- 32 - Among the foremost Catholics in the parish of Charlottetown , at that time, was Mr. John Costin , who settled in Township Forty Nine, in the year 17&7, end who was looked upon as a leader by the few and scattered Irish families of the parish. He was a man 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 Days 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 tais day early settlers of "Forty Nine" speak of him as "Our Head Kan". It was he who was appointed to negotiate with Mr. Hurtell for the purchase of the land upon which Bishop McDonald built the addition to the old church. Another prominent Catholic of old " Charlotte Parish " was Mr. Donald Med )onald of the . He was a cousin of the Laird of Glenaladale and was married to a daughter of Mrs. KcFuee . In easy circumstances and possessed of an unswerving loyalty to the religion of his ancestors, Mr. KacDonald 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 ixEachern, Father Fitzgerald, and their successors. Mr. McDonald gained the lasting esteem and affection of Bishop Plessis who in his letters frequently refers to t^is estimable Christian gentleman in terms of highest eulogy. Mr. Dennis Reddin from Queen's County, Ireland, was one of the first Catholic settlers in Ciurlottetown 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 I863. Among the honoured dead of St. Dunstan's congregation, the name of the Hon. Edward V/helan stands forth with a brilliancy undinmed by the lapse of years, one of the brightest ornaments on the pages of the history of the Province. Born in county I- ^yo, Ireland in 182^, he emigrated to Nova Scotia in early boyhood. In 18^2