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Reardon, Vincent F.
Persona · 1841-1920

Vincent F. Reardon (1841-1920), Catholic priest, was born at St. John's, Newfoundland, on 23 October 1841, the son of Jane (Kennedy) and Denis Reardon. He died at Placentia on 24 December 1920 and is buried in Belvedere Cemetery, St. John's.

Reardon completed his primary and elementary education at St. Patrick's Hall School, and his high school education at St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's (1856-60). He studied for the priesthood at All Hallows College, Dublin, (1866-72). Reardon was ordained a priest in St. Joseph's Chapel, Presentation Convent, Cathedral Square, St. John's, on 15 September 1872, by Thomas Joseph Power, Bishop of St. John's.

Rev. Reardon was initially appointed curate in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Parish, where he served for one year (1872-73). Between 1873 and and 1897 he was stationed as parish priest in several parishes: Sacred Heart Parish, St. Bernard's, Fortune Bay (1873-1877); St. Joseph's Parish, Harbour Breton (1877-1878); St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, St. Lawrence (1878-83); St. Patrick's Parish, Burin (1883-88); and Assumption Parish, St. Mary's, St. Mary's Bay (1888-97).

On 8 August 1897 Rev. Reardon became the parish priest of Sacred Heart Parish, Placentia, where he resided until his death in 1920. When peace was proclaimed at the end of World War I, Rev. Reardon became chair of a committee that undertook to raise the first memorial to those who were killed in the war. The monument, located near the front doors of the parish church at Placentia, was unveiled and blessed by Archbishop Edward Patrick Roche in June 1920.

Rev. Reardon was named a Domestic Prelate by Pope Leo XIII in 1902.

Bélanger, Alexis
Persona · 1808-1868

Alexis Bélanger (1808-1868), Catholic priest, was born at Saint Roch des Aulnaies, Québec, on 18 January 1808, the son of Marie Talbot and Pierre Bélanger. He was educated at the College de Sainte Anne de la Pocatierre and the Grande Seminaire de Québec. Bélanger was ordained a priest in 1835 by Joseph Signay, Bishop of Québec.

From 1835 to 1839, Rev. Bélanger served as an assistant priest in the parish of Sainte-Marie de Beauce, Québec. In that year, he was sent by his bishop as a missionary to the Roman Catholic population on the Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Gulf of St. Lawrence. During the 1840s, he traveled throughout the Gulf of St. Lawrence region, spending winters at Rustico, Prince Edward Island, Caraquet, New Brunswick, and as far north as Blanc Sablon on the Labrador Coast.

In 1850, Rev. Bélanger was sent by the Bishop of Québec to minister to the French population along the west coast of Newfoundland. Most likely, this appointment was requested by John Thomas Mullock, Bishop of St. John's, who had been endeavoring for a number of years to have a Francophone priest minister to the inhabitants of that region of Newfoundland. Bishop Mullock appointed Rev. Bélanger as his vicar general for the district, with his residence at Sandy Point, St. George's Bay.

In the community, Rev. Bélanger also acted as a doctor, dentist, carpenter, teacher, farmer, and logger. During his residency in St. George's Bay, he helped build the first church at Sandy Point, under the patronage of the Immaculate Conception, on a site staked out by Bishop Mullock during his visit to the area in 1848. The wooden church, measuring 13.7 m by 6.7 m (45 ft. by 22 ft.) was replaced by a much larger one in the 1870s. In 1904, it became the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, headquarters of the newly created Diocese of St. George's.

In addition to Sandy Point and the surrounding area, Rev. Bélanger's parish included the coastline of western Newfoundland and the Bay of Islands area. After 1854, he also began regular visits to the Codroy Valley area to minister to the Roman Catholic population there. Rev. Bélanger died at Sandy Point on 7 September 1868. In accordance with his wishes, his remains were embalmed and returned to his home town and were buried under the parish church at Saint Roch des Aulnaies on 29 September 1868.

Peacock, Kenneth
Persona · 1922-2000

Kenneth Peacock (1922-2000) was born in Toronto and educated for a music career. By age 15 he had become an associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music and in 1941 he enrolled at the University of Toronto's School of Music, completing a B.A. in 1943. He studied English and Philosophy and musical composition from 1944-1950 and embarked on a career as a composer-performer. In 1949, Peacock accepted the invitation of a former School of Music classmate, Margaret Sargent (McTaggart) to come to the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of Civilization) where she worked, to hear the recordings of native music made in 1916 by folklorist Marius Barbeau. Peacock became fascinated with the music and created a series of compositions based on Barbeau's recordings.

