the lawyer Zénon Fontaine, he founded the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Montreal, which presented French classical and contemporary plays that did not always please the clergy

inquiry and Canadian thought in the Victorian era (Montreal, 1979). D. B. Marshall, Secularizing the faith: Canadian Protestant clergy and the crisis of belief, 1850–1940

Montréal), XV: 47, 51; 1 N (L’Action sociale catholique et L’Action sociale Ltée). To understand some aspects of Dorion’s relationship with the members of the clergy and the editors of the newspaper

Montreal. In a pastoral letter on 22 June 1742 he had given the clergy and faithful of those regions notice both of his visit and of the reasons for it. On 25 June he was in Montreal. In 1743 he

criticisms of some of the Lower Canadian clergy. At the same time he set up a fund for the missions which brought in more than £600. He put his missionary experience at the service of Bishop Joseph

instrumental in developing the store’s religious department, which stocked jewellery as well as vestments for clergy, with whom he maintained close ties and who would choose him as their exclusive supplier in

on 9 May 1841. There he began to create difficulties for his parish priest, Charles La Rocque*. He criticized the clergy

grounds that his convent was exceedingly poor. In point of fact, in a memorandum of 14 June 1704 addressed to the governor and the intendant, the king deemed it proper that “those of the secular clergy

Poulet*, whom the bishop had had expelled from the diocese the preceding year. In it he denounced and railed at the Jesuits: for their relentless opposition to the secular clergy (which they accused

merchant and clergy families in the province. Family and community history were important subjects in Eliza’s historical writing. The eldest of ten children, she retained a close lifelong relationship with

province of Canada. As such he supported Sydenham’s bill to divide the annual proceeds from the clergy reserves among several denominations. Yet his moderate political position was severely tested when

working in the Indian missions of the North-West. After his ordination he wanted to fulfil his dream, and even made arrangements with Taché, but the bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe, who badly needed clergy and

resident clergy on Grand Manan, Gerrish also was made a commissioner for performing marriages. Among other initiatives, Gerrish purchased a pair of moose

. In an age when the laity played little part in the government of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Green acquired a reputation among his fellow clergy of being a successful seeker of offices of power. In

and Mégiscane Cree was especially important because he had to build up the faith of these people, whom clergy from Rupert House (Waskaganish) were trying to win over to Protestantism. Energetic and

perhaps played a role as well. Moreover, he undoubtedly perceived the clergy and crown reserves as impediments to settlement and therefore to the advancement of his own interest. In 1818 he and William

. The sight-lines and the acoustical properties of the church were excellent. St Paul’s made a great impression on clergy accustomed to struggling to make themselves heard in large buildings with

addressed to the clergy and population of Montreal. He ordered an adoration of the cross during a general procession of the faithful from the church of Notre-Dame de Montréal to the Bonsecours chapel. Later

accepted into the Society of Friends (Quakers), a Christian group that emphasizes a personal connection to God and rejects creeds, clergy, and hierarchy. By 1933 she was serving on the executive of the

turn created doubts in the mind of the clergy as to the government’s plans. The two groups therefore acted in concert to oppose the administration’s projects. Henry proposed as solutions a greater