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collections and contributions amounted to $7,551.- 

 86; the total of expenditures was '$12,535.33; and 

 a cash balance of $103.85 remains in the treasury. 

 The society maintains 2 mission stations, with 

 3 lay missionaries; 71 children were this year 

 enrolled in its New York school. 



The Summary of work accomplished in the 

 year by the Woman's Auxiliary and its junior 

 department, in which 2,611 parishes and missions 

 took part, shows: Contributions in money, $205,- 

 665.59; and boxes valued at $191,772.40. Of the 

 total of $397,438.05 the junior department gave 

 money and boxes to the amount of $33,828.47. In 

 addition to these contributions from the Woman's 

 Auxiliary in the past year, the following amounts 

 from the united offerings of 1892, 1895, and 1898 

 have come into the treasury of the board toward 

 its appropriations: For stipend of the Missionary 

 Bishop of Alaska, $3,000; for support of a new 

 missionary bishop, $106; for woman workers in 



the domestic field, .$ir>.027.2:! ; j n n u , ,, )r ,.j,, n f u .| ( j f 

 $5,927.39. The milled offering ,,\ 1901 will be* 

 designated: half to gnu-mi minion- and half to 

 woman workers. 



The American Church IJuiMin^ Kund Commis- 

 sion reports that in the yc;ir gifts ;i mount nr< to 

 $4,600 were made to 27 churches, ;u,d |<,ui i<,'ih<? 

 amount of $3,846 to 5 churches. The eoninhu- 

 tions to the permanent building furni \\eje .-i 1 . 

 000.12; interest on loans arid investment.-. 

 510.52; loans returned by parishes und missions, 

 $31,674.10; investment loans returned, $9,000, 

 The fund now amounts to $367,218.13. 



On Aug. 6, 1901, the venerable Frederick Wil- 

 liam Taylor, D. D., Archdeacon of Springfield, 

 rector of St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Springfield, 

 and president of the standing committee of the 

 diocese of Springfield, having been duly elected 

 bishop coadjutor of the diocese, was consecrated 

 bishop. 



Q 



QUEBEC^ a province of the Dominion of Can- 

 ada; area, 228,900; population in 1901, 1,645,572. 

 Capital, Quebec. 



Government. The province began the year 

 1901 with a Liberal Government strongly en- 

 trenched in position as the result of a recent elec- 

 tion. The nominations for the new Assembly 

 were made Nov. 30, and the polling was on Dec. 

 7, 1900. The issues turned mainly upon the popu- 

 lar approval of the Lieutenant-Governor's selec- 

 tion of Simon Napoleon Parent as successor in 

 the Liberal premiership to the late Hon. F. G. 

 Marchand. Despite some slight changes, the 

 ministry was practically the same, while the Con- 

 servative Opposition, led by the Hon. E. J. Flynn, 

 was admittedly weak 21 to 51. Mr. Parent, 

 who had been mayor of Quebec since 1894, mem- 

 ber of the Legislature since 1890, and Commis- 

 sioner of Crown Lands since 1897, appealed to 

 the people upon the general record of the late 

 ministry its economy in financial administra- 

 tion, its alleged change of deficits into surpluses, 

 its reform in educational methods and manage- 

 ment, its establishment of free text-books for the 

 primary classes, its general progressiveness and 

 freedom from corruption. His own personal popu- 

 larity was one of the chief factors in what fol- 

 lowed. The Opposition platform and policy were 

 described in an address which Mr. Flynn issued 

 to the electors, in which he declared that no new 

 question or program was submitted to the peo- 

 ple ; that the contest was brought on prematurely 

 and simply " to take advantage of the wave of 

 popular favor which carried Sir Wilfrid Laurier 

 into power; that the tenure of the Legislature 

 elected in 1897 was being cut short without con- 

 stitutional reason and at a bad season of the 

 year; and that the Government had not lived 

 up to their promises and the expectations of the 

 people. The Conservative press followed this up 

 with the charge that Mr. Parent was simply 

 " snatching a verdict " at a time of the year 

 when discussion was difficult and the country was 

 still vibrating with the great Liberal victory in 

 the recent Dominion elections. On nomination 

 day 31 Liberals were elected by acclamation, and 

 no Conservative. On Dec. 7 the remaining con- 

 stituencies were polled, with a total result of 65 

 Liberals, 7 Conservatives, and 2 seats to be yet 

 heard from. Messrs. Nantel. Hackett, and At- 

 water were defeated, and not an English Con- 

 servative elected. The Government, which was 



thus so triumphantly sustained in the last month 

 of the dying year, faced the opening of the new 

 century as follows: Premier and Commissioner 

 of Lands, Forests, and Fisheries, S. N. Parent; 

 Attorney-General, H. Archambault; Commission- 

 er of Agriculture, F. G. M. Dechene; Commis- 

 sioner of Colonization and Mines, A. Turgeon; 

 Provincial Treasurer, H. T. Duffy; Commissioner 

 of Public Works, Lomer Gouin; without port- 

 folio, G. W. Stephens and J. J. Guerin. 



Legislation. The Legislature was opened on 

 Feb. 15 by Chief-Justice Sir L. E. U. Cassult, 

 in the absence, through illness, of Lieut.-Gov. the 

 Hon. L. A. Jette. The initial procedure was the 

 unanimous election of Henri Benjamin Rainville 

 as Speaker of the Assembly, after which a speech 

 from the throne was read. The following are it* 

 important passages: 



" Our fellow countrymen from this province 

 who went to the war in the South African re- 

 publics have, like their comrades in arms from 

 the other sections of Canada, by their bravery, 

 coolness, and manly endurance, won the admira- 

 tion of their leaders and of the old regiments with 

 which they came in contact. 



" My Government has continued to devote 

 special attention to the question of the fisheries. 

 The ownership of those situated in the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence has been the subject of discussion 

 with the Government of Canada. But nothing 

 has been neglected to preserve the rights which 

 the highest courts of the empire recognize as 

 belonging to this province, and there is every 

 reason to hope that this question will soon be 

 decided in a manner satisfactory to us. 



" A new book for primary instruction in the 

 Catholic public schools has been prepared under 

 the direction of the Government, and has been 

 approved by the Catholic Committee of the Coun- 

 cil of Public Instruction. This book will be dis- 

 tributed gratuitously to all the schools of the 

 province desirous of obtaining it, and may come 

 into use at the beginning of the next school year. 



" The ordinary receipts for the past fiscal year 

 show a surplus over all expenditure, both ordi- 

 nary and extraordinary. 



" My Government has succeeded in placing a 

 building at the disposal of Laval Normal School, 

 which will enable that institution to continue, 

 under more favorable conditions, to carry out 

 the useful and important task devolving upon it 

 in our educational system. 



