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 THE LATE 
 
 JOSEPH EUGENE BRUNO GU1GUE8 
 
 BISHOl^ OF OTTAWA. 
 
 OTTAWA; 
 
 r-K.STK,. AT T,,K -CITUK^ OF.ICK. SCAUKS STKK.IT. 
 
 ] 874. 
 

 LXTRODUCTlOiV. 
 
 While, throughout the length and brciulth of Cunuda, sentiments 
 of sorrow have been u'-rescrvedly manifested over the death of the 
 venerable founder of the Diocese of Ottawa, wo have thought proper 
 to commence the work of furnishing a few stones which will contril)ute 
 to the erection of the Monument which gratitude raises in ouj* hearts 
 to the memory of Bishop Ciiiigues. 
 
 Let us, however, be perfectly understood. It is not our intention 
 to describe the gloi-ies of his long episcopal career. Tlio task woukl 
 be above our means ; would requii-e more information than we actually 
 possess; and more light to appreciate them in a suitable manner. We 
 will, notwithstanding, exhibit a few of the ditliculties he had to en- 
 counter during the period of his brilliant administration, bj' reviewing 
 the state of the Indian Missions of the Diocese of Bytown at the epoch 
 of its foundation ; the truly heroic work of the shanties ; the rapid de- 
 velopment of the Ottawa Valley ; the temporal and spiritual nudity 
 of B3'town twenty-five yoars ago; and its present admirable wealth hi 
 religious monuments. Having witnessed the uncommon zeal and 
 energy of Bishop Guigues in the advancement of our country, we will 
 turn, with pleasure, to the contemplation of the more intimate edifying 
 details of " sacerdotal life " of our much beloved and lamented Prelate. 
 
THE LATE BISHOP GUIGUES. 
 
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 .losKPii KroENE liRUNo (ti'KirEs was born at (.Jap, in Franco, oi.' 
 the 25th ofAuguKt, 1805. His father, Bruno Guij^uen, was aik otticer 
 of Dragoons under Napoleon 1.; his mother, a pious and educated lady 
 of respectjiblc family. The spirit of discipline, strict adherence to 
 pnncij)le and duty of the one parent, and the mildness, gentlenes.s of 
 disposition, and piety of the other, wore inherited by their son. While 
 Htudying at the Seminar}' of Forcaltier, these qualities and the rich- 
 ness of his intelligence attracted attention and wuu distinction, which 
 his humility and modesty attempted in vain to avoid. In 1828, on the 
 2()th day of May, the young Lcvite was ordained Priest ; and soon 
 afterwards, led on by a zeal for the conversion of souls, he joined the 
 Missionary' Congregation of Ohlats de Marie Immaculee which had been 
 just founded by Monseigncur de Mazenod, Bishop of Marseilles. In 
 this new field lie labored faithfully until the month of August, 1844, 
 when he was sent out to Canada as Perpetual Visitor or Provincial to 
 the small commimity of Oblates established at Longueuil, near Mon 
 treal. About the same date a pastor was stationed for the first time 
 at the little village called Bytown, now Ottawa, the capital of this vast 
 Dominion. Four years later Bytown was created an Episcopal See, 
 and Father Guigues wns named its first Bishop. On July 80th, 1848, 
 he was consecrated, and immediately began the organization of his 
 diocese. This was no easy task. From Bytown inclusive to Lake 
 Temiscamingue, there were but five priests, and an equal number of 
 wretched huts which served the purpose of chapels. But the country 
 began to thrive, and the Bishop redoubled his energies. Difficulties 
 which appeared insm-moxintable were conquered ; a Cathedral was first 
 erected, then an Hospital, next a College and Seminary, School-houses, 
 Chapels in new missions, and so on until all wants were at least tempo- 
 rarily supplied. In all these undertakings he was ably supported by his 
 little band of clergy who worked with his will and energy. As the settlers 
 increased In number so did the missionaries ; not in equal proportion, 
 but, thanks to God and their own stout hearts, sufficiently to spread 
 the faith and preserve it. It must bo remembered that at this ])eriod 
 bigotry was rampant along the Ottawa. The immigrants were chiefly 
 Irish, and they brought with them all the traditions, good and bad, of 
 the old land. These flourished on the new soil, and often led to riot 
 and blood-shed. The year '49, a year of troubles throughout the 
 old province of Canada, was a year of terror in Bytown. Armed 
 encounters between the two parties frequently took place, and severa I 
 
[ivv% were huciifieod to the demon of liatc. Bisliop (Jiiiii^iies, thouf]jli 
 HnsicqiinlMtod with the nature of the unnatural strife, yet Knew how to 
 •i-ush it. lie pi'eaehed peace to hin floek, and the flock obeyed their 
 pastor. Disconl fletl before his voice ; man ceased to hate his fellow- 
 man ; the viMa<j;e <xrew into a town ; the town into a city ; the city was 
 raised to the dignity of a (/ajjital; and to-day, with its ])opuhition, 
 wnvirons inch»(ied,of over forty thouBand, half (Catholic and half Pro- 
 testant, it is a city of peace and good-will. This, under (rod, is mainly 
 due to the illustrious deml whom we n>ourn in common, and of whom 
 the Ott((ir<i Citizen Justly observes; 
 
 "A niHU ofliboral views, a kind-hearted friend, an uprifjlit judge, he ever cast 
 llie mantle of charity over weakncsHcH and errors committed by those who mani- 
 fested antagonism to the doctrines promulgated by him, and endeavoured to instil 
 into the minds of his flock that liberality of thought which would forbid the use of 
 harsh language towards opponents. In his diseourses he was clear, logical, and 
 forcible; in his demeanor frank, candid and noble; in public he M'as courteous; in 
 private liberal and alfablc. There was no bigotry to mar his undying belief in the 
 i'octrine of his Church, or the manner of sustjiining that belief. He was a good man, 
 a true friend, and a sincere Christian." 
 
 What he accomplished during the twenty three years of his Epis- 
 copate may be known by a ghuice at the ])resent state of the diocese. 
 
 There are now 75 priests, secular and regular; fifty churches built 
 solidly of stone or brick, and many others of wood. In the city alone 
 there are five ])arishes, an Ecclesiastical Seminary and College, an 
 establishment of Christian Brothers, one of Frercs Doctrinaires, a 
 Literar}' Institute, conducted by the Grey Nuns, and one by the Sisters 
 of the (Congregation of Villa Maria, besides at least twenty separate 
 schools for da;'-si-iiolr"s. Also an extensive Hospital, four Houses of 
 Refuge, two Orphanages, and societies without tiumber for religious, 
 charitable, literary, and national purposes. Thi'oughout the rural 
 parishes and in the difltcrent towns, like good works are distributed in 
 pi-oportion to population and requirements. These are the moniimentrs 
 which will preserve throughout ages the memory' of Bishop Guigues ; 
 and from thousands of grateful hearts, prayers will ascend to the 
 Throne of Grace for the repose of the .^oul of the founder, the director, 
 and the devoted friend of so many excellent institutions. 
 
 In the exercise of his exalted ministry Monseigneur Guigues was 
 indefatigable. He arose every morning at five, made an hour's medi- 
 tation before the Blessed Sacrament, heard confessions until eight, when 
 he said Mass. After thanksgiving he again entered the confessional if 
 penitents wei'e there in waiting, and not until all were heard did he 
 take a morsel of f(X)d. The remainder of the day was devoted to hi* 
 office, to work of corporal mercy, etc. On the annual pastoral visit, he 
 surpassed all his assistants, oven the youngest ; and we heard one, an 
 active man himself, say that the Bishop used to labor far into the night 
 when all others hiid retired through pure fatigue. 
 
 As Ordinary of his diocese, his clergy ever found in him an impar- 
 ^al judge and wise counsellor, and until death, chief pastor and floek 
 
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 were lionnd to^ctlicr by tho olosent ties of christiun cliai'ity. ITe 
 loved tluMn witli the love of ji tiitlier, mul they l»oie towards him the 
 att'ection of dutiful chiKlron. 
 
 Now that his /[i^enial heart has eeased to heat, that his form ii 
 lifeless and eold, elerlvH and laity eon^^'egate in the ehamljor of deatii, 
 and in their silent tears uiid sorrowed mcin spoaU of the heavy i^rief 
 within them. In prayer they sei'U consolation, and in all fervor ])eti- 
 tion lleaven in the voiee of the Chureh: 
 
 lifquifw irternam dona ei, Pomine ; 
 I'Jl lux perjielua Iticeat ei, 
 liequiescut in pacn. Amen. 
 
 THE INDIAN MISSIONS. 
 
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 The Indian missions of tlie diocese of Ottawa have now two mai» 
 stations, Temiscamingueand Maniwaki. Temiscamin^ue, situate ab'uit 
 HOO miles from the capital on the shoi-c of u lake foi'meu by the 
 Ottawa river, is the residence of the missiormries who .yearly 
 travel fis fur as Hudson Bay to preach the gosjiel to the savage 
 tribes and others who inhabit those dreary plains. Maniwaki, also 
 called the Desert, is gi'owing very ra]>idly and is only ninety milen 
 distant from Ottawa. We are indebted to the imtiring energj' of 
 Bishop Guigues for the Maniwaki mission, and of it we shall speak at 
 greater length when coming to the subject of the shanties. The 
 Tcmiscamingue mission was founded before the Bishop's arrival amon^ 
 us, and this will now occupy our attention. 
 
 The missions of Tomiscamingue began in the year 183G, and have 
 ever since been maintained, through the means of the first pastors — 
 truly apostolic men, who, by their ardent and oft-reiterated appealfi 
 contributed matei'ially to animate the charity of their flocks in behalf 
 of the holy work of the ])ropogation of the faith. The Bishop of 
 Montreal (Lartiguo) addressed the faithful under his jurisdiction in 
 the following eloquent manner on the 18th April, 1838. "Kejoice, 
 humble christians, you who, by j'our secular vocation appear to have 
 nothing else to occupy your minds but the salvation of your souls; for 
 by means of the association which you have an opp(n*tunity of entering 
 you can materially assist the apostolic men who have devoted their 
 lives to the conversion of the infidel, by giving them the light of the 
 faith together with the inestimable blessings of civilization which 
 infallibly follow in its train. So that w^hen faithful missionaries preach 
 to those barbarians, when they administer to them baptism and other 
 Hacraments wdiich confer grace in abundance, when they reclaim se 
 
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 hmny souIh from oternal ponlition, you will he thoir suppoi'tors witli 
 out nny incoiivonionce to yourHclvcs; and tho salvation of so many 
 pooplc will Itc duo nf) Iosh to your sacritict's than to their (.'xortions. 
 What a ^'and consolation to you during life, and nioro especially at 
 the hoar of death ! " 
 
 These admirable woi'ds of the Jiisho|> of Montieal lead us to 
 appreciate the hurniiif^ love which tired Bisiio[) (iui/^i'.es and whicli 
 ])rompted him to maintain and preserve the Indian missions dui'in^' 
 the twentytivo yeai-s of his episcopate. "' IIow heautiful," "^ays scrip- 
 ture, *' are the feet of them that jux-uch the gospel of ])eace, of them 
 that bring glad tidings of go(Kl tnings." May we not also add how 
 feeling are the hearts of bishops wh(i seem so solicitous foi- the 
 advancement of civilization by sending forth heroic missionaries ! 
 One of the grandest glories of the Church of Canada is to have been 
 what Mgr. (Juigues ever was — the untiring promoter of mi-^sions. 
 The leai'ued and [tious Abbe Fei-land. in his " (Observations on a Work," 
 makes the following brilliant renuirks ; "The missio!is have never been 
 forgotten nor abandoned by the bishops of Camida; nay, many amongst 
 them might well have gloried in the title of missionary bisho{)s. 
 Before the conquest the Jesuits had extended their apostolic labors 
 over a great part of North America. The sominar}'^ of (Quebec luis 
 duu'ge of the missions of Illinois, Mississippi and Acadia, over which 
 they held sway until the year 178t>. Before Monseigneur Hubert was 
 consecrated bishop he liad worked hard as a common nussionarj' 
 laborer in Illinois and Detroit, from whence ho returned ill with the 
 fever and ague. The bishops of (Quebec ministered as much as lay in 
 their power to the wpiritual wants of the Catholics of Newfoundland, 
 Cape Breton, and Prince Edward's Island. In 1818, Mgi-. IMessis 
 founded the Kwl Kiver mission, over 1800 miles from Quebec. F. F. 
 Provencher and Dumoulin were entiustod with the heavy charge of 
 visiting the posts occupied by Canadians and Metis, and the evangel- 
 ization of the Indian tribes. New missionaries, in proportion to the 
 exigencioHof the times, were despatched to Red liiver (,'olony to replace 
 those who were worn out with fatigue, in their long and wearisome 
 travelH through their extensive field of labor between the rock}' moun- 
 tains and Lake Su[)erior, and between the sources of Eeil Eiver and the 
 tributaries of Hudson Bay. How many other glorious names might 
 Ave not also mention to complete the list of those indefatigable apostles 
 of religion, sent by the bishops to far off regions for the purpose of 
 reclaiming perishing souls, hidden like diamonds, in the crust of the 
 earth, which they vowed before God to disinter, polish, and set in the 
 diadem of the Church ? 
 
