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Photogallery: The Good Father
CBC News
February 28, 2008
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/goodfather/gallery.html
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Charles Henri Sylvestre circa 1927. He was born on September 2, 1922 in St. Joachim, a small farming community in the flat lands of southwestern Ontario.
His parents, Sylvestre and Rose Marie, were cash crop farmers at the familys 100-acre farm.
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A young Sylvestre with friends.
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When he was 14, Sylvestre left St. Joachim, Ontario to attend Sacred Heart School in Sudbury, a francophone school founded by the Jesuits.
He was there for eight years, and made a good impression. His pastor there, Guy Courteau, praised Sylvestre for his good judgment, politeness and piety.
He graduated with a B.A. in 1944 and entered St. Peters Seminary in London, Ontario that fall.
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After studying philosophy and theology, Sylvestre graduated from the seminary in 1948.
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Sylvestres first parish was St. Alphonsus, in Windsor.
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Sylvestre celebrates his first mass.
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A smiling Sylvestre at the beginning of his career. A number of his victims described him as handsome.
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Sylvestre near the middle of his career. Between 1948 and 1993, he worked at nine different parishes throughout southwestern Ontario.
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Sylvestre at the end of his career. He retired in 1993 and settled in Belle River, Ontario.
Over the next twelve, Sylvestre made the most of his retirement. He traveled and read, and played golf once or twice a week with friends and fellow priests.
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Sylvestre waits to enter the Chatham-Kent Court House on September 22, 2006.
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