EASTVIEW
Notre Dame d'Afrique
Eastview
Ottawa, Canada


(Source : Tony Smyth)

The White Fathers' house.

This Page is dedicated to Eastview, the White Fathers' house in Canada —but is very much a 'work in progress'.
I have hastily pulled together all the existing material about Eastview that is already on the website, plus 4 lists of ex-seminarians that was loaned to me recently by Jim Youdale. Hopefully, people such as Jim, Tony Smyth and Bernard Joiner will be able to make this a cohesive Page. As soon as possible, therefore, this Appendix will be re-vamped and more informative.

  1. Lists of those who spent time at Eastview

  2. Material from Tony Smyth


  4. Photographs taken at Eastview (by Jim Youdale)

  5. Camp Lavigerie

















There now follows 4 pages of names and contact information of people who atended Eastview
—though I cannot be certain that this is a comprehensive list. In order to include some of the names
immediately into a form that the 'Quick Search facility can use, I am typing details of the British and Irish Scolastics :

Name Dates
David Airley 1962
Paul Ashby 1961-63
John Conlon 1958-62
Jude Coyle 1971-75
Bryan Grist 1960-62
Alfred Harrison 1962-66
Ray Hollywood ?
Richard Kinlen 1970-74
John MacDonald 1964-68
Terence Madden 1975-76
Anthony McCaffry 1961-64
Lawrence McFadden 1970?
Donal Ó Brolcháin 1965-67
James O'Toole 1958-61
John Quinn 1963-64
Michael Ryan 1961-65
Aylward Shorter 1958-62
Tony Smyth 1972-73
John Wade 1958-63
Chris Wallbank 1970-74
James Youdale 1961-63


HOWEVER, this website is all-inclusive and I am keen to get on with the task of converting
the following into files that the computer can read 'in a meaningful way'. (He's so coy).







Maurice Billingsley writes (February 2008) :
" The list of Canadian Scholastics for 1960-61 . . . . includes Marcel Boivin.
Despite having chopped the tops of the fingers on one hand with a circular saw
he still coped with playing the guitar very well. Marcel was teaching at Totteridge
in my time (1970-72), though I'm not sure he ever taught me. "









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Material contributed by Tony Smyth (which is already on the website) :

Tony writes :

"This is what remains of the Eastview (Canada) Scholasticate today. The White Fathers sold their house in Vanier to the city in 1975. The main structure, which stood immediately behind the statue of 'Notre Dame d'Afrique' (Vanier is a francophone area of Ottawa) was demolished and made into a parking lot. The sisters' house to the left of the main building (not seen in this photo) became the Vanier city library and what was the last extension to the building, to the left, which in my day housed the recreation hall, conference room and meeting rooms, became Vanier City Hall.

Since the amalgamation of Vanier into the greater city of Ottawa in 2000 I'm not sure what this building is now used for. But the statue remains, as do the White Fathers/Péres Blancs signs on the gate posts to the property (one gatepost has White Fathers on a carving of the African continent, the other says Péres Blancs on a similar carving) and the entire property which is now a public park stands at the top of Ave Pere Blancs.



(source: Tony Smyth)

Tony writes :

"This is what remains of the Eastview (Canada) Scholasticate today. The White Fathers sold their house in Vanier to the city in 1975. The main structure, which stood immediately behind the statue of 'Notre Dame d'Afrique' (Vanier is a francophone area of Ottawa) was demolished and made into a parking lot. The sisters' house to the left of the main building (not seen in this photo) became the Vanier city library and what was the last extension to the building, to the left, which in my day housed the recreation hall, conference room and meeting rooms, became Vanier City Hall.

Since the amalgamation of Vanier into the greater city of Ottawa in 2000 I'm not sure what this building is now used for. But the statue remains, as do the White Fathers/Péres Blancs signs on the gate posts to the property (one gatepost has White Fathers on a carving of the African continent, the other says Péres Blancs on a similar carving) and the entire property which is now a public park stands at the top of Ave Pere Blancs.

 

More of Tony Smyth's slides from days and places you might have known.


Tony writes (17th July 2004) :

" This time, taking a quick nip across 'the pond'. As there were many Britishstudents that went through the Scholasticate in Vanier (formerly Eastview)here in the Ottawa I thought these shots may be appropriate.

On Page 121 of the Gallery I supplied a photo of how the site is today. These are from when the White Fathers house was still standing.

The shot entitled 'Ave Pères Blancs' is taken from the steps of the house. The one of 'Notre Dame d'Afrique' is taken from outside the 'new' wing which later became Vanier City Hall until the amalgamation of regional municipalities of Ottawa = Carleton into the City of Ottawa in Jan. 2000 . . . . . "



(Source : Tony Smyth)

The White Fathers' house.


(Source : Tony Smyth)

" . . . . taken from the steps of the house"




(Source : Tony Smyth)

" . . . . taken from outside the 'new' wing which later became Vanier City Hall until the amalgamation
of regional municipalities of Ottawa = Carleton into the City of Ottawa in Jan. 2000"


(Source : Tony Smyth)

This photo was taken during the summer of 1973 while Tony was working at the White Fathers'
Family Camp ('Camp Lavigerie') at Onchiota, NY in the Adirondack mountains.


In September 2010, Tony sent some more photos and an update.
Click here to go directly to GALLERY Page 382.

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Bernard Joiner placed the following email on the Messageboard :


December 30th 2004

Subject : White Fathers' admirer

Dear Mr. West

After much research into retrieving information on 'White Fathers of Eastview' in Ontario Canada, I happen to fall on the name Tony Smyth, who contributed many photos and information.

I am very impressed with the results of his contribution towards your manuscript; and I am very interested in purchasing the book if it ever goes to print.

Although I have no photos and little information to contribute, I have fond memories of the White Fathers of Eastview. My fondest memory is the making of maple sugar with the Fathers. The White Fathers were a special inspiration to me.

My birth year is 1952; I would sometimes visit when I was 8 to10 years old.

I would be grateful if contact or photos could be available around that time period (1959-1963).

Please feel free to forward my Email address to Tony Smyth or any White Father who could have resided in Eastview around that time period.

I wish you all the best and I thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely;

Bernard M. Joiner.



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Camp Lavigerie

•Tony Smyth, who attended the scholasticate in Vanier (1972-73), posted the following on the Message Board (September 25th 2015):

"As you may recall from some of my previous contributions I spent a very happy summer in 1973 as a counsellor at Camp Lavigerie, a family camp run by the White Fathers in Onchiota, NY. Well I recently came across an article on the web by way of the White Fathers/Camp Lavigerie group on facebook, which I thought would be good to share with other Pelicans, especially those who may have attended the scholasticate in Vanier (Eastview), as, I am sure, a fair number of them may have also served at Camp Lavigerie".

Click below to view this article:

http://duffyscreek.com/2015/08/01/a-saranac-lake-guy-the-story-of-camp-lavigerie/

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