Spring 2014 Bulletin
A new editor takes the helm of the Bulletin, Irish Day at the CCHA Conference, member publications, a book review, and more in the Spring 2014 bulletin.
Archive for April 9th, 2014
Publication Information and Acknowledgements
The Bulletin is published in the Spring and the Fall of each year by the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Notices, letters, calls for papers, and short articles are welcome on topics of interest to historians. Deadlines for submission are 15 October and 15 March. See CCHA site cchahistory.ca Editors: Terence Fay SJ, Fred J.McEvoy (Book […]
Current Publications, Spring 2014
by Fred J. McEvoy Baum, Gregory. Truth and Relevance: Catholic Theology in French Quebec Since the Quiet Revolution Montreal and Kingston: McGillQueen’s University Press, 2014. 248 pp. Bernier, Marc André, Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink, eds. Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 464 pp. Brahms, Grant. “Der Volksverein Deutsch-Canadischer […]
Coast to Coast: Spring 2014
Robert Dennis, CCHA Vice-President, takes appointment at St Dunstan’s University; Peter Baltutis to begin professorship at St Mary’s University College in Calgary.
Obituary: Sister Loretta Gaffney RHSJ, 1920-2014
Sister Loretta Gaffney was born in Saskatoon but grew up on the shores of Stocco Lake near Tweed, Ontario. She made her first profession with the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph in Kingston on November 17, 1940. Following her studies at Notre Dame High School in Kingston, Sister received a diploma in nursing from the […]
Book Review
The Sulpicians of Montreal : A History of Power and Discretion 1657-2007. Revised, translated and updated edition. Edited by Dominique Deslandres, John A. Dickinson, Ollivier Hubert. Iconographic Research by Jacques Des Rochers. Translated from the French by Steven Watt. (Wilson & Lafleur Ltée: Montréal, 2013). 705 p. I was approached a decade ago to prepare […]
Irish Day at the CCHA Conference
The Canadian Catholic Historical Association is pleased to announce as part of our annual conference this year that it will host a special day on Wednesday, May 28 on nineteenth century Irish Catholicism in Halifax. The event is unprecedented in our long and esteemed history—in 2013, the CCHA became party to a SSHRC partnership development […]
New Editor for the CCHA Bulletin
Jacqueline Gresko, retiring as President General of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association, has taken on the editorship of the CCHA Bulletin. Terry Fay SJ, the editor of the past 23 years, after this issue will have stepped down in favour of the new editor, Jacqueline Gresko. Mark and Eileen McGowan initiated the Bulletin as a […]