“The Pope of Chateauguay”

Thanks to Kathy Fisher, I received a copy of a pamphlet with this enigmatic title early this year. Kathy and I figure this copy once belonged to Helen Little, David Corbett’s only sibling and mother of our three Canadian cousins, David, Susan and John. Kathy found it among second hand books on a recent visit to the area near Helen’s home.

The pamphlet was written by Keith Morison (yes, that’s with one r) and tells some of the story of our grandmother Margaret’s family. Margaret was a Morison and when she married Percy Corbett it was in Ormston, Quebec home town of her family. It’s in the Chateauguay Valley. I read “The Pope…” right away and then re-read “Father, God Bless Him”, stories of the Corbett family from the same period, very early in the 1900s. Great reads both, with humour and colour about the life of horse and buggy Presbyterian preachers in Canada with big families.

Inside the pamphlet there was a loose couple of pages with the stern photo you see below of Helen’s great grandmother Catherine Morison – our great great …. I’ve photographed it with the back cover blurb about Ed Corbett, one of Percy’s older brothers and author of “Father, God Bless Him”.

I have promised to lend the pamphlet to Jenny and to Nick Schuller. At a later date I may post some extracts from these two sources. Guaranteed to make you smile.