Comparing one with the other would be a favourite pastime among the flock. Both were striking figures. Louis was fair, Henry dark; Henry was robust, Louis frail; Henry was urbane and at home with the citizenry, Louis was quiet and retiring. Both were planners, but of a different sort. It had been expected by many that Louis would have been named bishop of Chatham, a diocese of which he had been auxiliary bishop for six years and administrator for eight months. It is probable, too, that his heart at least remained in Chatham. During his Charlottetown years he often returned to his beloved Miramichi to visit old friends and to encourage the work which he had initiated.

As was the case with his brother Henry, Bishop Louis from the outset took a keen interest in the workings of his diocesan college, St. Dunstan's. In the closing exercises of May, 1922 he reminded the graduating class that "We are living in an age of dissolution of ideals. At the present moment we look out upon a world strewn with the debris of much which was once held precious and price- less in the past." It was the roaring 208 and although P.E.I. was not yet heavily involved in change, rolls of thunder could be heard in the distant hills in which direction many of the graduates were by now being drawn. St. Dunstan's traditions of discipline and spiri— tual formation having declined somewhat since the end of World War I, needed to be strengthened. With this in mind Bishop Louis in 1923 chose a new rector, Father Daniel Croken, pastor at Georgetown, to replace Father G.J. McLellan who had served in this capacity for eight years. Father Croken seemed unhappy with the appointment, but accepted it out of obedience to the bishop's call. He was a careful administrator, a competent professor and extremely zealous at his post. Yet he was austere, a strict discipli— narian and easily worried over the ongoing financial woes of the day that greatly affected St. Dunstan's in the mid-1920s. After only three years on the job, Father Croken, with his over-all health shattered, sought and was granted release from the rectorship and was named pastor of Fort Augustus. 44

For a new rector Bishop O'Leary selected Father James

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