BULLETIN The Canadian Catholic Historical Association
Spring 2010 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XXIV, No. 1
The Canadian Catholic Historical Patricia Roy (Victoria University) “An Ambiguous Relationship: Anglicans and East Association Asians in Canada, 1858-1949” 2010 The 77th Annual Conference Peter Meehan (Seneca @ York) “Purified Socialism” and the Church in Saskatchewan: Tommy Douglas, Concordia University Philip Pocock and ‘Hospitalization’, 1944-1948" 31 May-1 June 2010 10:45-11:15 am Nutrition Break Monday 31 May 11:15- 12:30 All Sessions are in Hall Building, Room Session #2: Panel Dialogue on Oral Narrative: 429-00 The “Raw Material” of Canadian History
9:00 am Moderator: Elizabeth McGahan Official Welcome, Prayer, and Opening Remarks Terence J. Fay SJ (USMC) “The Lack of Sources for Contemporary Religious 9:15-10:45 am History” Session #1: Perspectives on Culture, Region and Religion Nicole Vonk (Archives of the United Church of Canada) Moderator: Margaret Sanche (St Thomas “Methodology of Interviews” More College, University of Saskatchewan) Gwyn Griffith (Centre for Christian Studies) Anne Gagnon (Thompson Rivers University) "The Significance of Qualitative History in “Child-Naming Practices and Modernization in Religious Research" Franco-Albertan Families, 1890s-1940s” 2 Spring 2010 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XXIV, No. 1
12:45-2:00 Lunch – on your own
2:00-3:30 pm Tuesday June 1 Session #3: Writing, Serving and Negotiating in a Religious Context All Sessions are in Molson Business Building, Room 1-437 Moderator: Brian Hogan ( Hamilton ) 9:00 – 10:15 am Colleen Gray (McGill University) “As a Bird Flies: The Writings of Marie Barbier, Session #4: Featured Speaker: Gregory Baum 17th Century Congrégation de Notre-Dame of and His Reflections on the Second Vatican Montreal Nun, Superior and Mystic” Council
Christine Lei (Wilfred Laurier University) Moderator: Mark McGowan (USMC) “Beyond Bazaars and Teas: The Role of the Women’s Auxiliary in the Activities of the Sisters of Social Service in Montreal, 1937-1974” 10:15am – 1:15pm Touring/Lunch – on your own Gabriela Kasprzak (University of Toronto) “Priests and Consuls: The Uses of Religion by 1:15 – 2:45pm Polish Diplomats, 1918-1939” Session #5: Stories and Miracles: A Featured Papers Session Offered Jointly with the CHA 3:30-4:30pm Break Moderator: Elizabeth Smyth (OISE/UT)
4:30-5:30 pm Allan Greer (Canada Research Chair in Colonial Eucharist (TBA) North America, McGill University) "From Teenage Runaway in Europe to 5:30-6:30 pm Missionary in Canada: A Jesuit Story" Reception (TBA) Jacalyn Duffin (Hannah Professor, Queen's 6:30 University) Annual Banquet (The Irish Embassy - TBA) and "Miracles and Wonders: Finding Canadian Presentation of the highest CCHA Award, the Medical History in the Vatican Archives" George Edward Clerk Award, To Professor Elizabeth Smyth, Vice-Dean (Programs), School 2:00-3:30 pm of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto for CCHA Annual General Meeting her service to Catholic History by her publications, teaching, and administration. 5:00-7:00 pm SSHRC President’s Reception Other Remarks and Recognitions 3 Spring 2010 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XXIV, No. 1
Catholic Studies at Canadian Call for Papers Universities
2011 Joint Meeting of the Canadian Catholic Studies at St Joseph's College, Catholic Historical Association and the American University of Alberta Catholic Historical Association will be held in By Indre Cuplinskas Toronto on Friday and Saturday, April 15 and 16 St Joseph's College, University of Alberta at the University of St Michael’s College. The th event marks the 10 anniversary since the two St Joseph's College at the University of Catholic historical associations met together in Alberta in Edmonton has taken a unique approach April 2001 at USMC. to the growing number of Catholic Studies programs in Canada by combining the The themes of the Joint Meeting will interdisciplinarity of Catholic Studies with the include Catholics Across Boundaries: Local or burgeoning first-year cohort programs that International Church; Missions, Wars, Immigration provide university students with a thematic first- Issues, or Fighting Communism. If any participants year experience, small classes and a learning are not members of either association, they are community. invited to join either the ACHA or the CCHA. Catholic Studies takes an interdisciplinary approach to Catholicism - inviting students to An abstract of papers and sessions along delve into not only theology, but also other ways with a brief curriculum vitae of each participant in which Catholicism manifests itself in the world, should be sent by 1 October 2010 to: Dr Terence particularly through arts and culture, but also Fay SJ, History Office 508, 10 St Mary Street, philosophy, relationships with science, etc. T o r o n t o O N , C a n a d a M 4 Y 1 M 4 : Students enrolled in a Catholic Studies program,
