Historical Studies articles from January 1 2008

Historical Studies archives from January 1 2008

Editors' foreword.(Editorial)
January 1, 2008... We are pleased to present Volume 74 of Historical Studies, featuring papers presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the English Section of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association at the University of Saskatchewan. Papers presented at the...

Papers presented at the annual meeting.(Bibliography)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... University of Saskatchewan, 28 May--29 May 2007 but not included in this volume: Keith Thor Carlson, "Saskatchewan: A Re-appraisal of 19th Century Oblate-Aboriginal Relations: Oral History and Archival Documents in the Middle-ground of...

"The pirates of the penitentiary": religion and politics in late 19th century British Columbia.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Chronic reports of mismanagement in the British Columbia Penitentiary resulted in several investigations and a recommendation that Arthur McBride, the long-time warden, be superannuated. That set off a contest for the wardenship between the...

"To enlarge our hearts and to widen our horizon": Archbishop Neil McNeil and the origins of social catholicism in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, 1912-1934.(Toronto, Canada)
January 1, 2008... From 1912-1934 Archbishop Neil McNeil of Toronto introduced a new paradigm of Catholicism that revolutionized how English-speaking Canadian Catholics were to understand and live their faith. Known as social Catholicism, this understanding of...

Beginning to restructure the institutional church: Canadian social catholics and the CCF, 1931-1944.(Cooperative Commonwealth Federation)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Following the formation of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in the early 1930s, prominent Archbishops in Quebec issued episcopal directives against participating in and voting for the party. Re-examining how the Church opened to the CCF...

"An imperialist Irishman": Bishop Michael Fallon, the diocese of London and the Great War.(London, England)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... The First World War has been deemed, by generations of historians, as a singularly significant nation-building experience in Canadian history. The war also provided Catholics the opportunity to prove their loyalty to both nation and Empire,...

Belgians and school questions in Western Canada--a comment.(HISTORICAL NOTES)(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Belgians were not a major immigrant group in Western Canada that attracted extensive ethno-cultural investigation. Nevertheless, as a national group composed of two distinct ethnic communities united by a common religion, they stood apart from...

Reflections on John Webster Grant's influence on Catholic historiography in Canada.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... The title of this short paper may be very baffling to many observers of Canadian religious history. John Webster Grant has been celebrated as one of the pioneer Church historians in Canada for a corpus of research that was primarily concerned...

A current bibliography of Canadian religious history/Bibliographie recente d'historie religuese du Canada.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2008... 2007-2008 Introduction Since we have made a number of changes in the past years the sections which usually are the longest are at the end of the bibliography. For each section, references are listed in alphabetical order of the...

Eclaircissements sur les pretendues mauvaises frequentations litteraires de Lionel Groulx : le cas de Charles Maurras et de l'Action francaise de Paris.(Lionel Groulx)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Abstract "This article aims to show whether and to what extent Lionel Groulx was interested in Charles Maurras and Paris's Action francaise during the period 1922-1939. There has already been a good deal of comment on this issue, leading to...

Le Chemin des sanctuaires: un phenomene entre tradition et modernite.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: In a period where the Catholic religion is going through a decrease in the province of Quebec, pilgrimage sanctuaries such as Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, Notre-Dame-du-Cap and Oratoire Saint-Joseph seem rather to be flourishing. Becoming...

Les domestiques des communautes religieuses au Canada au XVIIe siecle.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Resume : Cet article dresse a partir des recensements nominatifs canadiens du XVIIe siecle un portrait detaille des domestiques engages specifiquement au service des communautes religieuses. Ces dernieres se placent parmi les plus gros...

Une oeuvre purement musicale? Analyse de la spiritualite des Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jesus et de Marie a partir de l'exemple de l'Ecole de musique Vincent-d'Indy.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Resume : L'ecole de musique Vincent-d'Indy des Sceurs des Saints Noras de Jesus et de Marie (connue avant 1951 sous le nom d'Ecole superieure de musique d'Outremont) fut consideree comme l'une des meilleures du genre dans la province de Quebec....

L'Ordre de Jacques Cartier et les droits des Franco-catholiques en Ontario, 1926-1931.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Abstract: This paper presents the first actions of the Ordre de Jacques Cartier, a secret society founded in 1926 by a group of French Canadian functionaries in Ottawa. To get out of despair to survive and fight the constant opposition to...

