Showing 5 results

Archival description
Rev. John Walsh fonds
Fonds · 1833, 1855-1899

Fonds consists of records related to Rev. John Walsh, including baptismal certificate, and canonical documents of ordination and appointment. Fonds also includes newspaper clippings, and printed material related to his life and activities.

Walsh, John
Fonds · 1883-1994, predominant 1952-1967

Fonds consists of correspondence relating to parish property, boundaries, building projects, finances, and general affairs (1907-77); records relating to parish property, including conveyances, bills of sale and boundary sketches (1883-1914); financial statements (1915-28); canonical decrees dismembering Holy Rosary Parish and erecting Holy Family Parish (1982); church programs (1982, 1994); newspaper clippings relating to parish history (1965, 1984-87); and 5 black and white photographs. Fonds includes some photocopies and transcriptions.

Holy Rosary Parish (Portugal Cove, N.L. : Catholic)
Fonds · 1813-1884

Fonds consists of records related to Archdeacon Thomas O'Connor, including baptismal certificate and canonical documents. Fonds also includes newspaper clippings and printed material related to his life.

O'Connor, Thomas
Rev. Michael J. Clarke fonds
Fonds · 1845, 1871-1914

Fonds consists of records related to Rev. Michael Clarke, including correspondence with Bishop Michael Francis Howley (1897-1911). The fonds also includes an address to Rev. Clark from the Christian Brothers (17 March 1911) and an article "Very Rev. M.J. Clarke" / William P.H. Kitchin, Ph.D.[ca. 1911] as well as printed material related to his life.

Clarke, Michael J.
Rev. George M. Johnson fonds
Fonds · 1855-1862

The fonds consists of 15 diaries in the form of numbered booklets of around 30 - 32 pages each, handwritten, with the inclusive dates recorded on the front cover. The collection starts with Diary 13, March 11 to May 8, 1855, moves to Diaries 33 - 35, November 6, 1858 to June 20, 1859, and finally Diaries 45 - 55, December 18, 1860 to December 31, 1862. The location of the missing diaries, which presumably started with his incumbency at Portugal Cove and included a trip to Labrador and the death of his first wife in 1860, is unknown.

The diaries record the weather, the texts on which all his sermons were preached, the size of the congregations, number of communicants, amount of offetory and other collections, names of the sick and other parishioners visited, baptisms, churching of women, burials and occasional weddings. His duties took him on many journeys, walking, on horse back, by cart and by catamaran, to visit his various parishes, as well as on visits to his brother R. Malcolm Johnson, friends, fellow clergymen, church services, meetings and the Colonial Building. Personal activities, such as tending his horse and garden, reading, writing sermons and letters, listening to his children's lessons, picnicking and boating, are also listed. There is very little reflection on the politics or worldly news of the day.

Johnson, George M.