Category: Bulletin story
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2013 CCHA Annual Conference
University of Victoria 2-4 June 2013 The 80 Annual Conference of the CCHA opened at the University of Victoria with a session on Mid-20th Century English-Canadian Catholicism, A Mari Usque Ad Mare. The first speaker, Robert Dennis of Queen’s University, traced the expansion of the Antigonish Movement ideal across Canada and North America in the…
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Notices
Helpful Hints About Victoria I look forward to welcoming CCHA members to Victoria. Valerie Burke has booked a number of rooms for the CCHA at the Executive House Hotel. It is within a few minutes walk to St Ann’s Academy, Milos, the Greek restaurant and site of our banquet, and the #4 bus that goes…
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Current Publications, Spring 2013
Compiled by Fred J. McEvoy Abé, Takao. The Jesuit Mission to New France: A New Interpretation in the Light of the Earlier Jesuit Experience in Japan. Leiden: Brill, 2011. Codignola, Luca. Little Do We Know: History and Historians of the North Atlantic, 1492-2010. Ed. Matteo Binasco Cagliari: Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, 2011. 520 pp.…
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Obituary: Sister Marion Egan MacDonald (Sister Mary Loretto) 1920-2012
Sister Marion E. MacDonald of the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1920. Her parents, Bernard and Marion (Egan) MacDonald, had moved west from Prince Edward Island. They sent her to local Catholic and public schools except for her Grade XII year which she completed at St Joseph’s…
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Book Review: Santo Dodaro and Leonard Pluta, The Big Picture: The Antigonish Movement of Eastern Nova Scotia
Santo Dodaro and Leonard Pluta, The Big Picture: The Antigonish Movement of Eastern Nova Scotia (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012). In the autumn of 2012, the Braemore Cooperative Grocery Store, which had served the Antigonish, Nova Scotia area for over thirty years, closed its doors, touching off a brief but salient debate on…
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2013 CCHA Conference in Victoria, BC
Annual General Meeting and Conference University of Victoria, Victoria, BC 2-4 June 2013 2 June 2013 6 pm Informal no-host meal at the Sticky Wicket Pub and Restaurant, 910 Douglas St. [Reservations to proy@uvic.ca appreciated] 3 June 2013: Morning Session 1: 8:30-10:00 Mid-20 Centuryth English-Canadian Catholicism, A Mare Usque Ad Mare (Cornett Building, Rm. A225)…
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Call for Papers: CCHA Annual Meeting
The 79th annual meeting of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association will be held May 28—May 29, 2012 in conjunction with the Annual Congress of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 26 – June 2, 2012). The main Congress theme is “Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World.” The CCHA invites proposals for…
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Obituaries 2011
Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic (1930-2011) Born in Slovenia, Aloysius Ambrozic came with his family to Canada in 1948. After studies at St Augustine’s Seminary, he was ordained for the Archdiocese of Toronto and pursued a doctorate in Scripture Studies at the University of St Michael’s College. Serving as Dean of SAS, he was selected as archbishop…
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G.E. Clerk Award
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 and…
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President’s Report for Fall 2011
On behalf of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association, I would like to say thank you to all those who contributed to the joint conference with the American Catholic Historical Association in Toronto in April 2011, and to the Canadian Catholic Historical Association Conference at the University of New Brunswick and St Thomas University in Fredericton…