was part of the editor’s responsibility to see that the paper, while backing Laurier editorially, did not antagonize advertisers, the clergy, interest groups, or voters. Dansereau, as Laurier’s adviser

and they saw the Independent Greek Church and its clergy as instruments for extirpating the immigrants’ language and collective identity. Efforts to reform the church had met with resistance and, with

times comes down to us in an anecdote about the redoubtable Pierre Ronayne, one of the chieftains of the small, and largely Roman Catholic, village of Tors Cove. The clergy strongly supported Conroy; none

, Cloutier issued a clarion call for the support of those he termed “gentlemen of the clergy.” He declared that he wanted, by his private initiative, to fill the gap left by the disappearance of Le

ministers were seeking refuge in the church in the United States. Many, perhaps the majority, of the clergy and laity were becoming more receptive to the prospect of a union with the Methodist Church of

with clergy life, changing faith, and faltering health. He moved his family to Ottawa early in 1891, planning to take up a civil service job he had been offered

certain differences of opinion between members of the clergy responsible for the undertaking, the work came to a halt in 1892. It is thought that Bourassa himself only did wash drawings of St

Pius X and the diocesan clergy, who followed their example. Nor is there evidence that he had any success at all as a music teacher. It seems fair to claim, however, that Boucher’s unflagging work

recalled the history of the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, emphasizing the clergy’s claims to fame and its role in maintaining the national character. Thus, despite appearances, the marriage of Pierre Boucher

Boucher*. He was not disliked by any faction of the Conservative party, being supported by the Roman Catholic clergy, respected by the English-speaking community, and able to rally the ultramontanes

diocese of Chatham and his Acadian clergy between 1895 and 1899. In September 1898 the Eudists were finally put in charge of the Collège du Sacré-Cœur in Caraquet [see Prosper

church; members centred their communal life on liturgy and mortification, while also devoting themselves to the parish duties normally assumed by the secular clergy. In 1884 Dom Benoit became master of

Saint-Maurice. Since the departure of the Jesuits and Récollets in the 1760s, these missions had been without resident priests and were served only by a few secular clergy who went there in the summer. In

Clerics of St Viator but had some secular clergy on its teaching staff, into his diocesan minor seminary and helped it develop. Archambeault’s interest in elementary education was equally evident. He

provision it made for their education and, recalling Manitoba, opposed the issue of scrip for lands. Despite his sympathy, he viewed the creation of a native clergy with some scepticism, even though it was

a work of worship and service that would meet with fierce opposition from many clergy and laity for some years but that would be rewarded by wide and enthusiastic commendation shortly before his death

for the support of aged and infirm ministers and the widows and orphans of clergy. Warden was appointed senior agent of the Twentieth Century Fund, and by 1903 it had received more than $1,600,000

training enough teachers, and offering a program that was too advanced. Abbé Verreau’s responses showed his independence of mind with regard to the clergy (of which he was a member) and to certain

remain in power without substantial support from the clergy, he adopted the ultramontanist views that underlay clerical interference in elections. In a pamphlet entitled Le clergé, ses

was accused of having exerted undue influence on his flock by preaching sermons against confederation and by ordering his clergy to oppose the scheme. No solid evidence was ever produced to support