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Robert Carney is
a professor emeritus in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the
University of Alberta where he served as chair and professor prior to retiring
in 1994.
He was
previously chief superintendent of schools in the Northwest Territories and
deputy minister of the Department of Recreation, Parks and Wildlife, Government
of Alberta. He has strong research interests in northern history,
multicultural education and the history of Canadian education.
Michael Cottrell received a B.A. and M.A. from the National University of Ireland and a
Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan. His published work has focussed on
nineteenth-century Irish immigration to Ontario and he is currently working on
Irish settlement in Saskatchewan. He has taught History at St. Thomas More
College and for the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan and
currently teaches History and Native Studies for the Indian Teacher Education
Program at the University of Saskatchewan.
Duff Crerar completed
his doctorate in history at Queen’s University, and teaches undergraduate
history at Grand Prairie Regional College in Alberta. He earned a M.A. from the
University of Western Ontario, and a Bachelor of Education from Queen's University.
He is author of Padres in No Man's Land: Canadian Military Chaplains and the
Great War which will be released by McGill-Queen's University Press in
early 1995.
Dr. Terence J. Fay is a Jesuit priest who has co-edited Spiritual Roots: The Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto at 150 Years of Age (1991) and was research
director for five and a half years of the Dictionary of Jesuits in Canada
(1991). He is currently the President General of the Canadian Catholic
Historical Association and editor of its Bulletin. He is currently teaching at
the Toronto School of Theology for St. Augustine’s Seminary. He has published
articles and reviews in scholarly journals in Canada, the United States, and
the United Kingdom.
Elizabeth W. McGahan received her Ph.D. from the University of New
Brunswick and is a part-time lecturer at UNB -Saint John. She is the author of The
Port of Saint John, 1867-1927 (Ottawa/Saint John, 1982) and Whispers
from the Past: Selections from the writings of New Brunswick women (Fredericton:
Goose Lane Editions, 1986). Dr. McGahan is currently the President of the
Canadian Association for Irish Studies.
Sister Mary Olga
McKenna is professor emeritus, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia. Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, she attended Kensington
High School and the Prince of Wales College and Normal School in
Charlottetown. She holds a B. A. degree from Mount Saint Vincent, Master of
Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Boston College, and an Associateship
in Education from the University of London’s Institute of Education. She was
awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Prince Edward
Island in 1990.
Sister Mary Olga has been a professed
member of the Sisters of Charity, Halifax since 1939. She taught in parochial
and public schools in the United States and Canada before she joined the
faculty of Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax where she taught history
and philosophy of education for twenty-two years. She is currently a member of
several national and international associations including the American History
of Women Religious Conference, the Canadian Catholic Historical Association
and the Canadian Society for the Study of Education.
Since retiring from teaching in 1986, Sister
Olga has been engaged in full-time research. A biography entitled Micmac By Choice: Elsie
Sark - an Island Legend was published in 1990. She was Guest Editor of the
1993 Spring Edition of the University of Prince Edward Island's journal Abegweit
Review on “The Mi’ Kmaq.” Presently, she is writing the history of the
Sisters of Charity through three decades of great social change in the
world-at-large and in the church following Vatican II. The completed project
“Women Witnessing to Love: the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul,
Halifax, 1950-1980” will be an up-date of the congregation’s history authored
by Sister Maura Power and published by the Ryerson Press in 1956.
Vincent J. McNally is currently
associate professor of historical studies at the Sacred Heart School of
Theology in Hales Corner, Wisconsin. He completed a Ph.D. in church history at
the University of Dublin, Trinity College. McNally has published articles in
the Canadian Catholic Historical Association Historical Studies, Journal of
Church and State, Catholic Historical Review and Journal of the
Canadian Church Historical Society. His work on Archbishop Troy is
available in the book entitled, Reform, Revolution and Reaction: Archbishop
John Thomas Troy and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1787-1817 (Lanham,
Maryland: University Press of America, 1995). McNally is now researching a
history of the Oblates in western Canada in the nineteenth century.
Alexander Reford has
been Dean of Men at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto since
1987. A graduate of the University of Toronto and of Oxford University, he is
completing his doctoral thesis on the history of St. Michael’s College. He has
published several biographies in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
Volume XII, 1901-1910.
Margaret F. Sanche is archivist/historian of St. Thomas More College (STM) at the University of Saskatchewan and director of the Anglin Collection of Canadian Catholic Church History. She is the author of Heartwood: A History of St. Thomas More College and Newman Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, published in 1986. She completed her M.A. in history at the University of Saskatchewan in 1989 with her thesis, “Tree of Eden, Tower of Babel: The Controversy over the Establishment of St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan 1913-1936.” She currently serves as archivist of the Diocese of Saskatoon and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, St. Mary’s Province, in addition to her work at STM.