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- Rev. Vincent Morrison, SFM
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Born on Prince Edward Island on December 9, 1883, Fr. Morrison came to join the band of missionaries being formed by John Mary Fraser shortly after the Seminary was opened in Almonte, Ontario. He went on to become the third person to be ordained for the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society on June 16, 1924 at the hands of his brother, Bishop James Morrison of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He spent the first year after ordination as bursar at St. Francis Xavier Seminary in Scarborough.
Fr. Morrison went to China in 1925. He would spend a total of 18 years of his priestly life there, the first year of which was in Sung Yang and district where he built a school for boys in 1931.
During the Japanese invasion of China, Fr. Morrison’s mission property and buildings were bombed out and he himself wounded. After six months in a Chinese hospital with insufficient medical treatment he received passage to Calcutta and Bombay, India where he was hospitalized and later obtained passage on an American troop ship to America.
In 1947 he was working at St. Anne’s Chinese Catholic Mission in Toronto where he remained until he was appointed pastor of Christ the Good Shepherd Parish in Lincoln Park, Detroit in 1949. He was visiting at Scarboro headquarters at the time of his sudden death in a car accident on Saturday October 7, 1950.
Fr. Morrison was waked in the chapel of St. Francis Xavier Seminary, Scarborough, Ontario on Tuesday, October 10th. The Mass of the resurrection was celebrated from St. Theresa’s Shrine Church, Scarboro Bluffs on Wednesday, October 11, 1950. Fr. Morrison was buried in Mary, Queen of Angels cemetery located on the grounds of St. Augustine’s Seminary in Scarborough.
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Created by F Rousselle 23 April 2025.
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Biographical sketch adapted from Society's "Book of Life".