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Remembering 150 Years...
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Literary
Society
A meeting of the High
School Literary Society
Executive takes place in
this 1948 photograph.
From left to right are
Jimmy Brown, Tuck
Morglan, Father Henry
Maloney, C.J. Shannon,
and Bill Bolger.
This photograph, from the
November 30, 1988 edition
of the Renfrew Mercury,
shows the unveiling of a
sign on the site of the
proposed new Catholic high
school. Present for the
ceremony were, in the back
row from left to right, Bill
Winters, Frank Turner,
Doug Burns, Andy Bray,
Michael Laverty, Katherine
Timm, Father Coulas, and
Harold Bolger. In front are
St. Thomas the Apostle
students Jeremy Sauve ,
Andy Brisson, Johnathan
Guest, Michael McLaughlin,
Lenny Victor, Cory Bennett,
Danny Cobus, and Mark
Donohue.
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Announcement
Book
February 2, 1936
“Your prayers are requested
for the repose of the Soul of
the beloved Pastor of this
parish, Rt. Rev. Msgr.
French. Msgr. French’s
body will be removed to the
church tomorrow at 10 a.m.
Any man wishing to join the
Guard of Honour for the night
hours, Monday, please give
name. Msgr. French died
February 1, 1936.”
Entered in the EOSSA “C” group, the team pictured above played with Cobden, St.
Columba’s of Pembroke, and Deep River winning three games and losing an equal
number in the season’s play. They are, front row left to right, Henry Imbleau, Alex
Morin, Jim Letang, Gary Mackin, Terry Ruddy, Brian Ruddy, Vincent Blimkie, and Bill
Inglis. In the back row are Brother Daniel (coach), Mike Culligan, Pat McMahon, Jim
Ruddick, Louis Hebert, Gary Gerritse, Jack Laporte, Paul Tanguay, Gabriel Tanguay,
and Jim McMahon. Absent when the photo was taken were M.J. Blimkie,
T. McManus, Murray McManus, Garry Hickey, and Alex Gavinski.
December 15, 2002
Remembering 150 Years...
1852 St. Francis Xavier Parish 2002
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Two top academic students were honoured during The world-renowned St. Michael’s
graduation exercises at St. Francis Xavier School in Boys’ Choir presented a Christmas
June of 1966. Pictured above are Elaine Windle Concert at St. Francis Xavier on
and Edward Loziuk with Rev. Murray Tardiff, guest November 27, 1995. Pictured
above is the program from that
speaker, and Sister Mary Dorothea, principal.
evening’s presentation.
The Grade 9 class of St.
Francis Xavier Boys’ High
School is pictured on the
front steps of the school in
this 1948 photograph. In the
front from left to right are
Jerome Utronki, Gerry
Lemenchick, Bert Bennett,
Bob Nesbitt, and a gentleman
who remains unidentified. In
the second row, Jim Pulcine,
Paul Reitz, and John Joe
Kedroski. Third row, Gerry
O’Donahue, Norman Hebert,
Bob Kobus, Fr. Maloney, A.
Baderski, Bill Kobus.
P June 1, 1922: Paid to P.J. Daly the sum of $221.27, for two cement posts and
electric lights.
P August 30, 1922: Paid to Mrs. Clifford Williams, the sum of $560.00
representing half the cost of a concrete boundary wall, possibly between two
churches.
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Ottawa Journal
Salutes
St. Francis Xavier
Centennial: 1952
“The common ideal of all these sturdy
pioneers of different nationalities was
to earn a living and practice their
religion in peace. These ideals have
endured in their descendants down
through the century.”
“Sure, history was written in the beautiful old stones themselves. They spoke of the men
who cut and shaped them. It was seen in the work of the woodworkers and craftsmen, the
laborers (sic) and donors of time and money. But history is always being written, and now
it’s your turn to write it.”
Rev. T.J. Raby, in a letter to Msgr. R.M. Clarke, following the 1964 fire that destroyed St. Francis Xavier Church.
Remembering 150 Years... December 29, 2002
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St. Francis Xavier, Patron of Foreign Missions and Apostle of the Indies, was born of noble
descent at the castle of Xavier in Navarre, Spain in 1506. At the age of 18 he went to Paris to study
philosophy and it was at the College of St. Barbara that he met St. Ignatius Loyola four years later.
This association had such an influence upon him that he became one of the first disciples of the
saint.
In 1536 he went to Venice and was there ordained a priest in 1537, becoming among the first to
belong to the new order known as the Society of Jesus, or the Jesuits. He went to Portugal and
from there set sail to India in 1541, landing at Goa. From this city he set out to bring Christianity to
converts in Malabar, Travancor, Malacca, the Moluccas, and Ceylon. In 1549, he became the first
missionary to travel to Japan and was successful at developing a small but enduring Christian
community there. After two years, he returned to India before setting out on a new mission to China.
Twenty-three days after his departure from Malacca he arrived at Sancian. Here, on November
20th, he was siezed by a fever. On Friday, December 2, 1552, St. Francis Xavier took his last
earthly breath. He was forty-six years old.
Three hundred years after his death, a faith community in a small Ottawa Valley town would
choose to identify themselves in honour of his memory. And thus began the story of St. Francis
Xavier Parish.
Rev. R. Murray
Tardiff
Pastor
St. Francis Xavier Church
1987-1998
The staff of St. Thomas the Apostle School pose for this photograph in the spring of
1991. In the back row, from left to right, are Vince Windle, Nancy Gagne, Dick
Hastings, Doug Miller, Pat Watters, Dave Sulpher, Phil Sauve, and Steve Jones. In
the middle are Harold Bolger (principal), Kathy Windle (vice-principal), Bev Moran,
Sandra McGregor, Mary McCann, Nancy Cameron, Liz Cox, Judy Drouillard, Frank
Doyle, and Ken Costello. In the front row are Bertha Towey, Fran Hogue, Marilyn
Leclaire, Lyla Prince, Fran Bennett, Anne Fuisz, Doris Mooney, Helene Kelly, and
Roselle Ducasse.