July 13, 2007:
Thanks to Anne Burgess for the following:

The following document contains a lot of social and Catholic history of Bytown in the 1840's and 1850's.

Source: CCHA, Report, 15 (1947-1948), 61-69
Online Source: www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha/Back%20Issues/CCHA1947-48/O'Reilly.htm

The College of Bytown 1848 - 1856

by JOHN B. O'REILLY, M.A.

Read by the Rev. Francis Corkery


Photo Source: Planted By Flowing Water, The Diocese of Ottawa, 1847-1997


       In this year of Grace, 1948. the Pontifical University of Ottawa 
commemorates with befitting solemnity the first centenary of its history. In 
the retrospect of one hundred years no one can fail to realize that this 
seat of learning has contributed generously and wisely to the religions, 
cultural, and scientific development of two nations, Canada and the United 
States. Founded amid poverty and turmoil in 1848, the year of the Great 
Revolutions, St. Joseph's College, Bytown, grew under the guiding hand of the 
founding fathers and their successors into Ottawa College with the rank of a 
civil university. The immortal Pope Leo XIII gave to the institution the 
greatest honor within his power, a pontifical charter which empowered the 
university to confer in the name of the Holy See academic degrees in every 
branch of Sacred Sciences. The history of the Pontifical University of 
Ottawa may be divided Into four periods; the First College of Bytown 1848 to 
1853; the Second College of Bytown 1853 to 1856; Ottawa College and the 
Pontifical University of Ottawa 1856 to the disastrous fire, December 2, 
1903; Rebuilding and Expansion, 1904 to 1948. The title of this paper is the 
College of Bytown, 1848 to 1856. During this period the college occupied two 
buildings situated in Lower Town. Each of these buildings has its own 
particular history which is told in detail here for the first time. The 
second part of the story will be told at another time and in another place.

       No Canadian bishop has left greater mark on the history of the entire 
Catholic Church than Msgr. Ignace Bourget of Montreal.
 
April 17, 2010: (map showing the dioceses and archdioceses added)

Photo Source: http://www.grandquebec.com/gens-du-pays/mgr-ignace-bourget/
Monseigneur Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal

                                            

With a Pauline solicitude for the welfare of all the churches he begged his friend 
Msgr. Patrick Phelan, Co-adjutor Bishop of Kingston,

Photo Source: Built on a Rock, by Louis J. Flynn, page 33.


  
to confide the care of the parish of Bytown and its missions to the Oblate Fathers. 
With unlimited confidence in the Providence of God, he foretold that with the zeal and 
sacrifice of these heroic missionaries, Catholic institutions would soon 
arise in a rapidly expanding Bytown, churches and schools, a hospital and an 
orphanage and, most significant of all, a college, made possible in a few 
years time, with aid from France. Here is the first mention of the College 
of Bytown. It can be read in Msgr. Bourget's letter to Bishop Phelan, 
December 29, 1843. The date is significant for Father Pierre-Adrien Telmon, 
the first Oblate of Bytown, did not reach the future capital of Canada until 
January 25, 1844. No one will question Msgr. Bourget's judgment that Bytown, 
situated in a central position between the two Canadas was an ideal location 
for a college. It had been said earlier in the editorial comment of the 
Bytown Gazette, January 16, 1840, when it expressed surprise that the new 
Scotch College, now Queen's University, should be placed in Kingston. "Being 
designed for the accommodation of both provinces," wrote the editor of the 
Bytown Gazette with reasonable logic, "this institution, (Queen's 
University) ought to have been placed in as central position as possible; so 
why not Bytown? In the Constitution of the Kirk there is already a 
sufficient spice of Republicanism, so why not place the seat of learning for 
educating her future ministers as remote as possible from the contagion of 
Democratic principles?"