In 1951 Peacock went to work for the Museum and took over its Newfoundland folksong research project started by Sargent the year before. In 1953, the Museum offered him a position as their musicologist, to transcribe the music from their previous collections and to undertake further collecting on their behalf. He left the Museum in 1954 and began to use some of his research in CBC radio broadcasts, folksong publications and commercial recordings in collaboration with Alan Mills and other Canadian folksong professionals. In 1962, Peacock returned to the Museum of Canada to undertake its first ethnic music survey.

By 1971, when he retired, the newly established Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies had amassed an impressive collection of Canadian folk music from almost 50 ethnic groups. Throughout the course of his career, he worked with Tom Kines, Edith Fowke, Helen Creighton, who hired him to transcribe most of her Nova Scotia collection, and Robert Klymasz whose major works on Ukrainian folksongs Peacock transcribed. In 1984 he was awarded the Order of Canada in recognition of his life's work in documenting this country's folk music.

Pinsent, Sir Robert John
Persona · 1834-1893

Robert John Pinsent (1834-1893), lawyer, politician, Supreme Court Justice, orator, was born 27 July 1834 at Port de Grave, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, son of Louisa (Broom) and Robert J. Pinsent, a magistrate and judge. Pinsent was married twice, first to Anna Brown Cooke, and then after her death to Emily H.S. Homfray. He died on 28 April 1893 in St. John's.

Pinsent received his education at the Harbour Grace Grammar School. He articled at the law firm of Bryan Robinson, St. John's, commencing in 1850. He was called to the bar in 1856. During his legal career, Pinsent established a reputation as a trial lawyer. Pinsent was appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1865.

In 1859 Pinsent was appointed to the Legislative Council, resigning in 1865 to successfully seek election to the Newfoundland House of Assembly as the member for Brigus-Port de Grave. Initially a supporter of confederation with Canada, he was defeated in the election of 1869. However, Pinsent altered his position several times on the issue of confederation. He was reappointed to the Legislative Council (1869) and served briefly as the leader of the anti-confederates in the upper house. In 1873, he severed his connections with the anti-confederates, and retired from politics in 1878.

Pinsent was appointed Supreme Court Justice and presided over the Circuit at Harbour Grace (1880-93). During this time he administered several northern and southern circuits in outport regions, as well as a variety of sessions around Newfoundland. In 1891 Pinsent headed a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Claims by Inhabitants of St. George's for Losses in Their Herring Fisheries, occasioned by their allegations of interference by French fishermen.

Pinsent promoted agriculture as a secondary industry in Newfoundland and developed his own farm on the Salmonier River. An accomplished speaker and orator, he supported the Young Men's Literary and Scientific Institute (and its successor, the Athenaeum in St. John's), serving as President and Vice-President for many years. He was a member of three Church of England synod executives and a Fellow in the Royal Colonial Institute. He was knighted in 1890.

O'Keefe, Edward
Persona · c.1815-1871

Edward O'Keefe (c.1815-1871), Catholic priest, was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, circa 1815. He died in the parochial residence at Brigus on 28 February 1871.

O'Keefe was ordained a priest at Waterford, Ireland, in 1836. He was invited by Michael Anthony Fleming, Vicar Apostolic, to serve in the Vicariate of Newfoundland and arrived in St. John's in 1839. He signed the Foundation Document for the new Cathedral in St. John's on 20 May 1841.

Rev. O'Keefe was the parish priest of St. Peter and St. Paul Parish, Harbour Main (1849-56), and the second parish priest of St. Patrick's Parish, Brigus, succeeding Dean Mackin (1857-71). While administering that parish he built and officially opened a convent for the Sisters of Mercy at Brigus in 1861. Rev. O'Keefe was elected the Administrator of the Diocese of St. John's in 1869, following the death of Thomas John Mullock. In addition to his pastoral duties he was also a member of the Roman Catholic School Board for the district.

