elements. He thus endeared himself to the overwhelmingly Protestant laity of his diocese, although in time he would win the confidence of his generally high-church clergy through his personal loyalty to them

. Sutherland linked the church’s missionary program to settlement. Along with other Methodist clergy and lay entrepreneurs such as John Jacob Withrow

examination of teachers. Before 1888 school inspectorates were small, local units and many of the inspectors were members of the Protestant clergy. Somerset established a centralized system of inspection and

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

Catholics. Few clergy approved of the convention since the lay power it represented posed a direct threat to clerical leadership within the Irish Catholic community

 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

determined to promote the establishment of a native clergy in the James Bay area and took a special interest in Sanders. After Sanders left the HBC, Horden sent him to Flying Post and Mattagami to teach the

colonization movement, which, being led by the clergy, exemplified an ideal type of social action. French Canadians, he wrote, were an “essentially hierarchical and Catholic people . . . [who] expect

1890s the tone of Rogers’s administration changed. Feeling besieged as Acadian clergy and laity alike assailed the Irish-dominated episcopacy in the Maritimes and lobbied for an Acadian bishop, he posed

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

generation, she structured it around two principal roles, those of wife and mother. The daughter of an Irish Anglican clergy-man, she had journeyed to Victoria as a young single woman in 1875 and there she met

prothonotary and sometime earlier he had been made vicar general. By the time of his death he was the senior member of the secular clergy in the diocese of St Boniface. Like many of the Red River clergy of

 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

Perrault*. He became friends with Paul Bruchési*, a future archbishop of Montreal, who would later help him make contact with clergy. He also

but had to give up in the face of his clergy’s hesitations. The discussion between Pelletier and Langevin became heated, each interpreting in his own way a new reply from the prefect of the Sacred

harsh towards the Catholic clergy of his native province, declaring that Catholicism had plunged its people into ignorance. In his condemnation of French Canadian Catholicism, he repeated in every detail

increased the number of French-speaking clergy in his diocese and was instrumental in establishing the francophone Collège Sainte-Anne at Church Point, N.S., under the direction of Eudist priests [see

Catholic clergy by endorsing Joseph Papin*’s defence of non-denominational schools, and they had thrown their weight behind Ouimet. The results of the

. But his militancy and support of Riel suddenly wavered in the face of opposition by the clergy and the miraculous cure of his wife following a novena later that month. Other factors, such as resentment

. Murray W. Nicolson Arch. of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, Clergy files, Nasr to O’Connor, 4 July 1902; OC