Reformers of Upper Canada, the government of the United States, and the “liberal” clergy. The participants decided the festival should be celebrated annually. In 1836, however, the Reformers were divided. The

. John Murray, The history of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton (Truro, N.S., 1921). L. M. Toward, “The influence of Scottish clergy on early education in Cape Breton,” N.S

, which his practice as an architect, wood-carver, and gilder showed him to be, offered security to a generation of builders who were valued by the clergy and favoured by the project managers. Ouellet built

England’s rights to the clergy reserves in Upper Canada, questions on which his views resembled closely those of Strachan. While at Cobourg, Bethune

, issued an open invitation to the French refugee clergy to settle in Canada. Castanet was among those who accepted. Approximately 45 French priests in exile left England for Canada between 1791 and 1802

Settee*, was one of the “pure” Indian clergy in Rupert’s Land. The three were close, aware of their subordinate status as native clergy and the penury that it brought. Paid less than their European

clergy, whose numbers diminished after 1760. He served at Saint-Michel, near Quebec, from 1760 to 1761, Saint-Charles (at Saint-Charles-des-Grondines) from 1762 to 1764, and La Nativité-de-Notre-Dame

many of their fellow priests who refused to take the oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which the Constituent Assembly required from 1 Oct. 1791. By good luck they managed to escape

Briand, who had appealed to the clergy and the Canadian people to remain loyal. On 15 Feb. 1776 the second Continental Congress in

Sister Marie-Angèle and the other novices were instructed in the rudiments of pedagogy by the clergy who supervised the course of studies. They also received training in various aspects of domestic work

Religious Liberty,” demanded the removal of clergymen from political positions, the institution of equal rights for clergy of all denominations, the modification of the King’s College charter, and the

. Jennings took an active part in promoting the cause of education in Upper Canada. He was prominent in the agitation for the secularization of the clergy reserves, contributing many articles to the press on

received when he presented himself at the seminary of Quebec on 28 Aug. 1726. For some years the Canadian-born clergy had been complaining, not without reason, of being systematically kept out of

Mills]. Although the Catholic clergy generally considered the new school system a threat, the local parish priest, Bernard-Claude

with Mullock’s approval, that it was sinful to vote other than at the direction of the clergy. This spiritual suasion, exercised, however, without the

accused the bishop and several of his clergy, including Father Francis, of fomenting strife in his pastoral charge to abet his removal. After this

for piety and charitable works. A confidant of Archbishop Lynch, he was often asked to rehabilitate fellow clergy with disciplinary or alcohol-related problems. He also made his mark as a “brick and

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

that would provide clergy for the Church of England in Canada and would offer to the country at large a sound and liberal education upon reasonable terms. The institution was to be under Anglican control

duties there for some years. It is presumed that after the outbreak of the French revolution he refused to swear allegiance to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, for in 1799 he was in England under the