A LABRADOR SPRING 



diocese of Quebec, but after Rimouski was 

 erected into an Episcopal seat, all that im- 

 mense country of the north-east was detached 

 from Quebec and included in the new diocese, 

 which was called " La Prefecture apostolique 

 du Gulf St. -Laurent." This includes the north- 

 ern shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence from 

 Portneuf to Blanc-Sablon, and extends to the 

 north and east as far as Hudson and Ungava 

 Bay; it also includes the island of Anticosti. 

 Previous to 1903 it was difficult to find priests 

 for these isolated regions, but the difficulties 

 were, as the pamphlet says, removed by the 

 " providential banishment " of the Eudiste 

 fathers from France in that year and their 

 assumption of the work in this diocese. 



The fathers certainly have most devoted 

 followers in this little village of Esquimaux 

 Point, and their piety was beautifully shown 

 at the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christ i, 

 which occurred on the last Sunday of our stay 

 at the place. The village was gaily decorated. 

 Long strings of bright flags and pennants 

 stretched from the church, and a long lane down 

 one side of the village brook, across a bridge up 

 the other side, and so on across another bridge 



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