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picture. The Basilica, too, is an impressive building as are all Catholic churches in the Province.

There are few monuments of interest in Charlotte- town and most of them concern wars. The Great War Memorial has been described by one author as “ poorly located and unaesthetic, the figures being out of proportion with the height of the pedestal. ” To me it has a superb location at the foot of Great George Street. It has one great advantage for a statue. It is so situated that it catches the eye of every passer-by. The monument is as well known in Charlottetown as Nelson's is in London. The other war memorial concerns the South African War. Three Islanders were killed in South Africa, and as Charlottetown really needed another statue, up it went. On the top is a soldier . . . which of the three, I wonder. Cartier’s landing is commemorated by a plaque. Then there is the little rock memorial to the memory of Francis Bain, the naturalist.

In the Queen Square Gardens is a gun with a history. It was sunk after the siege of Louisburg in 1758. Later, it was raised and transported to

Charlottetown. There is one monument which should be here and

is not. Instead, in a cemetery stands a small slab, marked “ RC.” That and that alone tells of the life of His Majesty’s first Attorney-General, Lieutenant- Colonel of Militia, and Speaker of the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island. The Assembly meant well. They voted a sum and composed an epitaph, for a memorial. But the memorial was never erected. Philips Callbeck died at the early

age of forty-six.