Archives Collection, 1870- (bulk 1945- ).

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Archives Collection, 1870- (bulk 1945- ).

This collection contains: information about the college archives; historical information about Buffalo, Western New York, and Catholics and Jesuits in the Buffalo area; information about St. Ignatius of Loyola; written histories about the college; board and committee minutes, agendas, and organizational charts; college presidents' records; Treasurer records; Chancellor records; academic affairs records; faculty and faculty organizations information; information about the students, student organizations, and student services; curriculums, degrees, evaluations; business and finance records; fund raising information, alumni, benefactors, and memorials, special event programs, anniversary material, public relation material; scrapbooks; publications generated by the college; information about relations with other schools, exhibits, museums or collections of special items, music, programs, lectures and special guests, seismology, urban involvement, and outside organizations meeting at Canisius College; communications from Holy See (Rome), communications from the Bishop and Chancery, documents regarding Canisius College as Unit of Campus Parish, baptism, marriages, etc. records, liturgical directions, other parochial directives, letters, etc., and diocesan newspapers; and the Society of Jesus & Jesuit Community information.

2074 linear ft. + 1250 books + 103 photographs on display.

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Timon, John, 1797-1867

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Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, New York, 1847-1867. From the description of John Timon letters, 1857, 1864, 1866. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 174141666 ...

Canisius College

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Canisius College was founded by priests of the Society of Jesus in 1870. The first Bishop of Buffalo, John Timon, was anxious to provide Catholic education for his people and persistently appealed to Jesuit superiors to open a college in the Buffalo area. At first these requests were denied, due to a shortage of personnel and financial resources but in 1870, responding to the request of Bishop Steven Ryan, successor to Bishop Timon a start was made which has continued and expanded e...