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     Three other key members of the community who 
     
     died during this short period contributed by their deaths 
     
     to its changing character. The first to go was Gilbert Buote 
     
     His passing in 1905 left the Tignish area without a 
     
     researcher and writer, and the Island Acadians without 
     
     an historian. It seems he was far along with a book on 
     
     the subject at the time of his death. None of it was ever 
     
     published and the manuscript disappeared. Francois— 
     
     ]oseph, his son, and the latter’s wife then took over as 
     
     the editors of L/ Impartial . The paper was never again quite 
     
     so responsibly managed. A note of hysteria crept into 
     
     some of the editorials, the paper even suspended 
     
     publication for a while, and during the Great War it 
     
     disappeared altogether for some time. It was reincarnated 
     
     briefly in 1915 as The Impartial Magazine, but this time in 
     
     English. After being involved more or less successfully 
     
     in almost everything that went on in the community for 
     
     nearly thirty years, Francois—Joseph moved to Trois Rivieres, 
     
     Quebec, to manage a fox ranch. He died in 1922. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Father Dugald MacDonald died in 1925, after a 
     
     short retirement begun at the death of his long-term 
     
     assistant two years earlier. Father MacDonald had been 
     
     in Tignish for fifty—six years. His death in itself marked a 
     
     major change in Tignish, since all village life was centred 
     
     around the church. Fortunately it was not a period of 
     
     doctrinal or liturgical change. The stability of the parish, 
     
     though shaken, held firm. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The iiew generation of leaders did not appear at 
     
     the beginnirg of the century, but mostly after 1920. With 
     
     the exception of Chester McCarthy, who was a lawyer, 
     
     they were not educated men. Most of them were 
     
     fishermen who became more educated as adults through 
     
     their own crganizations: Tignish Fishermen's Union, 
     
     Tignish Fisteries, and after this period, Tignish Credit