BULLETIN The Canadian Catholic Historical Association Fall 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 2 1965), Study Sessions (1966-1984), Historical 2006 CCHA Conference 2006 Studies (1985-2006). George Rawlyk’s criticism from 1984 was remembered and put in context. Brian Hogan of Hamilton completed the The Seventy-Third Annual Meeting session with a detailed presentation of the first of the Canadian Catholic Historical draft of the Bibliography of Canadian Association began with a joint dinner with Religious History and the good news that it is the Canadian Society of Church History at available on CD-R and will be online this the Schulich Executive Learning Centre at summer. York University on 29 May 2006. Colleagues in church history enjoyed a meal in fellowship. The next day, the joint comradery continued at Vanier College as Sharon M. Bowler from OISE/UT probed the life of the nineteenth century physician, Dr Jonathan Woolverton and his “Protestant conscience.” Author Michael Power continued the discussion of Canadian church people by examining the life of the frontier pastor, Father Edmund Burke Kilroy. Jane Barter Moulaison of the University of Winnipeg explored the theologies of call in the United Church of Canada. Professor Heidi MacDonald of the University of Lethbridge is elected the CCHA President, 2006-2008. Three historians analyzed the history Twentieth century Canadian Catholicism of the CCHA. Glenn Wright of Ottawa in conflict was examined by three historians traced the history of its founding in from the University of Ottawa. James December1932 by James F. Kenny, an Trepanier examined debate caused by the Irish Canadian medievalist and archivist at Knights of Columbus creating Catholic army the National Archives in Ottawa. Annual huts in 1918. Although some French Canadian meetings have been held continuously Knights supported the venture not all were since 1933, and the journal has been willing to give it whole-hearted support. published. Richard Lebrun from the Laurence Gottlieb revealed that the Quebec University of Manitoba presented an church was slow to come to the support of the analysis of the articles in the Report (1933- 2 Fall 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 2 workers, but by the 1920s supported involvement of the Dominican Order with Catholic workers, helped them to organize Canadian Aid and the National University of unions, and safeguarded them. Brian Rwanda. Watson asked the question raised by Irving M. Abella’s None Is Too Many : Canada The 2006 CCHA Conference was and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948: Were concluded by Linda Wicks chairing the Annual Catholics anti-semitic at this time? He General Meeting. Next year, the CCHA will examined English-language Catholic meet on Monday and Tuesday, 28-29 May 2007 newspapers and found they were more at the University of Saskatchewan in aware of the crisis in Europe than the Saskatoon. Margaret Sanche will be the local secular newspapers, but were subject to representative. Membership fees with be raised criticism for being not pro-active in by $5 to keep up with rising administrative welcoming Jewish refugees. costs. The new executive members elected are Linda Wicks, President-General, Heidi The annual liturgy remembering the MacDonald, President, Peter Meehan, Vice- living and deceased members of the CCHA President, and Edward MacDonald, Secretary. followed in the Scott Religious Centre of York University. Father MacDonald CC welcomed the members as the principal celebrant and Father Terry Fay SJ of Toronto School of Theology/UT proclaimed that historians should be like the Apostle Paul working zealously to enrich the kingdom of God with good history. Wednesday, 31 May, began with a focus on women’s education in Toronto. Mechtilde O’Mara CSJ of St Michael’s College began the examination by discussing the role of the Sisters of St Joseph of Toronto in the Post-Secondary Education. Also from St Michael’s, Ellen Leonard CSJ continued the discussion by exploring theological education at the University of St Michael’s College through Vice-President of St Michael’s College , Mark the eyes of women religious. Elizabeth McGowan, confers with the newly elected CCHA Vice- Smyth of OISE at the University of Toronto President, Peter Meehan. pursued the Sisters of St Joseph as a learning organization and rethought the creation of St Joseph’s College. Valerie Burke and Father Edward Jackman were thanked by the CCHA members Debra Nash-Chambers of the for successfully moving the CCHA office from University of Guelph investigated the Catholic Pastoral Centre to the University of benevolence, medical care, and civic affairs St Michael’s College at the University of and the Sisters of St Joseph at Guelph. Toronto. Robin S. Gendron of Dalhousie University concluded the sessions by reviewing the 3 Fall 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 2 Conference Notices Book Reviews The 74th Annual Meeting of the Michael Power : The Struggle to Build the