as Senator Charles Murphy, a cabinet minister * * * * * under Mackenzie King, and Lucien Lamoureux, Speaker of the House of Commons, and senior Ottawa Notre Dame Cemetery: An Historic civil servants such as Sir Joseph Pope, secretary to Cemetery of National Importance Established in Sir John A. Macdonald and first Under-secretary 1872. Jean-Yves Pelletier. Québec: Les Éditions of State for External Affairs. Many religious GID, 2009. congregations have their own plot, while three Notre Dame is the major Catholic plots are dedicated to members of the armed cemetery in Ottawa. Established by Bishop Joseph forces. The book also contains a short section on Guigues on what was then the edge of the city, it funerary monuments. replaced earlier cemeteries that were closed due Despite its importance, as indicated in the to their proximity to growing areas of the city and title, Notre Dame has not been designated an consequent fear of disease. The cemetery was historic site at either the municipal, provincial or designed by Fr Georges Bouillon, an architectural federal level. Inexplicably, the Historic Sites and designer who was responsible for the design of Monuments Board refused to declare Notre numerous ecclesiastical buildings in Canada and Dame a national historic site while granting that the United States, including the interior of status to Beechwood Cemetery, which also Ottawa’s Notre Dame Basilica where he served for became the national cemetery for the military, many years. It backs onto Beechwood Cemetery, where a number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan established at the same time as a non- have been buried, and the RCMP. denominational cemetery where in fact many While the individual biographies are Catholics are buried. The first part of the book interesting and make an important contribution briefly traces the history of these prior to the local history of Ottawa, the book’s cemeteries, the establishment of Notre Dame and significance is weakened by the brevity of the its consequent growth. All this is done in the section on the history of the cemetery. Although space of some twenty pages. The bulk of the book the author refers to records of the archdiocese consists of over 200 biographical profiles of some and of the cemetery in his bibliography, one has of the more prominent persons interred there. to wonder if he was granted full access to the While many of these are primarily of local archival record. If not, the opportunity to produce interest, some are of national and even a more detailed history of an important international importance. These include Sir Wilfrid institution has unfortunately been lost. Laurier, whose large monument stands just inside the cemetery’s main entrance; portrait Fred McEvoy, Ottawa photographer Yousuf Karsh; numerous athletes including a number of National Hockey League players and canoeist Francis Amyot, who won a gold medal at the infamous Berlin Olympics in 1936. Others include ethnologist Marius Barbeau, native artist Benjamin Chee Chee, politicians such 8 Spring 2010 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XXIV, No. 1
From Coast to Coast Current Bibliography By Fred J. McEvoy
Indre Cuplinskas and Marc Cels are the proud parents of Daiva (pronounced like the last two CURRENT PUBLICATIONS - SPRING 2010 syllables of Godiva) Louise Cels who was born on March 16. As the daughter of two historians, little Andrade, Miguel Simao. “La Commission des Daiva is hoping to have her first history écoles catholiques de Montréal et la prise en monograph completed when she leaves her teens. compte du pluralisme ethnique et religieux, 1977- 1998,” Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 20, no. 1 (2008): 89-117.
Bellamy, Katherine B. RSM. The Mustard Seed: The Story of St Clare’s Mercy Hospital. St John’s: Flanker Press, 2010.