       The building of a Catholic college for the education of priests and 
laymen was a greatly different matter. Judged by worldly standards Msgr. 
Bourget's foresight was sheer folly. In the roaring forties, Bytown was a 
rambling military and lumber center into which hundreds of young men, French 
Canadians and Irish immigrants, flocked, annually seeking employment in the 
lumber camps. More often than not they waited for months before finding 
work. This enforced idleness led to dissipation. Brawls, street fights, and 
bloodshed were of such frequent occurrence that for the law-abiding citizens 
with an Old Testament turn of mind, Bytown. and Babylon were synonymous. The 
feud between the Irish and French Catholics was so bitter that even the very 
stones cried out. The construction of the new parish church, now the 
Basilica (Cathedral) of Ottawa, was halted and nothing could be done until peace was 
restored months later. This building was designed and founded by the pastor 
of Bytown, Father John Francis Cannon, a member of a great Quebec family 
whose distinguished sons have adorned the Canadian priesthood and judiciary. 
He was the grandson of an Irish settler, Edward Cannon, the architect and 
builder of the Anglican Cathedral, Quebec. The corner stone of the Bytown 
parish church was placed by Msgr. Charles-Auguste-Maire-Joseph, Comte de 
Forbin-Janson, Bishop of Nancy and Toul, October 25, 1841. When a year and a 
day had passed, Father Cannon had resigned, in despair, to take up a more 
congenial charge, the chaplaincy of Kingston penitentiary. His successor, 
Father Patrick Phelan, priest of St. Sulpice and Vicar-general of the 
diocese of Kingston, was installed October 26, 1842. Father Phelan was, like 
Father Cannon, an experienced bilingual pastor. He was the founder of the 
historic parish of St. Columban, in the rugged Laurentians, in whose 
hospitable rectory, presided over at this date by Father John Falvey, three 
bishops, Msgr. Bourget, Msgr. Prince, Co-adjutor Bishop of Montreal and 
later first Bishop of St. Hyacinthe, and Msgr. Guignes, first Bishop of 
Ottawa, planned the expansion of the church in Canada and mastered the 
English language.

       When Father Phelan arrived in Bytown his parish numbered 2,362 souls. 
Six years later, when the college of Bytown was opened the Catholic 
population was considerably more than double that. With the aid of his two 
assistants, Fathers Benoni-Joseph Leclaire and Hyppolite Moreau, Father 
Phelan restored peace and order. It was not his lot to do more for his 
impoverished and illiterate parishioners. Nominated on February 20, 1843, by 
Pope Gregory XVI, titular bishop of Carrha and co-adjutor to Msgr. Gaulin, 
Bishop of Kingston, who was mentally incapacitated, Msgr. Phelan was 
consecrated in the Cathedral of Montreal, August 20, 1843, by Msgr. Bourget, 
assisted by Msgr. Pierre-Flavien Turgeon, Coadjutor Bishop of Quebec and 
Msgr. Michael Power, Bishop of Toronto. His first episcopal duty was to 
provide a successor in Bytown. Msgr. Bourget, who was responsible for his 
promotion, prepared the way. He wrote to Msgr. Charles-Joseph-Eugene de 
Mazenod, Bishop of Marseilles and founder of the Oblates of Mary-Immaculate 
and to Father Jean-Baptiste Honorat, Superior of the Oblates in Canada and 
he obtained from both the permission to establish the order in Bytown. In 
spite of this, Bishop Phelan hesitated to give his final decision, None of 
the Oblates in Canada were of Irish birth; none of them knew English except 
Father Damase Dandurand, the first Canadian vocation to the Oblates of Mary 
Immaculate, who died April 21, 1921, at the age of 103, the oldest priest in 
the entire Catholic world. Life in Bytown and the missions among the 
lumberjacks and the Indians required priests of apostolic fortitude. 
Speaking with the vision of a prophet and with the wisdom of a saint, Msgr. 
Bourget won the consent of his confrere and in this he was not mistaken. 
Bishop Phelan had at last made up his mind to confide the care of the church 
in the Ottawa Valley to the Oblate Fathers.

       On January 14, 1844, Msgr. Phelan wrote to Father Jean Baptiste 
Honorat, Superior of the Oblates in Canada to complete the arrangements for 
the reception and installation of Father Pierre-Adrien Telmon, O.M.L, the 
first Oblate to be sent to Bytown. He informed the Superior that he would be 
at L'Orignal for the Forty Hours which opened January 22, and he expressed 
the hope, if it were at all possible, that Father Telmon should join him 
there. In the rectory of L'Orignal Msgr. Phelan greeted his successor in the 
parish of Bytown with a warm and a cordial welcome. With the closing of 
Forty Hours they set out at once for Plantagenet, then a troubled centre, 
"pour remettre les choses qui ne vont pas bien," and arrived in Bytown in 
mid-winter, January 25, 1844. Msgr. Phelan remained with Father Telmon for 
several days before setting out for Kingston. In the quiet of the parish 
house they discussed parochial problems, the need of schools and the 
pitfalls of the Bytown ministry. Naturally, Father Telmon needed assistants 
in a parish of 3000 souls until such time as the Oblate Fathers could take 
complete charge. Two priests were at hand, Father Michael Byrne, who had 
been Bishop Phelan's curate since November 13, 1843, and Father Patrick 
McEvoy who was ordained by Bishop Phelan, February 11, 1844, a few days 
after Father Telmon's arrival. This was probably Bishop Phelan's first 
ordination; it was certainly the first sacerdotal ordination in Ottawa.

