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 Christi, 
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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