At a time when most of us were still trying to understand how to manipulate email and open attachments, CCHA Past-President Richard A. Lebrun took on the enormous task of designing and developing a website that would serve us into a new century. He pioneered new ideas that were available in […]
All members are encouraged to contribute significant milestones or current event that will be of interest to our CCHA Membership.
CCHA President, Jacqueline Gresko, welcomes all to the newly designed website and selects areas that new visitors won’t want to miss.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Anderson, Emma. “‘Baptism’: Three Perspectives on the Death of Jean de Brébeuf, Seventeenth-Century Jesuit ‘Martyr’,” in Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nichols, eds. Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010, 125-58. Anuik, Jonathan. “From Protestant and Roman Catholic Missions to Public Schools: […]
Bellamy, Kathrine E., RSM, The Mustard Seed: The Story of St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital. St. John’s: Flanker Press, 2010. (219 pages, photos, index.) The Mustard Seed tells the story of St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital from 1922 to the present. It is very much a local history that will appeal to St. John’s Catholics, who will […]
President Jacqueline Gresko on Tuesday morning, May 31st welcomed the participants and auditors to Saint Thomas University for the seventy-eighth CCHA Annual Meeting. Edward Jackman OP asked the Lord’s blessing on the conference. The first session on the Reception of Vatican Two was moderated by Terence Fay SJ. From interviews with women religious, Elizabeth Smyth […]
The University of St Michael’s College at the University of Toronto sponsored the Second Joint Meeting of the Canadian and American Historical Associations on April 15-16, 2011. The first Joint Meeting had been convened at the University of St Michael’s College in 2001. The organizing and program committee in 2011 consisted of Terence Fay SJ, […]