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432 OF-REV.PETER McIN-that institution, was on the 26th ofTYRE, D.D., Charlottetown, February, 1843, ordained to the priesthood,by Bishop Signay, in the Cath-> P.E.I., third Bishop of Charlottetown,was born at Cable Head, in edral of Quebec. For sixteen monthsthe Parish of St. Peters, on 2Qth of after ordination, he was assistant toJune, 1818. His parents, Angus Mclntyreand Sarah Perry, at Miscouche, and inRev. S.McKinnon, were natives the Fall of the following year, was appointedto the mission of S. S. Simonof Uist, Invernessshire, Scotland. Hecommenced his studies in the old Collegeof St. Andrew's, after which he mained seventeen years. On the 8th ofand Jude, at Tignish, where he re-proceeded to the College of St. Hyacinthe,P.Q., where he continued his Rome, announcing that the vacant SeeMay, 1860, word was received fromclassical and philosophical studies for of Charlottetown had been filled, andfive years. In 1840, he entered the that the choice of the Supreme PontiffGrand Seminary of Quebec, and after had fallen on the Rev. Peter Mclntyre.a three years' course of theology in He received Episcopal consecration inAugust, 1860, and from thatday, devoted his time withgreat diligence to the diversifiedlabors of his calling.During his episcopate, St.Dunstan's College was rebuiltin brick, eight conventswere established, andover a score of churches andparochial houses erected,but the crown of all his labors,was the bestowal onthe city of Charlottetown,in 1879, of a large housefinished as a hospital, opento all. He visited Romefive times during his Episcopalcareer, and on the firstoccasion, extended his journeyto the Holy Land. Hetook part in the EcumenicalCouncil of 1870, where itwas generally conceded thatno more imposing figurethan Bishop Mclntyre's wasseen in the grand processionof churchmen. In his death,which occured April 3Oth,1891, the church has sustaineda heavy loss, and theProvince of P.E.I., one of itsnoblest citizens.