| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Adapting in Eden: Oregon's Catholic Minority, 1838–1986. By Patricia Brandt and Lillian A. Pereyra. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2002. 216 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $21.95, paper.)
The planting of the first definably Catholic community in the Northwest came about through the Hudson's Bay Company that, in 1821, extended its operations to the Columbia River. In 1838, John McLoughlin convinced Hudson officialdom that Catholic priests could help retain the loyalty of the French Canadians then being proselytized almost exclusively by Protestant American missionaries. When word of this opening to the church came to the bishop of Quebec, he selected Father Francis Norbert Blanchet to be his vicar general in the territory on the Columbia. Shortly after his arrival, Blanchet befriended, and then brought into the Catholic fold, McLoughlin, who even then was recognized as the virtual "Emperor of the Oregon country."	1
Francis Norbert Blanchet (1795–1883), a mature, earnest, devout, and widely-experienced priest with visionary plans, moved easily among the leadership of an area that proved to be unlike any other in the United States. One needn't venture too far into the study of American ecclesial history to affirm the sentiments given years later by Archbishop Charles Seghers over his beloved predecessor: "Francis Norbert Blanchet was to Oregon what Saint Boniface was to Germany, what Saint Augustine was to England, what Saint Patrick was to Ireland."	. . .

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