.” For most of the rest of his life Point was an invalid. In 1865 his superiors sent him to Quebec where he became a highly sought after adviser to the local clergy. He died at Quebec on 3 July 1868

. Racine thus made an important contribution to the creation and maintenance of the social power of the clergy in the Saguenay. This power was clearly demonstrated when the Hotel-Dieu de Saint-Vallier was

remove the political disabilities of the Nonconformists and end the official supremacy of the Church of England. In Canada he urged abolition of the clergy reserves, the public lands endowed to the Church

main causes of conflict between the clergy and previous governors was again removed. To provide funds for the colony’s administration Mézy auctioned off the right to collect the 25 per cent export

. In November 1837 he refused to sign the clergy’s petition to the government since, on the basis of his royalist theology, he approved its rigorous intervention. Yet the prevailing panic of the

to take the oath of loyalty to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, he went into exile in Switzerland; once there, he expressed a determination to go to Lower Canada. He was in the group of 11

contemporary the Echo.” Within the framework of his evangelical convictions, however, Shortt was essentially a moderate who gained the respect of his fellow Anglican clergy of different views. His obituary in

. When Spencer took up his post in Newfoundland he found that the small number of clergy and the depressed condition of the people had cast a shadow on the growth of the Church of England. However, with

Society. Binney felt the weight of Uniacke’s opposition and influence over the junior clergy in Halifax, when the crusty, pious old rector stubbornly refused to join the diocesan synod on the ground that it

England apparently resolved to turn down the post. His fellow clergy convinced him that diocesan organization was necessary to put the North West America mission on a sounder footing, given the growing

parish had had the attention of no clergy whatever. The work awaiting Langhorn was immense and he took it up immediately. Quickly he established a routine to which he adhered with little deviation for the

 Feller and Roussy persisted, but at the cost of great frustrations. During the first year they had to abandon three schools which the Catholic clergy denounced. Colportage became increasingly difficult

establishment of the diocese of Montreal thus surfaced and created a situation encouraging the expression of disagreement within the lower ranks of French Canadian clergy

Pelletier in a federal by-election on 17 Feb. 1869. Some 50 special constables maintained order during the polls. Even though Routhier had the support of the clergy and many of the voters

he rejected the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, but for a time his legal status remained ambiguous. He continued to function, perhaps semi-clandestinely, alongside the conforming cure for another

for a native clergy. The year before, Bishop Alexandre-Antonin Taché* of St Boniface had made representations to obtain the

election to the provincial house for the constituency of Bonaventure. It seems to me that our religious interests in particular would be ill placed in his hands. Consequently I want the clergy to use its

Bathurst. His appointment was a partial triumph for the Irish clergy of the diocese, who had long complained of Scottish ecclesiastical domination there and wanted a local Irish priest to be made bishop

disposal by auction and payment by instalment which, Wilmot-Horton believed, would allow indigent immigrants to acquire land. In November Robinson took on the added duty of commissioner for the clergy

bishop had to provide additional clergy for the increased population, a task made difficult by the prevailing poverty. Nevertheless in 1817 he ordained Nicholas Devereux to the priesthood, the first such