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stor of Goderich until 1868
th the exception of the
rod1852•1854.
Father Schneider was a
ourful mons He was born
tober 23, 1806, at
hoenbourg in Alsace,
ance: we aro told that he
s a soldier 111 Napoleon's
my, aril
served at
aterino. 11t was ordained a
test in 1,i311,,nal served first
his native I: r.rnce and then
came' ,r 11,1,siunary in
merica stir+in : first in New
rk. them \i.,atreal, then
ngstnn and •1'or•,rnto, and
Ily, after it as formed,
e Diocese of 1 undun, He is
Iled The Apostle of Huron
ounty".
One historian tells us that
is countenance bore a
iking resemblance to the
e Pope Pius IX, while
ers describe him as "a
mendous man, with a plain
good face" who "strode
ng in his soutane as if his
bre were still clattering by
side" as "a jolly priest", a
of "pluck'`, as a man of
coign expression given by
living, good heart and
temper".
Father Schneider too
veiled from township to'
nship, by foot and on
eback, through the bush
on trails blazed through
.forests, his rotund figure
asized by the cassock he
ably wore, to minister
his people. When the
road came, he rode the
ine to get to some of his
ons,
icifrFR TO BOOT
was a fighter. Thinking
ad been promised land
church purposes in Ash-
ld Township by one can-
te for public office, and
the promise had not been
it is said that on voting
each polling place
d a small note, "It is a
ke for my people to
gine that I wish them to
for the Honourable
iam Cayley. i desire them
vote for the Honourable
colo Cameron. -_ P.
eider P,P," He was
eteweeny by all. "Once,
ween and
he met the.
Orangemen having a walk.
They opened up their ranks to
let him pass through, which
he did, bowing right and left
as in a progress, they saluting
as he passed up the aisle
made for him. To have had
such a position was no small
testimony to a man's worth."
He is said to have lived on
the corner of Kingston and St.
David's Street when he first
arrived in Goderich and later
lived in a' frame cottage on
the site of the old separate
school on North Street and
Caledonia Terrace, facing the
present church.
Father Schneider com-
menced the records that are
now in the parish. In his own
handwriting we read,
"Record of Baptisms,
Marriages and Deaths
commencing with the' year
1844. Being a record for the
three missions to wit:
Goderich, Irishtown and
Stratford,"
For some unknown reason
Father Schneider found it
necessary to leave the parish
and go to Rome in 1852, a
perilous journey in those
days. Why he went we do not
know, 'but in the parish
records under the date of
June 1852, he wrote: "Here I
left Goderich and may God
keep my successor to his duty
faithful as I have been for
nine years'.
The successor to Father
Schneider was Father J. J.
Ryan, who was installed as
pastor on June 24, 1.852, His
stewardship continued until
1853 and he apparently cared
for Ashfield. Little else is
kftown of him. He in turn was
succeeded by Father Robert.
Keleher. He was in Goderich
in September 1853, and was at
that time thirty-nine years of
age and fourteen years a
priest. Goderich was now a
part of the jurisdiction of The
Rt. Rev. Armand Francis
Marie, Comte De Char-
bonelle, then Bishop of
Toronto, who, during his
episcopate, ran a running
battle with Egerton Ryerson
over the Separate School
question,
Father Keleher relatesthat
he had been ordained in 1840
by Bishop Cornelius Egan of
Kerry at Maynouth, Ireland,
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that he had laboured in
Ireland until 1895 when he
sailed for America, and was
accepted by Bishop John
Hughes, then Bishop of New
York, He then transferred to
the jurisdiction of Bishop
John McCloskey of Albany. In
1852, he placed himself under
Bishop De Charbonelle ''in
that part of America known
as Caniida West'', The last
record made by Father
Keleher in the Goderich
records was on May 31, 1851
Then, as mysteriously as he.
left, Father Schneider again.
comes on the scene. We have
no record of exactly when,
but in 1856 he recohds in the
parish register: "Dear
Reader. My mission this 13
years was Stratford,
Irishtown, Goderich. This last
yt'ar it has pleased the Rt.
Rev. Doctor Charhonal
Bishop of ,Toronto to take off
Stratford.. 'There now remains
Goderich. Irish tow n, Ashfield
and I,:tyfield etc." It must
have been shortly after this
entry that the Diocese of
London was formed on
February 29, 1856, with
Bishop P. A. Pinsonneault
consecrated as its first bishop
in May, 1856 - and Goderich
came under its jurisdiction:.
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