Two letters of Archbishop Taché on the school question
Two letters of Archbishop Taché on the school question
Taché, Alexandre-Antonin: 1823-1894. Arrived in Red River as a Catholic missionary, 1845; coadjutor bishop of Saint-Boniface, 1851; succeeded Bishop Provencher, 1853; created archbishop, 1871; acted as a mediator during Red River Rebellion; prominent participant in the dispute over Manitoba separate schools in the early 1890s (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Letters addressed to the editor of the Winnipeg Free Press . Contents: "Archbishop Taché thinks his ideas with regard to religious instruction in schools fully corroborated in England"; "Separate schools: Archbishop Taché answers some statements against Catholic schools."