Fr. Justin MacInnis
Born In: New Victoria , Nova Scotia, Canada
Passed in: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Passed on: August 11th, 2012
Fr. Justin MacInnis, SFM, died on Aug. 11, 2012.
Fr. MacInnis was born in New Victoria, Cape Breton, N.S. He graduated from high school in Glace Bay and went on to study at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish. Later he enrolled in Scarboro Foreign Mission Society at Scarborough, Ont., and completed his studies at St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto. He was ordained on Aug. 11, 1963.
He travelled to Brazil in 1964 and lived in Itacoatiara for 18 years doing missionary work in Brazil. Upon his return to Canada in 1982, Fr. Justin assisted for three years at Sacred Heart parish in Edmonton, Alta. while serving at Hope Mission there. He returned to Scarboro and travelled often from there to serve in native communities in northern Ontario.
Fr. MacInnis was predeceased by his parents, Donald Allen and Lydia MacInnis and by his two brothers, Linus and Thomas.
He is survived by two brothers, James Oliver, Melbourne, Australia, and Zane, Truro, N.S.; and four sisters, Joan Crowell, Halifax, Karen Hill, Halifax, Delia Buffett, South Haven, N.S., and Sheila Richard, Edmonton, with whom Fr. Justin resided for the past four years.
Fr. Justin’s love reached out to everyone. He insisted that all are welcome in God’s kingdom.
Funeral mass will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, at Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples, 10821-96 Street in Edmonton.