Historical Studies articles from January 1 1998

Historical Studies archives from January 1 1998

Michael Anthony Fleming and ultramontanism in Irish-Newfoundland Roman Catholicism, 1829-1850.
January 1, 1998... 1 This essay is based on the author's "Conflict and Culture in Irish-Newfoundland Roman Catholicism, 1829-1850," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Ottawa, 1997. Research for this study was funded by the Social Science and Humanities...

Harvesting the "red vineyard": Catholic religious culture in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919.
January 1, 1998... After only six months of service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a chaplain, Father Bernard Stephen Doyle of Toronto was clearly unimpressed with the spiritual exercises of the men in his care. "I have become more firmly convinced," he...

Question of class? Relations between bishops and lay leaders in Ireland and Newfoundland, 1783-1807.
January 1, 1998... Using Ireland and Newfoundland as examples, this paper tries to demonstrate how class played a significant role in the relations between Catholic bishops and lay leaders in both societies. Sometimes unwillingly perhaps, members of the Catholic...

From college to university: the Basilian Fathers and Assumption, 1950-1963.
January 1, 1998... "The University of Windsor is a False Assumption." These words, emblazoned on a banner, greeted returning students to the University of Windsor in 1964. Perplexing to some, this sentiment held deep significance to the Basilian Fathers and their...

Bishop (John) McNally and the Benedictines of Ampleforth.
January 1, 1998... In April 1912 two Benedictine monks from Ampleforth in England arrived in Edmonton to study the possibility of establishing a monastic foundation in the western provinces. Father Oswald Smith, Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey, and Father Vincent...

Women religious and their work of history in Canada, 1639-1978: a starting point for analysis.
January 1, 1998... 1 This paper is part of a series which analyzes the historical significance of the work women religious in English Canada. The author acknowledges the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The author thanks the...

Note de recherche: un tournant de Vatican II.
January 1, 1998... Gilles Routhier (1) Universite Laval RESUME: Le 11 octobre 1962, un discours etonnant de Jean XXIII inaugure les travaux de Vatican II. Mais la surprise ne devait pas s'arreter la. Tres vite, les Peres vont s'ecarter de l'ordre du...

Enseigner le catechisme - autorites et institutions, XVI-XX siecles.
January 1, 1998... Paris, Cerf; Sainte-Foy, Les presses de l'universite Laval, 1997, 466 p. Les historiens du christianisme se sont habitues a lire regulierement, en provenance du groupe de recherche sur l'histoire de l'enseignement religieux de l'Universite...

Recit d'une emigration - memoires.
January 1, 1998... Montreal, Boreal, 1997, 268 p. J'ai tourne avec quelque apprehension la belle page couverture de ces memoires, redigees faute de mieux aux portes de la mort. En cette conjoncture ultime, un ecrivain peut-il faire plus que de ressasser son...

Proclaiming the Gospel to the Indians and the Metis.
January 1, 1998... Edmonton, The university of Alberta Press, 1996, xxvii, 387 p. Raymond Huel's book (the third volume in the Western Oblate History Project) is an introductory study of Oblate missionary activity in the Prairie provinces from the time of the...

Figure meconnue - Damase Dandurand (1819-1921): le premier oblat canadien.
January 1, 1998... Ottawa, Archives Deschatelets, 1996, 182 p. Modele de longevite - il mourut a quelques jours de ses 103 ans _, premier Oblat canadien, homme aux multiples talents, Damase Dandurand eut en son temps de nombreux admirateurs, a l'interieur...

Souvenirs d'un missionaire breton dans le Nord-Ouest canadien.
January 1, 1998... Joseph Le Treste, o.m.i., Sillery, Septentrion, 1997, 332 p. Fils de paysans bretons, Joseph-Vincent-Marie Le Treste o.m.i. (1861-1955) joignit les rangs de la congregation des Missionnaires oblats de Marie-Immaculee a la fin de sa premiere...

Ecrits de Pierre Potier.
January 1, 1998... Ottawa, Les presses de l'universite d'Ottawa, 1996, xii, 1329 p. Pierre Potier was a Belgain-born Jesuit who served as missionary to the Wyandot of the Detroit area from 1744 to 1781, as well as parish priest to the local French community....

Dictionnaire biographique des recollets missionaires en Nouvelle-France, 1615-1645, 1670-1849.
January 1, 1998... Montreal, Bellarmin, 1996, lxxxi, 903 p. Il nous faut ici souligner l'heureuse initiative du pere Rene Bacon, o.f.m., qui presente sous la signature des peres Odoric-M. Jouve, Archange Godbout et Herve Blais, aujourd'hui decedes, le...

Autrefois, les Ursulines de Trois-Rivieres. Une ecole, un hopital, u cloitre.
January 1, 1998... Quebec, Anne Sigier, 1997, 343 p. Dans ce livre, soeur Therese Germain relate les deux premiers siecles de la presence des Ursulines a Trois-Rivieres (1697-1897). Il ne s'agit pas d'une etude exhaustive de la communaute, nous rappelle-t-on...

Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640-1665.
January 1, 1998... Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queens University Press, 1997, 247 p. This latest offering in the McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion is an important addition not only to the field of the historical studies in religion but also...

Soeurs missionaires de Notre-Dame des anges - de l'intuition a l'institution.
January 1, 1998... a l'institution (1905-1922). Lennoxville, Soeurs missionnaires de Notre-Dame des Anges, 1996, 171 p. Moins connues que les Missionnaires de l'Immaculee-Conception, dont elles sont pour ainsi dire un rameau detache, les Soeurs Missionnaires...

Abbaye de Saint-Benoit-du-lac et ses batisseurs.
January 1, 1998... Sainte-Foy, Les presses de l'universite Laval, 1997, 312 p. Quand j'etais etudiant a l'Ecole d'architecture de Montreal au debut des annees 1960, j'avais l'habitude dans les jours qui precedaient les examens d'aller me refugier a l'abbaye...

Ozias Leduc et son grand oeuvre - la decoration de l'eglise Notre-Dame-de-la presentation-de-Shawinigan-sud.
January 1, 1998... s.l., Fides, 1996, 191 p. Fides vient de publier un tres beau petit livre sur la derniere decoration religieuse d'Ozias Leduc, celle qu'il consacra a l'interieur de l'eglise Notre-Dame-de-la-Presentation a Shawinigan-sud, ou, comme on...

De l'oreille au coeur - naissance du chant religieuese en langues amerindiennes dans les missions de Nouvelle-France - 1600-1650.
January 1, 1998... Sillery, Septentrion, 1997, 151 p. Paul-Andre Dubois aurait pu se lancer directement dans la description d'un manuscrit de musique vocale compilee pour une mission jesuite, qu'il a eu le bonheur de mettre au jour il y a quelques annees;...