Stewart was appointed to Saint-Armand in 1807. However, Cotton moved only a few miles away to Dunham Township, provoking a mild reproach from Mountain, who reminded him that clergy “were not

patents in 1818, law clerk of the Legislative Council in 1819, and secretary of the Clergy Reserves Corporation in 1821 – increased his legal and administrative experience of colonial affairs and added

College as he had promised in his letter to Godinot. Thinking that the Jesuits would not come, he had entrusted that institution to his secular clergy. Chazelle considered returning to New Orleans, but in

opponent to withdraw. In a savage editorial Winton wrote that Carson’s election had been brought about by the Catholic clergy’s “domination” over their mentally enslaved parishioners. Hereafter, Carson would

with its affairs. In March 1829 the House of Assembly had passed a law to create schools run by trustees, a measure which intensified the struggle between the clergy and the Canadian petite bourgeoisie

equally dubious purposes: to support the clergy of the Church of England and the unpopular King’s College and to increase the salaries of the small official clique which surrounded him. He foolishly

exchanging parcels. An Anglican, he was permitted in 1837 to exchange land in Caradoc Township for clergy reserves in Bayham, which he intended to donate as a glebe to the new church in Port Burwell. An

clergy, all Orangemen, is a testimonial to Bull’s diligence in using his Orange connections. Although he did not secure assistance from Colborne, in July 1834 Bull was able to establish the Toronto

is said that the clergy and choir of St Paul’s Church ran down George Street in their cassocks and surplices to see the ships. Broke recovered

. Like the rest of the clergy, he had had his thinking shaped by the French revolution and counter-revolution. On 25 March 1810, he complied with Bishop Joseph-Octave

exclusive Anglican claims to the clergy reserves, Blackwood made public a letter Strachan had written to him in 1802 enquiring about the position of minister to the Scotch Presbyterian congregation. In 1836

Robert, a long letter “on the subject of public discontent.” Among the 20 causes he listed were the crown and clergy reserves, the land-granting department, the monopoly of the Canada Company [see

*, dit Latour, prove in eloquent fashion. Amiot always enjoyed the support of the clergy and it was in part the reason for his success. He initiated

privileged position of the established church by recommending that the clergy reserves should be applied to general education and not given solely to the Church of England. However, as the magistrate system

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

. From 1824 to 1830 Thomson sided with the forces of moderate reform in the assembly, opposing the Church of England’s monopoly of the clergy reserves and attacking the government’s stand in the alien

Maguire*, the principal of the Collège de Saint-Hyacinthe, to Rome and London. Their mission had several aims. They were to support a petition to the king from the Lower Canadian clergy which had been

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

ministers in the capital. He unabashedly sold to the clergy of dissenting denominations the marriage licences issued to him by the provincial secretary; this practice, which allowed dissenting clergy to

clergy reserves in the Canadas. Sherbrooke’s concern for the welfare of the Church of England was coupled with a candid recognition of the need for a