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he removed to Prince Edward Island where even at the age of eighteen, he achieved notoriety as a Journalist. For five and twenty years, his brilliant and facile pen was wielded on behalf of the rights of the people of his adopted Province, and his name and fame went abroad as that of a masterly writer. His oratorical powers and personal influence were of no mean order, and when at the early age of forty three his pleading voice was hushexL and his flashing eye clcsed in death, he was mourned by those whose cause he had befriended, and regretted by his fellow colonists who felt that in losing him they had lost one of whom they had a right to be proud, an intellectual star of the first magnitude. I

The Hon. Daniel Brenan, from Eglesh, Queens County, Ireland, by profession a land surveyor, arrived here early in the century. He opened a large business establishment and was at one time very wealthy.‘ His magnificent donations to St. Dunstan's College and to the convent of Notre Dame entitle him to the grateful remembrance of our Catholic population of tosday. Mr. Brenan died in Phrch 1876.

The Hon. Patrick walker, another staunch and generous supporter of the church,

died in 1877.

These and many others, who now sleep_their last sleep, lived and moved in the quaint Charlotttetown of the olden time, and met to worship God in the tiny church of which there is to-day but a shadowy tradition, the church in which Father Fitzgerald hurled forth his denunciations against the vices of the time and in which the Mic-mac Indians did most of the singing, fcr it is a fact that those pious children of the forest were in the habit of chaunting at the masses for the dead, wailing out the mournful music of the Church in their own unst musical language.’ V

Since 1830 when, during the administration of Governor Ready, an act was passed in the local legislature, providing "for the relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects", by which Catholics were admitted to a share in the government of the country, they have always managed to hold their own in spite of the bigotry and intolerance which at one time prevailed, and which well nigh crushed out their rising

ambition.