From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aeneas Dawson
Aeneas Dawson
Aeneas McDonell Dawson (b. in Scotland, 30 July 1810; A list of his poems and other works is in the "Proceedings
d. in Ottawa, Canada, 29 December 1894) was a Scottish- and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada" (1894,
Canadian Roman Catholic priest and writer. XII, 23), of which he was a member.
Life References
Aeneas studied at the seminary of Paris and was ordained • Morgan, Bibliotheca Canadensis, or Manual of Canadian
a priest in 1835. Until 1840 he laboured on the mission Literature (Ottawa, 1867);
of Dumfries, Scotland, and subsequently in Edinburgh. He • James, Bibliography of Canadian Poetry (Toronto, 1899);
was in Dunfermline in 1846[1]. Before emigrating to Cana- • Public Testimonial to the Rev. Æ. McD. Dawson (Ottawa,
da in 1855, he had successive charge of the counties of 1890);
Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan. • Tanguay, Répertoire Général du Clergé Canadien
On his arrival in Canada he was given the parish of (Quebec, 1868) (Tanguay inaccurately gives the date
St. Andrew’s, Ottawa[2], and later became preacher at the of Father Dawson’s birth as 1830)
cathedral. Dawson was a lecturer of repute and a fre-
quent contributor to the provincial press.
Notes
[1] New Mission
Works [2] University of Ottawa (St. Joseph’s College), 1840’s
He is the author of
• "The Temporal Sovereignty of the Pope" (Ottawa and
London, 1860), the first book printed and published
References
in Ottawa; • This article incorporates text from a publication
• "St. Vincent de Paul: A Biography" (London, 1865); now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed
• "Seven Letters together with a Lecture on the (1913). "Æneas McDonnell Dawson". Catholic
Colonies of Great Britain" (Ottawa, 1870); Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
• "The Late Hon. Thomas D’Arcy McGee. A Funeral
Oration" (Ottawa, 1870);
• "Our Strength and Their Strength: The Northwest
External links
Territory and Other Papers, Chiefly Relating to the • Marianopolis College page
Dominion of Canada" (Ottawa, 1870) - the first title • Bibliography
heads a refutation of Goldwin Smith’s anti-clerical • Archive page
views; under the last comes a series of poems, • (French) Généalogie Quebec
discourses, lectures, critical reviews; Persondata
• "Pius IX and his Time" (London, 1880). Name Dawson, Aeneas
He translated from the French:
Alternative names
• "Maître Pierre. Conversations on Morality, by M.
Delcasott" (Paris, 1836); Short description
• "The Parish Priest and His Parishioners, or Answer to Date of birth 30 July 1810
Popular Prejudices against Religion, by M. B. Place of birth
D’Exauvillez" (Glasgow, 1842), reviewed in "The
Tablet", London, 12 Feb., 1842; Date of death 29 December 1894
• Letters of same author on the Spanish Inquisition Place of death
(London, 1848);
• "Count Joseph de Maistre’s celebrated work on the
Pope" (London, 1850),
• and his "Soirées de S. Pétersbourg" (London, 1851).
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