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…