 The following are the names of a few of the devoted men, who, 
 from 1836 to 1842, carried on their good work between the western 
 extremity of our diocese andTemiscamingue and Abbittibi : M. Charles 
 DoBolIefouille, of the Order of St. Sulpiee, M. T^upuy, of the same 
 order, M. Charles Poirier, M. Moreau, now vicar-^ oneral of Montreal, 
 who in company with Mr. Bourassa, or M. Morin, visi, ed Temiscamingue, 
 Grand Lake, Abbittibi and Trout-lake, several times. We can never for 
 
 
 
i^ct tlio episcopal vIhU of Binhop Bour^ot liiinsolf, who, in 1840, was 
 iiiixious to know (lie ninnlKT of his flock and ascertain how many of 
 thorn wore Hutferin^ for want of missionaries. His Lordship sent 
 several priests helbrehand alont; the Ottawa to prepare the (.'at holies foi* 
 his pastoral visit. They came as far nn, Hytown and were well receives! 
 honeath Mr. ('annon's hospitable roof. The next day they took theii- 
 departure; M. Hrady, the oldest ])riest in this diocese of Ottawa, M^r. 
 Desiaitels, M^i. Prince, the venerable Bishop of St. Jl^aclnthe, crosse<l 
 to the Gatineau which they ascended as far as Lake St. Mary, whilst 
 at the same time M. Amiot, M. Trnteau, the late vicar-^eneral of Mon- 
 treal, so universally regretted on account of his uncommon talent, virtue 
 and good disj)osi(ions, with M. Plamondon, canon of Montreal, sailed up 
 the ()ttawa to the (yalumet, Aliumetto Island, and Fort Coulonf... 
 
 With what regret must not the untimely death of the first ])riestof 
 Temiscanniiguehave been reganled. M. Charles DcHellefeuille, who sank 
 under the Inu-dships of his calling at the end of his third mission, was 
 born at St. KiUstachc, (Lower Canada) in 1795, and died in 1838, oidy 
 forty -eight days after his return to Montreal, consoled in deatli by the 
 presence of Jiishop Lartigue, the founder of the associations for the 
 pro))agation of the faitli, and who was thus suddenly deprived by death 
 of one of his most active and energetic missiomiries. 
 
 A desire to increase the number of missionai'ies engaged in the 
 study of the numei'ous and difficult dialects of the Indian languages, and 
 the hope of Itringing I'olieftothe hard worked laborers, induced the 
 bishops of Canada to invito over from France the Order of Oblates to 
 share in the glory of Canadian Missions. The wise administration of 
 Mgr. (xuigues, fully confirmed the wisdom of this step. Many truly 
 heroic joung men, ai-med with the cross, bade a lasting adieu to the 
 world and its vain jileasurcs, in ordei* to lay down their lives in tlic 
 noble cause of evangelizing the heathen. New posts were opentxl and 
 the cross triumphed w^hore barbarism and dark ignorance had hitherto 
 prevailed. 
 
 What must not have been the happiness of our zea^ s pastor, a 
 few years ago, when ho visited those far distant missions! Notwith- 
 standing his old ago and the pressure of his episcopal avocations, like 
 another Paul, lie desired to see the wild children of the forest, who had 
 been the constant object of his solicitude; and how the spirit of dark- 
 ness had been dissipated by the heralds of the cross. The trip was very 
 long and weai'isome, cspcc'-^lly for a man of his Lordshi])'s ago, bark 
 canoes being the only mocj of conveyance for a considorablo part 
 of the journey. 
 
 A few extracts from the letter of a missionary, after a visit to Fort 
 Albany, situated at the mouth of Moose Eiver which falls into^IIudson 
 Bay, confirms the devotedness and attachment of those servants of Go<l 
 to the- glorious work for which they had made such immense sacrifices. 
 * * * * " The fort of Moose Factory, built on a beautiful little island 
 three miles from the sea, and about forty below the confluence of the 
 Abbittibi and the Moose, is morel}'' remarkable for its geographical jiow'- 
 tion ; the nwniber of families who yearly came there engaged in tho fur 
 
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 trade not t. ::ccoding fifty-fivo, representing a popuhn.ion of about 250 
 «oul8. But as this Fort is situated at the southern extremity of the 
 Bay, all the surrounding posts send their furs to it, and a vessel sailing 
 every year from Br.gland, freighted with j>mmunition and provisions 
 for the several posts, returns laden with rich and valuable furs. The 
 chief of the establishment welcomed me in the morit cordial manner, 
 and paid great attention to my comfort while 1 staid ■'-Ith him. I have 
 also the same report to make of all the other employees of the Hon. 
 Compan3^ All of them treated me very kindly ; in fact one would think 
 they had been old friends of mine or the most devoted Catholics. I had 
 just been throe weeks at Fort Moose, when a schooner arrived from Fort 
 Albany, and this gave me an opportunity of visiting that post, 140 
 miles farther north, towards M'^hich my heart much more than my com- 
 pass unceasingly turned ; for I ha<l been previousl}'^ informed that 1 
 should there find a great number of Indians, who had come from 
 adjacent posts together with those belonging to the locality, which, 
 I believe is one of the most populous of the Bay. I embarked on the 
 5th July, on that tempestuous and icy sea. Hardly had we issued from 
 Moose Eiver when we were stopped by a contrary wind which detained 
 us in the same spot for three days. To make the most of this disappoint- 
 ment wc landed. In all directions, it appeared to be a low marshy 
 country, periodically covered by the tide which there rises very high. 
 There wm nothing to banish the melancholy which crept over us while 
 wandering through those desolate plants. Not a single bird in the air 
 nor deer on land was visible ; a few sea vvolves were the only animals 
 we met during the voyage. I will not attempt, My Lord, to describe 
 the feelings of a missionary in exploring, for the first time, such dreary 
 latitudes. Everj^thing that comes in his way merely tends to increase 
 hie sorrow; it is no wonder therefore, that his letters should at times, 
 partake of the melancholy with which his whole soul is troubled. This 
 mission, I believe, is one of the most difficult in the world. The 
 missions of the Levant, of Constantinople, of the Islands of the Archi- 
 pelago, of Lylia, of Egy])t, &c., still preserve a few remains of their 
 ancient renown. And all those countries, however degraded the}' maj' 
 be, exhibit nevertheless to the missionary some relics of the riches, 
 industry and magnificence of their first inhabitan •. Notwithstanding 
 the barbarous condition of th'» Islands of Occanica and Japan, they also 
 offer some encouragement and hopes of success to the perseverance and 
 energy of the missionary. There nu- 3rous tribes, a fertile soil and a 
 temperate climate are to be found. But in the mission of the Bay, it is 
 altogether different. For sts of stunted wood, a sterile and marshy 
 soil^ a dark and cloudy sKy, a frozen sea, a multitude of aboriginal 
 families, whose disgusting aspect denotes the most profound degrada- 
 tion and misery, aie so many difficulties which the poor missionary ha*« 
 to encounter in this most inhospitable of countries. The silence of 
 death which prevails over vast wastes, is never broken, save by the 
 howling of bears and wolves with Vrhich the Indians waged relentless 
 war, or by the plaintive cries of birds of passage. Pardon me, My 
 Lord, for this long digression wherein I v~ .rely give the outline of a 
 
picture more fright ul than 1 have painted it. All that I might say, 
 Would convey hut a vei-y fcehlc idea of the reality.'* 
 
 IT. 
 
 MISSIONS OP THE SHANTIES. 
 
 In the preceding chapter we have neen what Bishop Guignes did 
 for the Indian Missions ot Ottawa. We shall now voviow the 
 part which he took in the work at the shanties, a work which he him- 
 self, in view of the important results ohtained, called the '• tir.-<t of the 
 diocese." 
 
 To do this we m.ust go hack some thirty years. We find M. 
 Desautels, now one of the most distinguished members of the clergy 
 of Montreal) then a humble but zealous missionary of the district of 
 Ottawa, struggling with the greatest difficulties, pnd contending with 
 all the apostolic energy which he is known to posse-ss, against the 
 obstacles which he liivl to encounter, and against which his generous 
 effoi'ts were ever directed. 
 
 ''The spectach^ presented by the shanties," lie wrote to his sui)erior8 
 at Montreal) on the 3rd May, 1842, "is an afflicting one. But too oftei: 
 the most disgraceful crimes ai'o common there; the most horrible 
 blasphemy is there a daily amusement. Yet I would not say that 
 there are not excellent people in the shanties; no, there nre such; 
 there are even shanties where there is none of this evil ; but alas ! 
 how rare they are I and the number of these shanty-men is so gi'eat ! 
 Bat according to an estimate which has just been made, the num- 
 ber of persons employed during each season in the shanties of the 
 Ottawa and its iributnries, exclusive of foremen, clerks, and keepei-s of 
 provision shanties, wo.dd roach 5,000 men, of whom only about 250 do 
 not belong to the Catholic Church. I am of opinion that much good 
 might be done amongst those ])oor people; for the little that J have 
 been able to do for them has, thank God, succeeded beyond anything 
 that I could expect. 
 
 "But we must have priests in robrst health, who could visit the 
 shanties in the winter, and who, in the spring, would come and attend 
 to the men at the Chaudiere and at tlie mouth of the Gatineau. I am 
 well aware that there is nothing to bo done in the shanf.ies themselves; 
 but there arc always near them houses or outbuildings where it would 
 be easy to collect them together; and I do not now think that any 
 niaster would .efuse to grant two or three daj's to his men for the pui-- 
 pose, when requested to do so by a priest." 
 
 Another missionary, the reverend Father Clement, wrote in Sept., 
 1849, to tho Melatifjes ReUgieux of Montreal ; " Allow me to give you 
 
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 Aome details which will perhaps be read with pleasure bj' those who 
 take an interest in colonization. Two miles below Bytown, »)ppG8ite 
 the Rideau, On the north shore, is situated the mouth of the Gatincau, 
 a large river which empties its watei's into the Ottawa. Ascending 
 this river, which runs southwards with the violence of a rapid, some 
 ninety miles, we reach the mouth of the river Desert: this may be 
 described as being the centre of a vast extent of fertile land as yet 
 unoccupied by whites ; there is situated the township of Maniwaki (the 
 land of Mary), which the present ministry have just granted to the 
 Algonquins, — in oifler to promote the carrying out of their wish to en- 
 gage in agriculture, — after five years' repeated application to the 
 Government. Their petition was acceeded to in August last; by an 
 order of the Executive Council 60,000 acres of land was granted, and a 
 surveyor was at once sent to measure and lay out the new township of 
 Maniwaki; and the Government did not here stop in their generositj'. 
 As some shanty owners had cleai*ed about forty acres of land in the 
 said township, the Goverment underto )k to indemnify hose gentlemen, 
 in order that the Indians might remain sole owners of their land. 
 
 " His Lordship, the Bishop of B^-^town, (Monseigneur Guigues) who 
 contributed so greatly towards obtaining this advantage for the Indians, 
 proposes to send missionaries to that part this winter, in order to en- 
 courage them as much as possible in thtir work of clearing." 
 
 By these tw^o quotationo we may form an idea of the deplorable 
 condition in which the shanties were, and of the steps which Bishop 
 Guigues at once took to promote the colonization of the valley of the 
 Ottawa. 
 
 Thus one of his first acts as a Bishop was to go and pay a personal 
 visit to his apostolic domain. And it is woU known that at that time n, 
 journey into the vast solitudes of the Ottawa — was not a very comfort 
 able one — -so as to take personal cognizance of the condition of matters, 
 and Hee what there was to be done. Following the north uhore of the 
 Gatineau, along which there were but a few families settled at a con- 
 siderable distance from each other, he penetrated as far as Maniwaki. 
 Then worelui»l the first foundations of that mission which subscqufAntlj' 
 attained an importance which the future cannot fail to increase. 
 
 Descended from a warlike family, his father having, as we said in 
 the commencement of this work, taken part in the doings of the great 
 army. Hie Jjoitlship may be said to have inherited the courage of the 
 soldier. His energy was further develo]>ed by his calling of religious 
 devotion. In his episcopal career he often gave proof of these manly 
 virtues, especially wheti he was engaged in obtaining from the Govern- 
 ment the Maniwaki grant. In an English now:*papcr of the period, 
 The Hamilton Journal, we find the following highly interesting details 
 on the subject. 
 
 It would appear that on Tuesday, the Vli\\ June 1851, the Legisla- 
 tive Council concluded its evening sitting with closed doors, in onler to 
 take into consideration a correspondence which had mssed between the 
 Bishop of Bytown and the Hon. Thomas McKay. The following are 
 the remarks of the journal : 
 
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 " Incre<iiblo as it may appear, it is a fact that the closing of the 
 Council doors had for its object to enable the Hon. Thomas McKay to 
 exercise his privileges as a Peer, and to cause the Bishop of By town 
 to be brought to the bar of the House, for pretended contumacy towards 
 him. Our readers will remember the debate which took place last 
 autumn, on the subject of the Gatineau grant. While his Lordf^hip was 
 in Europe, Mr. McKay, had accused him of endeavoring to obtain, in 
 reality for himself, but nominally for the Indians, a gi'ant of land on 
 the Ottawa; and he had accompanied his accusation with allusions that 
 were disrespectful to the Bishop. Immediately upon his return to Bytown 
 the latter wrote to Mr. McKay domuuding an explanation ; but insteiul 
 of withdrawing his accusations, the Legislative Councillor repeated them 
 even more forcibly in a letter which ho caused to be published in the 
 newspapers . 
 
 The Bishop replied and chastized the Honorable member so effect- 
 ually, that the latter wished to shelter himself beneath his privileges as 
 a Legislative Councillor, and to punish His Lordship with the assistance 
 of the convenient prei*ogative of the Council. Wo understand that 
 the roproof administered to Mr. McKay by the Speaker, was sm sore as 
 it was amply deserved." 
 
