- 33 - he removed to Prince Edward Island where even at the age of eighteen, he achieved notoriety es a journalist. For five and twenty years, his brilliant and facil9 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 influer.ce were of no mean order, and when at the early age of forty three his pleading voice was hushed, 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. The Hon. Daniel Brenan , from Eglesh, , 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 College and to the convent of Notre Deme entitle him to the grateful remembrance of our Catholic population of to-day. Kr. Brenan died in Mirch I876. The Hon. Patrick V/alker, another staunch and generous supporter of the church, died in 1877. These and many otaers, who now sleep their last sleep, lived and moved in the quaint Cherlotttetown of the olden time, and met to worship God in the tiny cnurch 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, for it is a fact that those pious children of the forest were in the habit of cnaunting at the masses for the dead, vailing out the mournful music of the Church in their own most musical language. Since I83 O when, during the administration of Governor Ready , an act was passed in the local legislature, providing "for the relief of His ^jesty's Roman Cetholic Subjects", by which Catholics were admitted to a 3hcrp 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.