St. Mary's University, Halifax

CANADA, 2002, the 2nd centenary of St. Mary's, Scott 1944

Founded in 1802, St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia had been run by the Christian Brothers of Saint John the Baptist de la Salle from 1868, by the Irish Christian Brothers from 1918, and by the Jesuits of the Upper Canada Province from 1940 until a new Act of Incorporation in 1970 gave authority to a Board of Governors and Academic Senate. The Jesuits still provide for the Campus Ministry Program there and the present Chancellor is the Jesuit Archbishop of Halifax, the Most Rev. Terrence Prendergast, SJ. More

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Midland

CANADA, 1989, $100 gold coin for the 3rd centenary of the founding of the mission, showing the chapel

In 1639 the Jesuits in New France were joined by laymen who came from France to build on the banks of the Isaraqui (Wye) River the mission that was named Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. This was to be a place apart from the villages, which would serve among other things as a place of retreat and meditation for the missionaries. It quickly became virtually self-sufficient, a miraculous achievement for a community 1,200 kilometers from Quebec. St. John de Brébeuf and other Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie— the North American martyrs—were killed by the Iroquois. In the spring of 1649 though, under growing pressure and attacks, the remaning Jesuits, their helpers and Huron followers withdrew from Sainte-Marie and went to what is now Christian Island where they established a new Sainte-Marie. More

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