 Thus it will be see. that Bishop Guigues did not allow himself to 
 be easily imposed n\X)n. To his energy especially we owe the success 
 v'hich has crowned the efi'orts made to elfect the settlement of the 
 Ottawa Valley. And, while bold and courageous, he was nevertheless 
 loyal adversary, and knew how to cause himself to be respected by 
 those with whom he had to contend. 
 
 For nearly twenty years, the white population iiad striven, and 
 made settlements with dilficulty. At last in 18G8, the colony of the 
 Desert was definitely established, and on the 14th of August of the 
 samo year, a magnificent church of white stone, was opened and bless- 
 e*] by his Lordship ; on the same day a large statue of the Holy 
 Virgin was placed on the massive tower of the church, where it over- 
 shadows the confluence of the Desert and Gatineau rivers which water 
 a productive and picturesque tract. Besides this, the Grey Nuns hpve 
 established a convent at the Desert, which is now attended by about 
 100 pupils, and which is pvoducing the most highly satisfactory reli- 
 gious and intellectual results. 
 
 The Maniwaki settlement is the especial work of Bishop Guigues. 
 We shall show hereafter, that this work has extended to the whole val- 
 ley of the Ottawa. 
 
 What this pious prelate did for the shanties is hardly credible. 
 To form an opinion on this subject, it will be necessary to pass through 
 those vast and turbulent centres of industry, and contrast the popula- 
 tion which iidiabits it, to what it was twenty years ago, with what 
 it is now. What changes, and what gratitude do not these rude workers 
 owe to the pastor who devoted himself so energetically to their spiritual 
 well being. 
 
 ilere wo would take pleasure in ^' iving a letter which his Tjonl- 
 ship addressed to the directors of the Propagation of the Faith in 1860, 
 
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 !»nd in which ho drcM' a most real and vivid picture of the Ottawa 
 Hhanti'jH. Unfortunatoly, our space torhids it. We may venture how- 
 ever, to Lay before the reader what the courageous Bifshop said in it 
 respecting tlic apostolic life of the missionary to the shanties. The 
 story will convey an idea of the services which he '-endered in the 
 thankless and dittieult work at the shanties. 
 
 " Allow me now to teli 3'ou in a few Avords what we are doing to pro- 
 , mote the spiritual interests of the tdiantics. Two ])ricsts are constanth- 
 taigagod in the work at fixed posts, and during the wintei*, two others 
 are sent to convey to those in the remote parts the assistance of their 
 ministrations. The city of Ottawa heing the habitual stai-ting point 
 of these young people, these two n)issionaries have therefore taken up 
 their residence. They visit them on the rafts on their way to (Quebec, 
 they follow them to the hotels on their retui-n, hear their confessions, 
 give for them three or four general retreats, have them cared for at the 
 hospital, when they are ill, warn them from liouses that are likely to 
 be injurious to them in a pecuniary or a moral sense, and in a word, 
 lavisli upon them the most affeclionato care ; and hence they are called 
 the fathers of the youth from the shanties. 
 
 '' When winter comes — when snow covers tlie roads and ice the 
 rivers, a new labor devolves U])on tl)o missionary. lie bends his steps 
 towards tlie forests, towards those remote solitudes which should not 
 I e moi'c inaccessil)le to religion than they are to industry. This work 
 cannot be done, save in the midst of suffering. It matters not, a gospel 
 laborer must kr.ow how to ri^^e above it. More than once lie has t<> 
 (^ncoimtei', in an open vehicle, so low a tem])erature as thirty degrees 
 . fieaumur. lie has to venture along roads but little travelled, vr.guely 
 know^n and l)uried in snow. an(' despite all his efiV)rts to find his way. 
 all that he sees in the visil)le horizon but serves to convince him that 
 he has gone astray. What is he to do row ? Night is approaching, 
 his horses are exhausted with fatigue. ]\rust he then des])air? No; a 
 V large fii'c is lighted, the buffaloes are s])icad upon the snow, and he 
 sleeps as peacefully as he can. At another time, a constantly spreading 
 white spot shows that the face or the fingers are frozen. In France 
 you would go and warm yourself, or you would call in medical assistance. 
 Here we have a more easy remedy ; the frozen part is promj^tl}' rubbed 
 with snow and the cure is complete. 
 
 "It sometimes ha])pens also when travelling on a riA'cr that the ice 
 gives way beneath the horses' feet, and they are at orice swimming in 
 an opening. AVhat is to be done in this emergency? The Imrness is 
 instantly loosened, the opening is carefully approached, and the horses 
 throat is strongly compressed. The latter, feeling him.'-elf choked, 
 makes a desperate effort to extricate lumself. Tlie tli'iver for Ids part 
 skilfully assists him. The horse is got out of the water a id continues 
 his journey. 
 
 " This winter apostolate lasts about three months. During the 
 night the priest preaches the gospel ; and during the day he travels 
 from one ehanty to another. About one hundred establishments are 
 visited during the hard season ; and a journey of some five hundretl 
 
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 ndrcil 
 
 lcn<:fiics in made tliroiigh a tract it)i" country in whicli there is not a 
 hingle dwelling. Each Htation of the missionary is neoessaril>- a short 
 one, for these young people are very fully occujjied. In the evening 
 he preaches and hears confessions until the n»id(Ue of the night, tlRMi 
 he lies down on a bed which is hy no means one of down, lie has to 
 sleep upon logs which are not even squs ed; on one side he feels the 
 huvning heat of the tire, and on the other the raw wind which conies 
 through ihe crevices of the shanty. Ihii as time j)rosses, and he has 
 bnly a few^ hours for sleep, he has something better to do than to think 
 of the cold and the heat. At tour o'clock in the moriung mass com- 
 mences, those who are prepared communicate; the missionary ])rcaches 
 •again: enrols his heai'crs into temperance and religious associations, 
 and at daybreak continues ins journey to another shanty, while the 
 workmen retm-n to their daily labors. 
 
 " Thus three months pass awa^y in the ])erformance of a painful but 
 consoling ininistration; and it is right to remark here that these yonng 
 people are better otf than those of their companions who go to the 
 United States. If they too often give themselves up to a disorderly 
 way of life, their faith at least stands firm anu unshaken. With touch- 
 ing piety they follow the retreats given for them; with confidence they 
 receive the scapular}'; always welcome the priest | as a friend, make 
 under his influence noble resolutions; and when they fall, know how to 
 raise themselves up again, deeply mourning tlieir weakness. And thepo 
 "happy tendencies are what sustain the missionary un<ler all discourag- 
 ing circumstances, in the midst of privations and of labor whicii 
 'consnrhe his healtli. It is now twelve vears since this routfh ministry 
 has been entrusted to the reverend Oblat Fathers who fulril it with a 
 devotion which "Othing can subdue ; and it ma;y be said that in view 
 of the results obtained, this work is, in our eyes, the first in the diocese. 
 Surprise at the importance which we attach to it will disappear when 
 it is considered that the object is to j^reserve a gi-cat part of tlie 
 Canadian youth from the disorderly life, the dissipation, the mad pro- 
 digality and the neglect C/f the sacraments whicli seemed formerly to 
 be the lot of those engaged in this w^ay of life ; who had become the 
 scandal and scoui-ge ol (heir parishes and were pre])aring for their 
 country, as yet re))lcte with taitli a most dismal future. And thr 
 clergy who formerly repulsed these young peo])lc as wretches destined 
 for certain ])erditi()n. now receive them eagcily. encourage them and 
 make the ministration of the missionary as easy as it is truiltul." 
 
 All of us remember the time when the po})ulous town of Hull was 
 as yet without inhabitants — when a charming forest of small cedar. 
 j)ine and ouk, traversed by numberless paths, occupied the site of the 
 spacious dwellings whicli spring up on e^-ery side, and of the still 
 unfinished streets where an active trade is with difficulty carried on. 
 "Our little ones alone have not beheld it, but a similar view can easily 
 be fimnd. 
 
 Observe the opposite banks of the Ottawa, the distant Chelsea 
 Mountains tounding the ho''izcn, from whence comes down to us an 
 immense stretch of forest ; upwards, along the Ottawa, the brilliant 
 
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 Fiiirror of the stream, half concealed by the spray from the ChaxKliore, 
 and by the motion of the water through the rapids ; downwarfis, th« 
 majestic course of the quiet watei-s past the land which it irrigates on 
 the Lower Canadian side, and to the level of which it is maintained 
 from the Chandiore downwards. 
 
 Observe at your feet n lake constantly covered with rafts which 
 have been brought down the slides, and which are being bound together 
 before being taken on their way to the ocean. 
 
 But n few years ago the Chelsea woods came down dose to the 
 lake, leaving but a few acres of beach covered with moving sand, rest-» 
 ing on the rock through which the Ottawa river had forced it, passage. 
 But at the edge of the beach, on the very spot where the great church 
 of Hull now stands, there was a poor wooden building covered with re<i 
 roughcast, the only one to bo seen. A little uell surmounted it; an 
 outer gallery on the Bytown side separated the up[»er story where the 
 family of a boatman Uxlged, from the lower \-^vt which was without, 
 partitions and unfinished and devoid of any ornament or decoration 
 except a little altar of wood, and the fourteen pictures of the way of 
 the Cross, This was the '* Chapel of the Shanties." 
 
 There it was that so soon as he had returned from the depths of 
 the forest— with the last ice of the winter — with the tirst rafts of the 
 spring, the missionary hastened every morning to celebrate the Holy 
 .^fysteries, to which, before dawn, and the hour of labon, he drew 
 together the young people who were on their way down the river, and 
 who were delayed for some time in their journey. There it was that 
 the venerable Bishop to whom all the youth of the shanties were as the 
 children of his diocese while they laboretl in them, loved often to go. 
 
 In that poor church, poor as the shanties in the woods, the young 
 men from the Gatineau, the Rideau, and the Upper Ottawa came to 
 complete the confessions remaining unfinished perhaj)9 on the occasion 
 of the missionary's short visit, to renew their good resolutions, and to 
 prepare themselves for the dangere of civilized life to which they were 
 about to return ; or it may be to pi-epare themselves to appear before 
 their God, should it be their lot to perish in the dangerous rapids 
 through which their calling compels them to past*. 
 
 Fi'om this outer gallery, a vast crowd of raftsmen collected on the 
 neach have listened to the powerful addresses of a Durocher, a Bourassa, 
 a Brunot, a Reboul, and manyothei's whose names are household words 
 in our parishes. F«'om that gallery often resounded the clear and sym- 
 |)athizing voice of his Lordship Bishop Guigues. He appeared there 
 with the insignia of his diocesan authority He was a father and a 
 bishop, a missionary and a representative oi* the sovereign Pontiff, a 
 brother, and the most determined adversary i)f intoxicating liquors, of 
 sweiu'ing, of the follies of youth, and of other vices to which are exposed 
 those who have not made Divine and human l.iws, es]iecially in the 
 depths of the forest, a principal subject of med'tation. 
 
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 THK BIOCKSE OF OTTAWA. 
 
 We have now treated of the missions among the Indians and in the 
 shanties in a somewhat incomplete manner, it may bo but at leaf witli 
 sincerity and correctness, and we now with considerable diffidence enter 
 upon a description of the diocese of Ottawa, and the part his Lordship 
 took in the promotion of civilization. The task is difficult, Ixjcause 
 a delicate one. It is difficult because of the great number of goo<l 
 works we should like to enumerate, and it requires tact for a certain 
 degi*ee of discrimination is inevitable, and wo may perhaps be blamed 
 by many of our readers for withholding from p iblic admiration, many 
 beautiful, edifying and heroic virtues which we f;ht to record here. 
 
 In the letter from which we made some exti cts under the second 
 liead of our subject. Bishop Cruigues draws a remarkable comparison in 
 connection with the industry of the shanties, which is in every way 
 applicable to the parishes of the diocese : " Their gigantic operations 
 and progress," writes the venei"able Prelate, " may be compared to a 
 tree whose trunk has attained a height of fifty miles from which have 
 shot stout branches of a length proportionate to the base, and bringing 
 forth numerous other boughs which a genial sap has multiplied in 
 innumerable numbers and in ever}" dii-ection." If to these boughs we 
 compare the i-eligious works of the diocese, we find them to be of an 
 infinite number. If the stronger branches represent parishes already 
 organized and prospering, we find them to be about fifty in number. 
 The following is an official account of the diocese as published in the 
 Baltimore Ecclesiastical Almanac of 1872 ; we could, however, correct 
 it to advantage if more exact statistics were required. 
 
 In the diocese of Otta, a in 1872 ; 
 
 Churches .... 
 Chapels .... 
 Churches built during the year 
 Churches not yet fiiiishel 
 
 52 
 
 48 
 6 
 
 
 The last two figures may appear very small to those of our readers 
 who live out of this diocese, and who are accustomed to the pleasing 
 sight of ancient temples, of gothic monasteries, or at least of buildings 
 whose age, size and ap])urtenances render them venerable. Here wfs 
 nre comparatively poo?, and our airhitectui-e may be said to be in its 
 infancy. Our first chapels ai-e for the most part of wood, and of 
 moderate size ; but may i>e distinguished by a jjcculiar stj'le of archi 
 tecture and by the careful manner in whicli *hey are painted. They 
 are situated at tolerably regular distances from each other. In a day'n 
 journey, one or two, or tu'rhaps three are met with, (ienerally they 
 
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 stjliul in Homo forest gladt!; but the site in ulways iln Ui^roeiihlo one 
 i)verlo()i<in<; u valley or a windinjjj Htrcani. Tho adjoinini^ wood iH the 
 property of the eliapel. Soon tlie nearest trees will he felled and eon- 
 verted into planks or hoards for the erection of a ])arsona^e. Some teW 
 acres distant from tho ehapel is another o|)en space ; the wooden crossoH 
 planted here and there in it, cicai'ly indicate that i( is the Imryincf 
 •ground . Should We meet the priest, wo find him a roI»ust, ener<^etie 
 miin with weatlier l)eaton, hut frank and friendly features, prohahly on 
 his returri from a journey of twenty or thirty miles which ho will travel 
 again to-morroW. Hero every curate is a misssionary ; ho has numerous, 
 chanties to visit in tho course of the winter, lie it is who supjdies the 
 spii'itual wants of the settlors and is frequently tho adviser, tlie notary 
 And tho Inwyor of his largo parish, One of liis pressing duties is t^j 
 decide where a small nucleus of settlement is likely to he formed, and 
 to assist those in charge of the management of the diocese with advice 
 based upon his knowledge and experience. 
 
