The Jesuits' Estate Question, 1760-1888 : : A Study of the Background for the Agitation of 1889 / / Roy Dalton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Dalton, Roy,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)

More than a hundred years of trouble followed the land grant of half a million acres along the St. Lawrence River to the Jesuits. The history of this land is a turbulent one that involved every area of colonial settlement and finally threatened Confederation. In 1888 the Quebec legislature passed an "Act Respecting the Settlement of the Jesuits' Estates": the result was a storm of protest that came close to shattering the union of the provinces. At the time of this Act there was no balanced historical account of the Jesuits' estates. nor until this one has there been any subsequent study that has ever begun to explore their tangled history. Professor Dalton provides a badly needed investigation into this area of Canadian history: his work is unbiased and thorough and offers new material for a reappraisal of this century of our past. (Canadian Studies in History and Government, No. 11.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Maps. Tables -- 1. The Jesuits in Canada from the Conquest to Papal Suppression -- 2. The Amherst Claims : Preliminary Endeavours -- 3. The Amherst Claims: Provincial Investigations -- 4. The Amherst Claims : Provincial Manœuvres -- 5. An Analysis of the Jesuits' Estates -- 6. The Jesuits' Estates in Public Affairs, 1800-32 -- 7. Provincial Control, 1832-9 -- 8. Provincial Control, 1841-67 -- 9. The Jesuits' Estates and the University Question -- 10. Incorporation and the Act of Settlement of 1888 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index