churches in York and Toronto, with biographical sketches of many of the clergy and laity, ed. T. E. Champion (Toronto, 1899). Ont., Agricultural and Arts Assoc., Trans

. The governor concerned himself with internal administration, and had a list of land grants prepared which he sent to the minister by the courier of 1682. He supported the clergy in its attempts to

considered too poor to support a secular clergy. Mézy’s greatest deficiencies as financial commissary were in precisely those areas of bookkeeping and

might have been expected. In his first case Nancy Mozely (Mosley), a Black woman, was convicted of manslaughter for killing her husband with a pitchfork. After pleading benefit of clergy, an ancient

Canadian journalist (Toronto, 1928), 122. B. J. Fraser, Church, college, and clergy: a history of theological education at Knox College, Toronto, 1844–1994 (Montreal and Kingston, Ont

” trial of Daniel James Macdonnell that followed divided the clergy more than laity because of the theological subtlety of the arguments about damnation. The case, based on a statement by Macdonnell, was

choice of representatives in the approaching election. Initially, Mackenzie supported the British connection, primogeniture, and the principle of clergy reserves, but he also praised American institutions

, and processions, and thus asserted his authority over all the clergy on Île Royale. In 1754 Bishop Pontbriand confirmed him in his functions as vicar general, which he exercised henceforth alone. The

the return of M. de Maisonneuve, who had set out for France again in 1655. He was to return only at the end of July 1657, together with the first parish clergy for Ville-Marie, which would

the Roman Catholic clergy along with that of the political and business community (especially the francophone sector), the Montreal office quickly won several prestigious commissions, including one in

the ire of the Nova Scotian clergy who held the aged missionary in esteem. This letter is evidence of the strained relations between the two men as well as of their differing views of the role of a

seigneurial tenure in Canada East and of the clergy reserves in Canada West. Though no longer in the Executive Council, Merritt continued to promote reciprocity, preparing in 1852 an address to the imperial

philosophes’ combat against intolerance, the abuses of the clergy, and the feudal system. The paper burst forth in exultation when the French revolution dawned, still borrowing news from its rival in

the clergy in general, de Meulles appears to have been on good terms from the outset; certainly they voiced no complaints on his conduct of affairs. With La Barre too his relations were at first

though the Liberals won overall, Mills lost Bothwell in the general election of 23 June. He blamed his narrow defeat on “the treachery of the Roman Catholic clergy” and Denis

domain, Monseignat, had to match expenditures with revenue. The tax farmers had given him orders to pay out card money at the same rate as he had received it. The clergy and the officers whose incomes came

Catholic clergy in the quarrel over the Jesuit estates, and drafted the School Act of 1845 which established the parish rather than the municipality as the basis of the school system. He also acted as

taking too much interest in social questions and causing his community, the clergy, indeed the entire church, to be disliked because of his lack of consideration for the local Protestant élite. Thus they

involved. At one time he apparently had an affiliation with the Disciples of Christ but had given it up because they discountenanced an educated clergy. The pioneering Canada Baptist College in Montreal had

in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In this he was unique among Maritime Methodist clergy, his influence stemming from the fact that he was not settled by the district on different circuits at