bequests of $100,000 for the maintenance of the household science faculty and $300,000 for training Methodist clergy. In praising her, male Methodist

England automatically. Furthermore, on 21 Jan. 1836 Mayerhoffer was among those Anglican clergy of the province granted a rectory by Lieutenant Governor Sir John

gift of books” to the newly established Sunday school in the town and he was president of the parish committee appointed to organize the construction of a house for the Catholic clergy. The Meagher

filled its ranks with help from the clergy; the French Canadian media, including La Presse; and eminent political figures such as Sir Wilfrid

, these ideals took the form of opposition to the seigneurs, both French and English, to the clergy reserves, and to any attempt at censorship by either church or state. The Montreal Gazette

gain for dissenting clergy the right of marrying by licence. As an honorary member of the Halifax Scots charitable organization, the North British Society, he solicited subscriptions for publishing a

, authorized to visit the clergy and to administer discipline and oaths, but not to ordain, confirm, or consecrate. The same year Mountain turned down an appointment as Philip Toosey’s successor at Quebec in

’ bed, the excitement of enemy invasion in 1813 and armed rebellion in 1837, and the “system of wrong and Robbery” embodied in the 1839 Clergy Reserves bill. Although she was an outstanding woman in early

left the governor, Kempt, in an untenable position. Murray also wished to settle the longstanding debate over the distribution of the clergy reserves in Upper Canada but, even though he rejected the

well-educated clergy in Pictou County and he in turn offered help to academically promising young members of his congregation, such as David Laird

of Assembly shows him to have been a loyal reformer. He supported the reform position on the clergy reserves, the charter of King’s College, and the alien question. He also voted for resolutions

outport ministers and admired the asceticism of the Roman Catholic clergy. But he found the Church of England “unsuited to the wants of this generation in a large measure, and especially to the case of the

essentially nationalist in his sympathies. He warned church and state against separatist tendencies which he felt were supported by the Roman Catholic clergy, or which might be caused by the encroachments of

instances; but had implicit faith in the advice of the clergy and [was] not likely to oppose the views of the Archbishop [Alexandre-Antonin

receptive audience among many of the Baptist clergy. No one was more desirous of a better education than McLearn himself, and in July 1828 he went to

Scotia and the tory clergy of the revolution (New York, 1891). Fingard, Anglican design in loyalist N.S. E. A. Jones, The loyalists of New Jersey: their memorials

 Lartigue to call a general assembly of the clergy at Montreal or Trois-Rivières to consider ways of combatting the influence of the liberals. Paquin also

course. In so far as the Roman Catholic clergy supported the principle of responsible government, he supported them; in so far as they threatened the native Newfoundlanders, he opposed them. When the

, Pemberton set the price of town lots at £10 each, suburban lots at £15, and country lands at £1 an acre with the minimum size being 20 acres. Land was also reserved for the governor, the clergy, a

Protestant clergy. In 1806 he had tried to grow hemp, and in 1809 the government granted him a salary of £200, plus £100 to defray the cost of promoting and growing a crop for five years. There was, however