The Jesuits' Estate Question, 1760-1888 : : A Study of the Background for the Agitation of 1889 / / Roy Dalton.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©1968 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
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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