Joseph-Thomas Duhamel

"Canada, where the harvest was white and the laborers few, called forth for dispensers of the word of truth and of the mysteries of God. This was particularly the case in the diocese of Ottawa."

"Joseph-Thomas Duhamel, second bishop and first Archbishop of Ottawa, whose episcopate of thirty-four years brought the diocese to its present prosperous state, will figure in the ecclesiastical history of Canada, as a prudent, saintly, and indefatigable worker. A country parish-priest before ascending the episcopal throne, he continued to lead the laborious life of an ordinary priest. His episcopal visitation was his only holiday."