ALEXANDRIA in ONTARIO, Diocese of. — In Canada, suffragan of Kingston. Erected on 23 Jan. 1890 under the name of A. in America, changed on 15 Nov. 1910 to A. in Ontario. The diocese comprises the counties of Glengarry and Stormont, situated in the north-east of this province. Statistics for 1948: 37,600 Catholics out of 59,300 inhabitants; 29 parishes with 37 diocesan priests.
BIBL.: AAS, 2 (1910), p. 946; s. V. in The Cath. Enc., I, ed. riv. (1936), p. 315; Le Canada ecclesiastique, Montréal 1936, pp. 401-12; Corrado Morin