APPENDIX

Names of the Priests who died in 1847, ofthe fever contracted in attending on the immigrants at Grosse Isle, and at the Marine Hospital.

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1—- The Reverend Hubert Robeson, Parish Priest of St. Catherine of Fossambault, died 1st July, at the Ilotel-Dieu.

2 — The Reverend Edouard Montminy, formerly Procurator of St. Anne’s College, died at St. Gervais, the 6th July.

3— The Reverend Pierre Roy, Parish Priest of Charlesbourg, where he died, 14th July.

4 — The Reverend Hugh Paisly, Parish Priest of St. Catherine of Fossambault, died 14th August.

5 — The Reverend Sevirin Bardy, vicar at Cacouna, died 2e September.

NOTES.— It is not out of place to mention here that the Reverend Joseph D'Estimauville, or lained in 1836 and appointed vicar of StRoch of Quebec, and at the same time to serve as Chaplain of the Marine Hospital, died on the 17th September 1837, of typhus fever which he contracted in the service of the sick. This worthy Priest was uncle of young Arthur D'Estimauville, of the Pontitical zouaves, who died at Rome onthe?lst August 1868, of malarial fever.

TheReverendJosephO. Fortier, (brother of thelate Revd. Louis I. Fortier, who died Parish Priest of Nicolet , ) wasordainedin 1840 and, in 1842, was appointed Chaplain of Grosse Isle where he contracted fever of which he died on the 19th July in the same year. He is interred in the Basilica.

(t)The priests of the Diocese of Quebec only are made men. tion o* here. The Diocese of Montreal reckoneid many victims among {ts clergy.— Bishop Power of Toronto was one of the many who fell while accomplishing those deeds of heroic charity.

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