bishopric of Nova Scotia. Joseph’s acquaintance with the Church of England clergy in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Cape Breton, many of whom were New Englanders and his control of the official channels of

opposition from Canada West to defeat Hincks, who refused to settle the serious issues of the abolition of seigneurial tenure and the clergy reserves. Their action explains why L’Ère nouvelle of Trois

support as minister (doubtless for political expediency) to Archbishop Paul Bruchési* of Montreal and to the clergy in carrying out their

silversmith his father assured the family of some security, and he was on good terms socially with the Quebec bourgeoisie and clergy. It is therefore not surprising that in 1790 Étienne went to study at the

became a director of the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada. A decade later he was appointed to the board established to review claims for war losses. In 1822 he became a member of the Clergy

occasionally confronted the clergy, with whose opinions on temporal matters his own views were often at variance. In government circles his influence was recognized and his opinion valued. It was through him

generation, she structured it around two principal roles, those of wife and mother. The daughter of an Irish Anglican clergy-man, she had journeyed to Victoria as a young single woman in 1875 and there she met

oath of loyalty to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Imprisoned on 17 June 1792, he was sentenced to transportation to French Guiana. He succeeded in escaping, however, and reached Spain on 12

Church of England, decided to join its clergy. He was therefore not caught up in the tide of Methodism which, to the great distress of their father, swept away his brothers John and William, but rather

determined to promote the establishment of a native clergy in the James Bay area and took a special interest in Sanders. After Sanders left the HBC, Horden sent him to Flying Post and Mattagami to teach the

kind of silver work imported from France had found favour with the clergy and the parish councils. Sasseville produced works of simple decoration similar to those of Amiot, but also followed these French

in a storm of controversy when he claimed that the Roman Catholic clergy had fomented “unholy excitement” on behalf of his opponents, whom he labelled a “Revolutionary Faction

England in clergy reserves and its control over the district schools. He believed that education should be equally available and he worked through his presbytery and synod toward these ends. Similarly, he

had the same rights as the clergy of the Church of England. Attorney General Jonathan Sewell*, who prosecuted Bentom, but whose wife, Harriet

England she had contributed for nearly 45 years, she died on 1 Jan. 1921. Her keen intelligence and fine personal qualities had won her the esteem of bishops and clergy, as well as of the secular

assembly, but Sir Francis Hincks*’ Examiner praised him for voting on several occasions to appropriate the Clergy Reserves for

both clergy and laity. Jean Tielen was on the verge of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his religious profession when he died on 9 Oct

clergy in their evangelical work and was active in door-to-door visiting and in public debate, the favourite weapons of the Protestant controversialists. He was associated with the Protestant missionaries

“deputy” of the parish priests of his region, he signed a collective memorandum by the Canadian clergy on the tithe, a memorandum that was sent to the court. The situation was aggravated for Abbé Vachon by

, acknowledged their practice of adult baptism, and recognized marriages performed by their clergy contributed to the development of religious pluralism in Upper Canada