²¹ St.-Pierre and Miquelon, located off the south coast of Newfoundland, are all that remains to France of its former colonies in northern North America. The Dr.Olivier, , or Ollivier, mentioned here, had been appointed Vice Prefect in 1820. Now included in the Vicariate Apostolic of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. See the Catholic Encyclopedia (New York, 1913), XIII, 376.Google Scholar

²² It would appear that these Indians were Micmacs, some of whom began to migrate to Newfoundland late in the previous century. The early Beothics or Beothucks, of Newfoundland, are thought to have been extinct by this time. Barth, Pius J. O.F.M., gives a brief account of the first Franciscan missions among the Micmacs in his article, “Franciscan Education in French North America,” in THE AMERICAS, IV, 3–31.Google Scholar

²³ See Steiner, B. C., “The First Lord Baltimore and His Colonial Projects”, Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1905, 109–122.Google Scholar

²⁴ This legend, long discredited, was popularized by William of Malmesbury in his twelfth-century work, De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae.

²⁵ The Rev. Pelagius Nowlan, who arrived in Newfoundland in 1831, labored on the missions for forty years, and died in 1871 at the age of eighty (Howley, op. cit., 266).

²⁶ These asterisks are found in the text as published in the New-York Weekly Register and Catholic Diary. Howley, in his excerpt (op. cit., 325), does not indicate an omission.

²⁷ The Rev. Edward Troy, one of the six priests who arrived in Newfoundland in 1831, was a vigorous supporter of Bishop Fleming in that prelate’s efforts to promote the interests of the Church and the welfare of Catholics in Newfoundland. He died at Torbay in 1872 (Howley, op. cit., 264–266).

²⁸ The Rev. Denis Mackin arrived in Newfoundland in 1818. Pastor successively of Harbor Grace and Brigus, he is described as a man of great taste and warmth of hospitality. He died in 1857 (Howley, op. cit., 243).