petitions, the distribution of literature, and appeals to the electorate, clergy, and “societies of suitable character” to exert pressure on the government. The WCTU’s dedicated executive played a key role in
, secularization of the clergy reserves, and elective democratic institutions. McDougall helped to develop these aspects of the platform while his mentor was commissioner of crown lands in the
clergy struggling to serve 22,500 Roman Catholics scattered over 33 parishes and missions. MacEachern’s successor, Bernard Donald Macdonald
well-educated clergy in Pictou County and he in turn offered help to academically promising young members of his congregation, such as David Laird
established by Lady O’Brien and the clergy, he spent some $57,600 on public works, lent $15,421 to inshore fishermen, and provided guarantees of $33,400 to allow schooners to sail to Labrador and the banks
, his former partner VanKoughnet was a cabinet minister, and the government to which they belonged had just secularized the clergy reserves – surely a sufficient concession to a Presbyterian who had
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When Charles La Rocque died on 15 July 1875, the clergy and the people spontaneously proposed vicar general Moreau as his successor. But the late bishop had warned Archbishop Elzéar-Alexandre
though the Liberals won overall, Mills lost Bothwell in the general election of 23 June. He blamed his narrow defeat on “the treachery of the Roman Catholic clergy” and Denis
was to make the clergy “the vehicle for colonization” and to ensure its leadership in the Eastern Townships by creating a diocese at Nicolet.
He was
that ought to have existed between the Bishop and his clergy and the Superiors and members of the Congregation.” Today restored unity has brought the Sisters of Charity and the church in Halifax to
Red River colony (Man.) and it was there that most of the 22 clergy in the diocese were located.
Machray travelled to the Red River colony
autumn of 1900. Macdonell’s inability to discipline clergy effectively, or at least appear to do so, hurt his relationship with some of his flock.
When
1850 that “we shall get no real reforms from the French,” Lindsey was particularly upset over delays in the secularization of the clergy reserves in Upper Canada, and he made this issue the subject of a
lay in the bishop’s administrative capacity, but support also came from a number of dedicated clergy and lay men and women. With Lewis’s encouragement, the Woman’s Auxiliary was founded in 1885, first
losses.” Letendre had powerful friends among the clergy and in the Conservative party. Archbishop Alexandre-Antonin Taché* of St
Manitoba. That year, however, Taché, who could not get more Oblates for the staff, had to resign himself to putting it in the hands of secular clergy. Lavoie then became assistant priest and, five years
churches in York and Toronto, with biographical sketches of many of the clergy and laity, ed. T. E. Champion (Toronto, 1899). Ont., Agricultural and Arts Assoc., Trans
organ of the diocese of Montreal. There is no doubt that at the time he was the instrument of the reform leaders, who used his good relations with the clergy to “convert” Bishop Ignace
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The Salvation Army was the only religious organization of the time in which women were allowed to become the equivalent of clergy. This acceptance undoubtedly helps to explain the predominance of female
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In March 1864 Bishop Edward Feild* of Newfoundland issued an appeal in England for clergy. Kelly responded quickly; he was in St John’s by