L'Eglise catholique, acteur de la francophonie en Amerique du Nord L'exemple de la culture acadienne du Traite de Paris (1763) a nos jours.(Essay)
January 1, 2008... Resume : En Amerique du Nord, la perennite de la francophonie est historiquement liee a la resistance et aux actions de l'Eglise catholique (de langue francaise), qui est la confession majoritaire de ceux que l'on a longtemps qualifies par...

Mysticisme, genre et missions lors de l'expansion fracaise aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siecles: une historiographie en effervescence.(NOTE CRITIQUE)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Quelques 15 millions de signes, 4673 pages... Francois Tremolieres et son equipe de chercheurs ont releve un defi de taille, qu'il faut saluer, en reeditant, chez Jerome Millon, les onze volumes de la monumentale Histoire litteraire du...

Dominique Deslandres, John A. Dickinson et Ollivier Hubert, dir., Les Sulpiciens de Montreal. Une histoire de pouvoir et de discretion, 1657-2007.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Dominique Deslandres, John A. Dickinson et Ollivier Hubert, dir., Les Sulpiciens de Montreal. Une histoire de pouvoir et de discretion, 1657-2007, Montreal, Fides, 2007, 670 p. 50 $ Ce livre fait penser a une symphonie rendue par un...

Colleen Gray, The Congregation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Colleen Gray, The Congregation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox of Power, 1693-1796, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007, xxxvi-250 p. 75 $ Le propos principal de ce livre consiste en une analyse de la carriere des...

Rosa Bruno-Jofre, The Missionary Oblate Sisters. Vision and Mission.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Rosa Bruno-Jofre, The Missionary Oblate Sisters. Vision and Mission. Montreal/Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, 220 p. 30 $ Deux textes preliminaires, un avant-propos de Dora Tetreault, m.o., et une introduction de Rosa...

Anne-Marie Sicotte, Femmes de lumiere. Les religieuses quebecoises avant la Revolution tranquille.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Anne-Marie Sicotte, Femmes de lumiere. Les religieuses quebecoises avant la Revolution tranquille. Montreal, Fides, 2007, 191 p. 30 $ Sous un fort joli titre, Anne-Marie Sicotte nous propose > a travers un corpus photographique de plus de...

Michael Gauvreau et Ollivier Hubert, ed. The Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Michael Gauvreau et Ollivier Hubert, ed. The Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada, Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006, xii-316 p. 30 $ Cette publication resulte d'un projet de...

Marguerite Van Die, Religion, Family, and Community in Victorian Canada : The Colbys of Carrollcroft.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Marguerite Van Die, Religion, Family, and Community in Victorian Canada : The Colbys of Carrollcroft, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, 278p. 30 $ II peut paraitre a premiere vue paradoxal qu'un ouvrage traitant de la vie...

Danielle Gauvreau, Diane Gervais et Peter Gossage, dir., La fecondite des Quebecoises 1870-1970, D'une exception a l'autre.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Danielle Gauvreau, Diane Gervais et Peter Gossage, dir., La fecondite des Quebecoises 1870-1970, D'une exception a l'autre. Montreal, Boreal. 2007, 346 p. 26 $ Fruit de recherches multidisciplinaires, le livre presente un siecle de...

Participation des travailleurs et reforme de l'entreprise.(La condition ouvriere au regard de la doctrine sociale de l'eglise)(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Participation des travailleurs et reforme de l'entreprise, textes presentes par Suzanne Clavette, Quebec, Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, coll. >, 2006. 103 p. 15 $ La condition ouvriere au regard de la doctrine sociale de l'eglise,...

Cecile Vanderpelen-Diagre, Memoire d'y croire. Le monde catholique et la litterature au Quebec (1920-1960).(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Cecile Vanderpelen-Diagre, Memoire d'y croire. Le monde catholique et la litterature au Quebec (1920-1960), Quebec, editions Nota bene, 2007, 151 p. 24 $ Memoire d'y croire: ce titre sibyllin--et qui le restera jusqu'a la fin de la...

E.-Martin Meunier et Joseph Yvon Theriault, dir., Les impasses de la memoire. Histoire, filiation, nation et religion.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... E.-Martin Meunier et Joseph Yvon Theriault, dir., Les impasses de la memoire. Histoire, filiation, nation et religion, Montreal, Fides, 2007, 388 p. 35$ Les impasses de la memoire rassemble sous un meme titre une vingtaine d'articles,...