Category: Bulletin story
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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G. E. Clerk Award 2014
George Edward Clerk (1815-1875) was a prominent Montreal Catholic and editor of that City’s True Witness and Catholic Chronicle. A Scottish Canadian who had a bright and inquisitive mind, Clerk accepted Bishop Bourget’s challenge to launch an English speaking Catholic newspaper which would deal with the anti-Catholic aspersions of the Montreal Witness. Clerk’s warm heart…
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Current Publications, Fall 2013
By Frederick J. McEvoy Basque, Philippe. “Les lieux historiques religieux du nord-est du Nouveau-Brunswick: quelle mémoire en conserve-t-on?” Acadiensis 41, no. 1 (2012): 194-210. Bernier-Cormier, Marie-Eve. “La Fête-Dieu dans trois quotidiens québécois (1910-1970)” Études d’histoire religieuse78 (2012): 41-58. Brown, Roberta Stringham and Patricia O’Connell Killen, eds. Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet Bishop of Walla Walla…
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Book Reviews
Jim McDowell. Father August Brabant: Saviour or Scourge? The First Colonial Missionary Among the Nuu chah-nulth. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2012.500 pages, photographs, maps, index. Jim McDowell’s aim in writing Father August Brabant: Saviour or Scourge? The First Colonial Missionary Among the Nuu-chah-nulth is to provide “a new authoritative account” of the missionary’s life. McDowell centers…
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Call for Papers for May 2014
Call For Papers Canadian Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting, Brock University St Catharines, Ontario, May 28 – May 30,2014 The 81st annual meeting of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association will be held May 28—May 30, 2014 in conjunction with the Annual Congress of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (24-30 May 2014).…