A History of Canadian Catholics: Gallicanism, Romanism, and Canadianism

Though there are other works dealing with the history of Canadian Catholicism and Christianity, Father Fay claims to address his objective by focusing on French and Englishspeaking Canadian Catholics as well as Native people and Euro-Canadians from first contact to the present. Again this is achieved by taking the "safe" road by not seriously challenging any past "shadows" in Canadian Catholicism (e.g., J. R. Miller, certainly a major and generally accepted authority on Native residential schools, makes no appearance, except for an article on anti-Catholicism; though Joanna Manning, a strong critic of the Catholic Church's treatment of women, is noted briefly [pp. 316-317], but without Fay taking any position short of admitting that, since they are over half the Canadian population, women are important).