We all know the Father Turney Road that runs behind the school, but do you know Father Turney? The school’s chaplain, he passed away in 1962.
Read his obit. According to an old boy from that time period, “he was a real character and he made the Winnipeg Free Press on several occasions. The picture I recall is of an elderly priest in a black cassock wailing away with his umbrella on the hood of some hapless motorist … He believed that pedestrians should ever and always have the right of way over mere automobiles and woe betide any errant motorist that crossed his path. Red light or green light, crosswalk or middle of the street, it didn’t matter to Father Turney.”
There’s much more to learn about this man, but the Father Turney was a great stretch of road behind the school.
