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 CANADIAN CHURCH 
 DESTITUTION. 
 
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 MADE BY THE RIGHT REV. 
 
 THE LORD BISHOP OF MONTREAL, 
 
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 RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DURHAM, 
 
 HER MA.TESTYS HIGK COMMISSIONER, &c. &•. 
 
 Dated Navembfir 20th, 1838, 
 
 UPOK THE INSUFFICIENT STATE OP THE CHURCH IN THl 
 
 PROVINCES OF 
 
 UPPER AND LOWER CANADA. 
 
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 Mardimont, near Quebec, 20th November, 1838. 
 
 MY LORD, 
 
 In obedience to the signification of your Excellency's 
 desire, 1 proceed to render a Report, for your information, of the state 
 of the Church in this Diocese, as exhibited in the Visitation, which I 
 completed by my return to Quebec on the 14th of the present month, 
 after having been absent since the 6th of August. 
 
 The number of persons professing adherence to the Church of 
 England in the Province of Upper Canada, is roughly stated at 150,000. 
 I believe it is by no means accurately known, but measures are under- 
 stood to be in contemplation for ascertaining it. The number of Clergy 
 in the exercise of their ministiy, including some whom I ordained during 
 my visitation, is Seventy-three. The number of Churches built, or in 
 progress towards their completion, is about Ninety. 
 
 These data, however, would give a very imperfect idea of the con- 
 <lition and the wants of the population, as it respects the means of 
 Spiritual instruction, or, to speak more properly, could fumixli no 
 grounds whatever of forming a correct estimate upon the subject. The 
 prodigious extent of countiy, the widely-scattered location of the inliabi- 
 tants, and the state of the roads in the settlements of more recent 
 formation, must, as will readily appear to the judgment of your Excel- 
 lency, be all taken into the account ; and it will be found, in point of 
 fact, that a lamentable projjortion of the Church of England populatif»n 
 are destitute of any provision for their religious wants ; another large 
 proportion very insnfficiently provided : and almost all the remainder 
 served by a Clergy who can only meet the demands made upon them by 
 strained efforts, which prejudice their usefulness in other points. 
 
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 Tim object of this Rrport to your ExcelltMicy will, I prcBunio, ho 
 stifficiontly answered hy the n<l(hiction of som«i particular examph>s in 
 Hupport of what I have just said. In trav<'lling from the town of London 
 to Goderich, I passed thronjjfh a tract of country sixty miles in length, in 
 which there is not one Ch^rf^ynian or Minister of any d(>noniination. I 
 believe I am safe in sayinjj^, that the p'eat majority of itdiahitants, among 
 whom are comprehended tlu^ Laiul Company's settlers, are of the Church 
 of England ; and the services of some of our Missionaries, who have par- 
 tially visited this tract of coimtry, have hr'en thankfully received by thoso 
 who pass under other names. Between Wodehouse upon Lake Erie, 
 and St. Thomas, a distance of upwards of fifty miles, which may be 
 travelled by two different roads, there is not one Clergyman upon either. 
 From the reports made to me by one of our travelling Missionaries, and 
 by a solitary Catechist stationed at Port Bui*well, I know that there is a 
 great body of Church people scattered through this part of the countiy. 
 In the whole of the newly-erected district of Wellington, which is every 
 wliere scattered over with a Church population, there is only one Clergy- 
 man of the Church. In the <listrict of Newcastle there are six. I have 
 good reason to know, that if ten more could be immediately added, 
 there would be full employment tor them, with regular congregations. In 
 one or two of the districts there is a Missionary engaged in labours 
 exclusively of an itinerant character ; but how sparingly the Word and 
 Ordinances of God are supplied, even to those among the unprovided 
 settlements which are thus fai" favoured, yoiu- Excellency will have no 
 difficulty in conceiving. The Clergy, however, except in the few com- 
 paratively large towns, are almost all more or less itinerants. I take one 
 example almost at hazard from the returns officially made to me, to 
 which I could produce many parallel instances ; it is that of a Clergyman 
 in the Batlmrst district, a place noted at certain seasons for the excessive 
 badness of the roads, who performs three full services every Sunday, 
 distributing his labours in such a way in four different places, that once 
 a fortnight he travels twenty-eight, and once a fortnight sixteen miles : 
 besides which, he has in the winter months four weok-dtiy appointments 
 for Divine service. Most of the Clergy have what they call out-stations, 
 wliicb they serve in this manner on week-days, to supply settlements 
 wliich would otherwise be wholly destitute ; and many of them make 
 occasional visits during the year to places still more remote, These 
 o})jects they do not accomplish without many sacrifices, and much severe 
 
