-30- community and joy to the hearts of their partisans on the flanks. 5be accomplishments of former days are food for much interesting con¬ versation among those past their prime. Sony boys from lona also fig¬ ured prominent3y in athletios. especially football and basketball, during their college days. Due to lack of facilities, oven natural ones,. Ionian^ sever really became famous for their hockey exploits. Xoopite this, one of their number, Isnry 0»3hea, now of London, Ontario , was for some years at St. Dunstan's goaltender for the ?arsity squad, and also played nets for the llavy team in the old City Eoekey teaguo. On the econozaio frost, St, Liiohoe' i *s Parish, has enjoyed a Goodly share of tradesmen! Eerchanfce, tailors, blacksmiths, shoeiaakors, tin¬ smiths, and Others, all of whom have contributed appreciably to the life of their respective eoarcunitioo. Suffice it to mention bare those of the merohantile trade who perhaps have left a more pormanent mark on the parish both past and present. Patrick Stephens , about whom considerable mention was made in the earlier pages of this essay, op¬ erated the first general store in the parish, at Orwell Cove . Eh?. Stephens was born in Dublin in 1310, and came to this country with • his brother. Captain Andrew Stephens , in 1842, carrying in Ms pocket a letter of recorarsendation from no lees a celebrity than the 'immortal Daniel Q*Co«nell. 8a purchased the property at Orwell in 1846, and did business until his sudden death on tho wharf at Charlottetown on July 15, 1364. Bis wife, a Eelifax lady, Hary Matthew by name, as¬ sisted by ~" J 2£ seven children continued to operate until 1502 when it