       If one should to-day seek a monument in our Nation's Capital reared 
to the memory of Father Pierre-Adrien Telmon, O.M.I., he will find it, not 
in bronze, but in flourishing ecclesiastical institutions. In a brief but 
exhausting pastorate of four years, he accomplished, where others failed, 
the distinctive tasks of his ministry, leaving an indelible mark on the 
character of the church in Ottawa. His trials were many; his consolations 
were few. With the arrival of a second Oblate father in Bytown, Damage 
Dandurand, May 10, 1844, Bishop Phelan transferred the two Irish curates to 
other missions in his far flung diocese of Kingston. Racial discord flared 
up at once. Bishop Phelan took a strong stand and he confirmed the 
appointment of the Oblate Fathers with canonical sanction, June 22, 1844. 
Peace was not restored until September 16, 1845, when Father Michael Malloy, 
the first Irish Oblate to come to Canada, arrived at last in this turbulent 
centre. The grey stone walls of the unfinished parish church stood as a 
perennial reminder of the indifference and poverty of Bytown Catholics. 
There was an urgent need for its completion, but as Father Telmon explained 
in his letter of October 20, 1844 to Mother Elizabeth Forbes McMullan, 
superior of the Grey Nuns of Montreal and grand-aunt of the late Archbishop 
Forbes of Ottawa, there was a more critical priority. There were no schools 
in the parish for French-Canadian children; the Irish had two or three, 
which in the judgment of. the parents and the pastor were most 
unsatisfactory. In response to the requests of Father Telmon, and with the 
co-operation of Bishop Phelan and Bishop Bourget, the Grey Nuns came to 
Bytown February 20, 1845 to open a bilingual school for girls. Failing to 
obtain the Christian Brothers, Father Telmon wrote to Msgr. de Mazenod 
asking him to send a competent Oblate brother to teach the boys. He had 
reached the conviction that the only way to have a college was for the 
Oblate Fathers to conduct it themselves. In the past few years classical 
colleges had been opened in Chambly, L'Assomption, St. Therese and Kingston, 
so why not in Bytown? The objection raised in certain quarters that this was 
not the work of the Oblate Fathers was quickly scotched by the founder, 
Msgr. de Mazenod, when he insisted that his community must undertake every 
project which promotes the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

       In the autumn of 1847, on a day early in October, Father Telmon 
received at his new rectory, 365 Sussex Street, which still stands close by 
the south east corner of Sussex and St. Andrew Streets, a message of 
historic moment. It came as a joy as he looked out toward Nepean Point with 
the empty fever sheds and the temporary hospital built under his direction 
by an Oblate brother, which had housed the Irish immigrants stricken by 
typhus in the amazing summer of forty-seven. On June 25, 1847, Pope Pius IX 
created out of extensive mission territory the new diocese of Bytown; on 
July 9, the same year, he nominated the first Bishop, Msgr. 
Joseph-Eugene-Bruno Guiges, who still retained his office of Superior of 
the Oblates in Canada. 

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Msgr. Bruno Guigues






With this appointment the building of the college was 
assured. Msgr. Guignes was consecrated in Bytown, July 30, 1848 by Msgr. 
Gaulin, whose health was temporarily restored, assisted by Bishops Bourget 
and Phelan. The scene of the ceremony was the parish church which had been 
opened and dedicated almost two years previously on the Feast of the 
Assumption, August 15, 1846. White from the mason's hand it was the 
architectural creation of Bishop Phelan and Father Telmon, who wisely 
abandoned Father Cannon's plans for he had inherited no talent in this field 
from his distinguished grandfather. At three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, 
July 30, 1848, the day of his consecration, Bishop Guignes took possession 
of his diocese, making the parish church his Cathedral. Two days later he 
issued his first pastoral in which he announced the appointment of Father 
Damase Dandurand, O.M.L, as his Vicar General and pastor of Bytown. With the 
departure of Father Telmon for the mission fields of Pittsburg and Texas, 
Map. Guignes hastened to construct the College of Bytown, foretold by Msgr. 
Bourget and planned by Father Telmon.

