Loyola College - Review Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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Rev. H. O'Donnell, S. J. Rev. C. Rushman, S. J. SNS Saans Rev, M. Limoges, S.J. Rev. W. Connor, S.J. Rev. H. McKinnon, S.J. Rev. J. O’Neill, S.J. Rev. A. Graham, S. J. Mr. F, Hayes, B. Sc. Mr, E. Whitehall, C. A. Mr. J. Buell, M. A. 19 Mr. K. Ekler, Ph. D. Mr. F. Guadagni, B. Eng. Mr. J. McMahon, C. A. Mr. A. Prillo, B. Sc., M. A. 9

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Rev. W. McDonnell, S. J. Rev. T. Moylan, S. J. i Rev. D. Asselin. S. J. Rev. G. MacGuigan, S. J. Rev. H. Phelan, S. J. Rev. H. Smeaton, S. J. Rev. F. Noll, S. J. Rev. E. O'Connor, S. J. Rev. E. Healey, S. J. Rev. H. Wardell, S. J. Rev. A. Nelson, S. J. Rev. G. Hoffmann, S, J. Rev. L. Stanford, S. J. Rev. S. Drummond, S. J.

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d Mr. D. Potvin Mr. R. Wareham, M.A. Mr, D. Waters, B.A. Mr. H. Lau, M.A. Mr. L. Levi, B. Comm., C. A. Mr. F. Tomscha, M. Sc. Mr, L. Bessner, B. Comm., C. A. Fr. Filion Celebrates 10 60th Year In Jesuit Order Fr. Filion was born in Grenville, Quebec, in 1878. Receiving his B.A. from College Ste. Marie in 1899, he joined the order in 1900. His primary studies took him from Montreal to Frederick, Maryland; Poughkeepsie, New York and from there back again to Montreal and Loyola College in 1903. His studies at Loyola were interrupted when he was summoned by his Superiors to teach second high at Loyola, which was then located on Drummond Street. It is a known fact that Fr. Filion’s connection with Loyola dates back further than that of any other living Jesuit. After one and a half years at Loyola and three years of Philosophy at Immaculate Conception, he was sent out West and taught Freshman and Sophomore years at St. Boniface. From there he went to England for five years of study, after which he returned to Loyola as a professor of Philosophy in 1917. In January 1918 he was made Vice-Rector of Loyola and in June of the same year was made Provincial Superior of Canada. The tasks which he undertook in the years following are primary examples of his great devotion to the Order. He founded Campion College in Regina which, thus far, has given seventy priests to the Church. He urged completion of Loyola’s Administration Building. At Rome, in 1923, he was given assurance that the eight Jesuit martyrs would be beatified in 1925 and, also, that the Canadian Jesuit Province, which was then one, would be divided in 1924. He was made Vice-Provincial of the new English speaking Province and took advantage of his office to build the Martyr’s Shrine near Midland, Ontario, which was opened and blessed by Cardinal O'Connell of Boston in June 1926. In 1928, he was replaced as Vice-Provincial by Fr. Hingston. He then labored in Regina, Winnipeg, WMalifax and Montreal, having to his credit twenty-eight years in the classroom. He has been at Loyola continuously since 1947.