viii.                                  FOREWORD

most copious sources of information regarding the life and work of the parish.  As to the present work, let the reader not expect too much.  It is necessarily confined to the County of Waterloo and some adjoining parishes, unless time and opportunity is given to the writer to give a summary account of the churches in this Diocese of Hamilton.
     Considering the circumstances and time, the reader may find much that is incomplete and possibly inexact, particularly as to dates, regarding which peoples' memory is quite defective.
     As to style, the author pretends to none, nor does he claim to exhaust the subject.  In fact, he would be extremely pleased to find others more competent, covering the same ground more thoroughly than he was able to do it.
     Finally the writer feels it incumbent on himself to acknowledge, with the fullest meed of gratitude, his debt to all those who, in many ways, contributed information, often with considerable loss of time and no small inconvenience to themselves,, particularly to the Rev.  Father Jones, S.J., Archivist of St. Mary's College, Montreal, to whose kindness he owes fuller particulars of the Jesuit Fathers who labored long and well here.