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terests of the Province inia practical way. As a result of repeated

representations, he obtained from the Dominion Government the -

payment of several claims, the amounts of which increased the

revenue and decreased the debt of the Province. Accompanied

by the Hon. SenatorFerguson he went to London in the winter of _

1886 to enter a formal complaint to the Government of the Mother

Country concerning the failure of the Dominion Government to

implement its promise to supply means of continuous communi-

cation between the Province and the railway system of the Main- land, and he and his fellow delegate were Successful in obtaining the favourable consideration Of Lord Granville, then Secretary of

State for the Colonies. Lord Granville sent a despatch to the.

Governor General 1n which he eXpIessed the Opinion that it would reflect great credit on the Government of Canada if, after con- necting British Columbia with the Eastern Provinces by the Cana-

dian Pacific Railway it should now be able to complete its system '

of railway communication by an extension to Prince Edward Is- land.” This appeal resulted at once, in soundings and borings in and under the Strait of Northumberland; and, on a change of Administration at Ottawa, in the consideration of -means by which

a the Strait might be crossed, winter and summer, by a car ferry

plyi’ng between the branch railways on the Mainland and on the Island. The splendid car ferry steamship Prince Edward Island, which now makes passages across the Strait daily, and on many days three or four times, is the practical effect of the representation made by Messrs. Sullivan and Ferguson and the good offices of

Lord Granville.

In the year 1889, Mr. Sullivan was appointed to the position

of Chief Justice of the Supreme COurt of Prince Edward Island.

On the Bench his prudence and good» judgment were even more in

‘ evidence than when Premier of the Province. Before his retire-

ment in the year 1917, after a long and honourable public Career, he received from the King the distinguished honor of Knighthood. Three years later, on the 50th of September, 1920, he passed away at the home of his daughter 1n Moncton, aged seventy- seven years.

In the course of a review of his life The Patriot remarked:

“It may be truly said that be administered the government With

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