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Evangelicals and the Continental Divide
An in-depth study that highlights the similarities that make evangelicalism in North America a unified religious subculture while showing how differences between Canadian and …
Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640-1665
St Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700) is a key figure in Canadian and religious history. Patricia Simpson goes behind the myth and hagiography surrounding Marguerite Bourgeoys to …
A Church with the Soul of a Nation
"As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. But was this Canadian-made church flawed in its design, as …
Religion, Family, and Community in Victorian Canada
An intimate portrait of "lived religion" as experienced by a middle-class family over three generations.
Ordinary Saints
From their everyday work in kitchens and gardens to the solemn work of laying out the dead, the Anglican women of mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay, Newfoundland, understood and …
Governing Charities
"Governing Charities" challenges received accounts of the welfare state by highlighting the complex web of relationships that characterize the delivery of social services. In …
A History of Canadian Catholics
In A History of Canadian Catholics Terence Fay relates the long story of the Catholic Church and its followers, beginning with how the church and its adherents came to Canada, how …
The Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada
A social history of Protestantism and Catholicism in Canada since 1800
From Quaker to Upper Canadian
An important new addition to religious history that examines one sect
The Guardianship of Best Interests
It is difficult to imagine how orphan asylums and children's homes - often depicted as places where abuse, deprivation, and cruelty were commonplace - once presented a viable …
Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858
In the late eighteenth century, an influx of Protestant settlers to the mainly Catholic parish of Forkhill on the Ulster borderlands provoked clashes between natives and newcomers. …
The Founding Moment
He explores the motives, goals, and social and religious ideas that were behind the creation of this important institution of higher education, explaining the reasons Trinity was …