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This institution, though beset by many initial difliculties, _ has prospered and grown. In the year 1892 it was affiliated with Laval University, and in 1922 advanced to the status of a University, Its Rector is supported by a staff of excellent teachers with up- wards of two hundred students, drawn from all parts of Prince Edward Island and'from Quebec and the United States.

Notre Dame Academy and St. Joseph’s Convents, in Char- lottetown, St. Mary’s Convent in Summerside and} other Conven- tual schools were added for the education of young women. _ Notre Dame Academy was founded early in the fifties by Bishop Bernard McDonald. At first it was conducted in alcomparatively small wooden building, situate at the corner of Sydney and Weymouth Streets. Later, under the auspices of Bishop McIntyre, a large brick convent building was erected nearby, on the south side of - Hillsborough Square. It is now the centre ofhigher education fOr the young lady Roman Catholics and is attended by several young ladies who are'not Roman Catholics. By the instruction received in it all may become “as polished corners in the Temple.”