Produced by Al Haines
Catholic Problems
in
Western Canada
By
George Thomas Daly, C.SS.R.
With preface by the Most Reverend O. E. Mathieu,
Archbishop of Regina
TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD., AT ST. MARTIN'S HOUSE
Permissu Superiorum
ARTHUR T. COUGHLAN, C.SS.R., Provincial.
Imprimatur
EDWARD ALFRED LEBLANC, Bishop of St. John, N.B.
St. John, N.B., December 8th, 1920.
Copyright, Canada, 1921
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED
TORONTO
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
TO
THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY
OF CANADA.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART 1.—RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS
CHAPTER 1.—THIS CALL OF THE WEST
A Call from the West—The Call of the Catholic Church in the West—The
Response of the East—The Specific Object of the Catholic Church
Extension Society.
CHAPTER 2.—BRIDGING THE CHASM
The Catholic Church Extension Society in Canada—Its Principles and
Policy.
CHAPTER 3.—PRO ARIS ET FOCIS
The Ruthenian Problem—A Religious and National Problem—Its
Phases—Its Solution.
CHAPTER 4.—WHY? WHAT? WHO?
The necessity of a Field Secretary for the Organization of our
Missionary Activities.
CHAPTER 5.—PLOUGHING THE SANDS
The Church Union Movement; its Causes and Various Manifestations—The
Protestant and Catholic View-point.
CHAPTER 6.—"THEM ALSO I MUST BRING" (Jo, v, 16)
The Apostolate to non-Catholics; its Obligation—What have we
Done?—What Can we Do?
CHAPTER 7.—PROS AND CONS
Obstacles that Impede. . . . Circumstances that Help the Work of the
Church in Western Canada.
PART 2.—EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS
CHAPTER 8.—WHY SEPARATE?
A Moral Reason—A Social Reason—A Political Reason—A National
Reason—A British Reason—A Religious Reason . . . for our "Separate
Schools."
CHAPTER 9.—A WINDOW IN THE WEST
A Crusade for Better Schools in Saskatchewan: Its History—Its
Lessons—An Invitation and a Warning.
CHAPTER 10.—UNICUIQUE SUUM
Principle on which should be Based the Division of Company-taxesbetween Public and Separate Schools.
CHAPTER 11.—DREAM OF REALITY
Higher Education in Western Canada—Duty of the Hour—University
Training, Condition of Genuine leadership—For Catholics Higher
Education means Higher Catholic Education—The Concerted Action of all
Catholics in Western Canada can make a Western Cat