Annual Conference and General Meeting 2022 - The Canadian Catholic Historical Association

The 89th conference and annual general meeting of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association will be held virtually May 26th and 27th 2022.

Keynote Speaker

Thursday, May 26 at 11:30am to 12:30pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time

Kathleen Sprows Cummings, “Say not America’s saints are all foreign”: Catholics and Canonization in North America, 1884-1930″

Kathleen Sprows Cummings is Professor, Department of American Studies and History, Director, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. She is the Rev. John A. O’Brien Collegiate Professor, University of Notre Dame and author of A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Registration

Registration is now open.

Conference Schedule

***All times are in Eastern Daylight Saving Time***

Thursday May 26th
Time (EDST)	Title	Panelists
	Welcome
11:20am		Rankin Sherling CCHA President and Rob Dennis, CCHA Secretary General
Keynote	“Say not America’s saints are all foreign”: Catholics and Canonization in North America, 1884-1930”
11:30-12:30pm		Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame
Panel 1	Religion and Authority
1 pm to 2pm	“Decolonizing Mandatory Clerical Celibacy, One Thomas Christian at a Time”	Clara Joseph, University of Calgary
	“The Project of Hegemony” The Canadian Church Engages with the Liberal State, 1840s-1930s”	Rob Dennis, University of PEI
	“The Furtherance of Indigenous Arts and Crafts in Progressive Era Catholic Schools, 1936-1952”	Katie Gemmel, University of Victoria
Panel 2	Catholic Archives
2:30 pm to 4pm	“Opportunities for Research in Religious Archives”	Linda Wicks, Sisters of St. Joseph Toronto
	“A New Era for Catholic Diocesan Archives? –Kamloops and After”	Carol Hollywood, Diocese of Calgary
	“The Diocese of London Church Index”	Deb Majer, Diocese of London
Friday May 27th
Annual General Meeting
11:30am-1pm		CCHA Membership
Book talk
1:30pm – 2:30pm	Not Quite Us: Anti-Catholic Thought in English Canada sine 1900	Kevin Anderson, University of Calgary
Panel 3	Genealogical Methods
3pm -4:30pm	“On the Importance of genealogy for History”	Paul Armstrong, MIRCS
	“Degrees of Consanguinity: The Nova Scotian Scottish Catholic Priest as Genealogist”	Peter Ludlow, Acadia University
	“Using genealogy to find the Irish Catholic famine generation”	Laura J. Smith, University of Toronto

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.