       Msrg. Guignes came from Longneufl to his episcopal city with one 
fixed idea - to build as expeditiously as possible a classical college for 
the boys of Bytown. From Father Telmon's letters he was gravely aware of 
this imperative need and of the handicaps under which it would be built. 
Nevertheless he had made up his mind. As Bishop of Bytown it was his first 
responsibility; as superior of the Oblates in Canada he could provide a 
teaching staff. Before leaving Saint Columban he wrote to Bishop Bourget to 
say that he had learned from Father Telmon that it was impossible to rent a 
suitable building in Bytown and that with the loan of $200 and lumber 
donated by the local dealers it would be possible to build a college similar 
to that at L'Assomption. He asked the resourceful Bishop of Montreal to find 
someone to advance the money. Three days after his consecration Msgr. 
Guigues wrote again to Bishop Bourget asking him to send the college rules 
followed at L'Assomption and Joliette. This letter had scarcely reached 
Montreal when the first sod was turned on August 10, 1848. The site faced 
Church Street,, now Guignes Avenue. It was the land occupied to-day by the 
sacristy of the Basilica of Ottawa. Eight days later the Bishop published 
the prospectus, of the College of Bytown in English in The Packet, August 
18, 1848. In it he admonished the parents of prospective boarders to enroll 
their sons at once, "lest they should not be admitted for want of room. "All 
communications to be made (post-paid)" so runs the prospectus, "to the 
Reverend Mr. Dandurand, priest O.M.I. or to any other priest at the 
Cathedral. The college will be opened on the 27th of September next." The 
work of the building, supervised by Father Dandurand, was rushed at top 
speed. By the opening date set by the Bishop the class rooms were ready. 
Early in October it was finished and the boarders went into residence; only 
two months had passed since the turning of the first sod.

       In the early morning, Wednesday, September 27, 1848, Msgr. Guignes in 
the presence of the staff, the students and their parents inaugurated the 
College of Bytown. The structure, eighty feet long, about twenty feet from 
the ground to the eaves, and approximately thirty feet wide presented a 
pleasant appearance. The first two floors, with their symmetrical windows, 
were uniform in style. The third floor, covered by a slanting roof with 
French dormer windows removed every vestige of a crude box-like style. The 
front door into which had been cut an aperture or a Judas was protected by a 
porch. A graceful steeple enhanced the character of the building. While 
nearly all the wood used in the construction was donated by the local lumber 
yards the entire costs were $250; foundation, building materials and wages, 
$200; painting and furniture, $25; steeple and iron work, $25. Having 
blessed the college, Msgr. Guignes celebrated the votive Mass in honor of 
St. Joseph, the Patron Saint of the college and the Patron Saint of Canada. 
In conformity to the wishes of Msgr. de Mazenod a statue of the Saint was 
set in a place of honor within the house. Before it Msgr. Guignes lit a lamp 
which, like the historical lamp of Mlle de Repentigny in the Ursuline 
Monastery, Quebec, has never been extinguished.

       From the prospectus of the College of Bytown it is easy to 
reconstruct the daily life of this institution a century ago. "The regular 
course of instruction" wrote the bishop, "will embrace what is generally 
taught in other Colleges. Besides Latin and other classical studies, 
Book-keeping will form an essential part of this course. The study of the 
English and French Languages, which are indispensably necessary in all 
localities where these two Languages are equally spoken, will be likewise 
peculiarly insisted upon. To the College will be added an Elementary School 
for Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Drawing, Geography, etc. The terms for 
Boarding are very economical. Three times during the day, one half hour will 
be allowed to the Students for taking their meals in respectable houses 
chosen ad hoc, and designated to the Parents, who may therein treat their 
Children according to their own desire. The rest of the time will he spent 
in the College precints. The terms for Boarding at the College will be Four 
Pounds, payable yearly in advance. The Externes will pay Two Shillings and 
Six Pence per month. The Meals and Washing will be provided by the Parents, 
who, moreover, will furnish the Bed and Bedding; also, a Trunk, with lock 
and key." The Bishop's prospectus was a model of brevity combining a clarity 
of style with an abundance of capital letters. It closed on a modern note, 
announcing the opening of an "Evening and night school" in which "Besides 
Reading and Writing, will be taught English and French Grammar, Geography, 
Agriculture, Linear and Wash-drawing. This school to be open from six to 
nine, P.M." This evening and night school was conducted by two Oblate 
brothers, Louis Roux and Cyprien Triolle, who taught during the day in the 
new parish elementary school for boys. Among their youngest pupils was John 
Thomas Duhamel, who was destined to succeed Msgr. Guignes in the See of 
Ottawa. Fifty-five students, of whom fifteen were boarders, were enrolled in 
the College.

