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 […]

Thomas James Hanrahan CSB (1926-2012) Father Thomas James Hanrahan CSB passed away in Toronto February 8, 2012. Born in Halifax, James Hanrahan attended high school at St Mary’s College. He entered the novitiate of the Congregation of St Basil in Toronto in 1944. He was ordained in 1952. Father James Hanrahan earned a B.A. and […]

Southwell, Darlene. Caring and Compassion: A History of the Sisters of St Ann in Health Care in British Columbia. Madeira Park, B.C. Harbour Publishing, 2011 (296 pages, photos, index). In Caring and Compassion: A History of the Sisters of St Ann in Health Care in British Columbia, Darlene Southwell explains how members of a teaching […]