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Stanley Peter Drummond, S.J. was a Jesuit and biology professor. Born in 1913 in Guelph, Ontario, he entered the St. Stanislaus Jesuit Noviciate in 1931. After completing his regency studies in philosophy, he pursued an MA at the University of Toronto. He graduated in 1942 upon the submission of his thesis entitled “Vascularity in the Brains of Summer and Hibernating Frogs.” He would later obtain his PhD at the same university in 1962 (“Quantitative Cerebral Vascularity in the Active and Hibernating Ground Squirrel”). He was ordained to the priesthood in 1945.

In 1946, Drummond was hired by Loyola College to establish a Biology Department. Drummond, who had already been an assistant teacher there in the early 1940s, was the department’s first chairman. He created a curriculum, acquired equipment, and built tables and shelves for the lab. Over the years, his lab became renowned in Montreal and was well sought-after by McGill pre-med students. Many of them would eventually pursue careers in the medical field, as can attest the correspondence Drummond kept with students after they had graduated. Drummond taught fulltime until 1978 and then part-time until he retired in 1994.

Drummond served different administrative positions throughout the 1970s and 1980s at Loyola College, which was integrated to Concordia University in 1974. He founded Loyola’s bookstore and printing services. Other duties and activities he took on included chapel services, unofficial infirmarian and house librarian at the Loyola Jesuit residence, as well as protector of the Bernard Collection (Inuit artefacts).

Drummond moved to the René Goupil House (Pickering, Ontario) in 2008. He died in 2012. He was in his 99th year of life and had served 81 years in the Society of Jesus.

Dominique du Ranquet, s.j. est né à Chalus, en Auvergne, France, le 20 janvier 1813. Il est entré dans la Compagnie de jésus le 9 octobre 1938. Il a été ordonné prêtre en 1841 et, un an plus tard, il fut parti de la première délégation de neuf jésuites envoyés au Canada après la Suppression des jésuites. Avec le frère Joseph Jennesseaux, père du Ranquet a été envoyé à Oka, Québec, où, chez les Sulpiciens, il a commencé à étudié l’Algonquin. Il a ensuite rejoint Jean-Pierre Chazelle, s.j. à la Mission de Sandwich, en Ontario, pour étudier l’Ojibwe. Il s’est ensuite déplacé à Walpole Island et à Wikwemikong. En 1852, il fut envoyé à la Mission Immaculée-Conception à Fort William.

Étant basé à Fort William, père du Ranquet a fréquemment voyagé à travers les vastes territoires des communautés de colons et autochtones aux alentours de Lac Huron, du Lac Supérieur et du Lac Nipigon, se déplaçant en traîneau à chien, en canot et en raquettes. Tout au long de son parcours, père du Ranquet a produit une documentation exhaustive des ses trajets, en particulier ses observations sur la langue Ojibwe, les concepts spirituels Ojibwe, ainsi que la généalogie et la culture Ojibwe.

Finalement, père du Ranquet a servi pendant 17 années comme Supérieur à Fort William, et comme Supérieur à Wikwemikong pendant 13 années, de 1877 à 1890. Il est décédé à Wikwemikong le 19 décembre 1900.

Étienne Dufresne, S.J. was born on May 17, 1859 in St-Pie, Quebec, and following Classics studies at Collège St-Hyacinthe, joined the Society of Jesus on July 30, 1879. Father Dufresne completed his formation between Collège Sainte-Marie, Sault-au- Récollet, and the Holy Cross Mission in Wikwemikong, where he taught at the residential school for four years. He was ordained a priest on October 28, 1887.

Father Dufresne returned to Northern Ontario following his ordination. He would proceed to spend the next 63 years between Manitoulin Island, the East Shore of the Georgian Bay, Waubaushene and the French River, and the North Shore of Lake Huron from Sagamok to Garden River. In 1930, Father Dufresne relocated to the residential school in Spanish, Ontario where he worked at the local parish and nearby mission stations. In 1947, waning health inclined Father Dufresne to retire to the infirmary at Collège de l’Immaculée-Conception in Montreal. He died in 1950 after 70 years in the Society of Jesus.

Timothy Dwyer, S.J. was born in Eganville, Ontario on January 19, 1898 to a family of many priests and Sisters. He entered the St. Stanislaus Novitiate in Guelph, Ontario in June of 1919 and proceeded to complete his studies between Guelph and Immaculée-Conception in Montreal. From 1926 to 1928, Father Dwyer served as the prefect of recreation and discipline at the residential school in Spanish, Ontario, where he learned Ojibwe. He was ordained in 1931, spent a year studying at St. Beuno’s College in Wales, and then a year again immersing himself in Ojibwe language at the Holy Cross Mission in Wikwemikong.

In 1934, Father Dwyer was given responsibility for the mission stations along the north shore of the Georgian Bay and the Spanish River Indian Reserve. In 1937, he was appointed parish priest in Little Current, but he resigned within two years due to poor health to recover at the Guelph novitiate and at St. Andrew’s Parish in Port Athur, Ontario. In 1942 he returned to work as pastor at Garden River, but his poor health returned and, in 1947, a series of heart attacks led to his hospitalization in Sault Ste. Marie, where he soon passed away.