Identifier	Thesis 2040
Author	Marceau, Albert John
Title	The role of Fr. Jean-Baptiste Proulx in the Danielson affair and the Manitoba school question
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date of Publication	2009
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Abstract	The thesis is an examination of the role of Fr. Jean-Baptiste Proulx as an intermediary for the French-Canadian laity at St. James' Church in Danielson, Connecticut in the parish discord known as the Danielson Affair, and as a secret ambassador of Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier for negotiations with Pope Leo XIII in order to settle the Manitoba School Question in 1896. The thesis re-examines the histories that have been written about Fr. Proulx's role in both historical events, and the histories that are examined are the book and dissertation by Sr. Dolores Liptak, European Immigrants and the Catholic Church in Connecticut, 1870-1920, and Robert Rumilly's Histoire des Franco-Américains and volumes eight and nine of his series, Histoire de la Province du Québec. One important aspect of the Danielson Affair that was discovered in the re-examination of Liptak's history, when analyzed against contemporary newspaper accounts, is that the French-Canadians of Danielson paid for Fr. Proulx's voyage to Rome, a point asserted by Liptak, and ignored by Rumilly. The sources that are used to re-examine the histories are sources that Robert Rumilly used, such as the Papers of Fr. Proulx that are held by the National Archives of Quebec at Montreal, as well as Fr. Proulx's own account as an intermediary in the Danielson Affair, entitled: :"Journal of My Steps and Walks in the Diocese of Hartford on the Subject of Danielson by the Reverend J.B. Proulx, Parish Priest of St. Lin." Also used are several contemporary newspapers in Connecticut, as well as three French-language newspapers that were published in Montreal and in Southern New England. In the analysis of the Danielson Affair and the Manitoba School Question, the thesis examines the development of several documents in light of either historical event. For example, the thesis analyzes the encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, Affari Vos, as to how it concluded the Manitoba School Question. Also, the thesis analyzes two speeches from the Eleventh Convention of the Canadiens-Américains du Connecticut that was held in September 1896, and how they became two documents about the Danielson Affair that were forwarded to Fr. Proulx while he was in Rome. Other documents that are examined are the decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors on the contested election of lay trustees at St. James' Church in Danielson, known as "State ex rel. George Barry vs. Eli Getty and James Reynolds" and the response by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hartford to the said decision that changed the state laws for the incorporation of Catholic parishes, “An Act concerning the Organization of Roman Catholic Churches” in 1903.
Subject	Proulx, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1846-1904 Education -- Manitoba -- History Church and education -- Manitoba French-Canadians -- Connecticut Catholics -- Connecticut Danielson (Conn.) -- Church history Saint James Church (Danielson, Conn.)
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Mezvinsky, Norton
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734352
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