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ARCHBISHOP A.-A. TACHE OF ST.: The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision (The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate) - Softcover
Alexandre-Antonin Tache's career as a pioneer Oblate missionary and bishop coincided with some of the most momentous events in western Canadian history from the Red River Insurrection to the Manitoba schools question. Tache's zealous defense of French Catholic rights in the North West is indicative of the deep divisions in society concerning the extent of bilingualism and biculturalism in western Canada.
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"Leading Church historian Raymond Huel provides a portrait of Alexandre-Antonin Tache, the first Oblate bishop in the North West and the first archbishop of St. Boniface, Tache's career spanned 50 years (1845-94) and coincided with some of the most momentous events in Western Canadian history." Western Catholic Reporter
"This is an excellent book by Lethbridge professor and historian Ray Huel who spent many years studying this important figure. The resulting book is thoroughly researched and well written, and will become the seminal work on this early Catholic leader." Editor, Alberta History
"A new biography about Bishop and later Archbishop Alexandre Tach? offers a critical view that may have you feeling sorry for this man, who played such a major role in the history of Western Canada.. Tach?'s dream was to create a sister province for francophone and Roman Catholic Quebec. It never happened, and even in his own lifetime, Tach? must have realized his dream would not be realized." Susan Jones, St. Albert Gazette
"It's interesting, if discouraging, to see that the forces that ultimately put an end to Tach?'s dream of a bilingual, bicultural Manitoba relied on the language of liberalism to advance their English-first, business-focussed agenda. Where Tach? was committed to justice for the M?tis and French-Canadian Catholics as peoples, his opponents relied on the concept of equal treatment of all individuals to turn Manitoba and the West generally into a carbon copy of Ontario." Alex Rettie, Alberta Views
"Huel, retired history professor at the University of Lethbridge, author of other books about the Oblates, gives us a clear picture of his many-sided subject. Happy first years as a missionary were followed by 43 stressful ones as a bishop. Huel shows that Tach? was a micro-manager who handled material things brilliantly but had often-bitter relations with people." Bernard M. Daly, Catholic Register Special
"Raymond Huel has written a thoroughly researched and documented biography of Tach?, one that will no doubt become a necessary reference for anyone seeking to understand the man and his times." Great Plains Quarterly, Spring 2004
"For years, specialists of nineteenth-century Canadian Church history have deplored the lack of a reliable, critical, and unbiased biography of one of the major figures of Western Canadian history: Alexandre-Antonin Tach?, first bishop, then archbishop of St. Boniface (1853-1894), in what is now the province of Manitoba. Raymond J.A. Huel's recently published study on Tach? and his "good fight" should in more ways than one satisfy these same specialists and put an end to their long wait....It is to be recommended to all those interested both in the Canadian Church history and the history of the Canadian North West." Pierre Hurtubise, The Catholic Historical Review
"Raymond Huel has undertaken the difficult task of writing a critical biography of the long-serving and complicated archbishop of St. Boniface, Alexandre-Antonin Tach?. He has created for the reader a fascinating story of a church person who was spiritually and politically involved in the formation of the Catholic community at the nexus of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, now called Winnipeg, the capital of the province of Manitoba....Avoiding hagiography, Raymond Huel has composed a critical and definitive biography of a tragic player in the founding of the Roman Catholic Church in the Canadian north-west and a colourful person in Canadian religious and political life." Terence J. Fay (University of Toronto), Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 36, No. 2, April 2005
"Huel presents a multifaceted, exhaustively researched, and meticulously annotated account of the French Catholic presence on the western plains during the second half of the nineteenth century....Huel adroitly delineates the cultural, political, and social forces that gave shape to Tach?'s 'illusive vision'....Archbishop A.-A. Tach? of St. Boniface is an outstanding study combining 'new directions' in social history with three decades of research on the western Church. Huel has made a worthy contribution both to Prairie historiography and to the rehabilitation of scholarly biography." Timothy Foran, Social History, vol.38, no.75, May 2005
"[A]s Raymond J.A. Huel shows in his definitive biography, Tach? was often his own worst enemy. An adept financial administrator, whose expertise in such matters was dawn on by both fellow clergy and laymen, he had little understanding of human nature and was incapable of relating to other people. Not only was Tach? emotionally aloof, he was also politically na?ve, a fatal flaw in one who hoped to be a social leader. He was, moreover, a natural polemicist, one who could not resist dashing out vitriol, when soothing words might have won the hearts of his readers..Huel's biography of Tach? is the product of a lifetime of scholarship, and Huel has the rare gift of drawing his readers in and enabling them to see the world as Tach? saw it." Brian Clarke, The university of Toronto Quarterly, volume 75, Number 1, Winter 2006.
