REMINISCENCES When Father Tanton retired in 1974 he was interviewed for Anglican Sunday Family Magazine, a radio program that aired Sunday mornings on the Charlottetown station CFCY. The following autobiographical essay is adapted from that interview. I suppose my first thoughts would be my experience with Archdeacon White, who was our rector in Summerside for 26 years. He had a clear devotion to our Lord, and a great devotion to the Church. Like Timothy, I grew up under his tutelage, and was inspired by him. I had the privilege of looking after him in the sense of driving him to St . Eleanor's to Church when I was a boy of 12 years of age. I taught in the Sunday school, and was superintendent when I was 17, before I left to go away to Academy. The men I met in the Church, priests like Dr. Cunningham , Canon Vroom , Dr. Hunt , Canon Malone, and Archdeacon Harrison, were great influences on my life, showing me loyalty to our Lord, and their conviction that the Church was fulfilling the mission of Christ Himself. I was at Academy one year, and then I went to Mount Allison University. I felt a vocation to the ministry, so I wrote to Archbishop Worrell of Nova Scotia , who had episcopal jurisdiction in Prince Edward Island . He said he would see me in Summerside in July. This would be long after college had closed. I couldn't wait that long. So I asked him if he would let me do parish work for the summer. He said. No, that I should be sure of my vocation first. So I wrote back to him and said that I had been brought up under his episcopacy, and with his permission I would write to the Bishop of Fredericton . I got a letter back saying, "I have a parish for you." He sent me to Liscomb, on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia , which at that time was pretty isolated. That's where I started my work as a lay reader. I worked all the time I was in college. I did lay readering work at Conquerall Mills, and in the parishes of Port Medway and Emmanuel Church in north Dartmouth , until 1938, when I was made deacon by Archbishop John Hackenley in Christ Church, Dartmouth . I was priested later at Emmanuel Church.