Footnotes--Chapter Two
1. Brother Joseph Azarias, Historique de l'Oeuvre Mariste Canadienne, Vol, 1 No. 1, p. 16.
2. Bulletin of Studies, Vol. 28 (Oct. 1937), p. 71.
3. This was the 37th mission departure since 1837.
4. Brother Joseph Azarias, op. cit., p. 63.
5. >Ibid., p. 41
6. >Ibid., p. 64.
7. >Bulletin Des Etudes, Vol. 22 No. 2, p. 341.
8. >A few years later anti-clericals forced the brothers to withdraw from the school.
9. >Previous to the revision of the Constitutions of the Marist Brothers in 1903, the jurisdiction of a mission was under the Assistant General. Brother Cesidius, as visitor and provincial did not have the powers accorded these positions by the Constitution of 1903.
10. >Brother Joseph Azarias, op. cit., p. 59.
11. >Meaning a boarding school.
12. >Loc. cit.
13. >St. Ann's Academy House Annals.
14. >Brother Joseph Azarias, op. cit., p. 30.Dispersed to various
countries, our brothers from France proved to be an asset to our
Institute: Canada was one to benefit from this exodus. It received
from 1885-1911, 371 European brothers, to which must be added twenty or so who arrived after the division of the Province (1911) and were assigned either here or in the United States. (Translation mine.)
15. >Loc. cit.
16. >Loc. cit. The Reverend Brother Leonida, Superior General, while visiting our cemeteries at Iberville and St. Hyacinthe in 1948, was astounded to see so many young religious die at ages from 18
to 25: 60 brothers, 8 novices, 5 postulants: (1885-1911).
(Translation mine.)
17. >Bulletin Des Etudes, Vol. 22 no. 7, p. 421.
18. >Ibid., P. 37
19. >Circulaires, Vol. 13 p. 488.
20. >Notices Biographiques de l'Institut de Petits Freres de Marie,
(Sept. 1936 , p. 474)
21. >Iberville Archives.
22. >Notices Biographiques de 1'Institut des Petits Freres de Marie,
Sept. 193 , pp.92- 9 .
23. >Bulletin of Studies, Vol. 28 (Jan. 1938) , P. 6.
24. >Ibid., (Feb. 1938, p. 7.
25. >Loc. cit.
26. >Brother Joseph Azarias, op. cit., p. 33.
27. >St. Genis Laval Archives.
28. >Loc. cit. Marist College Archives.
29. >Bulletin of Studies, Vol. 2 , (Jan. 1938), p. 6.
30. >Brother Joseph Azarias, op. cit., p. 54.
31. >Bulletin des Etudes, Vol. 22, no. 8, p. 441.
32. >Marist College Archives.
33. >Bulletin of Studies, (Feb. 1938), p. 2.
34. >Loc. cit. Marist College Archives.
35. >Bulletin of Studies, Vol. 29 (Feb. 1939), pp. 2-3.
St. Genis Laval Archives.
36. >Brother Joseph Azarias, op. cit,. 56.
37. >Bulletin of Studies, Vol. 28 (Tarch 1938) , P. 7.
38. >Ibid., Vol. 2 (Feb. 1938), P. 7.
39. >Of the 8,853 students in the original province, 4,913 were in the
Province of Quebec. See Appendix E.
40. >Towards that end, four staffs were sent to Manitoba by 1915. Due to a number of circumstances these were withdrawn by 1921.
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