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Flying Fathers
The Flying Fathers are a group of Canadian Roman Catholic priests who regularly tour North America as an ice hockey team, playing exhibition games against local teams to raise money for charities. The team had the motto "praying and playing". History The organization was founded in 1963 by Brian McKee and Les Costello, two priests from Northern Ontario. Costello was a former professional hockey player, who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1940s, last playing 15 games during the 1948–49 season before his ordination as a priest. Costello was in North Bay in 1963 when he heard stories about a boy who had lost use of one eye, with his single mother unable to cover medical costs. He organized some priests to play a charity game against "guys who were in worse shape" to raise funds for the family. From the game's revenues, the team donated about CA$5,000 () to the mother. The original team had no name, with the members eventually choosing between "Flying Fathers" and "Pu ...
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Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ...
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Coma
A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. Coma patients exhibit a complete absence of wakefulness and are unable to consciously feel, speak or move. Comas can be derived by natural causes, or can be medically induced. Clinically, a coma can be defined as the inability consistently to follow a one-step command. It can also be defined as a score of ≤ 8 on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) lasting ≥ 6 hours. For a patient to maintain consciousness, the components of ''wakefulness'' and ''awareness'' must be maintained. Wakefulness describes the quantitative degree of consciousness, whereas awareness relates to the qualitative aspects of the functions mediated by the cortex, including cognitive abilities such as attention, sensory perception, explicit memory, language, the execution of tasks, temporal ...
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Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ...
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Frank Cosentino
Frank Cosentino (born May 22, 1937) is a former Canadian football quarterback in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and a former head coach in University football. He played professionally for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos and Toronto Argonauts for ten years where he was a two-time Grey Cup champion, winning in 1963 and 1965. He was head coach of the Western Mustangs football team for five years where he led the team to two Vanier Cup wins in 1971 and 1974 before completing his coaching career with the York Yeomen. Cosentino was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2018. Early life Born and raised in Hamilton, he played baseball with Russ Jackson and Murray Oliver in the Hamilton Police Minor Baseball Association. He attracted offers from the Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Braves and Kansas City Athletics. He played Junior and senior intercounty baseball with Hamilton teams. He was also a noted fastball pitcher and played basketball through his y ...
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Roman Catholic Church In Canada
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Peterborough Examiner
''The Peterborough Examiner'' is a newspaper that services Peterborough, Ontario and area. The paper started circulation in 1847, and is currently owned by Torstar and operated by its Metroland division. Between 1942 and 1955, it was edited by Canadian man of letters Robertson Davies, whose unique three-paragraph editorial style won several awards. Davies remained owner and publisher of the ''Examiner'' and Ralph Hancox the editor until 1967, when it was sold to the Thomson chain of newspapers. Subsequently, Sterling, Hollinger and Sun Media owned the newspaper before Postmedia. ''The Peterborough Examiner'' was one of several Postmedia newspapers purchased by Torstar in a transaction between the two companies which concluded on November 27, 2017. The paper continued to be published by the Metroland Media Group subsidiary of Torstar. In late May 2020, Torstar, accepted an offer for the sale of all of its assets to Nordstar Capital, a deal expected to close by year end. It is the ...
