Review of Archbishop A.-A. Tache of St. Boniface: The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision By Raymond J. A. Hue!
Alexandre Tache, one of the very first Canadians to join the French Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who arrived in Canada in 1841, was sent to work in Canada's Northwest in 1845 where he became second bishop of St. Boniface in 1853, and later archbishop. He remained there until his death...
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ftunivnebraskali:oai:digitalcommons.unl.edu:greatplainsquarterly-3438 2023-11-12T04:20:59+01:00 Review of Archbishop A.-A. Tache of St. Boniface: The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision By Raymond J. A. Hue! Choquette, Robert 2004-04-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/2438 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/3438/viewcontent/BR_Choquette.pdf unknown DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/2438 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/3438/viewcontent/BR_Choquette.pdf Great Plains Quarterly Other International and Area Studies text 2004 ftunivnebraskali 2023-10-30T10:58:10Z Alexandre Tache, one of the very first Canadians to join the French Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who arrived in Canada in 1841, was sent to work in Canada's Northwest in 1845 where he became second bishop of St. Boniface in 1853, and later archbishop. He remained there until his death in 1894, a half-century during which the region was transformed from a vast hunting emporium for furs to a refuge for tens of thousands of Canadian, American, and European settlers brought into the area after 1860 on the rapidly expanding tracks of American and then Canadian railways. Tache built up the Catholic Church of the Northwest to include dozens of missionary stations, infirmaries, hospitals, day schools, and boarding schools, in addition to a college, a mission-supply network, and small newspapers. In the process, he became a leading player in the social and political controversies of the period, including the Red River uprising (1869-70) and Northwest Rebellion( 1884-85) led by Metis leader Louis Riel, and the Manitoba schools question (1890 ff.), political controversies that became national issues in Canada. Raymond Huel has written a thoroughly researched and documented biography of Tache, one that will no doubt become a necessary reference for anyone seeking to understand the man and his times. He emphasizes Tache's vision, his dream of building a new Quebec in the Canadian West, a sister province to the French and Catholic Province of Quebec. While there are no significant new discoveries here, and the text at times is repetitive, the book constitutes good, solid, and thorough reporting. In the mass of factual details that are noted, this reader spotted only two errors, the first when the Sisters of Charity are said to have arrived in Red River in 1841, rather than 1844, the second when the American General Douglas MacArthur is said to have belonged to the US Marine Corps, rather than the US Army. Huel is harsh in his judgment of Tache, a man who has often been presented as larger than life by hagiographic ... Text Metis University of Nebraska-Lincoln: DigitalCommons@UNL Canada Charity ENVELOPE(-60.333,-60.333,-62.733,-62.733) |
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Alexandre Tache, one of the very first Canadians to join the French Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who arrived in Canada in 1841, was sent to work in Canada's Northwest in 1845 where he became second bishop of St. Boniface in 1853, and later archbishop. He remained there until his death in 1894, a half-century during which the region was transformed from a vast hunting emporium for furs to a refuge for tens of thousands of Canadian, American, and European settlers brought into the area after 1860 on the rapidly expanding tracks of American and then Canadian railways. Tache built up the Catholic Church of the Northwest to include dozens of missionary stations, infirmaries, hospitals, day schools, and boarding schools, in addition to a college, a mission-supply network, and small newspapers. In the process, he became a leading player in the social and political controversies of the period, including the Red River uprising (1869-70) and Northwest Rebellion( 1884-85) led by Metis leader Louis Riel, and the Manitoba schools question (1890 ff.), political controversies that became national issues in Canada. Raymond Huel has written a thoroughly researched and documented biography of Tache, one that will no doubt become a necessary reference for anyone seeking to understand the man and his times. He emphasizes Tache's vision, his dream of building a new Quebec in the Canadian West, a sister province to the French and Catholic Province of Quebec. While there are no significant new discoveries here, and the text at times is repetitive, the book constitutes good, solid, and thorough reporting. In the mass of factual details that are noted, this reader spotted only two errors, the first when the Sisters of Charity are said to have arrived in Red River in 1841, rather than 1844, the second when the American General Douglas MacArthur is said to have belonged to the US Marine Corps, rather than the US Army. Huel is harsh in his judgment of Tache, a man who has often been presented as larger than life by hagiographic ... |
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