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Jun 23, 2015 · John Furlong has admitted in the witness stand that he arrived in Canada as a landed immigrant from Ireland in 1975—not in 1974 as he wrote in his autobiography and told in stories about his...
Jun 23, 2015 · Bryan Baynham, who is representing plaintiff Laura Robinson, began by asking about the name of the “famous customs agent” in Edmonton who supposedly stamped Furlong’s passport, welcoming him to Canada with a call to make the country “better”. Furlong couldn’t remember who the officer was.
“You’re dead wrong,” Furlong countered, saying “lots of people at Vanoc” knew that he was once in Burns Lake, B.C., where he taught physical education to school children as part of his missionary work.
Sep 26, 2012 · He actually arrived years previously, in 1969, as an Oblate Frontier Apostle missionary. He went not to Prince George to direct a high-school athletic program but to Immaculata Elementary School...
Jul 26, 2013 · Robinson’s original story, published in September, 2012, accused Furlong of hiding his past as a Catholic missionary teacher at Immaculata Elementary school in Burns Lake, and later at Prince...
Website. johnfurlong.ca. John Furlong, OC,[2] OBC [3] (born October 12, 1950) [4] is a Canadian sports administrator who oversaw the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics and was President and CEO of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC). Furlong is chairman of Rocky Mountaineer, [5] corporate director of Canadian ...
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Dec 1, 2012 · “Unlike Catholic education aimed at dominant society, Catholic missionary education was aimed at ‘ converting and civilizing’ the Aboriginal people,” he wrote. Corporal punishment was legal in B. C. schools until 1973, and it was not unusual before that time for students to be physically disciplined by teachers or principals.
