Hillsborough. An English garrison protected it against maritime invasion. and the quarters of the soldiers was the scene of much revelry and dissipation. The Lieutenant Governor. in whom almost absolute power was vested. resided in what was then a most fashionable locality, now known as the "anaghan Barracks" on Pownal Street. On Water and Queen Streets, and on the thoroughfares which intersect them, the business establishments and unpret- entious residences of our first merchants stood side by side. On Richmond Street. a favorite place of resort was I'Jone's Commercial Inn", in which it is said that Bishop BbEachern offered his first mass in Charlottetown. 0n Pownal Street stood the residence of Mr. John Doyle. one of our pioneer Catholics, who enugrated to ' this country from Waterford, Ireland. He died in Charlottetown in 1833 at the age of fifty years, and lies buried in the old cemetery. 0n the site of Lt. William

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