funds from the clergy reserves were invested, and replace them with Canadian government debentures. Cayley’s personality marked him more as a hard-working lieutenant than a party leader, yet he was high

together to begin classes. Until then Chartier had been well received by the clergy as a whole and had encountered no difficulty with his superiors. On 25 Dec. 1825 Jean-Jacques

economic development. Another source of inconvenience and controversy was the reservation of one-seventh of each township for the support of a Protestant clergy and an additional one-seventh as crown lands

the obstacles to its growth.” One of the obstacles to the progress of Canadian democracy was certainly, in the eyes of Daoust and his friends, the increasingly less discreet opposition of the clergy. In

decision of the Court of King’s Bench at Quebec that refused civil registers to all but Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy [see Clark Bentom

support. With other clergy and laymen Esson undertook a long and fruitless campaign to obtain recognition of his church’s claims to co-establishment with the Church of England and to a share of the revenue

.), Sault Ste Marie, Manitoulin Island, and Muskoka. There were but seven clergy and nine churches. Partly because of his wife’s chronic ill health

clergy, who pretended to be unaware of the freemasons’ activities, were dumbfounded, and they envisaged the possibility of dismissing him as churchwarden, but Gamelin’s importance and his family’s

Adhémar* and Jean De Lisle took in London to request constitutional reform, Gravé maintained that the clergy must

made of wood; seven secular priests and seven Oblates made up his whole clergy. He set to work resolutely, and at the time of his death 67 churches, 48 chapels, and several schools were in

.” Before too long, Harris had acquired a public persona rare among the Catholic clergy of his day. He had transcended factionalism of all kinds, without sacrificing his own religious faith and Irish

decided he could be effective, even if his “flaming” revivals interfered with the work of the local clergy. To discipline him, the conference stationed him in 1890–91 to the Portage-du-Fort circuit, near

. Paul La Rocque came from a family that included several prominent members of the Catholic clergy. Two of his father’s cousins were bishops of Saint-Hyacinthe

to be the friends of the clergy, you will be the slaves of libertines. The choice is yours.” In 1883 Lacasse received a new assignment. He was

1861. Louis-Antoine Dessaulles*, who kept a notebook detailing the amorous adventures of the Quebec clergy, recorded some evidence

deserve the patronage with which the clergy has always honoured this ancient establishment.” Lespérance was 44 years old when he embarked on this new

eligibility of applicants for leases of clergy and crown reserves, and in most cases he had a hand in writing the applications. He also warned the government of squatters or timber thieves on crown land in

L’Heureux lived with the Blackfoot, often wearing a cassock and performing baptisms and marriages. He was despised and vilified by the clergy and fur traders both for being homosexual and for pretending to be

greater pastoral effectiveness, and in some measure for the sake of nationalism, the clergy should not meddle in politics, but should display unity of spirit and action. Life at the palace soon bothered him

*, whose practical skills and pastoral concerns for the clergy would have been most appealing to him. For a few years he took services at St John’s, a German church on Rue Saint-Dominique, while