not get further than the United States. He
died at Marienthal, in the home for priests in Lower Alsace, in the
year l844. While here he had also to suffer want and from
calumny, as his successor, Father Schneider, relates. At the
Kingston Archives the writer saw a petition of the Goderich Catholics
asking for a priest and stating that Father Wiriath would be welcome.
Father Schneider states that he was a good, zealous priest.
Mr. John Klein describes him as a tall, well built man of fine
appearance, and pleasant, agreeable manners and ways.
When Father Wiriath left there was no priest in
this section for about a year and a half or more, until Father
Schneider took up the work his predecessor had been doing. Before
going further with the history of Waterloo County it may be useful to
give the succession of Bishops who had charge of Upper Canada.