was run by the Clerics of St Viator but had some secular clergy on its teaching staff, into his diocesan minor seminary and helped it develop. Archambeault’s interest in elementary education was

death to this French engineering school. Poorly subsidized and outside the system of higher education – the classical colleges and the Université Laval, which were dominated by the clergy – this

blame for mistreatment of the Acadians should fall on the French government and the Roman Catholic clergy. His account reflected a self-conscious patriotism as well as tinges of racism. While he was

the Roman Catholic clergy, such as Father Gaulin, and by complete failure to achieve the progress he so

Saint-Maurice. Since the departure of the Jesuits and Récollets in the 1760s, these missions had been without resident priests and were served only by a few secular clergy who went there in the summer. In

would readily assist in doing it.” The congressional commissioners attempted to rectify matters by cultivating the good will of the nobility and clergy and by establishing a printing press to spread the

 1820s. Like other loyalist clergy in rural missions, Arnold experienced difficulties securing financial assistance from his congregations

privately rebuked Strachan for publicly opposing government policy. Arthur also disagreed with Strachan’s efforts to secure all the funds arising from the sale of the clergy reserves for the Church of England

education and books. A Liberal in politics, the master tanner was personally involved, as a witness for the prosecution, in the famous 1876 trial for “undue influence” on the part of the clergy, following the

of Saint-Roch, where according to the clergy one of the consequences was an upsurge in alcoholism. The clergy attempted to combat this by creating on 15 Nov. 1840 the Société de

the activities of the administrators and embezzlers at the end of the French régime bluntly, and he also attacks the clergy, particularly Abbé Le Loutre, François

, he dealt instead with the scientific evidence that supported a belief in spiritualism. His ministerial audience was not impressed and his expulsion from the ranks of the clergy was upheld. This

of ecclesiastics, having deplored the multiplicity and very uneven quality of the theology courses at Montreal and the lack of theological knowledge among the Canadian clergy. According to him, the

masterpiece in the Gothic idiom, describing it in later years as “one of the finest gothic interiors in Canada.” Yet by the late 1850s his relationship with the clergy had seriously deteriorated. Attempts by

rebuilt after a fire in 1888, Baillairgé stubbornly insisted on paying for the high altar and nothing else, even though the clergy had already donated one to the seminary. The pleas of Abbé Louis-Honoré

futility of consulting Rome about everything; nobody there knew anything about the problems currently preoccupying the Canadian clergy – for instance, the secret society of Oddfellows and the moral

holidays. That was going too far. Some of the clergy and lay people in Quebec, Montreal, and rural areas publicly expressed disapproval of the bishop of Capsa; the Montreal Gazette commented

* 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

, Baldwin had presaged the pattern of development for higher education in Ontario. Baldwin also contended with his church over the clergy reserves

discontent.” Among the 20 causes he listed were the crown and clergy reserves, the land-granting department, the monopoly of the Canada Company [see Thomas Mercer