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The Jesuits became involved in the Guelph region in the 1850s. Previously, Catholic missionaries had been active in Guelph beginning in 1827. The Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, located in Guelph, Ontario, was managed by the Jesuits of the Province of Canada and then by the Province of Upper Canada from 1852 to 1931. On January 28, 1852, John Holzer, S.J. became the priest of the parish of Guelph, a position he occupied until 1863. Several Jesuit missionaries involved in the Guelph parish during the late 19th century were originally from Austria and Germany. They were involved in the erection of the church and schools. In 1859, Father Holzer founded the St. Joseph’s Hospital, which became the first Catholic hospital in the region.

Financial difficulties prevented the completion of the church building initially planned by Father Holzer. The project was abandoned in the early 1860s, but the work was reinitiated in 1874 by Peter Hamel, S.J. The architecture of the gothic church was inspired by German churches, particularly the one located in Cologne. The cornerstone of the Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception was laid in 1877, and the construction was terminated in 1888. In 1931, the Jesuits handed over the care of the Guelph parish to the Diocesan clergy.

En septembre 1953, des missionnaires jésuites de la Province du Canada français arrivent à Port-au-Prince en Haïti. À la demande du Saint Siège, ils ont accepté de prendre la direction du Grand Séminaire Notre-Dame, situé à Port-au-Prince. Arthème Tétrault, s.j. est devenu le premier Supérieur du Séminaire. Le travail des missionnaires en Haïti comprenait la formation des prêtres, l'alphabétisation et la formation civique, les exercices spirituels et l’administration du ministère paroissial. D'abord installé dans la dépendance de l'Archevêché, le Séminaire a été relocalisé, en 1956, dans un nouveau bâtiment érigé à Port-au-Prince.

Dès 1956, la mission a incorporé à la demande de Mgr Albert François Cousineau, évêque du diocèse du Cap-Haïtien, la responsabilité de la petite paroisse de Quartier-Morin, située dans le nord du pays. Les pères jésuites y ont réaménagé le presbytère et y ont construit une école primaire accueillant plusieurs centaines d’enfants.

En 1959, les Jésuites ont fondé à Port-au-Prince la Villa Manrèse, une maison de retraites fermées. En 4 ans d'activités, soit de 1959 à février 1964, les Jésuites y ont donné des retraites à plus de 12 000 personnes, incluant des prêtres, religieux.euses, étudiant.e.s, professionnel.le.s, militaires, et cadres d'associations de l'Église catholique. Enfin, en 1960, ils ont fondé dans cette maison la station de radio « Radio Manrèse, » dont les émissions étaient destinées à plusieurs thèmes éducatifs tels que l'alphabétisation, la santé et l'engagement social.

Le 12 février 1964, le gouvernement de François Duvalier a expulsé par décret les 18 jésuites canadiens qui travaillent en Haïti. On leur reproche de ne pas respecter les institutions haïtiennes et les autorités établies; de causer par leur comportement le trouble et la confusion dans le pays d'attenter à l'honneur du Gouvernement et du peuple d'Haïti; de discréditer le pays à l'étranger et de mener une vaste opération de subversion contre son gouvernement. L'expulsion des jésuites à mit fin à la mission jésuite en Haïti. Elle sera reprise ultérieurement.

Pierre Hamel, S.J. was born in Ste-Claire, Quebec on February 23, 1832 and entered the Society of Jesus in September of 1851. He taught at St. John’s College in Fordham, New York, where he then took up his own studies. He was ordained a priest in July of 1865.

In 1870, Father Hamel was assigned minister at St. Francis Xavier School in New York. He then proceeded to teach at Collège Saint-Marie in Montreal before being appointed assistant pastor in Guelph, Ontario. He ministered at Sault-au-Récollet before returning as dean to Collège Saint-Marie in 1872. From 1875 to 1883, he worked as a pastor in Guelph; he moved on to take charge of the parish in Port Arthur, Ontario, including establishing a new church.

In 1887, Father Hamel became the first-ever Canadian-born Jesuit to become Superior of the newly-created Canada Missions, and immediately became embroiled with the Jesuit Estate affair. He left office in 1891 after launching the English Canadian edition of the Canadian Messenger of the Sacred Heart and overseeing the formation of many young Jesuits. He asked for assignment in Northern Ontario and was named pastor at the Parry Sound district; in 1900 he left for Sudbury and in 1903 transferred to the Loyola College in Montreal. He died in 1905.

Joseph-Urbain Hanipaux est né le 3 may 1805 à Donjeux, Haute-Marne, France. Il a été ordonné le 22 avril 1829 et a servi dans le diocèse de Langres pendant sept ans avant de rejoindre la Compagnie de jésus. Il se trouvait au noviciat d’Estayayer en Suisse pendant quelques mois avant de retourner au diocèse. Il a ensuite demander à intégrer la Province de France et a finalement été accepté le 21 janvier 1837. À la suite de son séjour an noviciat, il s’est trouvé à Nantes jusqu’en 1842 pour ensuite être assigné au premier contingent jésuite envoyé au Canada depuis la restauration de la Compagnie de jésus en 1814.