 And one of the most serious works of tho diocesan administration,, 
 is to encourage its priests in the performance of their duties, to bring in 
 new settlers, to collect them together in some convenient place, to 
 procure for them the assistance of men skilled in the most useful tnvles, 
 and above all to personally' visit the settlers in their forest homes. Every, 
 year, 1873 not excepted, Uis Lordship paid two pastoral visits to some 
 part of his diocese. These visits were performed in company with 
 ariother ])riost at tho two seasons of the year, which though the least 
 convenient for travelling, were most favorable to the population of the 
 backwoods. These journeys wore generally begun about the 20th of 
 January, and the beginning of August, and lasted a month or more. 
 K'.ich one of or.r priests has therefore been witness of the apostolic zeal 
 of our departed prelate; each one of the faithful under his jurisdiction 
 has received from his hands that sacrament which elevates the character 
 of the Christian; all those who had boon led by weakness of faith into 
 guilty connexion, or who had had disputes with the parish priest, or 
 with their fellow parishioners welcomed him as one bringing "peace to 
 men of good-will. It would be easy to collect here declarations from 
 every member of the clergy testifying to the gi'oat good His Loixlship 
 accomplished in every church which ho visited. Immediately upon 
 his arrival into a parish he at once entered the church followed by the 
 pious multitude which had gone to meet him, and had returned with 
 him. in triumph ; he would addi'oss them a few Words announcing the 
 length of the mission, and without a mon\ent's rest would proceed to the 
 confessional with the other priests. He would be the last to leave it at 
 night and the first to return to it on tho morrow. The mission time, in 
 the pai'ish was in reality a time of salvation ; enmity was laid aside, 
 families wore reconciled, peace and joy reigned in every heart. Bisho[) 
 (ruigues' most intimate friend, His Eminence Cardinal Gruibert, Arch- 
 bishop of Paris, at the time of his late promotion at Paris, and the Car- 
 dinato, wrote to him in the following words, '*' (rod knows, my dear 
 brother, that neither you nor I over felt any ambition to attain the 
 honors conferred upon us by the Holy Church. But how many cares has 
 
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 my OardinarH hat I)rout^hL with it and how many joys havo you not 
 found beneath your humolc mitre of a missionary bishop. " These ^reat 
 joys were purchased by a life of the most unselfish devotion. Indeed 
 aftei* the labors of the Church came those of the parsonage, after can^ 
 for spiritual wants came the troubles of the world, after the revision of 
 the )ast, came foresight for the future. Here again we would wish to 
 speak Avith the voice of all the population, and give deserved prmsc to 
 His Lordship's Jidininistrative (qualities, but wo prefer to repeat an ill 
 sounding word with the conviction that every Catholic has alread\' 
 perceived the sul)limity of the praise contained in the reproach that ho 
 was very rich ! Yes ; and would that he had been twice and thrice as 
 rich, rich in talent, rich in effort, rich as bishop, but poor as a man, 
 rich in a word for his parishes, for his children and for his God ! 
 
 It is now higli time to draw a comparison between the state of the 
 diocese when it was received by Bishop Guigues and the present con- 
 dition of the pari. -js. We shall first, ho^'vevei', give the boundaries of 
 the territory marlicd out as the diocese of Ottawa by a decree of the 
 tSacred Congregation of the Propaganda on the 13th of March, 1850. 
 
 1. — The county of Ottawa forming up to that time part of tho 
 diocese of Montreal. 
 
 2. — The townships of Osgoode, Goulbourn, Triskaj*, Uamsn}', 
 Pakenham, Basting, Lavant, etc., etc., all the territory extending in a 
 st aightline from this last township to the river Severn and constituting 
 the northern portion of the diocese of Kingston. 
 
 The following is a list of the priests in the diocese with their re- 
 spective stations, according to tho division of the provinces at tho pres- 
 ent date : 
 
 Eevd. F. I). Dandurand, O. M. T., Administrator of the diocese. 
 
 Bishop's Palace. — Messrs. Dandurand, Ad.; M. Molloy; J. L. 
 O'Connor, D. D., Secretary; J. Champagne; I)e Bouillon; Andre. 
 
 CoLLEOE AND SEMINARY. — j. II. Tabarot, Superior, Boisrame, F. 
 Froc, P. F. Lepers, F. H. Mauriot, F. Durocher, F. Bennett, F. Bai-rctt, 
 F. Chaborel, F. Gladn, F. TIarnois. 
 
 Alexr. I'allicr. O. M. L, Parish Priest of St. Joseph's Church. 
 
 J. J. Collins, St. Patrick. 
 
 M. Stenson, Vicar. 
 
 P. Porcile, St. John the Baptist. 
 
 M. Alleau, St. Ann. 
 
 E. F. Charpeney, Superior, L. Reboul, Mouricr, Marion, Amyot, 
 
 ER. FF. T. M. Plan, J. Gueguen, N. Laverlochore, J. Xedelec, O. 
 M. I. 
 
 E. F. Poitras, Matawa, and Missionary for the Hudson's Bay. 
 
 M. Chaine, North Plantagenet. 
 
 O. Boucher, Clarence. 
 
 M. Jouvent, Pembroke. 
 
 M. Guillanme, N. D. de Lourdcs. 
 
 J. Bouvier, Arnprior. 
 
 M. Charbonnieo, Vicar, L'Original. 
 
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 M. Byrno, Ej^anvillo. ' '*, 
 
 M. Shoohy, Ht. J()soj)h of Clloucoster. • 
 
 T. D'lhiiiuol, St. Kuiruno. 
 
 J. L. I'Vjuu'ocur, South (rloiicoHtor. 
 
 J. (riiy, llus.sell. 
 
 (t. (iuin<^uct, La Peche. 
 
 J). Lii)>iiM, Pukonhain. 
 
 Josopli McConnaek, Mount St. Patrick. 
 
 Jamos McCormack, BiMulenoll 
 
 P. O'Coiinell, Eichiuond. ; 
 
 A. O'Maly, Jluntloy. 
 
 S. Philli])o, South Phmtagcnot. 
 
 P. Rougior, Jlonfrow. 
 
 A. McI). Dawson, Osgoodo. 
 
 J. T. Lavoio, Alfred. 
 
 J. Forde, D.D., Almonte. 
 
 Province of Quebec. 
 
 P. Agnol, Portage du Fort and Bristol. 
 
 R. Deloage, 0. M. I. ; 
 
 E. Tori'ien, River Desert. 
 
 A. M. Bourassa, Moiitebello. 
 
 F. J. Michel, Buckingham. 
 John Brady. 
 
 B. Bortrand, La Peche. 
 Th. Caron. Ripon. 
 
 B. Casey, Pontiac and Onslow. 
 
 P. Duserre-'relmon, (latinoau Point. 
 p]us6bo Faurc, Faui'o Mothe, Wright. 
 
 C. Clay, AVakefield North. i 
 M. Towner, Lochabei-. 
 
 M. Rivet, St. An<lrew Avelin. 
 
 F. Lombard, Papiiieaviville. 
 
 J. Lynch, Allumetto Island. 
 
 P. Marcelin, St. Gabriel. 
 
 P. Simon, Municip. L'Orinal. 
 
 M. Shalloo, Chelsea. 
 
 M. Chemin, L'Ango Gardien. 
 
 R. Trinquier, N. D. de Laus (River Lievre), 
 
 J. Foley, Grenville. •■ 
 
 M. Meohan, Sheen. 
 
 As a relaxation to the mind of the reader after these dry statistics, 
 as well as to do honor to Bishop Guigues' memory by pointing out how 
 well his numerous works Avere carried on, we "vvill give a short sketch 
 of a few of Our jDarishcs. The glory of the first prelate is reflected upon 
 all his priests, and gives to all the diocese an equal degree of beauty. 
 On account of this we have thought it advisable to describe Aylmer, in 
 the Province of Quebec, Portagc-du-Fort extending over both banks of 
 the Ottawa, and St. Eugene in Ontario. 
 
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 AYLMER. 
 
 Aylnior wm not out as a ivu;iiliir parish in 1S40 hy the very T?ov. 
 M^i". Desautels, and made ivinarivalilc proifi'CH.s duriii;^ tlio woven yoaiH 
 it was under Iuh wkillt'ul adnunistration. Tliis parisl» wan then eontidod 
 to altoly priest, tlio Jiev. James llti^dies. He left hehind him histin^ 
 marks of his eminent piety and of his ^reat urbanity, whieh during his 
 life-time exeitcnl the admiration of tlie adjoinin<:; ])ai'ishes. The years 
 following the departure of this holy apostle of the Cross were marked 
 by the administration of tive other ])riests, two of whom were unex- 
 pectedly snatched awa^- by death, and while siu'cessfidi}- inutating the 
 good cxam])le of their prodocessors 
 
 In 18r)8, Mr. Michel Avas a|)po;nted to the charge at a time wiieii 
 groat dilticulties were endangering its progress. During the fifteen 
 3'ears ho rcnuiined there, Mr. Michel successfully com])leted the build- 
 ing of a largo stone church, in place of the old one built by liev. Mi*. 
 Brunet, one of Ottawa's first missionaries. To facilitate the education 
 of young ladies, he then oi'octed a large convent which, though burnt 
 down when fii'st finished, was immediately rebuilt and placed under the 
 direction of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa. They give a good (Mluca- 
 tion U) I.IO children. The enterprising Mr. ]\lichel next obtained for 
 Aylmer the assistance of a few of the brothers of the order of St. Viator. 
 But those gentlemen were siibsequenfly compelled to abandon theii' 
 undertaking in consequence of the ill will of a few influential but ill- 
 dis])osed persons of the place. Mi*. Brunet has recently been removed 
 from L'Orignal, where he so worthily ministered, to succeed Mr. 
 Michel in Aylmer. 
 
 PORTAGE-DU-FOR'i' 
 
 The Portage has for a long time possessed a s^one ch.urch and 
 parsonage, eroded hy the energetic Mr. Bouvier, now in charge at 
 Arnprior, the City of Marble, where also, in loss than five years, he has, 
 assisted by Mr. 5lcN"amara, constructed another magnificent church. 
 The work accomplished at the Portage, though performed under diffi- 
 cult circumstances, Avas happily completed with the generous aid of the 
 raftsmen who passed the ])laco. Besides this place, the priest has to 
 minister to a population occupying the territory for more than twenty- 
 five miles around. The Portage itself is not very populous, on account 
 of its being in proximity to other villages, whoso more important trade 
 attracts a greater number of settlers. 
 
 ST. EUGENE. 
 
 This parish, distant seventj'-fivo miles from Ottawa, was estab- 
 lished as a mission hy Mr. Bourassa, now in charge at Montebello. 
 The Eev. Mr. J. J. Collins, first resident priest, VATote in 1855 the first 
 act entered upon the registers of the parish. During his term of nine 
 years ho succeeded in establishing many schools, and began a splendid 
 brick church, which he would have certainlj- eompleted had he not 
 been sent elsewhere. 
 
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 Ilov. Mr. Diihainel, who wortliily HiR-coodod luin in 18(51, fini.shod 
 tho clunvli ill less than ono yojii", and his Lordshi]) Hishop (Jiiii^uoH, 
 MoHsod il ill tho ])rosenc'o of a viml cont'ourso ol" prio.sls uiid ot tho 
 iiiithful. Tho Htoo[)io \n 150 loot high; tho body of tho odiHco is 120 by 
 no foot; and its cost was 014,400. Jn this jiarish thi-ro uro no loss 
 than twonty-tliroo schools, and 350 familios sottlod on fertile ajid ])ro- 
 <liurtivo land . Tho gonorosity of tho parishioners has hoconie provorhial, 
 and the gi'oatost go(xl-\vill animates thoni all. Their profouml rospoct 
 for his liordship Bishop (Juiguos, has heen proved by tiio extraordinary 
 reception they gave Idm at each of his visits. 
 
 IV. 
 
 SITUATION OF OTTAAVA BEFORE THE AERIYAL OF 
 
 BISHOP GUIGUES. 
 
 The hiotory of tho Ottawa Valley is not loss interesting than tho 
 study ol' its mysterious nomenclature, which binds it to the |):jst. Tho 
 pioneers of (tivilization in this district, have left us a record which must 
 ]n'ove a powerful inceutivo to industry and porsevorunco on tho part of 
 the generation now enjoying tho fruitsof their unremitting l.'diors. From 
 the foundation of this city must be dated the real progress of tho Ottawa 
 country. Although Mr. Philemon Wright, tho earliest pioneer of civil- 
 ization in tho Ottawa Valley, htul at an earlier period founded a few 
 settlcnKMits in tho neighborhood of tho present metropolis of Canada, 
 the origin of our city has never been traced to an earlier date than 1822. 
 In that year Colonel By arrived with a body of royal engineers, com- 
 missioned by the Imperial Government to establish comjileto water 
 connection, then important in a military point of view, between Lake 
 Ontario and the OttaAva. 
 
