The parish at Consort was founded by Rev. Leconte (who also served in Castor) who searved the parish from 1911 to 11921. In 1914 Rev. Leconte received a $500.00 grant from the Catholic Church Extension Society and began a fund to build a new church. On July 15 Archbishop Legal blessed the new chapel and dedicated it to St. Andrew.
On January 29, 1961 St. Angela Merici parish was officially established. Architect Eugene Olesksky was selected by the Building Committee to design the church and many men from the parish helped with construction.
A few months later on July 25, 1961 Co-adjutor-Archbishop Anthony Jordan, OMI, blessed the corner stone and construction continued. The building was eventually finished in October of 1961. Co-adjutor-Archbishop Jordan blessed and dedicated the new church on October 29, 1961. Prior to the blessing of the new church mass was held at St. Angela's School.
The first parish priest was Rev. Edmund McGrane who served the parish until 1970. Since there was no rectory in 1961 Rev. McGrane lived in the annex between the hall and Church.
Shortly after the parish was established both a Men's Club and a Women's Club were formed. These two groups helped raise funds to pay for the construction of the church as well as for other parish activities.
In August, 1961, the parish purchased the house at 13343-132nd Street. This house was to be the convent for three sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion. The sisters moved into their new home on Aug. 26th.
In 1967 the hall and rectory were built.
On May 14, 1976 the parish celebrated the final payment of their mortgage by celebrating the 25th anniversary to the priesthood of Rev. Leslie Scrive (who had been appointed pastor at St. Angela in 1971) by burning the mortgage.
In 2010 Rev. Patrick Baska was appointed parish priest of St. Angela Merici and assigned the task of preparing the parish for closure, three years later on June 30, 2013 the parish celebrated its final mass and was merged with St. Edmund Parish.
By the 1950’s Francophone Catholics living near the Jasper Place area of Edmonton felt they had too far to travel to St. Joachim Parish for mass. As they were numerous enough to support a community they petitioned the Archbishop to establish a parish for them.
On August 28, 1951 Archbishop John Hugh MacDonald set the boundary limits of the new parish of St. Anne. The church would be located north of Stony Plain Road and the parish boundaries would be the same as those of St. John the Evangelist; the Saskatchewan River to the South; 118th Avenue to the North; 142nd Street on the East; and Winterburn Road on the West. The new parish would be dependent on St. Joachim parish which would send a priest to serve both the community. Rev. Jean Patoine, OMI, was the founding pastor.
In September 1953, Rev. Rene Jacob was appointed pastor of St. Anne Parish, but a year later Father Jacob and the school trustees, faced by an enormous debt ($67.000), asked to become a bilingual parish in order to ensure better revenues. For eight years, St. Anne had its liturgies in both French and English.
In May 1964, Rev. Claude Prefontaine became the new pastor. Hearing that a new English parish was in the process if being formed in the neighborhood (Holy Spirit Parish), he organized a parish council with a view of giving back to the parish its original French character. It was also the time when liturgical changes related to Vatican II were being studied and promoted.
In Oct. 1966 the Holy Spirit church was opened for the English speaking members of the Jasper Place Community and shortly after, on Nov.5, 1966 a committee was formed to promote the French Parish.
On Nov. 20, 1966 the parish was completely destroyed by a fire. On Feb 19, 1967 Archbishop Anthony Jordan assigned Notre Dame de Lourdes School for church services and asked Rev. Raymond Sevigny (assistant pastor at St. Andrew’s) to provide the Sunday Mass services.
Rev. Camille Dozois was appointed Administrator of St. Anne Parish from February to June 1967. After Easter 1967, Rev. Georges Chevrier, OMI, pastor at St. Joachim’s, was asked to take charge of St. Anne’s Parish. Rev. Amedee Nadeau, OMI, assistant at St. Joachim’s served St. Anne’s in July and August 1967; Rev. P.A.Hudon served from Sep. 1967 to 1969.
On Nov 1, 1967 St. Anne parishioners had their first Mass in the chapel of the Grey Nuns Regional Centre. On Nov 5, 1967 the regular Sunday services began.
