Hi Linda, Thank you for your posting! By chance did you copy anything about William EDGE - my g-g-grandfather? This is the only quote I have from the book you cited, and I wonder if there is any more on him. >From pg 104; text in [brackets] is mine: "Mr. [William] Edge, a doubtful candidate for the Order, was employed [by Fr. Vincent] in winter 1822-1823 teaching school and also Catechism for the children of the parish [at Tracadie].” The Trappist monastery, “Petit Clairvaux,” was founded by Father Vincent de Paul Merle and French Trappists in 1825 and closed in 1919; in 1938 it reopened as “St. Augustine’s Monastery” ruled by the Augustinian Fathers." Best, Eileen In a message dated 6/23/07, ldarling1@comcast.net writes: > I took the following notes from the book "Pioneer Monks of Nova > Scotia" before I passed the book on to someone else. > Thought some may be interested......... > > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

At 12:50 PM 6/23/2007, you wrote: >Hi Linda, Thank you for your posting! By chance >did you copy anything about William EDGE - my >g-g-grandfather? This is the only quote I have >from the book you cited, and I wonder if there >is any more on him. From pg 104; text in >[brackets] is mine: "Mr. [William] Edge, a >doubtful candidate for the Order, was employed >[by Fr. Vincent] in winter 1822-1823 teaching >school and also Catechism for the children of >the parish [at Tracadie].” The Trappist >monastery, “Petit Clairvaux,” was founded by >Father Vincent de Paul Merle and French >Trappists in 1825 and closed in 1919; in 1938 it >reopened as “St. Augustine’s Monastery” >ruled by the Augustinian Fathers." Best, Eileen >In a message dated 6/23/07, >ldarling1@comcast.net writes: > I took the >following notes from the book "Pioneer Monks of >Nova > Scotia" before I passed the book on to >someone else. > Thought some may be interested......... > > Eileen, Sorry, I have no further info from Pioneer Monks other than what I cited. I did, however, find William Edge in the index of "A History of the Catholic Church in Eastern Nova Scotia" Vol. I by A.A. Johnston. (Not much info on Edge himself, but extracts are as follows ) ~ CHAPTER 76 Father Vincent de Paul, Trappist p. 373 Schools for Indians and Negroes Father Vincent's interest in education extended to all the children of his missions. In 1821 he wrote: I have already established a schoolhouse at Tracadie and I propose to assemble the Indian families in the neighbourhood of our monastery and establish them there in villages. There we can teach them catechism and give them instruction in how to cultivate the land. A year later he was planning a school for the children of the negroes, and hoped to get as teacher an Irishman named Slevin, [p. 374] who was related to Father Henry McKeagney of L'Ardoise. There is no record to show whether or not Slevin accepted the position, but in April 1823 Father Vincent wrote that a Mr. William Edge had spent the winter at Tracadie, teaching the school subjects and catechism to the children of the parish. For a number of years Edge had been entertaining the idea of becoming a Trappist, but he finally found that he had no vocation to the monastic life. CHAPTER 87 Arichat p. 439 Edge and Larue, catechism teachers Mention was made in Chapter 76 of William Edge, who for some time had been staying with Father Vincent at Tracadie, trying to make a definite decision concerning the possibility of his vocation to the monastic life. Edge spent the winter of 1823-24 at Arichat, where he endeavoured to fit himself for the reception of Holy Orders, while he also helped Father Hudon with the church chant and in preparing children for the reception of their First Communion. In the summer of 1824 he left Arichat and returned to Tracadie to teach school. On 24 September of that year Father Hudon wrote to Bishop Plessis, asking that a seminarian be sent to him to replace Edge, and on 20 December he reported that a young man named Larue* had arrived. Although Larue's health was feeble, he was able to be of some assistance to Father Hudon until June 1825, when he returned to Quebec. CHAPTER 97 Tracadie and the monastery p. 490 A sorrowful death In the summer of 1824, it will be remembered, William Edge returned from Arichat to Tracadie to teach school. Father Hudon, writing from Arichat to Bishop Plessis on 20 December of that year, told of Father Doucet's death: p. 491 This morning I received a letter from Tracadie, from Mr. Edge, telling me that Mr. Doucet was very sick; and about four hours later two men came to tell me that he died yesterday at about eleven o'clock in the morning.