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Presbytery, sod Convent at Sandy Point, Churches and
Pt-esbyter-Lee at Bonne Boy,
Bay of Islands, Bank Head J Port-au-Port and Stephenville ; the C,hurch at Channe L
and the Church at St . Geor-ge t e , vhfLe he a lso built lIlany schoo'le, helped to wi den
t he educatdona L edvant.eg e s of t he peopl e , and i n a ddi tion look a pr omi nent pa r t in
freeing our W'estern Cosst from French occupation, stamping out the traff'ic i n
esmgg'led geode \lith St. Pierre, and a wakening the cutsine 'World to t.be tourist a nd
epor-t dng pcssfbdLf.tdee of our ve at.ern seaboar-d ae ve L'l B 8 to the gz-Le vence s f rom
vhfch its people euf'I'ered at that t.fae , Nor -eover- , 85 he spoke both GAe lic and
Aca di Gn df e I ect.e, he wa~ apecil'lly r evered on th~ ',lest CO'g:=tt , vhich be a many sett -.
Ier-e of Scotch and French ext r a ction ) And to the older ones, who spoke t.hese
t ongue s , he sp ecial ly e nde ared himself ,
and 101111 be gr ea tly regret ted by t hem.
I n Et . John' 9 he contdnued siuhr Active 19bor.!'lj r-est.cr-fng t.be Cathedral at
a cost of ~lOO,OOO ,improvlng St . Patrick's Church ( i ncludi ng new spir e ) at a cost
of ~30 ,OOO ; pr-onotdng the Floy~ l Or-phanage at Moun t Oeehe L, f or whi ch he ga ve t he
site ; building the new \li ne to St. Bonev errtur-.. ' =" Colleg e at Q cost of $70 ,000,
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end encour-agdng the erection of the QIDonel ",.ling a t St. Patrick's" Halll -the Oratory;-- ----
Hilitary ROAd Conven t; ne w Hor-t.uar-y Ohape I at Noun t Carmel Cemet ery;
th"! enlar geeent,
of Littledale..~cad~V", _~. r ourv.U.A::' ~ of St. Clar e l s Hcme , et c ° i n . ~he City , _~ .~ __
'While In every outport par-Lsh new chur-cbes , pre sbyter-I es and ~chop l.!'l hav'; °tw.; en
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built, the l a s t function in which he t.ook part bein~ the l aying of the corner stone
of • new Convent at :[o"~rryland in Sept.ember ,
In addition to the !nlltiplicity of t he e ccles i a s t i cal tasks de volvi ng u pon him ,
t.br-cugh the adntrd et.r-atdve nec eeedtde e of t he Archdiocese of st. John t~ , h... pe r-ecn -,
ally prepar-e d t he p'lans and super-vf eed the work of much of t he c onet .ruct don of
chur-ch bud Id Inge car-r-Ied out in thi5 city, find also p'Iens or ve r-Joue churches,