 Mr. Nicholas Sparks, who has given his name to our most magni- 
 ficent thoroiighftire, was then in possession of all that now constitutes 
 Central Ottawa, and of no inconsiderable portion of Lower Town. He 
 had ])Ui"chasod this property from one Burnet, tho patentee from the 
 Crown, for tho sum of £122. Mr. Sparks, would, in oiu> ilay, bo a mil- 
 lionaii'c. He was then but a poor farmer. Ho made no ditficulty in 
 coding to Colonel By, tho right of way for tho Ridcau Canal. Hislhriu 
 contained but one house, that of Mr. Daniel O'Connor, who catered to 
 the wants of the gallant Colonel's men. Mr. O'Connor's name holds a 
 conspicuous j)laco in tho honored list of Bytown's pioneers. 
 
 Mr. Sparks' original gift proving insufficient for tho "SAimts of the 
 iioval Engineers, they found themselves obliged to take sixty addi- 
 tional aci'os. After considerable difficulty, Mr. S})arks succeeded in 
 oI)t!iining compensation from tho Imperial Government to the amount 
 of .CI 7.000. 
 
)0 ])eri(>nnc(i ii\ jn-ivate nouses. 
 C'cecdcd byllio IJcv. Ani;u.-i ^IcDoiioli, 
 (lic'H i)un'nas('(l cortniti town lots for 
 
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 It wouM l)c lori'iii;i» to our purpose to review the many itilerostin^* 
 <lctailH ('OMne"ted with the early djiys of Ottawa, our ohjeet is merely to 
 nhow what luanner of place Hytowii was when our late venerati'd and 
 niueh lamented bishop was caMe*! to the See here erected by the iloman 
 I'ontif^ To the l\ev. Mr. lloran is aseribecl the si^md lionor of'havin;^ 
 oftere<l up the first mass over celobrateil in IJytown ; whiki ,Mary Ann 
 O'Connor, relict of the late May ■ Friol, enjoys the distinetioji ofbein^ 
 the first person born in Ottawa. As early as 182(S, the population of 
 Bytown was computed at 2000, one half bein^ Catholics. The spiritual 
 necessities of the latter were met by the /.eal of several holy nussion- 
 urics, amongst othei's the Jii/^ht liev. Dr. AIcDonell and Fjvther Jloran. 
 
 On the nth of September, 1H28, wo find the Catholics of liytown 
 holdin<^ a pul»lic meeting at which it was resolved to construct a chapel 
 in [ippci- Town. For some reason this cha])el was never constructed, 
 and the sacred rites continued to be ])erformed ii\j)rivate houses. 
 
 In 1829, Father Iloi-an was suc( 
 mider whoso i^uidanco the Catholics pun 
 ecclesiastical pur])oses. In 18;i2 they at length found tiiemselves in 
 ])ossession of a ])laco of worship. JDurinjuf its construction. Father 
 Auijus McDonell and his successor, Father Labor, celebrated mass in 
 the uppei* story of the market hou.se on York Street. 
 
 To the Bytown mission were then attached Richmond, (loulhui-n, 
 
 Xopean, March, Fitzroy, Jvatnsay, Pakenham, Osgoode and Gloucester. 
 
 On the 2nd of November, 1832, Father (*ullen became pastor of 
 
 P>ytown. ^''his year was also signalized by the first election of church- 
 
 A\-ardcns and the first sale of pows 
 
 Tne rai)id increase of population soon Cidled for the construction 
 of a more complete eeclesia-itical structure than that wherein the Catho- 
 lics of Jiytown had hitherto worshipped. Accordingly, on the 17th of 
 March, 18i>9, an association of four thousand persons was f()rmed for 
 tiie purpose of sei-uring the erection of a church which would fully 
 meet the wanl;> <>[' \U(\ people. The munificent sum of £51(J was sub- 
 .scribed, and the project having received the cordial sanction of Jiisho[» 
 (ruigues, was immediately carried into execiition. 
 
 On the 25th of October, in the memorable year 1841, tlie corner 
 stone of the new Church, the j)rcsent Catiiedral, was built by the Bishop 
 of Nanc}', Mgr. Forl)iu Janson. Amongf^t the clergymen v.'ho devoted 
 tlieinsolvos to tho Hytown mission, none holds a more honored or con- 
 s[)icuoHs place than I'\'ither (/annon. This zealous priest spared no 
 effort to establish here thai good feeling so necessary in a mixed com- 
 munity. He luii)])i!}' su.'ceeded in restoring harmony, not only I)ctweeii 
 the British and J'Vencli races, but even between the Catholics and 
 Protestants. On the 4th of June, 1842, Father Cannon left for L'Orignal, 
 and for nearly three months Bytown AV^as without a resident ])riest. 
 During this time the ])arish received occasional visits from the clergy 
 of the neighboring ])arishes. 
 
 On the 21st of August, 1842, Rev. M, Myron was appointed parish 
 ])riest, and ven^ained in charge of the ]»aris'ii till Nov. 22nd, 1842. He 
 was assisted V)y Patuer Colgan, who, however, departetl a few days 
 hefoi'e himself. 
 
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 The late illustrious Bishop of Kingston, Dr. Patrick Phclan, whoso 
 memory is so justly revered, having resijicned his chaplaincy in Montreal, 
 came to Bytown in the fall of 18-i2. On the 2:}rd of Au<,nist, 1843, he 
 was raised to the episcopate, with the title of Bishop of ('arrha, but did 
 not leave Ottawa till the following year, wlien the Oblate Fathers 
 established their first mission here. 
 
 Father Telmon who came first, was for a time assisted by the 
 Kovs. Messrs. Byrne and McEvoy. Upon the arrival of the Rev. 1). 
 Dandurand, the care of the Irish population was confided to him. 
 
 The Bytown Mission then included Osgoodc, (Gloucester, March, 
 Black Ila])ids, Long Island and Hogs Back. In March and Gloucester, 
 ciiapols, humble structures in their way, had been erected. The other 
 stations wer-^^ without places of worship. 
 
 The 10th Sept(;mbor, 1845, witnessed the arrival of the Rev. 
 Father MoUoy. Bytown had now five priests. 
 
 On the 15th of August in the same yetir, the new church had re- 
 celv^ed solemn beuediction, and had been placed under the protection of 
 our Lady of the Assumption. 
 
 In 1847, Father Telmon Avas assisted by the Revs. Messrs. Bau- 
 drand and MoUoy alone. Their zeal in succoring the Irish emigrants 
 who had fallen victims to the typiioid fever was unremitting, until they 
 were themselves prostratctl by the e])idemic. Father Dandurand, wdio 
 had been removed to Montreal on account of the feeble state of his health, 
 was now recalled, and found himself in chai-ge of both the Irish and 
 French portion of the Catholic ])opulation. He likewise succumbed to 
 t'le disease, and the Bytown misHion -vas bei'cft of pastors, until Bisliop 
 B )urgct disprtched the iievs. Messrs. Lagiei", P"'itzlnjmy, and Ryan, to 
 the aid of the suft'ering Irish. Not one of these priests escajjetl the 
 ravages of the dire pestilence, but it pleased Providence to onlain that 
 more of the clergy or sisters of chanty should bo fatally attacked. 
 Not less than two hundred j^ersons died at Ottawa, either in the hos- 
 pital or the lever sheds. 
 
 On the 25th, June 184*7, His Holiness Pope Pius IX., issued a bull 
 for the erection of the diocese of Bytown. The bull fixetl the boundaries 
 of the new diocese, which now consists of the counties of Carleton, 
 Russell, Prescott, Argentouil, Ottawa, Pontiac, the North Riding of 
 Lanark, and the two Ridings of Renfrew, besides extending in a north 
 westerly dii-ection far into Prince Rupert's land. Two weeks later, a 
 Bishop was chosen to fill the new See. The choice of His Holiness fell 
 upon the illustrious prelate, who has just passed over to the silent 
 nations of the dead. 
 
 The new Bishop did not take immediate possession of his diocese, 
 as l)is knowledge Oi" the English language was somewhat limited ; he 
 repaired to the Irish parish of St. Columba, where he sjient an entire 
 year. 
 
 On the 30th of July, 1848, Bishop Guigues received the episcopal 
 consocrntion at the hands of Bishop Gaulin, of Kingston, assisted by 
 Bisho])s Phelan and Bourgot. The consecration took jDlaco in the 
 Cathedra), then a rather rude edifice. The sermons upon the occasion 
 
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 were preached by the Eevs. Messrs. O'Eolll}^ and Migncault, in the 
 English and French hmguages respectively. 
 
 When Bishop Guii'-nes took possession of his diocese, there were 
 but four priests in Bytowii, and eleven in the whole diocese. The 
 population of the town was 7,160, of whom 4,978 were Catholics. The 
 city at that time was merely a conglomeration of miserable looking 
 wooden houses. The population was poor, owing to the then deplorable 
 state of the lumber business, the only resource for By town. 
 
 V. 
 THE CITY OF OTTAWA; YTH ORIGIN. 
 
 After having spoken of the deeds of our venerable prelate in the 
 Indian mission in the shanties and in the ditferont parishes, we now 
 come to that part of his administration which merely concerns us, his 
 ajiostolic actions in the city, whore the Episco])al See is established. 
 
 A few words on the origin of the name of our young city, and tlio 
 noble river that laves its feet, will not be un interesting to the 
 reader. A letter on tiiis subject was lately published in French, by E. 
 P. Mauroit, of St. Joseph's College. From a perusal of this valuable 
 document, rich in antiquarian lore, we learn that as far back as the 
 year 1(J54, a portion of Ottawa or Ottmcak, tril)e of Algonrpiina occu- 
 pied posts along the I'iver, one near the Tiidcau Falls, another at the 
 Chaudiere, and a third at the mouth of La Peche, The village that, 
 less than half a centary ago, grew up l)etween the two tirst mentioned 
 posts, although called b}' the white settlers Bytoirn, after its founder 
 Col. By, was never known to the red-men of the Ottawa tribe by any 
 other name than Ottmcak. What does this strange W(n*d mean ? It 
 meanf an car ; and it Avas attached to this tribe, because its members 
 alone of all the Canadian Indians, were accustomed to brush or rather 
 draw back their hair behind their ears. This trait recalls to our minti 
 Eonnd-heads of the I'cign of Charles I., so called because they cropped 
 their hair short. 
 
 TI. 
 
 LABOUR OF BISHOP GUKIUES IN THE CITY OP OTTAWA, 
 
 We have just seen what the condition of the diocese of Bytown was 
 when liishop (luigues was chosen, in 1848, to preside over it. \Ve pro.'ced 
 now to the record of our lamented ])rel,ate's apostolic labors. There is 
 a wonderful contrast between the humble state of the diocese as des- 
 cribed in the previous pages and its present condition. We might sum 
 up his principal works by simply stating that there are now fifty-two 
 
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 clmi'chcs, forty-ciglit chajicls, forty-nine members of the regular and 
 twenty-six of the .seeular clergy, three or four ecclesiastical institutions, 
 and a large number of educational establishments. This Uiight suffice ; 
 but let us enter into further particulars. 
 
 As we have already mentioned. Ills Lordship was consecrated Bis- 
 hop on the 30th July, 1848, at throe o'clock in the afternoon of the same 
 day ho took his episcopal seat in the Cathedral. Two days later (1st 
 August), he published his ^irst mandate. One of its features was the 
 naming of St. Joseph a^d St, Patrick patrons of the diocese. The 
 Fi'ench and the Irish Canadian populations were thus equally favoured, 
 and the work of conciliation between the two Catholic nationalities of 
 this diocese was by this act most eflTectually begun. Another article of 
 the same maiidate announced that the Immaculate Conception and St. 
 James wore first and second titulars of the Cathedral. 
 
 Wo have already seen what the zealous bishop's works were 
 outside of Ottawa, and we need now only mention wliat ho performed 
 in the city. 
 
 During the winter subsequent to his consecration, (1848-49), Bishop 
 Guignos, with the help of F. Dandurand, raised a subscriptioii for the 
 completion of the interior of the Church, he himself giving $200. All 
 the Catholic population, though poor, proved xory generous. 
 
 Many touching exam])les of good will might hero be related. 
 
 One in })articular fills us with admiration. It is that of the father 
 of a numerous family, who, being too poor to give anything for the 
 Church, exclaimed, on sitting down to supper with his children : " Let 
 us do w'ithout food to-day, and give the price of this meal as our offer- 
 ing." His family willingly acceded to the proposition. The work 
 was slow, but at last the Church was practically completed, and was 
 considered by all to bo the pride of Ottawa. 
 
 The Cathedral organ, begun in 1848 by Mr. Casavant, was after- 
 wards finished by Mr. Mitchell, of Montreal. During the year 1858 a 
 \ crjMmportant work was comj)loted: this was the building of the two 
 towers UTid steeples of the Church. They woiild do honour to a much 
 lai'go^ city than Ottawpv, During the whole of the work, the only 
 architect ^nd overseer of the workmen Avas Eev. F. Dandurand. The 
 construv, lion of the sanctuary and of the oratory underneath the Church 
 (1862), completed the Cathed.-al. 
 
