-31.. blacksmith'a forge of one Martin Henry. In Dorchester Street Mrs. PhPhee's hospitable home was eVer ready to welcome the weary traveller. This excellent lady whose name will ever be associated with the early days of Catholicity in Charlottetown, belonged to an English family of the name of Clarke. In early life she married a Mr. McPhee whose parents were among the first persons to keep a house of entertainment in Charlottetown. The young couple must have been ,possessed of quite a competency judging from the capacious house which they erected in Dorchester Street. and which is still in excellent preservation and now occupied by Captain Andrew Sullivan. Here they opened an inn which was liberally patronized by all Catholic travellers of the period. Nms. MhPhee, although a Protestant at the time of her marriage became a Catholic through the ' instrumentality of the Abbe de Calonne who was a frequent guest at her house and who entertained a lasting friendship for this estimable woman. Mass was in those days frequently said in private houses, and Mrs. BbPhee of all Catholics in Charlottetown was most frequently honoured by having the Holy Sacrifice offered up beneath her roof. At a temporary altar in her neat parlour the venerable Abbe de Calonne would often officiate, served by his nephew. a brilliant young noble of France. A few years later and the Abbe had left Ile St. Jean for ever. but his place was filled by the zealous and judicious Fathern MbEaehern who always made Mrs. McPhee's house his home when visiting Charlottetown.

How glad were the Catholics of the town. when the well known old horse

."Gealachas" was seen jogging up to Era. McPhee's door, and the sturdy figure

of the beloved Soggarth alighted, ready to comfort. help and minister to all who

came to him. a few years later, and the towering figure of Father Fitzgerald.

followed by his faithful little dog. was often to be seen entering the house, the

mistress of which was always ready to assist the priest in any charitable under-

taking. This good lady lived to the ripe age of eighty-seven. and on her death

in 1870 was buried in the original Catholic cemetery, the land for which had been

given to the church by her late husband some time in the last century and which

is still called by the old people "PnPhee's Burying Ground" or "Cladh bhie — a -