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 Catholic Missions In Canada
E-Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 8: August 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| Greetings!
Father Burke's focus: The missions in Canada
BY FATHER PHILIP J. KENNEDY
Catholic Missions In Canada's co-founder worked with Archbishop Fergus McEvay to raise funds to help the newest settlements of Catholics and Ukrainian Catholics, so that they could keep the faith alive and growing as their settlements grew.
An authority in bee-keeping? An expert in Canadian forestry? An organizer for Catholic family insurance? An executive of a fruit growers' association? Yes, the co-founder of the Catholic Church Extension Society of Canada, Father Alfred Burke, was all these things, and more. In his native Prince Edward Island, in the early 1900s, Fr. Burke was well known as an abstainer from alcohol, and leader of the Temperance Society. His long-term campaign to dig a tunnel to the Island from New Brunswick gave him the nickname "Tunnel Burke." Read more...
Faithfully yours,
(Rev.) Philip Kennedy
President
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