BAIA DI HUDSON, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. II, p. 416

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

BAIA DI HUDSON, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO OF

This apostolic vicariate is entrusted to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The mission among the Eskimos began in 1912; it was erected into an apostolic prefecture on 15 July 1925 through the division of the apostolic vicariates of Keewatin, Gulf of St. Lawrence and Mackenzie, and was elevated to an apostolic vicariate on 21 December 1931.

Eskimo population: 8,050; Catholics: 1,075; stations: 14; priests: 24; lay brothers: 5; sisters: 6. There is a hospital with 30 beds, run since 1931 by the “Soeurs Grises” of Montreal.

BIBL.: Guida delle Missioni Cattoliche, Roma [1935], p. 283; A. G. Morice, Mgr. Turquetil, apôtre des Esquimaux et le miracle de ses missions, Winnipeg 1935; MC, pp. 27-28; J. Paton, in L'Apôtolat des Oblats de Marie, numero speciale 1940, pp. 53-7; Archivio di Prop. Fide, Prospectus status missionis, 15 Sept. 1948, posiz. n. prot. 4156/48.

BAIA DI JAMES, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO OF

Entrusted to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, this vicariate was erected on 3 December 1938 by division of the diocese of Timmins and Hearst.

Population: 20,700 Catholics; 250 dissenters; 10,780 Protestants; 500 pagans. The ministry is carried out by 44 secular priests, 26 brothers and 48 sisters. There are 68 elementary schools with 2,019 pupils and 2 secondary schools with 62 pupils. Charitable works include a dispensary and three hospitals.

BIBL.: AAS, 31 (1939), pp. 96-98; MC, pp. 27-28; Anon., Missions de la Congrégation des Missionnaires Oblats de Marie Immaculée, Roma 1947, pp. 79-94, n. 268.