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"This is an excellent book by Lethbridge professor and historian Ray Huel who spent many years studying this important figure. The resulting book is thoroughly researched and well written, and will become the seminal work on this early Catholic leader." Editor, Alberta History
"A new biography about Bishop and later Archbishop Alexandre Tach? offers a critical view that may have you feeling sorry for this man, who played such a major role in the history of Western Canada.. Tach?'s dream was to create a sister province for francophone and Roman Catholic Quebec. It never happened, and even in his own lifetime, Tach? must have realized his dream would not be realized." Susan Jones, St. Albert Gazette
"It's interesting, if discouraging, to see that the forces that ultimately put an end to Tach?'s dream of a bilingual, bicultural Manitoba relied on the language of liberalism to advance their English-first, business-focussed agenda. Where Tach? was committed to justice for the M?tis and French-Canadian Catholics as peoples, his opponents relied on the concept of equal treatment of all individuals to turn Manitoba and the West generally into a carbon copy of Ontario." Alex Rettie, Alberta Views
"Huel, retired history professor at the University of Lethbridge, author of other books about the Oblates, gives us a clear picture of his many-sided subject. Happy first years as a missionary were followed by 43 stressful ones as a bishop. Huel shows that Tach? was a micro-manager who handled material things brilliantly but had often-bitter relations with people." Bernard M. Daly, Catholic Register Special
"Raymond Huel has written a thoroughly researched and documented biography of Tach?, one that will no doubt become a necessary reference for anyone seeking to understand the man and his times." Great Plains Quarterly, Spring 2004
"For years, specialists of nineteenth-century Canadian Church history have deplored the lack of a reliable, critical, and unbiased biography of one of the major figures of Western Canadian history: Alexandre-Antonin Tach?, first bishop, then archbishop of St. Boniface (1853-1894), in what is now the province of Manitoba. Raymond J.A. Huel's recently published study on Tach? and his "good fight" should in more ways than one satisfy these same specialists and put an end to their long wait....It is to be recommended to all those interested both in the Canadian Church history and the history of the Canadian North West." Pierre Hurtubise, The Catholic Historical Review
"Raymond Huel has undertaken the difficult task of writing a critical biography of the long-serving and complicated archbishop of St. Boniface, Alexandre-Antonin Tach?. He has created for the reader a fascinating story of a church person who was spiritually and politically involved in the formation of the Catholic community at the nexus of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, now called Winnipeg, the capital of the province of Manitoba....Avoiding hagiography, Raymond Huel has composed a critical and definitive biography of a tragic player in the founding of the Roman Catholic Church in the Canadian north-west and a colourful person in Canadian religious and political life." Terence J. Fay (University of Toronto), Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 36, No. 2, April 2005
"Huel presents a multifaceted, exhaustively researched, and meticulously annotated account of the French Catholic presence on the western plains during the second half of the nineteenth century....Huel adroitly delineates the cultural, political, and social forces that gave shape to Tach?'s 'illusive vision'....Archbishop A.-A. Tach? of St. Boniface is an outstanding study combining 'new directions' in social history with three decades of research on the western Church. Huel has made a worthy contribution both to Prairie historiography and to the rehabilitation of scholarly biography." Timothy Foran, Social History, vol.38, no.75, May 2005
"[A]s Raymond J.A. Huel shows in his definitive biography, Tach? was often his own worst enemy. An adept financial administrator, whose expertise in such matters was dawn on by both fellow clergy and laymen, he had little understanding of human nature and was incapable of relating to other people. Not only was Tach? emotionally aloof, he was also politically na?ve, a fatal flaw in one who hoped to be a social leader. He was, moreover, a natural polemicist, one who could not resist dashing out vitriol, when soothing words might have won the hearts of his readers..Huel's biography of Tach? is the product of a lifetime of scholarship, and Huel has the rare gift of drawing his readers in and enabling them to see the world as Tach? saw it." Brian Clarke, The university of Toronto Quarterly, volume 75, Number 1, Winter 2006.
"Raymond Huel has given us the definitive biography of A.-A. Tach?, successively missionary, bishop and later archbishop, who for fifty years fought 'the good fight' to create in western Canada a 'sister' province for Francophone and Roman Catholic Quebec. Tach?'s struggles against destiny for French-Canadian linguistic and legal rights in Manitoba embroiled him in political and religious issues at the provincial, national and international levels against partisan forces in public life and within the Roman Catholic Church. Exhaustively researched, clearly and authoritatively written, and handsomely illustrated, this volume is a model of biography at its best." John S. Moir Alexandre-Antonin Tach?'s career as a pioneer Oblate missionary and bishop coincided with the most momentous events in western Canadian history. He promoted French Catholic colonization in the North West Territories, seeking Quebec's support to maintain the French Catholic presence in national affairs. Tach? played a crucial role in the settlement of the Red River Insurrection and later attempted to calm the polemic and passions generated by Louis Riel's execution in 1885. As Bishop, he was influential in the first decade of Manitoba politics, playing an active role in the introduction of civil government. Plagued by declining health in his later years, he continued to address the threats to French Catholic rights and privileges in the West as English-speaking Protestants became the dominant culture. Tach?'s zealous defence of his flock illustrates the deep divisions in society concerning bilingualism and biculturalism in the young Dominion. Raymond Huel's study goes beyond the traditional "great man" approach to biography, incorporating the newer directions of social history and chronicles the Catholic Church in Quebec and the Canadian North West, examining the clerical elite's influence on Canadian society and its evolution. Raymond J.A. Huel is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge. Dr. Huel is the general editor of "The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the Canadian North West" series. His publications include Proclaiming the Gospel to the Indians and Metis.
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