took care of domestic duties at College. For different reasons, one being the awkwardness in dealing with superiors of these orders who lived far beyond our Island shores, but also because large numbers of young women were leaving the province every year to enter religious communities in other dioceses, Bishop O'Leary was quick to see the need of an Island-based community which would engage in every form of work needed here. After some frustrations in getting this dream off the ground, a most satisfactory solution came to light. The Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish agreed to take a small number of Island women as postulants into their novitiate and after a sufficient period of for¬ mation have them return to Charlottetown to become the nucleus of Bishop O'Leary 's new religious community. In 1915 four Island postulants went to Antigonish to begin their novitiate. They were: Teresa Murray and Rose McQuaid of Lot 6 5, Sarah Farrell of Sturgeon and Cahill of Alberton . In July, 1916 these four returned to the Island, accompanied by three mature sisters from Antigonish, one of whom, Sister Stanislaus , was designated moth¬ er superior of the group. They immediately took up residence at College and began a temporary novitiate in the convent attached. In the fall of 1916 six postulants joined them; in 1917 came six more and in 1918 another three came. And so it went. 20 In 1920 a major step came for these Sisters of St. Martha of Prince Edward Island with the purchase of the Long property across the railroad track from the College grounds and fronting on Road. Miss Mary Monaghan , a generous bene¬ factress of the city, donated the twelve thousand dollars needed for the purchase of the property which at the request of Mother Stanislaus was named Mary's. The house on the 50- acre farm was old but the site was excellent for a novitiate. Mass was offered for the first time at Mary's on July 26, 1920 in the parlour of the 90-year-old farmhouse. A new wing was built the following year and the chapel moved to larger quarters. 21 By now Bishop O'Leary 's dream of having a new Island-based reli¬ gious order of women in the diocese was more than richly fulfilled. 9