Abstract:On a sunlit Sunday morning in June 1896, Father Alexander MacDonald, the erudite professor of Latin, English, and Philosophy at St. Francis Xavier University, stood at the wooden pulpit of Immaculate Conception parish in rural Heatherton, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, to read an address composed by his superior, Bishop John Cameron of Antigonish. 1 There was apprehension in the professor's voice as he began to deliver the carefully scripted note. It was the duty, so the bishop's letter read, of every conscie… Show more
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