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Toronto
The Archdiocese of Toronto ( la, Archidioecesis Torontina) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Ontario. Its archbishop is also the ecclesiastical provincial for the dioceses of Hamilton, London, Saint Catharines, and Thunder Bay. The Archbishop is Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins (made Cardinal on February 18, 2012). Mass is celebrated within the Archdiocese of Toronto in 36 ethnic and linguistic communities every week making the Archdiocese one of the most ethnically diverse Catholic dioceses in the world. Overall the Archdiocese of Toronto is the largest in Canada. History The diocese was created on December 17, 1841 out of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston and covered the western half of Upper Canada. Bishop Michael Power was appointed as the first Bishop. For a complete history, see thArchdiocese History website In the 1840s, the major challenge was the huge unexpected influx of very poor immigrants, mostly Irish escaping the ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Saint Catharines
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Catharines ( la, Dioecesis Sanctae Catharinae in Ontario) (erected 22 November 1958) is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Toronto in St. Catharines, Ontario. It covers the municipalities of Niagara Region and Haldimand County. Bishops Ordinaries * Thomas Joseph McCarthy (9 November 1958 Appointed - 7 July 1978 Resigned) * Thomas Benjamin Fulton (7 July 1978 Appointed - 2 February 1994 Retired) * John Aloysius O’Mara (2 February 1994 Appointed - 9 November 2001 Retired) * James Matthew Wingle (9 November 2001 Appointed - 7 April 2010 Resigned) * Gerard Paul Bergie (14 September 2010 Appointed - ) Other priests of this diocese who became bishops * Frederick Joseph Colli, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Ottawa, Ontario in 1994 * Richard John Grecco, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of London, Ontario in 1997 * Wayne Joseph Kirkpatrick, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario in 2012 History The Diocese of St. Catharines underwent considerable ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Peterborough
The Diocese of Peterborough ( la, Dioecesis Peterboroughensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Ontario, Canada. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario. Its episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Peter-in-Chains in Peterborough, Ontario. On March 10, 2017, Pope Francis named former Hamilton Auxiliary Bishop Daniel J. Miehm as the new Bishop of Peterborough. History Established on 25 January 1874 as Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Canada, on territory split off from the Diocese of Kingston in Ontario, the Diocese of Peterborough was first established July 11, 1882 by Pope Leo XIII. Statistics and extent As per 2014, it pastorally served 61,700 Catholics (13.8% of 447,000 total) on 25,900 km2 in 40 parishes and a mission with 69 priests (56 diocesan, 13 religious), 8 deacons, 92 lay religious (13 brothers, 79 sisters) and 3 seminarians. As of 2006, the dioces ...
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Ottawa–Cornwall
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa–Cornwall ( la, Archidioecesis Ottaviensis–Cornubiensis, french: L'Archidiocèse d'Ottawa-Cornwall) is a Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Ontario and includes the suffragan dioceses of Hearst, Pembroke, and Timmins. On 6 May 2020, Pope Francis amalgamated the Archdiocese of Ottawa and the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall to create the Archdiocese of Ottawa–Cornwall. The Diocese of Bytown was erected on 25 June 1847. Its name was changed to the Diocese of Ottawa on 14 June 1860. It was elevated to archdiocese status on 8 June 1886. As of 2004, the archdiocese contained 111 parishes, 177 active diocesan priests, 102 religious priests, and 400,000 Catholics. It also has 848 Women Religious, 147 Religious Brothers, and 60 permanent deacons. Leadership ;Bishops and archbishops of Ottawa * Joseph-Eugène-Bruno Guigues (1847–1874) *Joseph-Thomas Duhamel (1874–1909) * Charles-Hughes Gauthier (1910–1922) * Jose ...
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Kingston, Canada
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston ( la, Archidioecesis Kingstoniensis/Regiopolitana) is a Latin Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the federal Province of Ontario in southeastern Canada. Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is St. Mary's Cathedral, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, in Kingston, Ontario. Ecclesiastical province Its suffragan sees are : * Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough, daughter * Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario. History http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/king0.htm GCatholic * Established on 1819.01.12 as Apostolic Vicariate of Upper Canada, on territory split off from the then Roman Catholic Diocese of Québec. * Promoted as Diocese of Kingston on 27 January 1826, as a suffragan diocese of the (meanwhile promoted) Archdiocese of Quebec. Prior to 1841 when the Diocese of Toronto was created, the diocese included areas that are now part of the Dioceses of Hamilton, London, Saint Catharines, Thunder Bay a ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Hamilton, Ontario
The Diocese of Hamilton ( la, Dioecesis Hamiltonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Canada. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese in Toronto. The cathedral is the Cathedral Basilica of Christ the King, dedicated to Christ the King in 1933, in Hamilton, Ontario. There is a former cathedral, St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, also in Hamilton and a minor basilica, Our Lady Immaculate, in Guelph, Ontario. History It was established on 29 February 1856 by Pope Pius IX as the Diocese of Hamilton, on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Toronto, which became its Metropolitan. On 22 November 1958, it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Saint Catharines. The Diocese of Hamilton celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2006, with Anthony Tonnos celebrating Mass at the seat of the diocese. Special signs, marks and posters were commissioned for many of the diocese's churches, school ...
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