(24 Nov. 1851-6 April 1900), writer. (A.M. Pope, Amy M. Pope, Mrs Berlinguet) Born in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Parents: William Henry Pope, one of the Fathers of Confederation, and his wife Helen DesBrisay. A.M. Pope was married on 28 Nov. 1889 to F.X. Berlinguet. (children) He may have been François-Xavier Berlinquet (1830-1916) , woodcarver, engineer and architect, whose life appears in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, but if so that dictionary mentions for him only a marriage of 1854.

     As Amy M. Berlinguet, of Trois-Rivières, Que., she is commended in Castell Hopkins’ Canada: an Encyclopedia (V, 174) of 1898-1900 as a “writer who has accomplished a good deal in Canadian letters” and as having “written for some of the best magazines of the day.” She wrote a well-known article on Glengarry history, called “A Scotch Catholic Settlement in Canada,” published in Catholic World (Oct. 1881) pp. 70-83. The article was anonymous, unless the name was given in some part of the issue separate from the actual article, but “Miss A. M. Pope” is named as the author by William J. Macdonell in his 1888 life of Bishop Macdonell, entitled Reminiscences (p. 43). Published at a time when relatively few sketches of Glengarry history had appeared in print, her article must be taken as important in helping to fill out the growing picture or consensus concerning the founding era of the county, and in assisting the transition of Glengarry history from popular lore to written form. The article also contains a brief but vivid and valuable description of her visit to St. Raphael’s, probably shortly before the article was written. The article was reprinted at an early date in one of the Glengarry newspapers, probably the Glengarrian, and again in the Glengarry News Diamond Jubilee issue of 8 Feb. 1952, and again in Ken McKenna’s column in the Glengarry News c. Aug. 2003. She was a Roman Catholic convert, and the article shows her strong religious loyalties. She was the sister of the well-known Sir Joseph Pope, who was the private secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald and wrote Macdonald’s biography, and who like his sister was a Roman Catholic convert.

Information kindly supplied by Mr Russell Ewing, corresponding secretary of the P.E.I. Genealogical Society, from the files of the society, in letter 18 Aug. 1993 * inquirer, Glengarry News 12 Jan. 1912, asks for copy of the 1881 article, recalls its reprint in “the then Glengarry newspaper” * translation by mentioned, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, VIII, 628 * Sir Joseph Pope, Public Servant (1960) 116 (summers at Stanley Island in GC)