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Nicholas Vandermoor was born in Overschei, Netherlands on July 24, 1894. Brother Vandermoor’s family emigrated to Saskatchewan, Canada in 1910; upon his parents’ death, Vandermoor moved to Vancouver Island where he worked as a caretaker and farmer at a residential school for Indigenous children run by the Sisters of St. Anne. From here, Vandermoor entered the Jesuit novitiate in November of 1925; shortly after saying his vows as a Brother, Vandermoor was assigned to the Spanish Residential School as farm supervisor. He would stay in Spanish for the remaining 42 years of his life.

With a focus on “industry,” the Spanish Residential School opened an auto mechanics course which Brother Vandermoor—a licensed auto mechanic—took charge of. When the Spanish Residential School closed in 1958, Brother Vandermoor remained at Spanish as a mechanic and custodian, caring for the remaining Jesuit properties. In 1966 and 1967, he served as assistant to the Superior at Spanish, and from 1967 until a collision took his life in 1969, he served as assistant to the pastor at Spanish.

Joseph Cadot, S.J. was born in St-Félix-de-Valois, Quebec on August 1, 1860, and after studies at Collège de Montréal and Collège Sainte-Marie, he entered the novitiate at Sault-au-Récollet in February of 1883. He completed his studies between Collège Sainte-Marie and Immaculée-Conception, including a teaching stint at the former, and was ordained to the priesthood in July of 1894.

Father Cadot served as Minister at Collège Sainte-Marie from 1895 to 1898 and worked as a spiritual director for young professionals. Throughout this time, however, he continued to request appointment to the Northern Ontario missions, and was finally sent to Sault Ste-Marie in 1903. Here, he worked in Steelton ministering to a working-class community of Italian and Slavic immigrants, most of whom were employed by the Algoma Steel Corporation. Father Cadot helped organize a new parish here and learned both English and Italian.

In 1904, Father Cadot relocated to Cape Croker Reserve on the Bruce Peninsula, where he would remain until 1931. Father Cadot learned Ojibwe and oversaw the communities at Saugeen, Christian Island, Rama, Moose Point, Lion’s Head, and Tobermory. He was an advocate for education and self-reliance of the youth there, looked after the maintenance of the church property, and helped provide and advocate for the church’s library and recreational facilities. In the 1920s, with the advent of the car, Father Cadot purchased his own and frequently travelled to his various mission sites; he earned the nickname Waiasseshkang, “the one who brings light to the heart and spirit.”

In 1931, Cadot relocated to Saugeen, then to Chippewa Hill from 1932 to 1937, at which point he retired to the Jesuit novitiate in Guelph. He died in 1947.

David Tobin Asselin, S.J. was born in Bromptonville, Quebec on May 21, 1922, and, following activity in the Loyola College contingent of the Canadian Officers Training Corps during World War II, he entered the St. Stanislaus Novitiate in Guelph, Ontario in July of 1942. He was exempted from the normal course of Jesuit studies because of his prior academic success, and instead underwent an expedited several years of studies between Guelph and the Jesuit Seminary in Toronto. He taught at Saint Mary’s High School in Halifax as well as Loyola High School in Montreal before his 1953 ordination.

In 1955, Father Asselin taught theology and directed the student chaplaincy at Loyola College, and was then named spiritual director of the Jesuit scholastics at the seminary in Toronto. He devoted much of his time to the study and implementation of Dutch Jesuit William Peters, S.J.’s interpretation of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, which stressed traditional asceticism, and invited Father Peters to direct a retreat at Regis College in 1963. Subsequently, these interpretations were shared internationally, and Loyola House gained renown as a centre for Jesuit spirituality. Father Asselin went on to publish multiple interpretations of Scripture and the Spiritual Exercises. In 1969, however, a brain tumor was detected, and he passed away three years later.

Joseph Patrick Jordan, S.J. was born in Hendley Green, Lancashire in the archdiocese of Liverpool on February 4, 1901. While in vocation school, Father Jordan met John Filion, S.J., then-Provincial of the Jesuits in Canada, who invited him to join the Society of Jesus in Canada. Father Jordan relocated to Montreal where he completed his formation at l’Immaculée Conception; he was ordained at Le Gesù in Montreal on August 16, 1936.

Father Jordan spent most of his religious career involved in parish work. In 1938, he served as associate pastor at St. Ignatius in Winnipeg, and six years later, relocated to Spanish, Ontario, where he taught at the residential school and assisted with the North Shore of Lake Huron parishes. Following this, and for the next sixteen years, Father Jordan served as hospital and prison chaplain at St. Andrew’s Parish in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The church basement was converted into a busy social centre, and Father Jordan served as its moderator.

In 1962, Father Jordan returned to Winnipeg as associate pastor at St. John Brebeuf Parish. In 1970, he relocated to California, serving at a parish in the San Diego diocese and then St. Anne’s Parish in Santa Ana before falling ill and retiring to the Jesuit infirmary at Los Gatos. In 1981, after recovery, he joined the community at Los Gatos, and continued to serve as a chaplain to the nearby Sisters of the Holy Names among other parish endeavors around California. In 1988, he returned to the Jesuit Infirmary in Pickering, Ontario, and passed away two years later.