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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Emeritus Professor of the University of Victoria Patricia Roy has received the BC Clio Prize Committee award for “Lifetime Achievement” in 2013. The award was made to Dr Roy as a leading historian of British Columbia who has published numerous works on Asian history in British Columbia. She was inducted into the Royal Society of […]
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). […]
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 […]
Dr. Patricia Roy, currently Associate Editor of CCHA Historical Studies and part of your CCHA Executive Board, celebrated her 46th year attending the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her speech at the Congress 2013 media kick-off event offered a wonderful glimpse into the opportunities and excitement surrounding Congress that have continued to grow over […]
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 […]
A preview of the 2013 conference in Victoria; Sister Marion Egan MacDonald is remembered, book review, and more.