Canadian Catholic Historical Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier. Association will be held in the University of By Mark G. McGowan. Montréal : McGill- Saskatchewan in Saskatoon on Monday Queen's University Press, 2005. xvii, 378 p. : ill., and Tuesday, 28-29 May 2007. Proposals maps, ports. for papers and entire sessions are invited. The Congress theme is “Bridging Mark McGowan’s appointment in 1991 to Communities.” For individual papers, an assistant professorship at St Michael’s please send a one-page proposal with a College in the University of Toronto was to one-page curriculum vitae. For panels and shape his career and his research agenda in roundtables, please send a proposal for the ways he could not then have anticipated. entire session and C-Vs for each of the Several years later emissaries of Cardinal participants, including commentators. Ambrozic persuaded him to set aside his Curriculum vitae should include email and prosopographical analysis of Catholic postal addresses. Include your A/V needs. participation in the Great War for a biography of Presenters are asked to become members Ambrozic’s predecessor, Michael Power, the of the CCHA. Please send proposals by first Roman Catholic bishop of Toronto. In 2002 email before 31 January 2007 to the McGowan agreed to take on the principalship of program committee: Linda Wicks, the College. Like Power, a reluctant bishop, [email protected]; Heidi MacDonald, McGowan rose to both challenges. [email protected]; Peter Meehan, [email protected]. McGowan the social historian was suspicious of “great man” history and he was loath to abandon a well-conceived research March 29-31, 2007. American agenda that would establish his bona fides as a Catholic Historical Association Spring military historian. Yet in other respects the Meeting, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Power biography was a logical outgrowth of his Wisconsin. Proposals are invited for entire earlier work. McGowan had written the DCB sessions and individual papers in any and entries on Bishops Macdonell, O’Connor, and all topics/eras/regions related to the history McEvay, and the bishops of Toronto remained of the Catholic Church. Session and pivotal figures in his book The Waning of the individual proposals must include abstract, Green (1999). brief C-V, and contact information. The deadline is 22 November 2006. Marquette Power was Bishop of Toronto for just five University is a Jesuit Catholic institution years, and he has been viewed as a somewhat celebrating its 125th year. Proposals to: ephemeral figure. An early death ministering to Steven M. Avella, Department of History, the Irish typhoid victims in 1847 made him a Tel. (414) 288-3556 (office); Tel. (414) martyr to faith and charity and a hero to 288-5099 (Fax); Canada’s professional Irish Catholics. In other [email protected]. 4 Fall 2006 ISSN 1182-9214 Volume XX, Number 2 respects he has been overshadowed by his These ideas did not originate with Power, successor, Armand de Charbonnel, who who creatively appropriated them from other has been credited with constructing the jurisdictions. Recruiting the Jesuits to serve in diocesan infrastructure for the ultramontane Sandwich and the Indian missions, and revival and devotional revolution. Power importing a charismatic ultramontane to rouse began this work, but after two years of enthusiasm for personal piety and ritualistic episcopal vacancy following his death, devotions, were strategies modeled directly on Charbonnel indeed had to reinvent much of those of his mentor, Bishop Ignace Bourget of it. Montreal. From Bourget, and from his own legalistic resort to canon law against lay ambitions at the parish level, derived Power’s ultramontanism. This overshadowed the gallican bent of his Sulpician education, but never undermined the attachment to the British constitution he had imbibed as a youth. This combination lent an unpredictable element to Power the administrator. A native Haligonian, the bookish son of a Wexford sea captain, Power was shy and insecure and had resisted appointment to the episcopacy out of fear of failure. He had been overwhelmed by the pressures of being a saddlebag curé on the Lower Canadian frontier and had begged to be transferred to a more settled charge. Once ensconced in an established parish near Montreal he had It is true as well that some of become the confidant and agent of Bourget, Power’s initiatives failed, notably his plan who consulted him on questions of canon law, for regular diocesan synods, but McGowan in which Power read widely. Bourget sent him to identifies several enduring legacies of Halifax, unsuccessfully, to win over the Atlantic Power’s episcopate. His recruitment of bishops to the establishment an archiepiscopal male and female religious orders from see at Quebec. When Bourget went to Rome to Europe compensated for the dubious advance this cause, he took Power along as his qualifications of secular clergy in the unwitting nominee for a new bishopric in frontier diocese.