Executive Officers 2020-2022 - The Canadian Catholic Historical Association

Back row: Dr. Peter Ludlow, Valerie Burke, Dr. Rankin Sherling, Dr. Peter Baltutis; Front row: Veronica Stienburg, Dr. Mark McGowan, Dr. Laura Smith, Fr. Edward Jackman

President-General, Dr. Peter Ludlow
pludlow@cchahistory.ca

President, Dr. Rankin Sherling
rsherling@gmail.com

Vice-President, Dr. Laura Smith

Lsmith@cchahistory.ca

Secretary-General, Dr. Robert Dennis

Secretary, Veronica Stienburg

Veronica.Stienburg@providence.ca

Treasurer, Mark McGowan
mark.mcgowan@utoronto.ca

Member-at-Large, Dr. Paul Laverdure

Plaverdure@usudbury.ca

Membership and Administration:
Valerie Burke,
c/o St. Michaels College
University of St. Michael’s College
81 St. Mary Street
Toronto, ON M5S 1J4
email: valerieburke@cchahistory.ca

Telephone: (705) 795-9754

Editor of Historical Studies:
Dr. Peter Ludlow

Pludlow@cchahistory.ca

Dr. Colin Barr

ccpbarr@gmail.com

Book Review Editor

Dr. Patrick Mannion

pmannion@cchahistory.ca

For information regarding SCHEC (French Canadian CCHA)
sebastien.lecompted@hotmail.com

schec@schec.ca
Website: www.cieq.ca/schec

In his second book, expected September 2022 from McGill-Queens University Press, Peter Ludlow examines one of the most celebrated Roman Catholic constituencies in Canada. Occupying a corner of a small province in a politically marginalized region of the country, the Diocese of Antigonish nevertheless had tremendous influence over the development of Canadian Catholicism. It produced the first Roman Catholic prime minister of Canada, supplied the nation with clergy and women- religious, and organized one of North America’s most successful social movements.

How did the Irish stay Irish? Why are Irish and Catholic still so often synonymous in the English-speaking world? Ireland's Empire is the first book to examine the complex relationship between Irish migrants and Roman Catholicism in the nineteenth century on a truly global basis. Drawing on more than 100 archives on five continents, Colin Barr traces the spread of Irish Roman Catholicism across the English-speaking world and explains how the Catholic Church became the vehicle for Irish diasporic identity in the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and India between 1829 and 1914.