Background

Terence Fay was born on June 28, 1932, in Syracuse, New York. He is the son of Hugh and Susan Agnes, a homemaker, Fay.

Education

Terence Fay attended Gonzaga University, where he got a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in 1961. He also studied at Regis College and received a Master of Arts in 1967. Besides, Fay graduated from Georgetown University. There he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1974.

Career

Terence Fay began his career in education at Regiopolis College as a teacher in 1950-1953. In 1971 he started to work at the University of Manitoba. After it, Fay joined the University of Winnipeg and Mount Allison University, but later, he returned to the University of Manitoba in 1981. Since 1988, Fay is a lecturer at the University of Toronto. Also, he served at the United States Navy in 1950-1954.

In addition to his teaching activity, Terence Fay is an associate pastor at the Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Toronto and Engaged Encounter Weekends animator. Furthermore, he holds the position of research director for Dictionary of Jesuit Biography: Ministry to English Canada, 1842-1987, at the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies. As a writer, he wrote to periodicals, including American Review of Canadian Studies, Urban History Review, Compass: Jesuit Journal, Irish Messenger of the Sacred Heart, Studies: Irish Quarterly Review, Ultimate Reality, and Meaning: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding, and Historical Studies. Besides, Terence Fay served as an editor at the Canadian Catholic Historical Association Bulletin in 1991-2014.

Achievements

• Terence Fay is best known as an educator and writer. He teaches for more than sixty years. Fay also is a holder of several awards, including the Doctor Gemma Ching's Ching Award in 1990, the Jesuit Award from the Jesuit Fathers of Upper Canada in 1995, the Jackman Award for public service from the Jackman Foundation in 1996, the Golden Alumni Award from the Le Moyne College in 2003, and the George Edward Clerk Award from the Brock University in 2014, which recognizes Fay's contributions to Canadian Catholic History as a researcher, writer and teacher, and to the Canadian Catholic Historical Association as both treasurer and editor of the Bulletin.

Works

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  • A History of Canadian Catholics

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  • New Faces of Canadian Catholics 2009

Views

Being an educator, Terence Fay finds that "it is very significant to put down in writing what you wish to talk about to the students." Further, as a writer, he believes that "history must be vividly written to be good history and to assist the reader's memory."

Quotations: "My writing method is 'by gosh by gad' method of jumping in and doing it. It is learning by doing. Every article or book demands different methods or different models."

"By the experience of writing and editing, I have learned a more sophisticated grammar and syntax in my writing style, which makes the text easier to read. It benefits both the author and the reader."

"I have taught political, diplomatic, and religious history. All three fields delight me when I hear or read about them."

Membership

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  Canadian Historical Association , Canada

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  Terence Fay was the president of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association.

  Canadian Catholic Historical Association , Canada

• Historia Ecclesiae Catholicae Canadensis , Canada

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  American Catholic Historical Association , United States

• Associates of Ultimate Reality and Meaning , Canada

Interests

• Writers

  Thomas Bokenkotter

Connections

Father:

Hugh Fay

Mother:

Susan Agnes Fay

Susan Agnes Fay's maiden name was Dunne.