Nevitt, Joyce
Persona · 1918-1998

Joyce Nevitt (1918-1998), nurse, educator, and writer, was born in Cranbrook, Kent, England on 18 November 1918. Nevitt spent her early years in Jamaica, but returned to England where she studied nursing at Fulham Hospital, London, and worked as a nurse at London's Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital.

Nevitt emigrated to Canada in June 1946 and completed a degree in nursing at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. She also studied public health nursing at the University of Toronto. Nevitt worked in a variety of teaching and administrative nursing positions in Ontario during the period 1949-62, including Toronto Western Hospital (1949-51), Victorian Order of Nurses (Toronto, 1951) and Georgetown Department of Health. She established a rural public health service in Tarantorous, Ontario (1957) and taught public health nursing at the University of Western Ontario (1958-62). In 1962, she enrolled at Columbia University, New York, and completed a master's degree in nursing education. Newitt also began studies toward a PhD in nursing, but before completion she returned to teaching. She taught public health nursing at Wayne State University in Detroit (1963-65), becoming assistant head of the department.

In 1965 Joyce Nevitt was appointed to the faculty of Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) to establish a nursing program leading to a bachelor's degree, despite considerable local opposition. In 1966, 38 students were enrolled and Nevitt was the sole faculty member. The first class of the MUN School of Nursing graduated in 1971. Nevitt resigned as Director in 1973 by which time the School had eight faculty members.

In 1973, Nevitt took a sabbatical leave and, with the assistance of a Canada Council grant, began research on the history of nursing in Newfoundland. This resulted in the 1978 publication of White Caps and Black Bands: A History of Nursing in Newfoundland to 1934. Nevitt retired from teaching in August 1982, but continued to teach the history of nursing at the MUN School of Nursing. She also wrote a history of St. Michael and All Angels church in St. John's (1985).

Nevitt played a pivotal role in founding of the School of Nursing at MUN, particularly the nature and emphasis of the courses taught in the undergraduate program. In 1988 she was the recipient of a Canadian Volunteer Award for her work with the handicapped, the hearing impaired and the aged.

Jeffers, George William
Persona · 1897-1995

George William Jeffers (1897-1995), teacher, biologist, was born in Freshwater, Carbonear, Newfoundland, in 1897. Jeffers died at his home in Farmville, Virginia, in 1995.

A graduate of the Methodist College in St. John's, Jeffers spent four years teaching in Newfoundland schools. In 1919 he attended Boston University, graduating in 1924 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He also completed a Master's degree in biology (1925).

Following employment as a biology research assistant at the University of Toronto (U of T), Jeffers joined the staff of the State Teachers' College (later known as Longwood) in Farmville, Virginia in 1926, continuing to teach there until 1968. In 1931 he successfully defended his thesis on the life history of capelin, and was awarded a PhD from U of T. He returned to Longwood and over the course of his career held several administrative positions, including head of the Department of Natural Sciences. In 1969 Longwood College recognized his contributions by designating one of its buildings the Jeffers Auditorium of Natural Science in his honor.

Jeffers was involved in several scientific organizations. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Canadian Society of Zoologists and the Association of Biology Teachers. He served as President of the Virginia Academy of Science during 1940-41 and as Director of the Chesapeake Bay Fisheries Commission from 1943-45.

Jeffers was a benefactor to Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), donating over 300 items, mainly Newfoundland books, from his personal collection to the university library. In 1974 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by MUN. Other honors included the Ivey F. Lewis Distinguished Service Award and honorary membership in the Virginia Academy of Science.

Mullock, John Thomas
Persona · 1807-1868

John Thomas Mullock (1807-1868), Catholic bishop of Newfoundland, was born in the Parish of St. Mary's, Limerick, Ireland, on 27 September 1807, the son of Mary Teresa (Hare) and Thomas Mullock, a wood carver and furniture manufacturer. Mullock died in St. John's on 29 March 1868.

In 1823, at the age of sixteen, Mullock attended a Franciscan Order convent near Seville, Spain to study philosophy and theology. He received the habit of the Order of St. Francis on 7 December 1825 and made his primary (or simple) vows in 1826 at the convent of Xeres, Cadiz province, Spain. After receiving the order of sub-deaconship, he was sent to the Irish Franciscan Convent of St. Isidore's, Rome, on 26 June 1829 to complete his studies and prepare for the priesthood. At the age of 26, he was ordained at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on 10 April 1830 by Cardinal Zuila.