Père Hanipaux s’est rendu à Laprairie, au Québec, où il a prêché et organisé des retraites, avant de se déplacer à la Mission Sainte-Croix, à Wikwemikong, sur l’Île Manitoulin. Il a par le fait même rejoint Jean-Pierre Choné, s.j. et ont ainsi remplacé J-B Proulx, un prêtre diocésain de Toronto qui a œuvré à la Mission Sainte-Croix pendant plusieurs années.

Père Hanipaux a appris à maîtriser l’Ojibwe et visitait plusieurs communautés autochtones outre celles de l’Île Manitoulin, incluant les villages alentours de Georgian Bay, Lake Nipissing et la rive est de Lake Superior. Il a ensuite passé du temps à Sault-Ste Marie, au Michigan, avant de retourner à Wikwemikong avec une communauté jésuite élargie comprenant maintenant deux prêtres et quatre frères. En 1856, père Hanipaux a été nommé Supérieur. À cette époque, à Wikwemikong, une école industrielle pour les garçons était déjà sur pied et père Hanipaux a tenté d’en former une pour les filles. Il a toutefois décidé d’attendre l’arrivée des Daughters of the Heart of Mary.

En 1860, père Hanipaux a été relocalisé à la mission à Fort William. Pendant trois années, il a visité plusieurs communautés autochtones à l’est et à l’ouest de Lakehead avant de retourner sur l’Île Manitoulin en 1863. Maintenant inapte à voyager, père Hanipaux a effectué du travail dans la paroisse, organisant des activités pour la Sodalities of Our Lady. En 1867, il a mis sur pied une petite imprimerie pour imprimer des livres et dépliants en Ojibwe. Il a quitté Wikwemikong en 1871 afin de se diriger vers la ville de Québec. Père Hanipaux est décédé à Québec, le 13 mars 1872.

Daniel Hannin, S.J. was born July 2, 1912 in Glasgow, Scotland to John Hannin and Annie Burns. After the death of his father, Father Hannin and his mother relocated to Toronto, Ontario.

Father Hannin began his post-secondary studies at the University of Toronto in 1930, but after a year, on August 6, 1931, he left to join the St. Stanislaus Novitiate in Guelph, Ontario. Here, he completed the first four years of his novitiate, pronouncing his first vows on August 15, 1933, before relocating to the Jesuit Seminary in Toronto for three years of philosophy studies. Father Hannin spent his regency at the Residential School in Spanish, Ontario from 1938 to 1940, then at Regiopolis College in Kingston, Ontario. In 1941, Hannin briefly relocated to the Collège de l’Immaculée-Conception in Montreal, Quebec to study theology before returning to the Jesuit Seminary in Toronto. He was one of the initial group of nine Jesuits to be ordained there July 4, 1944. After completing theology studies in 1945, Hannin was appointed to the Jesuit community at Spanish as minister and teacher at the residential school. He moved temporarily to Auriesville, New York in 1947 to complete his Jesuit formation, pronouncing his final vows on August 15, 1948.

Following his ordination and at his request, Hannin was appointed to the Spanish Residential School again in 1948 as minister and vice-principal. Two years later, however, he relocated to the Holy Cross Mission at Wikwemikong, Ontario, on Manitoulin Island, where for nine years he studied Ojibwe, served as minister, director of adult education, sports, and drama

Father Hannin’s growing interest in adult education compelled him to pursue formal training in the field; he left Northern Ontario at various points to work on his studies. In 1959, he received a diploma in adult education in Antigonish, Nova Scotia; in 1964, he received a Master of Science in adult education from the University of Wisconsin, and in 1967, at 55 years old, a doctorate in sociology of religion from the same institution. Over the course of the several decades he spent working between all thirteen of the Northern Ontario missions, Father Hannin was involved in many education initiatives, including working alongside Bishop Alexander Carter in 1967 to help coordinate a “diocesan synod,” which established adult education groups and parochial councils throughout the dioses. In the early 1970s, he helped found a program to train Indigenous deacons, a precursor to the Jesuits’ Anishinabe Spiritual Centre in Anderson Lake, Ontario, which aimed to develop an “authentically Indigenous” Catholic church.

In 1976, after teaching briefly in Calcutta and Darjeeling, Father Hannin relocated to Campion College in Regina where he worked as a professor of sociology and native studies, and held an active role with college students and the local Indigenous community. In the late 1970s, Father Hannin became Superior of the Jesuit Community here, a position he retained for three years while continuing to teach. While here, he helped to establish Wickiup, a social-religious centre for which he acted as priest, and was closely involved with what is now First Nations University of Canada. Later on, he served briefly as Superior of the Jesuits on the North Shore of Lake Huron missions before leaving due to waning health.

Father Hannin spent his last years at the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre, acting as minister, counsellor, and gardener. He died of a heart attack en route to celebrate the Eucharistic liturgy in Oshawa on January 3, 1988, soon after he had relocated to the Jesuit Infirmary in Pickering, Ontario.