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Among the foremost Catholics in the parish of Charlottetown. at that time, was Fr. John Costin, who settled in Township Forty Nine. in the year 1787. and who was looked upon as a leader by the few and scattered Irish families of the parish. He was a men of fair education for that day and endowed with rare intelligence, sound judgement. and high moral principle. all of which were supported by a fearless courage. When he settled in Township Forty Nine, there was no church within access, but his house was ever open to the pious and devoted Catholic exiles of his native land as well as of other nationalities, whom it was his custom to assemble on Sundays and Holy lays when he would recite the Rosary and other prayers and instruct and assist them in every way in which it was possible for him to do. To this day early settlers of I'Forty Nine" speak of him as 'Our Head Nan“. It was he who was appointed to negotiate with us. Hurtell for the purchase of the land upon which Bishop thonald built the addition to the old church.

Another prominent Catholic of old 'Charlotte Parish“ was Mr. Donald Fhflonald -of the West River. He waa.a cousin of the laird of Glenaladale and was harried to a daughter of Ers. bbPhee. In easy circumstances and possessed of an unswerving loyalty to the religion of his ancestors, Mr. MacDonald lent a powerful aid to the establishment of Catholicity in the parish in which he resided. and his name figures conspicuously among those who supported every pious and charitable under- taking of Bishop NbEachern. Father Fitzgerald, and their successors. Mr. bhibnald .gained the lasting esteem and affection of Bishop Plessis who in his letters .frequently refers to tnis estimable Christian gentleman in terms of highest eulogy.

Mr. Dennis Reddin from Queen's County. Ireland. was one of the first Catholic settlers in Charlottetown who attained a position of affluence. He. also, was a warm supporter of Catholic measures and a generous benefactor to the Church. He died in 1863.

Among the honoured dead of St. Dunstan's congregation, the name of the Hon. Edward Whelan stands forth with a brilliancy undimmed by the lapse of years. one of the brightest ornaments on the pages of the history of the Province. Born in

county kayo. Ireland in 182u, he emigrated to Nova Scotia in early boyhood. In 1842