Mullock initially met Michael A. Fleming (then Vicar Apostolic for Newfoundland) in Dublin in 1832. However, between 1830 and 1847, Mullock was prominent in strengthening the Franciscan Order in Ireland. His first mission was at Ennis, County Clare, where he founded a Franciscan convent. In 1837, he went to Cork and, in 1843, attended a meeting of the Franciscan Province in Dublin. Following consultations in Rome, he set about to reconstruct the Order in Ireland and of the old church in Dublin.

In 1847, when Bishop Fleming applied to the Prefect of Propaganda Fide in Rome for a coadjutor bishop, he specifically requested that Rev. Mullock be considered. Mullock himself delivered Fleming's letter arriving at St. Isidore's on 17 September. In November, he received his appointment. In addition, it was decided in Rome to raise the status of the church in Newfoundland from a Vicariate Apostolic to a formal Diocese. On 27 December 1847, Mullock was consecrated coadjutor bishop by Cardinal Franzoni, Prefect of Propaganda. He returned to Dublin in April 1848 and arrived in Newfoundland on 6 May 1848.

Although Newfoundland had been created a Diocese, it had also been attached to the ecclesiastical province of Quebec, making it a suffragan See of that Archdiocese. After considerable objection by Bishop Fleming, this decision was reversed, and in October 1850, the Diocese of Newfoundland was restored to its formal status as a direct dependency on the Holy See. A subsequent attempt in 1853 to attach the diocese of the newly-formed ecclesiastical province of Nova Scotia was also successfully opposed by Mullock.

Mullock undertook a visitation of the Diocese in Newfoundland in June 1848, when he made a tour of the southern and western districts, accompanied by Rev. Edward Condon. On 14 July 1850, Bishop Fleming died, shortly after having celebrated the first mass in the new Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (later Basilica) earlier that year. Mullock succeeded him as Bishop of Newfoundland.

As Bishop, Mullock added substantially to the growth of the Roman Catholic establishment in Newfoundland. He supervised the construction of a new palace, eleven convents and numerous churches, and he encouraged the ordination of Newfoundland-born priests. He founded St. Michael's Orphanage and opened St. Bonaventure's College (1857). In 1856, he secured the creation of a second diocese in Newfoundland with the establishment of the Diocese of Harbour Grace.

Bishop Mullock frequently intervened in politics, especially in the period leading up to the granting of Responsible Government in 1855 which he supported wholeheartedly. He fought to protect the system of Catholic education which had evolved under Fleming's episcopate. After the sectarian violence during the 1861 election, Mullock's political influence declined and he became less outspoken. Mullock was also well noted for his efforts to improve living conditions in Newfoundland, and especially for advocating better roads and improved telegraph and steamship communications with the outside world.

Bishop Mullock died at the Episcopal Palace at the age of 62 and was buried underneath the main altar of the Cathedral.

Tait, Robert H.
Persona · 1891-1964

Robert Holland Tait (1891-1964), lawyer, soldier, civil servant and writer, was born on 7 October 1891 in St. John's, Newfoundland, son of Sarah Elizabeth (Calkin) and physician James Sinclair Tait. On 23 August 1919 Tait married Margaret Gertrude Gibb in St. John's. They had two daughters. Tait died in Boston on 28 March 1964.

Robert (Bert) Tait was educated at Bishop Field College, graduating with honours. In 1908 he left Newfoundland for London University, England, but switched in 1910 to Trinity College, Oxford, after he won the Rhodes Scholarship for Newfoundland. While at Oxford, Tait was captain of the college football team and one of two Newfoundland members of the Oxford-Canadian hockey team which toured Europe. He graduated from Oxford in 1913 with a BA in Law and returned to Newfoundland to article under Alfred B. Morine. Subsequently, he attended University of King's College, Halifax, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law Degree (1914).

In 1914 Tait enlisted in the First Newfoundland Regiment (Royal Newfoundland Regiment) and was granted his commission as Lieutenant on 24 September 1914. A member of "The First Five Hundred", he left St. John's with the first contingent on the SS Florizel on 4 October, and served in Gallipoli, Egypt, France, and Belgium. Tait was appointed Captain on 10 January 1916. He was evacuated to hospital on 20 May 1916 and was spared action in the disastrous 1 July battle at Beaumont Hamel. Tait was appointed Adjutant on 23 May 1917. As a result of his actions at Poelcappelle he was awarded the Military Cross on 9 October 1917. He was wounded at Neuve Eglise (France) on 12 April 1918 during the Battle of Lys. He was then invalided to England on 15 April 1918 and embarked for Newfoundland on special duty on 22 May 1918. Tait was appointed Acting Major on 1 June 1919 while commanding the Discharge Depot at St. John's. He retired from active service on 6 October 1919.