 Prom the beginning of his episcopate. Bishop Guigues was desirous 
 of undertaking the construction of a college wherein to inaugurate his 
 intended educational system. A building was put up for the purpose 
 on Church Street, it was eighty feet in length, and three stories high. 
 It was begun on the 10th of August, and completed two months later. 
 Very soon however this building was found to be too small ; accordingly 
 in May, 1851, anew college was commenced on Sussex Street, it measured 
 100 by 60 feet; in September of the following year, the students entered 
 their new home. This building is the one no>v occupied by the Christian 
 Brothers. 
 
 In 1856^ Bishop Guigues laid the foundation of St. Joseph's 
 College, but on the 17th of August of the same j'car, the Societj of the 
 
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 Oblates purchased from Tlis Loi-dship what work had been done in llie 
 now buildii g and also the ground ])ertaining to it. Wo shall only add 
 that in 18(56, by the oUbrts of] I is Lordship, ofllovd. F llyaii, President 
 ')t'that institution, and of Kev. Dr. O'C'onnor, one of its first students, 
 St. Joseph's College, Attained by an Act of Parliament the standing of a 
 university, at the present time under the management of Povd. F. 
 Tabaret, who has j)res!ded over it since 1850; the institution is in a most 
 flourishing condition . 
 
 The coiner stone of St. Josei)h's (.■hurch was laid about the .same 
 time as the foundation of the College, and assuredly that edifice will 
 always be considered as a worthy monument of our prelate's energy. 
 
 Catholic schools, however, at which cveiy class of tlie ]io])ulation 
 i'ould attend, Avere still wanting. The Grey Nuns were entrusled with 
 some for the little girls ; but the Protestant trustees I'cquired that they 
 should receive certificates only from their Itoai'd. It was as ],iiinful as 
 it was lutmiliating to seo the Sisters examined ly a Pi'ofestanl 
 Committee. Still more ., -iible was experienced in the esliiblishing of 
 schools for boys ; the trustees would acce]>t as school-nuisier no one 
 speaking the French language. An assessment had therefore to b(> 
 levied, during two j'oars, by tlie French Canadian community to pay for 
 a school. 
 
 Bishop (Juigues then demanded separate schools, and his ]iro])osition 
 Avas accepted Avith enthusiasm by the entire jwpulation; nevertheless 
 lUimerous obstacles soon a])peared. The separate scho')l trustees Avere 
 too timid to take the necessary steps to ap]X)int teachers and establish 
 schools; moreoA'cr a large number of Catholics, from negligence rather 
 than from indisjjosition to join, failed to giA'e in their lumies, Avlule / / 
 
 others changed their residences: on this account part of the taxes paitl l, 
 by the Catholics Avent to defray the expenses of Protestant schools. 
 Those difficulties more than once greatly endangered the separate ' 
 schools ; but thanks to Rev. Dr. O'Connor's zeal and Avell directed 
 efforts, all these difficulties Avere oA'orcomc. 
 
 His Lordship, after many fruitless attempts, at last succeeded in 
 haA'ing the boys' schools placed under the control of the Christian 
 Brothers. 
 
 Their success in teaching, and the approbation they elicited from tlie 
 })arents of the pupils, groatly promoted the ju-ogress of the schools; and 
 in 1870, an increase in the number of the Brothers Avas called for and 
 obtained. The Christian Brothers, after o 'cupA'ing for some years their 
 first school-house, on St. Patrick Street, loft it for the building formerly 
 used a.s a College. They are now therefore very respectably lodged, 
 and as they are in the immediate neighbourhood of the Cathedral and 
 very centre of the Catholic population, diildren can easily attend; and 
 such is the case for a very large number of scholars Avho regularly 
 folloAv their course of instruction. 
 
 A foAV pages might Avell be devoted to the history of this religious 
 Order. Founded ir 1681, by the vouerablo do La Salle, it Avas intro- 
 duced into Montreal in 1837 ; its ])rogress, not only in Canada, but over 
 the AA'hoIc American Continent, has boon astonisliing. In 18G5, tho 
 
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 number of boyw attending their schools over the whole world, was 44,5'73 • 
 Here, at Ottawa, no loss than b'50 boys annually attend to the schools, 
 conducted by onl^' ten or twelve Brothers. It is to His Loi-dship Bis- 
 hop Guigues, that wo owe their presence amongst us, and tJie injiumer- 
 ablo benefits they have conferred upon the city. 
 
 It woidd also be unjust not to mention that the first pioneers of 
 education in this city were the Sisters of Charity, or as they arc called 
 by their more popular name, the Grey Nuns. On tho.request of Bisho]> 
 Phclan, administrator of the diocese, four of them arrived in Ottawa on 
 the 20th of February, 1815 ; they were : very Ilev. Mother S. S. Bruyoro, 
 superior; Eev. Sisters Thibaudcau, Charlebois, and Eodriguoz, assistants, 
 accompanied by tAvo novices, the Misses Devlin and Jones, They im- 
 mediately formed two classes, one English and the other French, in 
 accordance with tlio instructions of His Lordship Bishop Phelan. The 
 classes opened in an outbuilding in Lower Town ; this was the cradle of 
 their Avork. They shortly afterwards^ removed to Bolton Street, and in 
 1848 'they entered a convent on St. Patrick Street, built under the 
 auspices of His Lordship Bishop Guigues; and lately, owing to the kind 
 support of the population, they entered the magnificent convent on 
 Bolton Street. Their institution on Eideau Street, which, by their care 
 has, Avc have no hesitation in saying, become one the best educational 
 institutions in Canada, was purchased in 18G9. The Primary schools, 
 directed by the Sisters of Chiirity, have greatly increased. Besides 
 those in this city, they have found?*!, at the request of Bishop Guigues, 
 in difibront parts of tho diocese, educational establishments, now in a 
 most prosperous condition. Wo can mention amongst man}", those of 
 Temiscaminguo, Montobollo, Pembroke, Buckinghirn, Hull and Mani- 
 waki. Many branches *.ave also been established in tho United States, 
 in particular those of Ogsdenburgh, Plattsburgh, Buffalo and Medina. 
 This wonderful progress is certainly owing in a great degree to our 
 venerable pastor, and to the genial directions of the very Eev. Mother 
 Bruyere, still at tho head of her illustrious society . 
 
 In the city of Ottawa only they direct the Bolton Street Hospital, 
 blessed in i86(3; the ''Hospice St. Charles," opened in 1871; St. Joseph's 
 Orphans' Hom^^, where 80 children are cared for ; and lastly, the splen- 
 did St. Patrick's Orphan Asylum, the home of GO childroTi ; its manage- 
 ment has been entrusted to Eev. Dr. O'Connor, Avho, by his wise admin- 
 istration, has very matoriall}' forwarded tho progress of the establish- 
 ment. 
 
 But as the want of instruction became more and more pressing, 
 with the a])proval of Bishop Guigues, the Sisters of the Congregation 
 of Notre Dame opened a second Literary Institute for young ladies, on 
 the 1st of October, 1808, in the large building forming the corner of 
 Wellington and O'Connor Streets; but three 3'ears later they entered 
 their magnificent residence on Gloucester Street. 
 
 Tho foregoing is a summary of tho ])art taken in the establisnicnt 
 of our educational institutions by His Lordship Bishop Guigues. In 
 connection with this subject Ave may moreover mention : the French- 
 Canadian Institute, founded in 1852, and Avhich has ahvays found in our 
 
 
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 zealons pa«tor Ji wise protectoi" ; the Younii^ Men's Catholic Association 
 ofa I'coentdate ; the Literary Society oftlie (.'atholic Youtli, eHtai)ll.shecl 
 in 1862, by Messrs. Cr. Demcrs, Bumouchel, 1). Iticher, J. Prudhoinnie, 
 Br. 8t. Jean, J. A. Pinard, &c. ; a short time ago this society was 
 incorporated by His Lordship's advice with Mr. Porcile's Catholic 
 Youths' Association ; it is now under the direction of Mr. Champagne. 
 
 On A^,.il the 5th, 1857, at His Lordshi])'s request, Messrs. P. 
 Lariviore, J. B. Kicher, J. Valiquette, S. Bouchard and A. Gravelle 
 founded the Society St. Vincent of Paul, which comprises five branches 
 in the city of Ottawa and one at Hull. His Lordshij) placed at the 
 disposal of this society and of the " Union St. Josej'h," tl o spacious 
 building next door to the Canadian Institute. 
 
 L' Union St. Joseph, which we have just named, was founded on the 
 22nd of March, 18G3, inidcr tlte patronage of Bishop Ciuigues, by Mr. 
 Cuthbert Bordeleau ; 24-] members are now enlisted in this society, and 
 its capital is $3,000- Some time after a society for mutual help was 
 formed under the name of the St. Peter's Union. We have no 
 pra'ticulars respecting its foundation, but we are aware that His Lord- 
 ship gave it his sanction and all possible encouragement. In 1848, at 
 the close of a retreat, His Lordship Bishop (luigues himself, founded 
 St. Ann's Congregation for ladies; it has been productive of great edifi- 
 cation to the whole ])0])ulation. 
 
 Our venerable pastor's fatherly care in sup;>l3'ing every want did 
 not pass over ])art of liis flocic rejected from Christian society, and in 
 1863 he resolved to establish in Ottawa an as3'lum where really 
 motherly tenderness would recall to the sentiment of duty those wlio 
 had gone astray ; towards this end, in a journey he made to Buffalo, he 
 asked of the Sisters of our Lady of Charity, otherwise called Ladies of 
 Good Shepherd, to establish a branch of their order in Ottawa. To 
 induce them to do so he promised them a property on the banks of the 
 river Rideau. In 1865, two of them, after a visit ^o the intended site, 
 gave the acquiescence of their superioress. But owing to some misunder- 
 standing it was not until the 3rd of April, 1866, that a ftnv of them 
 arrived here. His Lordship welcomed them with open arms and never 
 ceased to lavish his favours upon them. 
 
 In 1867, he shewed himself their chief benefjictor by conferring 
 upon them a gift of $800 to help them in the construction of their 
 present residence, and some time later, perceiving the astonishing good 
 they performed and the increasing development of their community, he 
 gave them in addition to the property he had first promised them, a 
 further grant of as much more. 
 
 It would be unfair to omit to mention here the Claires of St. 
 Patrick Street, instituted some years ago byPevd. F. Molloy. AVc 
 meet every day on the streets these nuns, whose moi'e than humb''> 
 costume remind un of those Petitei serrantes des jxiucra^', whom we 
 envy France, and whose great social usefulness, sceptics have been 
 forced to admit. 
 
 His Loi-dship's last work was that of the establishment of the 
 Doctrinary Clerks in our midst, and this occurred at a very recent date: 
 
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 on the 4th of February lust, the vonerahk> prohitc signed on his death-bed, 
 and when his trembling hand could barely hold the pen, the deed of their 
 foundation, naming at the same time Ecvd. Mr. Porcilo, pastor of the 
 parish of St. John the Baptist, as their director. Their object is first 
 to give boys a French and English commercial education ; second, to 
 labour as auxiliaries of parish priests in teaching the Catechism, vocal 
 music and Church ceremonies. This branch lias adopted, Avith a few 
 slight modifications, the constitution given in 15li2, to the Doctrinaries 
 of France by the venerable Cesar de Bus, founder of the order. They 
 now direct with much success the school in the parish of St. John the 
 Baptist. 
 
 The Men's Congregation, founded in 1871, by Revd. Mr. Poreile, 
 the Latlics' (!haritHl)le Association, theTem])erancc Society, the National 
 Societies of St. Patrick and of St. John the Baptist, arc all institutions 
 in whose establishment Ilis Lordship took a prominent part. 
 
 We :;]K)uld have mentioned before the churches and cliapols, the 
 erection of which is to be attributed to His Lordship Bishop Guigues, 
 :ind which are oi-iuimcnts to the city. Besides the Cathedral, already 
 described, and St. Joseph Church, we have St. Patrick's, St. John tho 
 Bajitist and St. Ann's (Jhurches. We shall say a few words respecting 
 each of tlicse. From 184U, Upper Town was served by a priest from 
 the Cathcdi'al ; ho performed divine service in a room in Mr. McCarthy's 
 private residence. A small chapel, vised before by the Methodists was 
 purchased in 1848 by the parishioners, and ])laced under the patronage 
 of St. Andrew, on the 31st of Maj', the day of its consecration. Some 
 additions were made to it first by Mr. Aceneas McDonell DaAvson, and 
 afterwai'ds l)y Revd. F, McGratli, in 185*7. The latter gentleman had 
 already ]>inrhased the property for the now church, when he was 
 succeeded in 18G7 by Kevd. Mr. Collins, who began in 18G9, on Maria 
 and Hugh Streets, tlio construction of tho magnificent chnrch now used 
 iiistoad of the humble chapel on Sparks Sti'eet. 
 
 The chui'ch of St. John the Baptist, built for the spiritual benefit 
 of the Catholics of Le Breton Flats and Pochesterville, and at the 
 request of Pevd. Mr. Porcile, its present parish priest, was blessed by 
 Ilis Jjordship, on the 3rd of November, 1872. St. Ann's Church was 
 consecrated in the month of December last, by Mgr. Fabre, Bishop of 
 (lratiano]>olis and coadjutor of the diocese of Montreal. lie acted 
 instead of Bishop Guigues, already affected by a disease which soon 
 proved a mortal one. The parish was intrusted to the care of Kev. Mr. 
 AUeau, whose talent and j^ast administration Avarrant an anticipation of 
 iMpid progress in that populous parish. AVhat a magnificent list of 
 labours, and how well has an ej^iscopal career been fulfilled, when it has 
 created or sustained so many great imdertakings ! 
 
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 VII. 
 
 CONCLrSlON. 
 
