. The new bishop arrived at Montreal in late summer 1869 bringing important assets. His deep spirituality, his familiarity with convocations of bishops and clergy, which had been revived in the province

the entire province, increased government assistance was a desperate need. To be sure, there were the clergy reserves, but since these could only be leased, not sold, they brought in little revenue in a

Protestant clergy. Thus, the Church of Scotland by virtue of its position as one of the established churches of Great Britain had “a legal birthright claim to part of the profits arising from the Clergy

, clerical salaries were substantially reduced. Blake was one of the clergy affected, accumulating salary arrears of £840 during his 12 years at Adelaide. Although he seems not to have suffered actual poverty

“Protestant settlers in parts adjacent” to Lévis. In 1833 he was acting chaplain to the garrison in Quebec, and in 1839 he became secretary to the Clergy Reserves Corporation which handled the administration of

these demands, and with a view to intensifying evangelism, Cochran suggested that a theological training institute be established for native clergy. He had already drawn up a course of study and by 1878

Feild and Kelly in Bermuda, his observations of the colony, and a series of sermons he attended in London in December 1872 and January 1873. Clergy were needed in many of the remote parts of

contended that the Presbyterian Church, as an established church of the empire, had a “right” to part of the clergy reserve revenues; in 1840 they triumphed and the Kirk obtained a share equal to half that of

* of Toronto. Baldwin began his professional ministry instead in the diocese of Huron, in the southwest part of the province, one of the energetic, evangelical clergy with whom Bishop Benjamin

. The focus of Bond’s episcopate was the development of the church in the diocese of Montreal, its clergy, congregations, and institutions. One of his first concerns was to re-establish its financial

Kavanagh, a well-known Irish Catholic merchant. Rumours as to the reasons for Doucet’s departure were deflected as much as possible by clergy in

 1867. Gradually, under Bishop Feild’s powerful influence, the character of the church in Newfoundland changed. Most of the clergy

explain why Abbé Ferland was adopted by the clergy during the 1860s as a spokesman for its interpretation of the past. The voluminous history of Canada by the historian priest has rather to be fitted into

1,500 Protestants, almost all in the southern townships, at the turn of the century. When he arrived, Gravel had a diocesan clergy of

Cambrai; d. 1735 at Versailles. Father Guesdron first entered the secular clergy, and it was after he had received the subdiaconate that he asked to

, initiated regular training for his clergy, and ensured that the sick and unbaptized were systematically visited. A model of mid Victorian energy, organization, and Christian civilizing zeal, he acquired a

Montargis, he was director of junior clergy, among whom was Louis Hennepin*, the future companion of

about the same time as their youngest son, Jesse, who arrived early in 1808. Family members settled in King and Whitchurch townships, with Jesse renting a clergy reserve lot in the latter. Descended from

. Macdonald’s see initially encompassed New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the Îles de la Madeleine. Much of it remained in a frontier state, primitive and poor, its want of clergy underscored by a sharply

. Superficially, the reason for Morris’s alienation from the predominantly Anglican conservative élite lay in his championship of the right of the Church of Scotland’s colonial offshoots to a share in the clergy