Maurus Channel


Maurus Channel (49˚12'00" 125˚56'00" Between Meares I and Vargas I, just N of Tofino, Clayoquot Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Benedictine priest Maurus Snyder (b 1865), a native of Switzerland, was ordained in 1890. He was part of the original group of Benedictines who founded Mt Angel Abbey in Oregon, and he served as a professor at Mt Angel College, 1890–1900. For the next decade, Fr Maurus worked as principal of the Christie residential school at Kakawis on Meares I. He oversaw the...

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