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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11, 19 March 1908, Page 33

Indique, in Cape Breton, the Rev. Archibald Chisholm, who seems to haye the Highland traditions dri— his fingers' ends. I asked him if he could help me to trace the beautiful relic back to the Easbingcan "bana. Mrs. 'MacQuarrie being a MacDonnell, I - got a reply by return post stating that he had no doubt but that the cross belonged to, the ' fair- Bishops.' .They had a sister who married a MacDonnell of Glengarry. She had three daughters-; one married a man in Skye, another married, a MacQuarrief in Eigg, and a third came out to Ontario with Father ■M>eDonnell, who was afterwards the first Bishop of Kingstown, Ontario. . She was not more than six weeks in America when she married an Allan Mac Nab, who was later,, or Us son, Sir Allan Mac Nab, Prime Minister of Canada at Ottawa. r l his same priest had jn his possession the book of the Scriptural Exercises of St. Ignatius, as also a flask which" was once the property of Father John Far- " qiuharson, in Strathglass. The diocese of Antigonish is the most Catholic of all British dioceses, Ireland not being British. For the first .time in his life your correspondent was privileged -to give a Gaelic conference to a community of Gaelic-speaking nuns in the town of Antigonish.'