the management of public schools and the responsibility for collecting funds to operate them efficiently. For the Catholic clergy this legislation smacked of injustice. Fearful of losing control of

were 3,000 Catholics in a total population of about 13,000. The diocese was served by 19 priests, 16 of whom attended its first synod, held in October 1842. Four of the clergy were French Canadian

he voted for the dogma of the infallibility of the pope. Cullen urged Power to leave soon for Newfoundland in order to correct what the cardinal perceived to be intolerable conditions among the clergy

mind” and “irreproachable conduct,” according to the superior, he was tonsured on 29 May 1789. Rather than take the oath of loyalty to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy that was imposed by

upheld this view; he would later also welcome the secularization of the clergy reserves and oppose the commutation clause in the act of 1854 by which the Wesleyan Methodist Church, along with others, was

prothonotary and sometime earlier he had been made vicar general. By the time of his death he was the senior member of the secular clergy in the diocese of St Boniface. Like many of the Red River clergy of

Desautels]. The decree in fact inaugurated ten years of crisis and quarrels among the Montreal clergy. The first nine months of Rousselot’s service as parish priest gave rise to a canonical dispute

Canada, he subsequently rallied to the Reform policies of Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine* and to the clergy’s assertion of

for the support of aged and infirm ministers and the widows and orphans of clergy. Warden was appointed senior agent of the Twentieth Century Fund, and by 1903 it had received more than $1,600,000

, and Williams observed that prosperous families did not encourage their sons to enter the clergy. He fostered the Church of England Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association. In 1869 he was appointed to

programme should be. In the 1840s most Upper Canadian Reformers agreed that the clergy reserves should be secularized, but it is doubtful whether a majority of French Canadian Reformers shared this view. By

Quebec appointed him vicar general in 1862 and chose him to be a member of his episcopal council and an examiner for young clergy. In 1859 the government had named him to the newly created Council of

on 12 July. In 1685 he took part in the Assembly of the Clergy, and died at Vence on 4 December of that year. G

immediate settlement of the clergy reserves issue while at the same time safeguarding “vested interests.” He considered an elective legislative council was necessary in the constitution of the country. He was

the activities of the administrators and embezzlers at the end of the French régime bluntly, and he also attacks the clergy, particularly Abbé Le Loutre, François

newly formed Upper Canada Clergy Society both attested to the interest Bettridge was able to arouse in England. Collections in excess of £3,000 were received. Six months after his return to Canada

, Wilmot Township, and, with William Hawkins, the northern boundary of the Huron Tract. He was also employed as a land agent for the Canada Company and as an inspector for clergy and college reserves

equally conservative bishop, Blackman facilitated the efforts of those forces which, with the backing of the Roman Catholic clergy, were campaigning for responsible government in Newfoundland

, which is perhaps attributable to the fact that the apothecary’s art was not subject to the same restrictions as medicine and surgery with respect to its practice by members of the clergy. The

” members of the clergy. One was Abbé Louis-François Laflèche*, who on 2 March 1865 had written him a long letter in which he