up the Société de la Colonisation de l’Alberta to assist the clergy of the diocese of St Albert who, since the 1890s, had been attempting to draw French Canadian and Franco-American settlers

constituted its main income. On learning of the spoliation of the properties belonging to the clergy and the religious communities in France, Sister Saint-Ignace was rightly concerned about the fate of the

clergy to marry by government licence. Dalhousie reserved the bill for imperial decision. He found customary practices objectionable in two particular regards; he disliked having to sign blank forms, in

. Gérard quickly attracted attention because of his piety and intellectual ability so the clergy in his parish helped him undertake his classical studies. From then on his short life was essentially divided

as courteously as possible, asking them to spare human lives and the churches.” It can be said that a great majority of the clergy kept to that line of conduct. Of the 194 priests who comprised

resolutions put forward by the Reform government to secularize the clergy reserves; and in the latter year he took an active part in proposals to construct an intercolonial railway linking Canada and the

been killed in 1760. A devout Catholic, Robitaille was in close touch with the clergy and in February 1857 had a hand in launching the ultramontane newspaper Le Courrier du Canada, of which

recruiting his students to lead services and teach Sunday school. In 1891 he was named a general missionary agent to establish new churches, to supply parishes without clergy, and to raise funds for missions

great leader of the minority, and the only one worth listening to,” while denouncing his “wily sophistry.” His main interventions were two speeches on the clergy reserves in December 1836 and in the

, encouraged by the French clergy, who were assembled for the Estates General, immediately appointed four religious: Denis Jamet

struggle for the survival of the French fact. His newspaper columns recalled the heroic struggles of the past, praised the courage and devotion of the Catholic clergy and the directors of mutual benefit

land speculation and other flagrant abuses, including the clergy reserves and the English schools, as injustices perpetrated by the British at the expense of the French Canadians

 Jan. 1906. Canadian Churchman, 1 Feb. 1906: 72–73. Canadian men and women of the time (Morgan; 1898). The clergy list . . . (London), 1865–1906. Crockford’s

clergy reserves question as a ministerial device intended to distract public attention from the Rebellion Losses Act, but later he came round to supporting secularization of the reserves. A Presbyterian of

judgements of numerous disciplinary committees that heard grievances and disputes among the clergy and laity. Smith was firmly attached to the strict

controversy, unless Methodist interests were at stake. As editor Spencer played a rather equivocating role in the final settlement of the clergy reserves. He

, articulate, personable, better-educated than most of the indigenous black Baptist clergy, and (in historian Robin W. Winks’s words) “inordinately handsome,” States could not fail to command attention. In

chronicle, Stevens’s paper contained reports from religious societies, book reviews, ecclesiastical appointments, news of the colonial church, and biographies of important clergy. The experience of editorship

* criticized the Church of England’s claims to establishment and ownership of the clergy reserves, Stinson warned him of the danger implicit in his complaints and insisted that a majority of the population

number of remarkable cures he effected there.” Sullivan, a devout Roman Catholic, also had the confidence of the clergy. On 7 March 1724 two