       When Msgr. Guignes published the prospectus of the College of Bytown, 
he announced that the frame building under construction was but "a temporary 
step towards the erection of a fixed and permanent stone building." It was 
used for five years, from September 1848 to September 1853. A list -of 
superiors and of the members of the teaching staff of the first college of 
Bytown is conserved in the Archives of the Pontifical University of 
Ottawa. The names are few in number but each one has a place of 
distinction in the annals of the Archdiocese of Ottawa or in that broader 
theatre of life, the Congregation of the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate. 
With the exception of the two Fathers Mignault, who were Canadians, the 
staff members were born in France or in Ireland. Three superiors, not four, 
presided over the destiny of the first college. Father Jean-Francois Allard, 
O.M.L, later a missionary bishop in South Africa, was never a superior, 
although his name has been erroneously included in the list. Father 
Charles-Edouard Chevalier, O.M.I., was the first superior, holding the 
office for one year from 1848 to 1849. When he was sent to open an Oblate 
mission in Buffalo, he was replaced by Father Napoleon Mignault, O.ML, who 
was superior for two years, from 1849 to 1851. Having taught Latin as an 
Oblate scholastic during the first year of the College's existence, he was a 
deacon and slot a priest when he was made superior. He was ordained in 
Bytown by Msgr. Guignes, a few weeks later, fn October, 1849. His brother, 
Arthur Mignault, a seminarian for the diocese of Bytown, taught French in 
the college from 1848 to 1851. Father Augustin Gaudet, an experienced Oblate 
missionary, served as the third and last superior in the first college 
building, from 1851 `to 1853.

       Through the pages of Father Henri Morisseau's published and 
unpublished biographical sketches of the teaching staff of the first college 
of Bytown one learns that Brother Claude-Amàble Tisserand, O.M.I., taught 
belles-lettres, and Patrick McGoey, English, from 1848 to 1849. Father 
McGoey, born in County Armagh, the primatial See of Ireland, March 2, 1817, was 
ordained for the diocese of Bytown, May 6, 1849, and he was appointed pastor 
of Plantagenet, June 10, the samè year. Three more priests of Irish 
ancestry, Thomas O'Boyle, O.M.L, William Corbett, O.M.I. and Joseph John 
Collins, a member of the diocesan clergy, taught in the first college. 
Father O'Boyle, born in the archdiocese of Tuam, County Mayo, Ireland, April 
20, 1820, was for six years the pastor of South Gloucester, including the 
mission of Dawson, to-day Osgoode. When Msgr. Guigues erected Dawson into a 
separate parish, October, 1860, he appointed as the first pastor Father O'Boyle 
who served until his death six years later. The epitaph on his monument is 
the parish cemetery at Osgoode records the fact that he died January 7, 
1866, at the age of forty-six, remembered by his parishioners as the "Father 
of the Poor and Needy." Father Joseph John Collins, born in Edinburgh, 
Scotland, March 14, 1824, came to Canada as a seminarian for the diocese of 
Bytown where he taught in the College from September 1849 to June 1850. 
Following his ordination, June 23, 1854, he was appointed the first resident 
pastor of Saint Eugene, in East Hawkesbury township, which he left in 1864, 
to establish the parish at Pakenham. His successor was the young Abbe Joseph 
Thomas Dubamel who became his bishop ten years later. In December, 1866, 
Father Collins was appointed the third pastor of Saint Patrick's Parish, 
Ottawa, where he built the present church which bears little resemblance to 
the original plans designed by Messrs. Stent and Laver, the architects of 
the first Dominion Parliament buildings. This parish was erected in 1855 by 
Msgr. Guignes, who, through the influence of the first pastor, the Very 
Reverend Aeneas McDonnell Dawson, LL.D. (Queens) Litt. D. (Laval), F.R.S.C., 
dedicated it to St. Andrew, but somewhere in the turmoil of Bytown, the 
Patron Saint of Scotland was forced to cede to honor the Patron Saint of 
Ireland. Father William Corbett, O.M.I., born in Cork, Ireland, December 26, 
1826, was ordained a priest in Bytown, March 25, 1850, at the age of 
twenty-four. This, brilliant young missionary taught Greek in the College 
for two years, from 1850 to 1852. Reduced by over work to the condition of 
an invalid, as was more than one of his predecessors, he died at the Indian 
Mission at Maniwaki, September 1, 1861. His name is the first in the Oblate 
Necrology for North America. In 1849, Father Augustin Burnet, O.M.I., a 
missionary of uncommon gifts, joined the staff. He had learned English with 
Msgr. Guigues in Father John Falvey's rectory at St. Columban. He was a 
brilliant preacher and a born teacher who, in the words of Father Henri 
Morisseau, O.M.I., taught the teachers of Bytown, Oblates and Grey Nuns, how 
to teach, the precursor of a normal school.