 
 • Altliouu'li it was our object to collect around tho venerated person 
 of his Lords!, ip the Bishop the principal jjersonages with whom he was 
 connected, and the permanent works Avhich he inau<>-ui'ated, there (an 
 be no doubt but that we have made omissions which are to be rei^ret- 
 ted. Among those who surrouiuled him, we have not specified the 
 humble minded and noble care of N. 1). de Lonrde.s as the author of the 
 iirst work written in the C!atholic interest in the diocese of Ottawa; nor 
 the Rev. Father AUard, who became u bishop in Soullierii AiVica and 
 exchanged our cold climate for the tropical region of CaftVaria. We 
 have not made mention of the ]irogrcss of our city, increasing from 
 5,000 to 15,000 Catholics, nor of that of the diocese, the ])0])uiatiou of 
 which is now 103,000, of whom 100,000 are Catholics. "We might iinve 
 dwelt upon the astonishment with which his Lordship inspired the 
 author of La l^rance mix Colonics, M. liameau, and the durable 
 work done in ourinidstby tho Ecv Father Aubert, Doctor of Theology, 
 the second fourulcr of the Cxrey Nuns, at Ottawa. 
 
 As we have already said, the supply of material was too aliundnnl. 
 In concluding the sketch which vv'e have attempted to make of 
 our worth'' bislioii, the author of 
 
 isJiop 
 
 undertakings which have Deen 
 enumerated one after the other rather thjin pro})erly described, the 
 foster father of the orphan and the devoted sliepherd of the souls led 
 by Providence into our vast forests, and lastly, the missionary of tlu^ 
 wild tracks which surround the inhospitable coasts of Hudson Ba}', we 
 may be permitted to wish for our i-eaders a continuation of om- curt 
 descriptions, hardly indeed begun, and the further development of a 
 vast field of labor of which we have now only an o])]iortunit}' of ])oint- 
 ing out the un,"X])lored riches. We hope that a bright light will soon 
 l)e shed on the eminent virtues and the labors of our missionary 
 bishop. A suj)crficial sketch will soon be thrown aside when it is ]K)s- 
 sible to enter upon a close exstiuination of tho treasures collected dur- 
 ing a long life and a long episcopate ; a golden ko}- will open the heart 
 of this good priest, this worthy citizen, this excellent dignitary of 
 the church, and put us in perpetual possession of the riches of his 
 example and of his piety. 
 
 Our limits confine us to saying but a few words respecting his 
 charity, his devoutness, the poverty or simplicity of his way of life, 
 of his journeys to attend the Provincial Councils of the Ecclesiastical 
 Province of Quebec, to attend the General Councils held in Franco for 
 the advancement of his beloved congregation, and lastly to Pome, 
 whither ho wont on five ditferent occasions to see the Fath.er of all 
 Christians, to draw from the fomitain of grace tho healing waters of 
 apostolic jbenevolence, to participate in rejoicings in celebration of tho 
 
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 18th centenary of the Papacy, or to share the anxieties of the rEcu- 
 menical Council lield in (hingerouH (hiys when the wliole world wuh 
 threateneil with u cataclysni one hundred times more dangerous, one 
 Jiundred times more formidahle to society than wei'c the waves of the 
 ocean to the frail vessel to which the intrepid hishop of Ottawa en- 
 trusted his life, and on which he contracted the first syn.ptoms of the 
 disease which resulted in his death. 
 
 Shall wo speak of the Pontitical Zouaves, the niunher of which 
 he increased to the utmost of his ability? of that hapj)y noble band, 
 of that glorious phalxnx which so bravely defended the Vicar of Jesus 
 (.'hrist ? Shall we speak of the august envoy of the sovereign Pontitf, Mgr. 
 ]3cdini, archbishop of Thebes, and Nuncio, from the Holy See, for 
 whom Bishop Guigues in 1858 prepared a recej)tion so pomj)ous and so 
 magnificent, thai the illustrious visitor marvelled at the zeal of our 
 population and at our filial love for the church. Shall we speak of 
 those beautiful processions of the Holy Sacrament passing through 
 ilecorated streets in the midst of immense crowds of the faithful, who 
 have hastened from miles around to behold the s])ectacle ever edifying 
 j;n(l ever increasingly magnificent — a triumph of the king of Icings 
 <)ver the obstinate opposition of the dissentients in religion by whoin 
 we ai'o surrounded, a triumph increased, indeed, by the crowds of our 
 bi-ethren who have separated themselves from us ? Errors of the olden 
 time, errors of to-day, yet were as nothing before the faith of his lord- 
 .ship ! 
 
 You prefer, perhaps, to see him officiating in the midst of admiring 
 crowds at the great festival in our churches ; or distributing the bread 
 of the divine word at the Aveekly exercise of his high ministry at which 
 3'our hearts, softened by the melody of the canticles, received jiractical 
 counsel and simple instruction within the com])rehension of all from 
 the missionary bishop, whose words, usually so gentle and so kind, 
 could sometimes express just anger against vice, or could excite tulmira- 
 tion by their wisdom or their eloquence in the grand temples of Quebec 
 and Montreal. Or you would wish to see him celebratir.g the holy 
 mass in the chapel which he dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 
 and where ho selected the spot for his repose until tho end of time. Or 
 you w^ould see him at tho holy tribunal of penance at w^hich he punc- 
 tually attended morning and evening to wipe away the tears of the 
 penitent. Or when, with equal promptitude, ho replied to the illustrious 
 personages who visited him at his home, and to the little children sent 
 to him by their worthy parents. Or you would observe him walking 
 down the street with no other decoration than his cross, on his way to 
 some meeting of a religious community of some charitable society, or 
 some literary institute; or to visit some needy or afflicted family ; or 
 the sick whom ho never neglected ; or tho hospital, whore tho young 
 men from tho shanties expiated by their sufferings the common faults 
 of their wild, dissolute, and careless life 
 
 When the great interests with which our bishop was entrirstod led 
 him to his native country, you might liave seen him devoting but one 
 day or two to aftcctionate intercourse with a beloved sister, the nearest 
 
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 relative left to him on earth ; 3'et never failin<^ to perform a weeks' re- 
 treat in the ^reat convent of St. Bruno, a saint whose name he had 
 rec'eive<l in haptism, as hud also hisdv ceased father. At (Ottawa he was 
 Heen i'e<jjularly visiting, at least once a week, the Old Man's Refn<^e; he 
 spoke to each, and drew near to those whoso infirmity cinfined them to 
 their beds of suffering, and consoled them. 'SSce," ho would say to 
 them, "how happy it is for you to be hero; you have a good bed and 
 good food and sisters of charity attending upon you, ready to (io any- 
 thing tlio}' possibly can for you." And his paternal admonitions ever 
 produced a salutary effect u])on the sick. 
 
 Ifavo we now comi)leted the history of all the heart treasures of 
 Bishop (ruigues ? Oh ! far from it. Wo have said nothing of his gen- 
 erosity in founding or maintaining his works in their infancy, or even 
 the benevolent or humane institutions of our separated bretheren, whose 
 generous sjiirit he loved to signali/.e. Wo hnvG said nothing of the 
 wise advice and pecuniary aid which wanled off the decadence of many 
 an hororablo family — nothing of that powerful influence in the elect'on 
 of worthy men, whether catholic or protostant, to national and civic 
 representation — nothing of that noble simplicity which ho preserved 
 intact, when hitrh society brou/^ht into our town riches, luxiiry and 
 
 ., „..v-.. high society brought into our town riches 
 elegance — nothing 
 
 of his faithful acknowldgement of the services of 
 
 eminent personages and the devotion of his clergy — nothing of his 
 inichanging compliance with the usages of polite society in Europe and 
 in Canada. Wb ^le pages would not suffice to conta'n the record of the 
 good will of which he had rendered himself worth} from the govern- 
 ment, and which has lately been manifested in so marked a manner b}- 
 tho representative of our Sovereign. 
 
 And even then wo should not have spoken of his religious virtues^ 
 and his edifying ])erseverance in the practice of chastit}', of p'^verty, 
 and of the obedience of the good Oblat and of the good priest until the 
 moment when his eyelids gently closed in death. 
 
 Or at least wo should represent him with that unchangeable 
 patience in the pains of sickness — with that energy against bodilj' 
 fatigue — with that charity in intercourse — with that gentleness of 
 character which made him the beloved, the friend, the confidant and 
 the father of all tho^o who suiTOunded him. 
 
 The following anecdote related by a missionary who went with 
 him to the shanties some fifteen years ago will exemplify this: 
 
 " The journey lasted tAvcnty-four daj's along the u])por part of the 
 Elver du Liovro. It was the end of February, w'e hml no one vo drive the 
 sleigh, and I was often obliged to tread down the snow to enable our 
 horse to get thr ugh. His Lordship often wished to take my ])lace in 
 the ])orformanco of this duty, biit his cassock prevented him. During 
 the journey avo often slept on the hard ground in some poor shanty. 
 Once we passed throe daysAvith some excellent people Avho had erected 
 in their liouse a small Avell-fitted altar, but Avho had thought of nothing 
 more; no beds. We lay doAvn beneath the buffaloes of the sleigh. The 
 only provisions obtainable Avere sugar, tea Avithout milk, and flovj*. Well 
 His liordship i\to country cake nuide of moistened flour, dried at the fire. 
 
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 ' Wo did Well," ho siiid, ' not to hriiij.; our sfrvaiil with u>, fi)'.- ho would 
 have had to ^-o and dine olncwliore. Foi' my [)art I waul lur uolluui;; 
 you taUc Ihi.s ... . ' 
 
 Oh.stM'vin^ another phico wliere u tisliennan had lody;od, — "This 
 poor nmu," he nai(l, " must have killed hoth his lather and liis mother, 
 ,sineo he condemned himseU'lo remain there all the winter."' 
 
 I)i<l not tii.ie ami spaec lidl us, ouiijht we not also to m;ike mention 
 of his temperance und hJH sohriety at his meals — of his reu;ularity in 
 ohservini;' the rules of his house — of his morniui;' meditations hefore the 
 Holy Saci'ameiit — of his ]junetualily in the recitation of the breviary, 
 and of his severe diselplino of himself which lesisted the charity of his 
 medical attendants, for whose preKOri])(ions he substitutes! austere 
 al).stine!icc and hyji;iene. 
 
 A hii])))y mixture of eminent personages who arc known to us, and 
 whose eulogy lies at our lij)s, the first bishop of the diocese of Bytown 
 was a (collection of virtues and of e.vcellcncy. Was there not in him 
 sjme rei»roduclion of J)amen, in the simplicity of liis doctrine — of 
 Forbin .ianon, in his influence over the masses, — ofPlossis, in his apos- 
 tolic >;e'a] — of iliii'-hr.-; and of AViseman, in the ener<;y of his diocesan 
 nuuui_i;eriient — and of Maxonod, in his charity :iikI devotion to the 
 poorest classes of humanity? 
 
 liis soul ascended to Heaven on two wing's — charity, and the un- 
 (•Iian^iny; ])ui'ity of his life amongst us who now mourn his departure. 
 
 Ife had formed a friendship for the Hon. Joseph Papineau, tmd 
 alst) with the good old man, La Rocque, whose romantic life had been 
 passed at the posts of the Hudson's Bay Company, and who in his 
 latter years devoted both his large income and his capital to the i)ro- 
 motion of good works. 
 
 The poor old man whom we still see wandering thvough om* .^.treels 
 was also his Bishop's friend. On Christmas day, as a consolation in 
 his latter days, lie gave him — what? Ilis likeness. 
 
 The poor, the well-to-do and the noble loved Bishop Cruigues, and 
 were beloved by liim ; all occu])ied a foremost ])!ace in his attections. 
 
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 THE FUNFRAL. 
 
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 Oil Monday, the 9th February, 18*74, with all the solemnity which 
 the rites of the grandest ritualiHtic church of the present age confer 
 upon its higher dignitaries the mortal remains of Joseph Eugene 
 Bruno Guigues, Bishop of Ottawa, were committed to their last earthly 
 resting place. Since the death of His Lordship regret for his decease 
 has been the universal expression among our citizens of all classes and 
 denominations, especially among the older residents of the place who 
 felt that another old landmark of Canada's young capital had passed 
 away. The flags floating at half-mast from the Public, Municipal and 
 other building in the city were but a titting expression of the esteem in 
 which Ilis Lordship was held, and of the sincere regret which was felt 
 at his decease. 
 
 The night before the funeral was a busy one ut the Palace, for 
 many matters of mournful necessity had to be attended to, while up 
 till a late hour a continual stream of visitors thronged the chapel where 
 the body lay in state. Comparatively little change could be noticed in 
 the face of the deceased, who looked as if placidly sleeping the sleep of 
 the just, unconscious of the swarm of humaiiity thronging round his 
 
 the evening too, many of the clergy from the 
 on their arrival, prepared to take part in the 
 — large numbers having already come in from 
 The work of providing accommodation for these 
 gentlemen had been deputed to Dr. John O'Conner, who discharged his 
 duties with his usual vigor. His task was no sinecure, as the clergy 
 present could be numbered by the hundred. Satisfactory provision, 
 however, was made for all who came. 
 