On June 18, 1975 the St. Anne Parish Council agreed to have the old church site sold to the City of Edmonton for $70,000.00.
On Oct. 1, 2014 St. Anne parish was closed and parishioners were invited to join St. Joachim Parish.
The town of Busby was established when the Edmonton-Dunvegan and British Columbia Railroad started service in the area between 1912 and 1913. Father Eugene Rooney, pastor at Westlock organized the construction of a church in the area in 1930. The first mass was celebrated on Dec. 24, 1930 and Archbishop O’Leary blessed the church and dedicated it to St. Anthony of Padua on March 1, 1931.
Bubsy was a mission served from Mearns from 1931-1973 and from Villeneuve from 1973-2000. A Catholic school was established by Father Merchant and students were taught by the Sisters of Notre Dame who came to Busby to teach catechism after mass on Sunday. To supplement their teaching many students received correspondence catechism lessons from the sister of service in Edmonton.
On Jan.12, 2000 a Farwell Mass was held in Busby and the parish was merged with Mearns.
Coronation is situated some 300 kilometres south east of Edmonton in a farming area. The first church was built in 1916 and Coronation Mission was served from Castor. In 1930, the first Pastor was appointed.
Sometime in the mid-twenties, a Catholic Women's League (CWL) was formed at Coronation but was later disbanded in favour of a local Altar Society. In April 1963, Fr. J. Williamson persuaded the ladies, some 25 members, to again affiliate with the Catholic Women’s League. In March 1975, the CWL disbanded again in favour of the Ladies’ Altar Society. (History of C. W. L. Councils and Their Churches, 1971, p. 37)
St. Boniface Parish was established to serve Edmonton’s German-speaking Catholic community in 1958, and was operational until 2021. Prior to 1958, Edmonton’s German Catholics attended Mass celebrated by Franciscan priests at the Atonement Home and in the gymnasium of St. Joseph’s High School. The Pallottine Fathers became interested in having their congregation in Edmonton when Father A.J. Bertsch arrived in 1956 to work with Catholic immigration. Fr. Bertsch served St. Boniface Mission, which existed from 1956-1958, and St. Boniface Parish was established in 1958 by Archbishop J.H. MacDonald. The church building was originally Beth Israel Synagogue, Edmonton’s first synagogue. Over the course of its 63 year history, St. Boniface Parish was served by 11 priests, most of whom were Pallottines. St. Boniface was an important center of community for German Catholics, well-known for its community events, especially the annual Weihnachtsbasar (Christmas market). The parish valued its groups, particularly the Feierabend (seniors group), the Kolping Society, the choir, and the St. Lioba women’s group. Due to an aging congregation and fewer German-speaking Catholics in the Edmonton area, the parish was closed in 2021 by Archbishop Richard Smith. The building was purchased by St. Jacob’s Syriac Orthodox Church in 2022.
As early as 1929, a priest would come from Edmonton to say Mass in the school on Sundays. Father Rolheiser was one of the priests who came out a number of times. On November 22, 1929 the Catholic Church Extension Society in Toronto forwarded a donation of $500.00 from the estate of Catherine O’Donnell for a church to be built at Warburg in honour of St. Charles. Between 1931 and 1934 Rev. Patrick McQuaide, pastor at Leduc, said mass in the Valleyview Hall for the residences of Warburg while the community raised the additional funds to purchase land for a church.
On October 29, 1934, a church site was purchased from the C. P. R. and construction began shortly thereafter. On September 4, 1938, Archbishop J. H. MacDonald blessed the new church and dedicated it to St. Charles Borromeo. Father Kennedy MacLean was the first priest residing at Warburg (1934-1940) and assumed responsibility of the parishioners in the area. In addition to serving Warburg he also served Thorsby, Brenton, Lindale, Carnwood, Winfiled, Fern Creek and Genesee.
In 1940 Father MacLean moved to Thorsby and continued to serve Warburg as a mission of Thorsby. Due to decreased parish population and declining membership regular masses ceased in 1999 and in 2006 the Church was sold.
Prior to 1927 masses were held in private homes in the area. A permanent pastor was assigned in 1927 and the building of the first church began in 1927. Clandonald has been served by many parishes and today is served by Vermillion.