       Shortly after his arrival in Bytown, Father Pierre-Adrien Telmon, 
O.M.I., moved from the house occupied by his predecessor, Bishop Phelan; 
into a new rectory, 414 Sussex Street, approximately where No. 6 Temporary 
Building now stands. When this proved inadequate, he rented on August 7, 
1847, for three years, a substantial stone bouse, 365 Sussex Street, close 
by the south east corner of Sussex Street and St. Andrew Street. Here one 
comes face to face with the most historic building in the Archdiocese of 
Ottawa. The house, which still stands, was the first Bishop's House. It was 
the first Oblate Scholasticate and the first Diocesean Seminary where Father 
Damase Dandurand, O.M.L, was the first professor of philosophy and theology. 
It was the first residence of the professors of Bytown College and the 
centre and headquarters of the Oblate missionaries working in the lumber 
camps and the Indian settlements along the vast stretches of the Ottawa and 
the Gatineau Rivers. On May 1, 1850, some weeks before the lease expired, 
Msgr. Guigues moved into his new house, a small and humble structure, built 
beside the Cathedral, on Saint Patrick Street at Sussex Street with the 
entrance, like that of the Cathedral, facing Sussex St. By the early summer 
of 1852, his beloved College had reached a turning point in its history. 
Under the Providence of God it had taken root and grown amid poverty and 
hardships. By an Act of Parliament, May 30, 1849, it was incorporated as the 
College of Bytown, the same day, that, by another Act of Parliament, the 
name of the University of King's College, Toronto, was changed to the 
University of Toronto. After four years the first college building, which 
had been built largely with green elm, was cold and drafty. The grounds were 
extremely small and the site was needed for the enlargment of the Cathedral. 
True to his promise to build in stone when the opportune time had come, 
Msgr. Guignes bought from the owner, Hugh Fraser, who had inherited the 
property from his father, Thomas Fraser, the historic stone house at 365 
Sussex Street and the vacant land beside it at the north east corner of 
Sussex and Church (now Guigues) Streets, as a site for a permanent college. 
The building operations commenced at once, - it was the summer of 1852. By 
September, 1853, when the work was finished, the desks and furniture were 
moved from the temporary building. The historic house, 365 Sussex Street, 
served as an annex to the new stone structure. The first and only superior 
of this college was Father Tabaret. (Tabaret Hall at the University of Ottawa).
 
Portrait Photo Source: Library and Archives, Canada,                                    Building Photo Source: Ottawa: An Illustrated History, page 155
        William Topley Collection

      
His assistant was Father Alexandre Soulerin. The names of the staff are lost. In September, 
1856, Msgr. Guignes transferred the College to a new site on Sandy Hill, 
where the present Pontifical University of Ottawa now stands.


June 14, 2010:

St. Joseph's Church, Sandy Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
founded in 1857
Photo Source: Planted By Flowing Water, The Diocese of Ottawa, 1847-1997, page 63

  

Jim McKenna has sent along the web page for the records available at the Church of Latter Day Saints for St. Joseph's Church.

The web page is at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=334460&disp=Parish++registers++.


 January 1, 2011: Happy New Year!

Added photo of Tabaret Hall in 1903 to the picture of Father Tabaret (above).

 
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