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Magloire Blanchet, the bishop of Walla- Walla in 1848, who transferred his 

 see to Nesqualy in 1850, and died at Vancouver in 1887 ; Julien Courteau, 

 Le Jamtel, Auguste Laire}', Mgr. Gaulin, mentioned above; Hyacinthe 

 Hudon, afterwards vicar-general of Montreal ; J, B. Potvin, J. B. Maranda, 

 Joseph Trudel and M. Vincent, the founder of the Trappist monastery at 

 Tracadie.^ 



The most notable incident in the beginning of the j^resenc century 

 was the arrival of the scholar!}-, earnest priest, Eeverend Edmund Burke, 

 who had for years been a faithful worker in the provinces of Canada.^ He 

 performed a meritorious work for religion and education among the 



people for whom he laboured so conscientioiTsly for nearly twenty years. 

 In 1817 he was appointed bishop of Zion, and first vicar-apostolic of Nova 

 Scotia, though he was not consecrated until the following year. He was 

 succeeded as vicar-apostolic by the Eeverend William Fraser, who became 

 in 1842, bishojD of HaUfax^ — including then Nova Scotia and Cape Breton — 



^ For these minute details of Roman Catholic missions in eastern Nova Scotia, 

 I am indebted to Vicar-General Quinan, D.D. (Laval). 



2 "Memoirs of the Right Rev. Edmund Burke, Bishop of Zion, first Vicar 

 Apostolic of Nova Scotia, by the Most Rev. Cornelius O'Brien, D.D., Ottawa, 1894". 

 8vo. (Illustrated). This interesting little volume contains in the appendix " a partial 

 list of missionaries who laboured in Acadia from 1604 to the expulsion, 1755 ", as well 

 as "a complete list of priests who laboured in the mission of Nova Scotia ", which 

 included Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island and the eastern part of 

 New Brunswick, from the expulsion, 1755, to the death of Bishop Burke, 1820. 



3 As some confusion exists as to the actual date of the foundation of the Roman 

 Catholic See of Halifax, I give the following note from His Grace Archbishop 



