, Panet supported him steadfastly in his efforts to create a diocese in Montreal. He showed the same firmness in dealing with the rest of his clergy. To ensure respect for some of his decisions, in

. Pelletier retained this office until 28 Jan. 1901, putting to good use his skills as a mediator and conciliator. He was sometimes called the “lay bishop,” and his contacts with the clergy were also of

usual studied care, “could say that while he was in Canada there were no glorious actions for France in which he did not have a large part.” The general assembly of the clergy of France, however, came to

1904 in order not to jeopardize this cause and to maintain the reputation of the organization, particularly before the Roman Catholic clergy. His criticism of the quality of teaching in francophone

paper was doing a disservice to their cause by constantly criticizing government measures. Some of the stands taken by Le Bulletin also irritated prominent members of the clergy. To dispel any

by Abbé Nazaire Leclerc* in 1869. In 1888 he launched La Semaine religieuse de Québec, primarily for the clergy. He made

the members’ desire to participate in the colony’s cultural development. The new policy may have been dictated by the hostile reaction of the clergy. Whatever the case, the company shut down temporarily

 Courrier du Canada informing the “gentlemen of the clergy in the city as well as those in the country that he has on hand and that he carries out orders for all sorts of ornaments for churches, ceilings

already extremely concerned at the influence exerted by the Roman Catholic clergy in political affairs [see Edward Troy*]. During the trial

moderate reform platform. Though a member of the Church of England himself, through his entire political career Rykert advocated the sale of Upper Canada’s clergy reserves and the application of the

clergy: a history of theological education at Knox College, Toronto, 1844–1994 (Montreal and Kingston, Ont., 1995). H. R. Krygsman, “Freedom and grace: mainline Protestant thought in Canada, 1900

. His coverage of the controversy surrounding the burial of Joseph Guibord* elicited a ban by local Roman Catholic clergy against his paper in

incorporated in 1858 to manage the money the church received after the secularization of the clergy reserves in 1854. During his years in Montreal Snodgrass published at least six sermons and addresses, and when

considerable visiting of pioneer settlements and the oversight of a few clergy as new missions were opened. In 1799, at his own request and with the support of Bishop White, he was given an honorary

Bond, he had sought the appointment at a minimum fixed yearly stipend of $3,000 (the annual salary paid to such professionals as magistrates, teachers, and clergy at the time averaged

. 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

. Viau and Venne formalized their partnership in 1912 under the name Viau et Venne. Their relationship with the senior clergy in the diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe and the archdiocese of Montreal, including

 March 1851, he became the guiding spirit of the bank. It encountered difficulties initially because the workers were mistrustful but, thanks to the influence of the clergy and to prudent investments

Perry’s bill for disposing of the clergy reserves. Willson, in fact, went further and argued that the entire proceeds be appropriated to education and, much to Bidwell’s displeasure

policy of self-governing native churches and the training of native clergy who would eventually replace the missionaries. Although Wilson did instruct two young Ojibwa men as catechists, and another, John