IN THE COUNTY OF WATERLOO
CHAPTER
V.-WATERLOO COUNTY, ETC.,
UNDER
FATHER SCHNEIDER, 1837 TO 1844.
About a year and a
quarter after Father Wiriath's departure from Waterloo County, the Rev.
Peter Schneider came and had his home, or quasi home, first in
New Germany and then in St. Agatha. As he labored much longer and
very zealously in the missionary field of the western end of the
Province, he deserves a more lengthy mention.
Father Schneider was born Oct. 23, 1806, in Schoenborn, Lower Alsace.
REV. PETER SCHNEIDER.
Having pasesd the Lyce'e (high school) at Zabern, he entered the
Novitiate of the Redemptorists at Vienna, Austria, but did not remain
there long. In 1830 he came to America, studied Rhetoric,
Philosophy and Theology at the Montreal College and Seminary, when he
was ordained in 1836 (June 1.9), for Upper Canada. He was at
Sandwich and Amherstburg for a little over a year. At Amherstburg
he entered his first baptism July 26, 1836, and the last Dec. 26, 1836.
From Sandwich he wrote Oct. 5, 1836, to Kingston, saying that he
was there with the Indians (Hurons) and asks for good books and
devotional articles, etc.; that he met with difficulties in
establishing himself at Marysville and