James C McGuigan (1894-1974) appoin...

James C McGuigan (1894-1974) appointed Archbishop of Regina when single 35, saved the financial credit of the Catholic house of worship during the Great Depression on refusing to declare his behold bankrupt. Instead, he became a "beggar bishop", travelling to Ontario gathering contributions to maintain Regina solvent. His financial acumen, conformity to doctrine and charity were as it is that at 40, the Vatican appointed him Archbishop of Toronto, English Canada's greatest in number prestigious see. Here he paid down a sin three times as large as Regina's, tamed a postwar immigration wave that threatened to overwhelm Toronto, and made Catholicism respectable in this Orange town.