History of Women Religious Ninth Triennial Conference The History of Women Religious Conference will hold its Ninth Triennial Conference at St Catherine University in St Paul, Minnesota from June 23 to June 26, 2013. The keynote speaker will be Florence Deacon OSF, president of the LCWR [Leadership Conference of Women Religious]. Participants from the United […]
Canadian Catholic Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia 3-4 June 2013 The 80th annual meeting of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association will be held at the University of Victoria, 3-4 June 2013 in conjunction with the Annual Congress of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (1–8 June […]
General Members are divided into: 90 Individual General Members 69 Institutional Members 31 Religious General Members 9 Executive Members. 14 Lifetime Members, 20 Joint Members, 17 Student Members, 19 CCHA/SCHEC Members, 5 Complimentary Members, 1 Honourary Member Total CCHA Membership: 275 The members of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association represent people from Canada, United States, […]
A long-term member of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Father Carl Matthews was born at Kingston, Ontario in 1932 and attended Regiopolis College before entering the Jesuits in Guelph, Ontario in 1951. He taught at Regiopolis College for three years after which he undertook special studies in Education at the University of Toronto. In 1963, […]
By Fred J. McEvoy Bradbury, Bettina. Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011. 520 pp. Comiskey, John P. “In My Heart’s Best Wishes for You”: A Biography of Archbishop John Walsh Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012. 304 pp. Dodaro, Santo and Leonard Pluta. The Big Picture: […]
Attridge, Michael, Clifford, Catherine E., and Routhier, Gilles, eds. Vatican II: Expériences Canadiennes/Canadian Experiences. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2011. (578 pp., trade paperback, index.) Reviewed by Edward MacDonald University of Prince Edward Island When I was a little boy, I was just beginning to learn the Latin responses required for First Communion when my […]
By Brian F. Hogan The CCHA’s 79th Annual Conference occurred in Waterloo, 28-29 May 2012. Mark McGowan chaired the introductory session and MC Havey of the Redemptorist Archives and Carol Hopp of the Archives of Ontario reviewed the issues involved in archiving, processing and conserving the collection of textual, audio and visual materials produced by […]
The inclusion of the CCHA in Canadian Association of Learned Journals will make Historical Studies available to wider audience. Recently there have been significant changes in the world of learned journals. The rise of electronic journals opens new ways to make scholarly work available to a wider public. To keep abreast of these and other […]
On the morning of January 6, 2012 Pope Benedict XVI announced that my boss, Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, would be elevated to the College of Cardinals. I felt the wonderful buzz this circumstance was sure to create among my colleagues, the clergy, and Catholics across Canada. I would be a unique witness to Thomas […]
On behalf of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association it is a pleasure to welcome you to the association’s 79th annual meeting, part of the 2012 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The CCHA program links into the theme of this year’s Congress, “Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World.” For example, our first session this […]