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CHAPTER IV.-THE BISHOPS OF UPPER CANADA.


     Before the erection of the Bishopric of Kingston in January, 1826, the Bishop of Quebec had jurisdiction over all of both Upper and Lower Canada.  Then there were not many Catholics in the Upper Province.  When the Right Rev.  Alexander McDonell was made Vicar Apostolic for Upper Canada, it seems, on December 30, 1820, he was deputed to look after church affairs in Upper Canada.  At that time he had only two or three priests under him in the whole Province.  He was made Bishop of Kingston on January 27, 1826, for



RIGHT REV.  ARMAND P. M. DE CHARBONNEL.


     all Upper Canada.  At his death, January 14, 1840, the Right Rev.  Remigius Gaulin succeeded him.  On December 17, 1841, Toronto received its first Bishop in the person of Right Rev.  Michael Power, to govern the western part of the Province. At his death on October 1, 1847, the Right Rev.  Armand F. M. De Charbolanel governed the Diocese till April 26, 1860, when he resigned and joined the Capuchins at Lyons, France.  He died March 25, 1891.  Before his resignation, February 17, 1856, Hamilton and London were erected into Dioceses, with the Right Rev.  John Farrell as the first Bishop of the former and Bishop P. A. Pinsonneault, of the latter Diocese.  Bishop Pinsonneault moved his seat to Sandwich, February 2, 1859.  In 1869 the seat was again moved to London.
     Bishop Farrell died Sept. 26, 1873, and was succeeded by the Right Rev.  P. Crinnon, former pastor of Stratford, till he died April 19, 1874, when the


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