 The chief dignitaries of the church present were the Most Eevereud 
 Monseigneur Tuschereau, Archbishop of Quebec, the Eight Eeverend 
 Monseigneur Langevin, Bishop) of Eimouski, the Eight Reverend Mon- 
 seigneur Lafloche, Bishop of Three Elvers, the Eight Eeverend 
 Monseigneur LaEocque, Bishop of St. Hyacinthe^ the Eight Eeverend 
 Monseigneur Wadhams, Bishop of Ogdensburgh, the Eight Eeverend 
 Monseigneur Iloran, Bishop of Kingston, the Eight Eeverend Mon- 
 seigneur F'abre, Coadjutor Bishop of Montreal, the Very Eeverend Mr. 
 Heenan, Administrator of the Diocese of Hamilton, and the represen- 
 tative of the Bishop of London. Owing to the inclement season of the 
 year and the advanced ago of several of these gentleman, it waa not 
 
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 narrow bed. During 
 surrounding parishes 
 proceeding of the day 
 more distant dioceses. 
 
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 deomod a<lviwablo that thoy nhould take part in the out-door portion of 
 the coromonioH, which will oxj)iHin their absence from the procession 
 of this morning. 
 
 The arrangement of the programme was not fully completed until 
 late in the evening, although MewHrs. Michel, Porcil and their assistants 
 labored hard to have it finished. Every hour, however, seemed to bring 
 fresh deputations for whom it was necessary to provide places, and in 
 consequence continual alterations had to bo mmle. 
 
 At day break, the tolling of the various city bells roused many 
 from their slumbers, and as time wore on the rising sun, dispelling the 
 night, shone out bright and clear, though the weather was decidedly 
 colder than it had been for some days past. From an early hour 
 numbers of persons might have been seen flocking to the rendezvous 
 of the various societies or endeavoring to secure advantageous positions 
 to see the funeral cortege pass. 
 
 At the Palace, numbers applied at an early hour for permission to 
 view the remains for a last time, but admission was refused to all 
 except members of the religious orders. During the night the body, 
 in full canonicals, had been placed in a handsome coffin, covered with 
 purple cloth, powdered with silver stars, while in the ante-room to the 
 Palace chapel was placed the bier on which the coffin was to be borne 
 in the procession. It was draped with white, black and purple cloth. 
 
 The Carleton Council headed by the Warden, wer^ among the 
 early visitors to the Palace, wearing mourning badges, and were at 
 once admitted to the chapel. 
 
 J. M. Currier, M.P., Alonzo, Wright, M.P., W. McKay Wright, 
 M.P., Hon. Jas. Skead, Dr. St. Joan, M.P., Dr. Beaubien, and Dr. Hall, 
 E. B. Eddy, M.P.P., E. S. M. Bouchette, Commissioner of Customs, 
 and Eight Honorable Sir John A. Macdonald were also among the 
 visitors to the chapel. 
 
 The order to move was given by the marshals shortly after ten 
 o'clock, when the body was removed from the chapel, placed upon the 
 bier, and the line of march commenced . 
 
 The procession was one of the largest and most solemn ever seen 
 in this city. From an early hour in the morning crowds of citizens 
 could be seen wending their way in the direction of the Cathedral, 
 with solemn countenances, as if mourning the departure to anothor 
 bourne of some near and dear relative. Women and old men weeping 
 were not r?^ve occurrences, and tended to make the scene affecting even 
 before the 'o'tege appeared on the street. 
 
 The {'[ipearance of the streets on the line of march was the subject 
 of many c jmplimentary remarks from strangers. Many of the build- 
 ings and stores were draped in crape, flags floated at half mast, and 
 emblems of mourning were visible on all sides. In many places the 
 draping crossed the streets and was festooned with white flowers and 
 other appropriate decorations. Among those who had a display of 
 draping on Sussex Street, were Messrs. Germain, Pinard, Chenet, 
 Leblanc and Lemay, Champagne, Fraser, Caldwell, Pigeon Bros., 
 . Dacier, Martin and others. On the facing of Mr. Goulden's shop waa 
 
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 the croHH-bonc8 and hKuII oniblcm, cut in white cnmliric. The Canadian 
 InBtitute building was also decorated, and had the following mottoes 
 printod In large white lotterH on the front of the l)uihling opjMwite the 
 Cathotiral : " A notro bion aimo Patron, JlegretH." and " MortuuH est 
 sorviiiH Domini "Thenorthorti end of the Htructuro also Iwroa decorative 
 square draped with crape, prettily festooned, and bearing in the centre 
 the word " Kegrets. " On liideau Street there was not such an extensive 
 display, the Union Jiatd< of Ijower ('anada, Kearns and Kyan's, and 
 Tackabery's being the only places di-apod. 
 
 Shortly before ten o'clock the marshals, Messrs. M. Battle, 
 Stanislas Drapeau, Michael Starrs and Thos. Pruneau began the work 
 of organizing the procession. Before half an hour everything was in 
 readiness for the start, and the marshals gave the woixl to iwlvance, 
 when the cortege moved otf in the following order, with the streets 
 crowded to such an extent that the police experienced much ( ifficulty 
 in keeping the way clear : 
 
 Department of Police. 
 
 O. O. F. O. Band. 
 
 Physicians of liis Lordship— Drs. Beanbien, Lynn, St. Jean, M.P., Robillard and Hill. 
 
 Undertaker. 
 
 TWELVB 
 
 PALLBEARERS. 
 
 CORPSE. 
 
 TWBLVB 
 
 PALLBEARERS. 
 
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 Cross, Acolytes and Clergy, Bishops and their Assistants. 
 
 Insignia of deceased borne by the Ecclesiastics of the Seminary Administration 
 
 of the Diocese, and Clergy of the Palace. 
 
 Members of the Privy Council. 
 
 The Premier and Hon. Messrs. Scott, Dorion, Cartwright and Burpee. 
 
 Members of Parliament. 
 
 Right Hon. Sir John Macdonald, Messrs. Currier, A. Wright, McKay Wright 
 
 and Senator Skead. 
 Judges Armstrong and Lyon. 
 
 
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 Union Band. 
 
 His Worship the Mayor and Corporation of the City. 
 
 Warden and Corporation of tne County of Carleton. 
 
 Mayor and Corporation of Hull. 
 
 Waterworks Commissioners. 
 
 Bar. 
 
 Medical Profession. 
 
 Notaries, 
 
 The Civil Service. 
 
 Representatives of the Press. 
 
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 Band of St. Joseph! s College. 
 
 St. Joseph's College. 
 
 Separate School Trustees and Teachei-a. 
 
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 Christian Brothers' School. 
 
 Clorcs, Doctrinaires and Pupils. 
 
 Administrators and Deputations from St. Patrick's and St. 
 
 Joseph's Orphanages. 
 
 Society of St. Vincent de Paul. 
 
 Men's Congi-egation. 
 
 Band of Jeunes Canadiem, 
 
 Society of Jeunes Canadiens. 
 
 Sainte Cecile Society. 
 
 Catholic Young Mcri's Society. 
 
 Union Allet. 
 
 Society of St. John tlie Baptist of Ottawa. 
 
 St. Patrick's Society. 
 
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 Band cf Ch fiseurs-Canadiens, Hull. 
 
 St. John the Baptist Society from Hull. 
 
 French Canadian Institute. 
 
 Temperance Society. 
 
 Typographical Society. 
 
 Union of St. Joseph. 
 
 
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 Band of St. John the Baptist. 
 
 Union of St. John the Baptist from the Chatidiere. 
 
 Union of St. Joseph from Hull. 
 
 Soctety of St. Peter. 
 
 St. Joseph's Society of Temploton and their Band. 
 
 Citizens. 
 
 Detachment of Police. 
 
 The procession Rioved off from the Bishop's Palace and proceeded 
 down St. Patrick Street to Dalhousio, up DalhoiK'^ie to Eideau, and then 
 down llideau to Sussex ; then to the Cathedral Notre-Danne, v/here the 
 funerril ceremonies took place. The stores in all the streets through 
 which the cortege jjassed were closed and there could not have been 
 less than six thousand spectators lining the sidewalks. Those in the 
 ranks of the procession must have nurabered about two thousand persons, 
 nine-tenths of whom were members or representatives of some corpor- 
 ation society, sociality, or association. The corpse was in a half sitting 
 posture, in a magnificent coffin covered on the outside with purple vel- 
 vet, and displaying eight beautiful silver handles. The coffin was 
 placed on a catafalque, and carried on the shoulders of the pall-bearers, 
 six at a time. The mortal remains were dressed in the pontifical robes 
 used in celebrating high mass, and the mitre was also placed on the 
 head. The pall bearere were Messrs. E. Lapierre, H. Pinard, E. Eivet, 
 J. Traversy, P. Marrier, N. Germain, J. B. Cantin, J. Trudeau, J. L. 
 Eoque, Dr. Tache, J. B. Eichard, P. Dufour, L. Duhamel, Wm. Kehoe, 
 
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 J. O'Eeilly, R. Nagic, J. Sullivan, J. F. Caklwoll, .7. Quiiin, l\ Kcarnti. 
 T. Coffee, 0. Goulden, J. Warnock, C. Cai-leton, A. Duff, and P. O'Moara. 
 A Had contrast was presented in the appeai-anco of tlie (Cathedral, to 
 those who remember it when last decorated in His Lordship's honor. 
 Then the building was aglow with many colored lamps, bi-ight streamers 
 and banners bearing mottoes inscribed with words of rejoicing to wel- 
 come the aged prelate home, after along and arduous journey, while he 
 himself was present in the sacred edifice to give thanks to his Maker 
 for his preservation from dangers in travel by sea and by land. Then 
 a host of friends flocked round him to congratulate him on his safe 
 return. 
 
 A crowd of mourners now thronged the edifice to show in their 
 sorrow the loss they had sustained by his death. The decorations of the 
 edifice were simple but etfcctive. The face of (he oi-gan gallerv was 
 heavily draped with blacii powdered with silver, and from the centre 
 of the ceiling of the middle aisle, pendants of alternative black and 
 wliite draped to the pillars of the side aible<. The complete interior of 
 the chancel was draped with black as high as the bottom of the main 
 windows, a border running round the Lo[) of the hangings, which was 
 powdered with death heocls and cross-bones. The grand altar and also 
 the side ones were completely veiled in the same sable hue, and in the 
 centre of the chancel just within the rails was the catafalque for the 
 reception of the corpse. This was tastefully decorated with flowers 
 and surrounded by numerous mammoth candelabi*a containing some 
 hundreds of tapers. The platform on which the coffin was to rest was 
 placed in a slanting position, so that the interior was open to view over 
 the whole church. 
 
 The Grave destined to bo the permanent recipient of Ilis Lordship's 
 i"emains, is excavated in a small vaulted chamber immediately under 
 the south tower of the Cathedi-al. The grave itself is not sunk deep, 
 owing to the rocky nature of the ground in which deep sinking would 
 necessitate blasting. 
 
 The procession was met at the church door by the clergy in full 
 robes, and the body was borne to the chancel and placed on the catafalque, 
 and in a few moments the lavge edifice was densely filled, the chancel 
 and grand altar a blaze of lighted tapers, and thronged with white 
 robed priests and acolytes, and purple apparelled members of the 
 episcopate, while from the organ loft rolled forth the grand harmonies 
 of the liequiem Mass. The scene was one which surpassed all that 
 has yet been witnessed within the same walls, and will not soon be 
 forgotten by those who were ])resent at it. The musical service was 
 conducted under the joint direction of Chevalier Gustave Smith and 
 Mr. Champagne, the former of whom presided at the organ while th« 
 latter conducted the choir. The choir was a numerous one, furnished 
 from the choir of the Cathedral, St. Joseph's, St. Ann's Churches, and 
 were accompanied by the band of the Young Canadians. The music 
 used throughout was a Gregorian chant, the peculiar plain and grand 
 harmonies of which told with thrilling effect in the Libera and Dies 
 Iroe, as also in the beautiful "Eeeeive him in Paradise." The service 
 
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 was choral throughout with the exception of an original voluntaiy 
 played by Mr. Smith during the oifertory. 
 
 The funeral orations were delivered by the Rt, Rev. Mgr. Fabre, 
 Coadjutor Bishop of Montreal, in French, and the Et. Rev, Mgr. Wad- 
 bams, of Ogdensburgh, in English. Both addresses, though short, were 
 Ibrcible and to the point. Without desire to over-estimate the late 
 prelate, they pointed him out as a true example to Christians, as one 
 who hjvd devoted his life faithfully from an early period to the service 
 of his Saviour, as one charitable to the poor, sage in council, a true 
 friend and kindly adviser, and yet who was humble in the extreme and 
 rich only in love to ' is fellow-nion and his (xod. Bishop Wadhams spoke 
 of him as beloved of i^^rod, beloved of his clergy, beloved by the religious 
 of his diocese, beloved especially by little c'lildren, and by his fellow- 
 citi55ens in general. 
 
 After the mass the clergy within the chancel passed through the 
 vestry to basement chapel, which is on a level witb the vault. The 
 body, the coffin being still open, was raised from the catafalque and 
 borne on the shoulders of the pall bearers to the south end of the church. 
 As the coffin passed down the centre aisle a sea of faces turn to get a 
 last glimse of the good grey head which all men knew, and as the 
 opening over the crypt is reached the congregation beerins to pour into 
 the street. We follow with them, but as we reacr 'he ' ^r 
 
 Uush, the dead march wails in a people's ears ; 
 The dark ^rowd moves, and there are sobs and tears ; 
 The black earth yawns— the mortal disappears ; 
 Ashes *.o ashes— dust to dust : * 
 
 He is gone, who seemed so pieat — 
 Gone I but nothing can bereave him 
 Of the force he made his own 
 Ueing here, and we believe him, 
 HomethinK far advanced in state, 
 And that ne wears a truer crown 
 Than any wreath that man can weave him. 
 But speak no more of his renown, 
 Lay our earthly fancies down— 
 And in the vast Cathedral leave him, 
 , God accept him— Christ receive him I .'