attacked Francis Hincks* for pro-American sympathies, commented on the clergy reserves question, and urged the British to grant the colonies

clarity of his arguments. An Anglican, and in sympathy with the broadmindedness of the Catholic clergy of Quebec City, he did not take kindly to the rise of the ultramontanist wing within the Conservative

Catholic religion ensured a partisan reception for any of his proposals, and the Catholic clergy failed to support him. Yet his enthusiasms were not entirely wasted. The Reverend Silas Tertius

led the three-man delegation of British clergy in Canada to negotiate the transfer (completed in 1854), he may personally have been unhappy with the results

). When Joseph Beete Jukes was only eight years old, his father, a manufacturer, died, leaving a strong-willed widow who was resolved that the lad should be educated for the clergy. Consequently, on

as a result of territorial and jurisdictional disputes between the well-established Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia and newly arrived Church of Scotland clergy. In 1825, when his adherents at New

; Church, college, and clergy: a history of theological education at Knox College, Toronto, 1844-1994 (Montreal and Kingston, Ont., 1995); The social uplifters: Presbyterian progressives and the

mounted a scathing attack on the tithe system and, in general, on the clergy’s influence, which the Rouges deemed excessive in both politics and education. La Rocque’s toughest adversaries were Louis

year a motion for a grant to set up other schools based on his plan was lost by only four votes. Opposition by Anglican and Catholic clergy to Osgood’s school at Quebec eventually led to its closure. It

vigorously in debates about Irish domination within the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and about the appointment of an Acadian bishop. By 1909 his virulent attacks on the Irish clergy and the religious

reassure the Irish clergy, who were a dominant group in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Maritimes [see Stanislas-Joseph Doucet

example of his superior, Jacques-André Émery, and his confrères, he refused to take the oath of loyalty to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. In the spring of 1791, when the bishops who had taken the

, because these functions do not keep me so far removed from the community.” In addition he was the spiritual director of the clergy at the school and professor of theology until almost the end of his term of

Roman Catholic, he donated 80 acres to the parish of Saint-Ignace-des-Saules for a new church and rectory in 1906, and he assisted the local clergy in the settlement of French Canadians, who by the early

autumn of 1900. Macdonell’s inability to discipline clergy effectively, or at least appear to do so, hurt his relationship with some of his flock. When

representative of his constituency. His moderate position regarding the clergy reserves steered directly and reasonably between the tory and reform camps. Most reformers by this time advocated the sale of the

that ought to have existed between the Bishop and his clergy and the Superiors and members of the Congregation.” Today restored unity has brought the Sisters of Charity and the church in Halifax to

use of the clergy reserves. A founding member of the Kingston Auxiliary Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, he was its president from 1819 to 1822. Throughout the 1830s he was a subscriber to, and

was to make the clergy “the vehicle for colonization” and to ensure its leadership in the Eastern Townships by creating a diocese at Nicolet. He was

bishops and 200 priests at his funeral attested both to the numerical strength of the clergy at the time and to the high esteem in which they held this priest, whose actions had so dramatically affected the