Elliott, Marie. Fort Saint John and New Caledonia: Where British Columbia Began. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009.
Gauthier, Chantal. Women Without Frontiers: A History of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, 1902-2007. Translated by Kathe Roth. Outremont: Les Éditions Carte blanche, 2008.
Elizabeth Smyth, in addition to the George Hanley, Mgr. Philip M. The Early History of the Edward Clerk Award, has been selected by the Catholic Church on Vancouver Island. Victoria: Awards Committee of the History of Women Diocese of Victoria, 2009. Religious Conference to receive the Distinguished Historian Award for the 2010 Conference. The Horsfield, Margaret. Voices from the Sound: Award recognizes the work she has done in Chronicles of Clayquot Sound and Tofino, 1899- researching women in religious history. 1929. Nanaimo: Salal Books, 2008.
Issues 28 and 29 of the Redemptorist North Hudon, Christine. “Quelques réflexions sur les American Historical Bulletin are available. projets éducatifs des collèges québécois pour garçons à partir d’un exemple: Sainte-Anne de la 9 Spring 2010 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XXIV, No. 1
Pocatière au 19e siècle,” Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 21, no.1 (2009): 24-40.
Mason, Carol I. and Kathleen L. Erhardt. “Iconographic (Jesuit) Rings in European/Native Exchange,” French Colonial History 10 (2009): 55- 73.
McEvoy, Frederick J. “Canadian Catholic Press Reaction to the Irish Crisis, 1916-1921,” in David A. Wilson, ed. Irish Nationalism in Canada. Montreal and Kingston. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009, 121-39. Conference participants at Carleton U. discuss: Mark McGuigan, Peter. The Intrigues of Archbishop John McGowan, Robert Bérard, Heidi MacDonald, Peter Meehan, and Paul Laverdure. T. McNally and the Rise of Saint Mary’s University. Halifax: St Mary’s University Press, 2010.
McGowan, Mark G. “Between King, Kaiser, and Canada: Irish Catholics in Canada and the Great War, 1914-1918,” in Irish Nationalism in Canada, 97-120.
Pelletier, Jean-Yves. Ottawa Notre Dame Cemetery: An Historic Cemetery of National Importance Established in 1872. Québec: Les Éditions GID, 2009. 187 pp.
Stevenson, Garth. “Irish Canadians and the National Question in Canada,” in Irish Nationalism in Canada, 160-77.
Fr Edward Jackman OP and Fr George Savoie prepare for Mass at Carleton University. 10 Spring 2010 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XXIV, No. 1
Residential Schools Before Confederation,” CCHA, Historical Studies, 61 (1995),13-40. In it Obituary and in his other publications on missions and Aboriginal schools, Bob Carney left a Robert James Carney (1933-2009) distinguished legacy. Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta Jacqueline Gresko, St Mark’s-Corpus Christi Born November 3, 1933, Robert James College, UBC Carney died in Nanaimo B.C. December 9, 2009. He is survived by his wife Verlie, four children and ten grandchildren. Donations in his memory may be made to Fr C.M. McCafferty Endowment Fund, Foundation of Newman College and St Joseph’s Seminary, Edmonton.
Bob Carney received his BA and MA from UBC and his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. His family said that Bob “ wore many hats.” He served as chief superintendent of schools in the Northwest Territories, as deputy minister of the Department of Recreation, Parks and Wildlife in Alberta, and executive director of the Alberta Catholic Schools Trustees Association. To his family Bob’s “most rewarding years” were those he spent as Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. His research interests in Aboriginal history and the history of Canadian education led him to deliver papers and publish with both the Western Oblate History Project and the Canadian Catholic Historical Indre Cuplinskas enjoys questions during her presentation at Carleton University 2009. Association (1981, 1983, and 1995). He was one of very few academics to write on the Grey Nuns’ contribution to Catholic schools in the Northwest. Members of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association remember the presentation he did at our Calgary meeting in 1994, the year he retired from the University of Alberta which was published the following year as “Aboriginal Canadian Catholic Historical 11 Spring 2010 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XXIV, No. 1
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