After the war Tait resumed his law career; he was called to the Newfoundland Bar as a solicitor (1919) and as a barrister (1920). He served as Clerk of the Legislative Council (1919-23) until he moved to Boston, becoming the director of the Newfoundland Information Bureau. In 1924 Tait started The Newfoundland Weekly, a newspaper for expatriate Newfoundlanders living in Boston. In 1935 Tait moved to New York City to manage the Newfoundland Information Bureau. He also served as president of the Newfoundland War Veterans' Association of New York.

Tait was a writer whose publications included Unknown Newfoundland (1928), The Trail of the Caribou (1933), a narrative poem concerning the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, and Newfoundland: A Summary of the History and Development of Britain's Oldest Colony (1939). In the 1940s he completed a manuscript history of aviation in Newfoundland from 1919 to 1937.

Harvey, Moses
Persona · 1820-1901

Moses Harvey (1820-1901), Presbyterian minister, essayist, lecturer, historian, naturalist, was born on 21 March 1820 in Armagh, Ulster, son of Jane (Holmes) and the the Rev. James Harvey. He married Sarah Anne ("Jessie") Browne on 7 July 1852 in Cockermouth, England, and the couple had three sons: Alfred Joseph, Charles James, and Frederick. Moses Harvey died in St. John's on 3 September 1901.

Harvey was educated at the Royal Academical Institute, Belfast, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1844. His first ministry was with the John Street Presbyterian Church in Mayport, England, but shortly after his marriage, Harvey accepted a posting in Newfoundland. He arrived with wife Sarah in St. John's on 4 October 1852 and served as minister, St. Andrew's Free Presbyterian Church, until 1878, when his congregation re-united with that of the St. Andrew's Kirk.

Harvey was an inspirational preacher and a polished public lecturer. He was also a prolific writer, producing countless articles on diverse topics, ranging from history, politics, geography and literature to geology and zoology. His writings appeared regularly in a number of journals, including Stewart's Literary Quarterly Magazine, Maritime Monthly, and the Newfoundland Quarterly. He wrote over 900 articles for the Montreal Gazette, many under his pen name "Delta." He became particularly well known to British and North American zoologists in the 1870s through his writings on the giant squid in Newfoundland waters, a subspecies that was named Architeuthis harveyi in his honour. He also contributed to two editions of the Text Book of Newfoundland History (1885, 1890). His well-known history of the island, Newfoundland, The Oldest British Colony, co-authored with Joseph Hatton, was published in 1883.

Harvey's interests and accomplishments were wide-ranging. He recorded the natural history of Newfoundland by meticulously researching and cataloguing the birds, fish, wild flowers and rocks of the island. In 1861, Harvey and Daniel W. Prowse founded the St. John's Athenaeum Society for the dissemination of scientific and literary knowledge; Harvey was its president for a number of years. In 1881, he co-founded the newspaper, The Evening Mercury, and served as the newspaper's first editor. He also acted as secretary to the Fisheries Commission (1887-93) which made significant recommendations for resource management and the organization of a Newfoundland department of fisheries.

Nonetheless, Harvey felt that the colony was dangerously reliant on the fishery, with its fluctuations in catches and market conditions. He advocated the development of mining and the construction of a transinsular railway as a means of eliminating that dependence. He also believed that Newfoundland's future lay in confederation with Canada and promoted Newfoundland's attractions, particularly its natural resources and strategic location in the North Atlantic, to his Canadian readership.

Harvey's wife died in 1900 of complications from diabetes. Lonely and depressed, Harvey did not long survive her. His body was found in the back garden of his home at 3 Devon Row, St. John's, in the early morning of 3 September 1901.

In recognition of his many achievements, Harvey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (1886) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1891). In 1891, he was also awarded an honorary degree of LL.D. by McGill University. Harvey was an honorary member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and a corresponding member of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science.