The Rise of Ecclesiastical Control in QuebecColumbia University, 1916 - 195 pages |
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Walter Alexander Riddell. this distance was navigable by canoe and a very consider- able proportion of it by larger boats . Thus the rivers provided an easy means of access to the new settlements and of escape in the event of an Indian ...
Walter Alexander Riddell. this distance was navigable by canoe and a very consider- able proportion of it by larger boats . Thus the rivers provided an easy means of access to the new settlements and of escape in the event of an Indian ...
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... able to render help or assistance , nor to be assisted by the officers and soldiers of the garrisons at Quebec , and other strongholds of the said country ; and moreover , it appears that in a large part of the country , only small ...
... able to render help or assistance , nor to be assisted by the officers and soldiers of the garrisons at Quebec , and other strongholds of the said country ; and moreover , it appears that in a large part of the country , only small ...
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... able to repel the attacks of the aborigines . " ( Bouchette , op . cit . , vol . i , p . 363. ) 1 Munro , Seigniorial System , p . 83 . 2 In 1744 the governor and intendant complained to the French min- ister that the two previous bad ...
... able to repel the attacks of the aborigines . " ( Bouchette , op . cit . , vol . i , p . 363. ) 1 Munro , Seigniorial System , p . 83 . 2 In 1744 the governor and intendant complained to the French min- ister that the two previous bad ...
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... able to fill his barns with grain and enlarge his stock.2 Whatever weight we give to the more glowing accounts of New France , this stands out , that although resources were abundant , nevertheless the conditions of life were hard , and ...
... able to fill his barns with grain and enlarge his stock.2 Whatever weight we give to the more glowing accounts of New France , this stands out , that although resources were abundant , nevertheless the conditions of life were hard , and ...
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... able to mingle with the Indians , 2 together with the influence of the Catholic Missions , 3 soon brought the French into more or less intimate relations with these tribes . The success of these efforts at first led the authorities to ...
... able to mingle with the Indians , 2 together with the influence of the Catholic Missions , 3 soon brought the French into more or less intimate relations with these tribes . The success of these efforts at first led the authorities to ...
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¹ C. A. appointed authority Bishop of Quebec British government Brumath Cahall Census cent chapter Charlevoix church in Quebec Church of England civil clergy Colbert colony communities conquest Const Constitutional Act coureurs de bois curés Dartmouth Papers Denonville Docs Duchesneau Eastman ecclesiastical control Edits et Ord English episcopal erected established favor France French Canadian population French Canadians French régime Frontenac further Gallican church Governor granted habitants Haldimand hierarchy homogeneous Ibid increase Indians influence inhabitants Jesuits Kalm king land language Laval laws letter Lord Dorchester Lower Canada Majesty Mandements ment minister missions Montreal moral solidarity Munro Murray officers Old Régime ordinances parishes Parkman period persons priests Protestant Prov Province of Quebec Quebec Act Récollets religion religious Roman Catholic church Seigniorial System Seminary settlements settlers social solidarity Sovereign Council subjects temporal Three Rivers tion tithes wrote
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Page 157 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.
Page 157 - Church may hold, receive, and enjoy, their accustomed Dues and Rights, with respect to such Persons only as shall profess the said Religion.
Page 86 - Jesuits only excepted) do for the present and until We can be more fully informed of the true State of them, and how far they are, or are not essential to the free Exercise of the Religion of the Church of Rome, as allowed within Our said Province, remain upon their present Establishment, but you are not to allow the Admission of any new Members into any of the said Societies or Communities...
Page 157 - That all his Majesty's Canadian Subjects within the Province of Quebec, the Religious Orders and Communities only excepted, may also hold and enjoy their Property and Possessions, together with all Customs and Usages relative thereto, and all other their Civil Rights, in as large, ample, and beneficial Manner, as if the said Proclamation, Commissions, Ordinances, and other Acts and Instruments, had not been made...
Page 156 - ... little and the right of human nature so much, that the former has very little consideration with me. I look upon the people of Canada as coming, by the dispensation of God, under the British Government. I would have us govern it in the same manner as the all-wise disposition of Providence would govern it. We know He suffers the sun to shine upon the righteous and unrighteous ; and we ought to suffer all classes, without distinction, to enjoy equally the right of worshipping God, according to...
Page 157 - ... defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against his Person, Crown or Dignity. And I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to his Majesty and his Successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which I shall know to be against him or any of them.
Page 136 - ... till they were plainly told that it would be deceiving them to admit those words, for the King had not the power to tolerate that religion in any other manner than ' as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Page 69 - They clung to ancient prejudices, ancient customs, and ancient laws, not from any strong sense of their beneficial effects, but with the unreasoning tenacity of an uneducated and unprogressive people.
Page 136 - As far as the laws of Great Britain permit, which laws prohibit absolutely all Popish Hierarchy in any of the Dominions belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, and can only admit of a toleration of the exercise of that Religion...
Page 31 - French settlers, softened by French manners, guided by French priests, ruled by French officers, their now divided bands would become the constituents of a vast wilderness empire, which in time might span the continent. Spanish civilization crushed the Indian ; English civilization scorned and neglected him ; French civilization embraced and cherished him.