Clergy reserves were tracts of land in Upper Canada and Lower Canada reserved for the support of "Protestant clergy" by the Constitutional Act 1791. One-seventh...
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The Clergy Corporation, or the Clergy Reserve Corporation of Upper Canada, existed to oversee, manage and lease the Clergy reserves of Upper Canada, a...
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Upper Canada (redirect from Crown reserves)
province. To that end, he created the clergy reserves, the revenues of which were to support the church. The clergy reserves proved to be a long-term political...
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Constitutional Act 1791 (redirect from Clergy Endowments (Canada) Act 1791)
provinces into the new Province of Canada. Some provisions relating to the clergy reserves remained in force. The remaining provisions of the act were repealed...
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The Clergy Reserves in Canada Act 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 78) is the short-title of An Act to provide for the Sale of the Clergy Reserves in the Province...
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Family Compact (section Clergy reserves)
less dependent on government aid. The Clergy Corporation was incorporated in 1819 to manage the Clergy Reserves. After John Strachan was appointed to...
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formed to acquire and develop Upper Canada's undeveloped clergy reserves and Crown reserves, which the company bought in 1827 for £341,000 ($693,000)...
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institutions, reductions in government expenditure, abolition of the Clergy Reserves, voluntarism, and free trade with the United States. Clear Grits from...
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The estate was once on land owned by Peter Patterson and before that Clergy Reserve. Only the groundskeeper home remains and rest of the estate redeveloped...
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Thomas Ridout survey of 1821, designating the present area of Puslinch as a "Clergy Reserve for the County of Lincoln"....
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