108 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     shipbuilding business at Bedeque, Prince County. While so 
     
     engaged, Joseph Pope, in 1830, was elected to represent 
     
     Bedeque district in the Legislative Assembly, in which he 
     
     continued for twenty-three years, during which period he was 
     
     twice elected Speaker. As a prominent member of the House, 
     
     he took a leading part in the erection of court houses, jails, 
     
     the establishment of supreme courts, customs, excise and other 
     
     offices in Prince and King’s Counties. Having been appointed 
     
     to a seat in the Executive, he there advocated the necessity of 
     
     erecting a Government or Colonial Building, which edifice now 
     
     towers upon Queen’s Square as a memorial of those times. 
     
     In 1870, Mr. Pope was appointed Colonial Treasurer, and 
     
     subsequent, Dominion Auditor and Manager of the Savings 
     
     Bank. In 1880, he was Commissioner of Crown and Public 
     
     Lands, but owing to the burden of advancing years, he in 1883 
     
     was compelled to retire into private life. He died at Charlotte- 
     
     town on the 3rd September, 1895, aged 92 years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Another aged resident of the city, after a few weeks illness, 
     
     has passed from our common view. John W. Morrison Esq., 
     
     the subject of this notice, died on the nth April, this year, 
     
     aged 77 years. He was a native of La Have, Nova Scotia. 
     
     Mr. Morrison for about forty years had charge of the Public 
     
     Works Department, in which he served the Province faithfully 
     
     and well. For nearly sixty years he had been a member of the 
     
     Masonic Fraternity, of which he was a Past Grand Master, and 
     
     was connected with the Order of Sons of Temperance some 
     
     fifty years. He was also a leading member of the Caledonia 
     
     Club of this Province. The obsequies attending the removal 
     
     of his mortal remains from his late residence to the grave, was 
     
     solemnized by the band playing the funeral dirge, and an escort 
     
     comprised of the fraternity of the Sons of Temperance. Cale- 
     
     donian Club, and the Society of Free and Accepted Masons, 
     
     their banners and drums being draped in black, while each 
     
     member wore a band of crape in token of respect and affection 
     
     to the memory of a departed brother. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This sad obituary list is now brought to a close by the record 
     
     of the death of a veteran oficer of militia, whose name is so 
     
     frequently given in the pages of this small work, namely, Major 
     
     Thomas Morris. Major Morris was born in Charlottetown 
     
     during January, 1836, and was educated at Sackville, N. B. 
     
     He in early life commenced business in this his native town in