name changed to Inverness in 1837. For two decades he was re-elected with the support of its merchants and, more especially, its Catholic laymen and clergy, who constituted a majority of the population

native clergy with some scepticism, even though it was CMS policy. He had thought that the mixed-blood members of his congregation at St Andrews suffered from their native heritage, and he believed

only the deaf but also the government, the clergy, and the public, all of whom had originally been insensitive to the cause

Hartman* and Louis-Victor Sicotte* calling for measures to abolish seigneurial tenure and secularize the clergy reserves. But although

of his co-religionists as a whole, and in 1827 he spoke in favour of giving Presbyterian clergy full rights to perform marriages. During the “Brandy

leading evangelical, who immediately declined. The synod then adjourned for two months after establishing a committee of laity and clergy to bring forward names to be considered. Worrell, a theological

report] (London), 1748–49, 46. J. B. Bell, “Anglican clergy in colonial America ordained by bishops of London,” American Antiquarian Soc., Proc. (Worcester, Mass.), 83 (1973), 159. G.B

. In 1827–28, Wood was in England and took his ma at Cambridge. He also published An apology for the colonial clergy of Great Britain: specially for those of

with fierce opposition from many clergy and laity for some years but that would be rewarded by wide and enthusiastic commendation shortly before his death. In July 1861 he was ordained priest by

in a letter of 179l. “Wiswall is an infirm man,” he wrote, “& rather incapable of that exertion which the state of the country requires – like too many of the Clergy here, he does not seem to

. K. is a member will not tolerate such conduct, nor permit it to be tolerated by any of his respectable clergy.” He then denied that Kent had any such influence at his command, and concluded that he

particularly criticized the influence of the Roman Catholic clergy on the Liberal government, especially the role of Bishop John Thomas

training of native clergy who would eventually replace the missionaries. Although Wilson did instruct two young Ojibwa men as catechists, and another, John Jacobs, was ordained in 1869 and placed in charge

PAC and PANS); Ind. 5435, 5438. St Paul’s Church (Halifax), “Record of burials performed by the clergy of St Paul’s Church gathered from loose memoranda, and written up by W. Simms Lee

Perry’s bill for disposing of the clergy reserves. Willson, in fact, went further and argued that the entire proceeds be appropriated to education and, much to Bidwell’s displeasure

personal connection to God and rejects creeds, clergy, and hierarchy. By 1933 she was serving on the executive of the Ontario Labor Party and was vice-president of the Toronto Labor Party. She initially

ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation (new ed., 9v., Edinburgh, 1915–61), III, 431–32. Our Scottish clergy; fifty-two sketches, biographical

, and Williams observed that prosperous families did not encourage their sons to enter the clergy. He fostered the Church of England Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Association. In 1869 he was appointed to

 1810 he published A letter; most respectfully addressed to the Roman Catholic clergy and the seigniors of the province of Lower Canada: recommending the establishment of schools. In it he

. By 1844 Widder ambitiously proposed to Governor Metcalfe that the Canada Company should undertake on commission the administration of the province’s public lands, beginning with the clergy reserves