OLDEST CATHOLIC PRIEST IN WORLD The Rev. Father Dandurand Was One Hundred Years Old March 22 Winnipeg. Man. —The Rev. Dara ase Dandurand, of the quaint old town of St. Boniface across Red river from Winnipeg, is the oldest Catholic priest in the world. He was 100 years old March 22. On March 25 at the centennial an niversary of the founding of St. Boniface, he celebrated mass in the cathedral at an altar before which Indian worshipers once bowed in old St Boniface mission, one of the pionepr outposts of the Catholic Church in Western Canada. His voice was clear and strong and car ried to the farthest corner of the edifice. After the service, he held a reception for the parishioners and visiting clergymen. "When 1 came into the west, said Father Dandurand, "it was wild prairie dotted with Indian villages aid covered with buffalo. I saw the first settlers come in behind their ox teams. I saw populous towns and cities arise on every hand. I saw Hie wilderness transformed as by recromancy into a smiling pic ture of farm prosperity, with cattle in a thousand pastures and wheat rolling to the horizon. The last vzest is still calling the homeseek ers from all over the world. The people are still pouring in to settle on the fertile land. I have seen Canada's yesterday and its to-day. if tilt dear d should grant me one more decade of life, I should not he able to recognize the greater Canada of to-day in the greater na tion ct to-morrow." £t. Boniface, to which Father Danurand came in 1872, was the mission of which the poet Wliittier sing in "The Bells of St. Boni face.' Since its foundation in 1818 until now it has been the headquar ters of the Catholic Church in West ern Canada. A magnificent cathe dral now occupies the site of the old mission from whose "turrets twain ' the bells of St. Boniface pealed their mellow call "to the Sontinen on the river and the hunts men on the plain." thcr Dandurand was born at Da i' -. iinc. Quebec, March 22. 1819. He i n weak, delicate cltlld. Dr. Vrlson, the family physician, used t !. 01. at him sadly with shaking 1 -ail : r,i say: "One lung bad. I'm mi bo won't live long." He was c-i! liierl to the priesthood in 1841 j. I held important charges in East icc Canada before coming to St i,c< Mace. He was a missionary at licawa when it was known as By t >