Petit Séminaire de Quebec in 1765, the year it reopened. The scarcity of clergy probably accounts for the fact that Brassard Deschenaux began studies leading to the priesthood in 1769, received the

, and he was especially helpful to the loyalist clergy. Jacob Bailey* was one of those who bore testimony to his kindness in letters to the

is said that the clergy and choir of St Paul’s Church ran down George Street in their cassocks and surplices to see the ships. Broke recovered

(London), 1860–66. Boase, Modern English biography, I, 438. The clerical directory, a biographical and statistical book of reference for facts relating to the clergy and the church

clergy, all Orangemen, is a testimonial to Bull’s diligence in using his Orange connections. Although he did not secure assistance from Colborne, in July 1834 Bull was able to establish the Toronto

Fox Hill cemetery was also situated on land Burbidge had presented. His letters to the society were a constant call for greater effort and diligence on the part of the Anglican clergy, who he felt were

renamed the Catholic Register and Church Extension. Both within its pages and without, he took up the cause of southern and eastern European Catholic immigrants, who lacked clergy and religious

. Although pleading benefit of clergy had previously resulted in lighter sentences for those convicted of capital crimes, an act of 1792 had removed theft and burglary from the list of clergiable offences. For

occupied up till now by the king’s troops, and help it to begin again the charitable works which are the object of its rule.” This collection among the clergy and citizens of Quebec, inaugurated in March

Canadian bishops wrote to Rome in 1849 stating that Charbonnel was their preferred candidate. Charbonnel was already admired by the clergy of Toronto because of a retreat he had preached at Bishop Power’s

cannon and several musket shots. The principal relatives, the captains, the clergy, and the leading French were afterwards entertained at the Habitation

African Baptist Association, whose aim was to seek continuity among Black worshippers by ensuring there would be Black clergy to attend and officiate at services, thus providing the essential element of a

sufficient clergy, the vicariate could not afford new ventures. In 1874, however, Clut took it upon himself to begin a school at Fort Chipewyan, and to do so he removed from Providence mission two of the

-Dame, at the same time serving the church of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires. On a couple of occasions, one of them in 1757, he preached at the clergy retreat. On 2 June 1758 the bishop of Quebec

construction of a Presbyterian church. The Foss–Pelly imbroglio took more delicate manœuvring, since most of the leading figures of the colony, including the Protestant clergy, had chosen sides. “Altogether the

the German Reformed Church, and the bond among them enabled the local clergy to declare themselves an ad hoc presbytery, the first such body in Canada, for the purpose of carrying out the

marriage arrangement, usual in the fur trade prior to the arrival of clergy in the west, was by the consent of the two parties, with a gift probably being given to the Indian father. William Connolly and

times comes down to us in an anecdote about the redoubtable Pierre Ronayne, one of the chieftains of the small, and largely Roman Catholic, village of Tors Cove. The clergy strongly supported Conroy; none

. He saw no future for these institutions except insofar as they were supported by the clergy and by the people.” Jean-Roch

, & female), and native clergy, from 1804 to 1904 ([London?, 1905?]), 55. A. Ross, Red River Settlement, 290. T. C. B. Boon, “St Peter’s Dynevor, the original Indian