Historical Studies articles from January 1 2000

Historical Studies archives from January 1 2000

Sisters of service: breaking free of the monastic tradition to serve the abandoned ones.
January 1, 2000... As a particular field within the discipline of Canadian history, women's organizations have only recently been accepted as a topic of major research importance. Even more rare was any extensive study of women's work within the structures of the...

"To be useful to the whiteman and the Indian and the country at large": Constantine Scollen, missionary-priest, and native-white relations in the West, 1862-1885.
January 1, 2000... Most early historical accounts of Roman Catholic missionary activities in Western Canada were overwhelmingly hagiographic in nature. Written either by the participants themselves or by Church historians who sympathized with the goals of the...

Writing the Pacific Northwest into Canadian and U.S. Catholic history: geography, demographics, and regional religion.
January 1, 2000... From its earliest settlement by Europeans three things have been true religiously about the Pacific Northwest (for purposes of this paper Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, Alaska): 1) the region is largely unchurched; 2) the region...

Material culture of the Loretto School for Girls in Hamilton, Ontario, 1865-1971.
January 1, 2000... The material culture at Mount St. Mary (the site location of the Loretto School for Girls and Loretto Academy) in Hamilton, Ontario from 1865-1971 espoused the values of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM, popularly known as the...

"True standing of Catholic higher educational institutions" of English Canada: the 1901 Falconio survey.
January 1, 2000... In July of 1901, Monsignor Diomede Falconio (1842-1917), OFM,(2) the Apostolic Delegate, dispatched a one-page survey to all superiors of institutions of Catholic Higher Education in Canada. He sought, through the eleven-item questionnaire, "to...