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John Raymond Oliver was born in Canso, Nova Scotia on April 3, 1908, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1927. While studying at the Jesuit Seminary in Toronto, he learned Ojibwe and French. In 1934, he went to Spanish, Ontario to teach at the residential school followed by a year of teaching at Regiopolis College in Kingston, Ontario. He completed his studies at Immaculée-Conception in Montreal and was ordained a priest in August of 1940.

In 1942, Father Oliver returned to Northern Ontario to work with the Ojibwe people in small parishes along the north shore of the Georgian Bay. He was named minister and prefect of discipline at the residential school at Spanish, and in 1945 was appointed Superior and principal there. He is credited with implementing high school classes at the residential school, which officially opened in 1948 with the help of the Daughters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In the last four of seven years at Spanish, he was official advisor to the Provincial Superior, making monthly trips to Toronto to fulfill the duty.

In 1952, Father Oliver was assigned to the Holy Cross Mission at Wikwemikong in Ontario where he served as pastor and Superior of a small community. When two fires at Wikwemikong nearly destroyed several of the parish’s buildings, Father Oliver oversaw their reconstruction. In 1959, however, Father Oliver was directed to leave the Northern Missions to become Superior of Bellarmine Hall in Toronto, where he remained for five years before returning to pastoral ministry as a parish priest of St. John Brebeuf Parish in Winnipeg in 1964. In 1972, he was assigned to Ignatius College in Guelph, giving assistance to nearby parishes and ministering at the Loyola House. He died suddenly of a heart attack in 1980.

Eugène Papineau, S.J. was born on January 18, 1876 in St-Vincent-de-Paul, Quebec. He entered the Society of Jesus on July 28, 1894. Father Papineau received his spiritual training and studied classics at Sault-au-Recollet, Montreal. He continued on to study philosophy at Immaculée-Conception, Montreal, from 1898 to 1901, and was then assigned to teach at the residential school at Wikwemikong in Manitoulin Island, Ontario. In his four years there, he became proficient in Ojibway. Father Papineau then went on to study theology at Immaculée-Conception from 1905 to 1909, and was ordained a priest on July 27, 1908.

In 1911, Father Papineau returned to Northern Ontario and became the pastor of St. Vincent de Paul (later renamed St. Bernard’s) parish in Little Current. As a resident pastor in Little Current, he had the responsibility of the Catholics on Manitoulin Island, with the exception of the Indigenous peoples living on the unceded territory of Wiikwemkoong. He was first assigned to Wiikwemkoong where he devoted much time to helping the parishioners at South Bay build a new stone church. In 1917, he was named Superior at the residential school in Spanish, Ontario.

Father Papineau became seriously ill in 1925. He received hospital treatment in Montreal but eventually returned to return to Little Current. He passed away in Toronto on July 31, 1931.