Clergy Reserves fonds
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- Main Entry
- Clergy Reserves, 1791-1854.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 13 cm
- Printed.
- Foxed and brittle.
- Dates
- 1791-1854
- Fonds Number
- 157
- Fonds
- Clergy Reserves fonds
- Material Type
- Multiple media
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 13 cm
- Printed.
- Foxed and brittle.
- Dates
- 1791-1854
- Administrative / Biographical History
- Clergy Reserves were lands set aside in Upper Canada and Lower Canada under the Constitutional Act of 1791, to support and maintain the Church of England in Canada. One-eighth of all lands granted were reserved to the Church of England in Canada. The MacNab-Morin administration passed a measure of secularization in 1854, ending the Clergy Reserves.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of a collection of printed copies or extracts of correspondence, papers, and reports regarding Clergy Reserves, 1791-1854. Includes a circular, dated 1839, addressed: To a Christian Public and signed by many clergymen from Eastern Ontario defending the establishment of the Church of England in Canada and its rights to the Clergy Reserves (M76-16).
- Main Entry
- Clergy Reserves, 1791-1854.
- Subjects
- Clergy reserves
- Accession Number
- M76-16
- M87-8
- Custodial History
- Circular acquired from Walter Yarwood in 1976.
- Title Proper Source
- Title based on contents of fonds.