. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. clude apeace with tlie Indians, the Government builthim a church and allowed him an annual pension of 3^200. In 1718 the Recollet Fathers were called toLouisbourg, where they served as military chap-lains to the garrison and ministered to the si)irit-ual wants of the inhabitants. There were at thistime three parishes in Louisbourg. The othermilitary stations throughout the
. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. clude apeace with tlie Indians, the Government builthim a church and allowed him an annual pension of 3^200. In 1718 the Recollet Fathers were called toLouisbourg, where they served as military chap-lains to the garrison and ministered to the si)irit-ual wants of the inhabitants. There were at thistime three parishes in Louisbourg. The othermilitary stations throughout the land were alsoserved by Recollets. Of the twenty-six priests who officiated at Port Lajoie in P. E. Island from1723 to 1755, twenty-one were Recollet this period the Jesuit Fathers were en-gaged in missionary work among the the cession of Canada to the English theBishops of Quebec continued to send priests fromtime to time to the Maritime Provinces. Duriner o the period following the expulsion of the Acadiansin 1755, Catholic missionary work in the Mari-time Provinces was carried on under the greatestdifficulties. In 1759 the Government of NovaScotia passed an Act for the suppression of. The Ri^rht Rev. Dr. C-imeron. Popery. It decreed that every Popish personexercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction and everyPopish priest or person exercising the functionsof a Popish priest should leave the Province onor before the 25th of March. In 1766 an Act waspassed forbidding any Catholic to establish aschool within the Province on pain of line andimprisonment. These penal laws were in a meas-ure relaxed in 1783. To the Indians, who as )et were farfrom being well liisposcd towards the English, the -iTo CANADA : AN :DIA. services of a Catholic missionary were deemednecessary. Hence, in 1768, Father Bailiy camefrom Quebec at the request of the Governor ofNova Scotia to continue the worii of the AbbeMaillard. He was succeeded after a brief i
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