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 exertion; hut the reward wliich tlicy seek i« not in tlie praise of men, 
 and it is the vahie rather than th;' merit ot their services to wliich I 
 desire to soHcit the attention of your Excelh'ncy. I i\o not npeak here 
 of those hif^her effects which constitute th(! ^rouiid and ultimate object 
 of their ministry, hut in proportion as means an taken for the extensiou 
 of their inthuMice, in such proportitni, my LokI, I have no hesitation in 
 saying — for the effect is every when' sufHcieiitiy marked— that the loyalty, 
 the good order, th( -^tiMidy habits, the peaccuble and industrious (h'port- 
 ment of the population will be promoted, and the ties strengthened which 
 bhid the Colony to the Parent State. Apart, also, from any consideration 
 of preserving the supremacy of Britain over the Canadius, there is a sacred 
 duty to be performed in laying such a f<mndation for the moral and 
 religious character of the inhabitants in time to com(; as will best ensure 
 their happiness and welfare ; and it is not for me to point out to your 
 Excellency that it is now that this foundation must be laid. In the 
 young settlements now stioiggling into existence, or beginning to develop 
 the signs of prosperous improvement, we see the germ of a great and 
 important future, which must be vitally affected by the mould given to 
 the population in this early stage of its formation. Millions who are yet 
 unborn will have cause to bless or to reproach the present Government 
 of Britain, for the measures taken to provide for them those advantages, 
 and to transmit to them those habits, principles, and attachments, which 
 form the only sure basis of national happiness. 
 
 Ui» to this ])erio(l, although not a few people have been lost to the 
 Church from the want of her ministrations, and a far more extensive 
 defection must inevitably follow, if things are left umch longer upon 
 their present footing ; yet, very generally, the privations which have been 
 experienced in this respect have served to teach our congregations the 
 full value of those jjrivileges which are enjoyed at home. The impor- 
 tunate solicitations which I constantly receive from different quarters of 
 the Province for the supply of Clerical services ; the overflowing warmth 
 of feeling with which the Tmvelling Missionaries of the Church are 
 greeted in their visits to the destitute settlements ; the marks of affecli( n 
 and respect towiirds my o\vn office wliich I experienced throughout tie 
 Province ; the exertions made by the people, in a great number of in- 
 stances, to erect Churches even without any definite pr(8^)ect of a 
 minister, and the examples in which this has been done by individuals at 
 their own private expense ; the rapidly increasing circulation of the 
 
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 unequivocal and striking evidences of the attachment to Churcli principlcH 
 which pervades a great hody of tlie popuhition. 
 
 I wouUl here h'»g U»ave to draw the attention of your KxceUency to 
 the bearing of tlieso facts upon the (juestion of Nupporting the Clergy in 
 Canada, hy the voluntary contrihutions of the people. Here is a d.ep 
 ■ense of the value of religious services, und a Ntrong ninnifestation of 
 attachment to the Clmrch. Tlie moving principle, therefore, iM not want- 
 ing ; and if, with this advantage, the system cannot work successfully in 
 Canada, it may be inferred that it cannot succeed there at all. And I 
 am more deeply convinced than ever that such is the fact. In the few 
 examples in which the ex]>eriment has been tried, it has rarely been 
 otherwise than a failure, and in most cases it would be ho]>elesH to attempt 
 it. Even if the country were far more advanced, and the people had 
 some command of money, I am persuaded that a faithfid, respectable, 
 and independent body of Clergy, sufficient for the wants even of that 
 part of the population who already appreciate their labotns, much more 
 of that whom it is their duty to win to a care for religion, can never be 
 provided by the operation of the voluntary system.* 
 
 Your Excellency, I doubt not, is alive to the necessity of bringing 
 at last to an issue tlie long-protracted questions respecting the Clergy 
 reserves, and putting an end to the painful and mischievous imitations 
 which must continue so long as those questions are left open. I shall 
 not presume to argue here the right of the Church of England to the ex- 
 clusive benefit of that property, but I should be wanting in my duty to 
 the Church, if I did not state my convicticm of the existence of that 
 right ; at the same time that I think it but fair, that the Clergy of the 
 Church of Scotland should look for some reasonable assistance from other 
 resources at the disposal of the Government. Against all idea of an 
 equality of footing between the two Churches, I cannot do otherwise 
 than earnestly and solemnly protest. If upon the manifestation of a 
 spirit of rivaliy in India, on the pait of the Clmrch of Scotland, instnic- 
 tions (of which a copy is in my possession) were sent to the (iovemor- 
 general, declaring the impracticability of placing the two Churches upon 
 a level, I conceive that the case is much stronger in favour of the Church 
 of England in Canada. The royal instmctions having declared that 
 Church alone to possess the character of an Establishment in the 
 Colony ; — part of these same instructions having been cited in the Act 31, 
 
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 Geo. iii. c. 31, by which the Clprgy Ro« -rves are set apart, and t)in en- 
 dowment of the Church provided for "according to the EHtahlislnnent of 
 tlie ('hurch of England ;" — this Act having be«Mi iinniediatcly followed 
 up by the erection of the see of Quebec, and the conHtituti<m of tho 
 Cuimdas as a diocese in the same coi\nection with the arcliiepiscopnl sen 
 of Canterbury an any diocese within the province of Canterbury in 
 England ; — tln^ subsequent Acts of the Government in the establishment 
 of a Cathedral at Quebec, the formation oi' certain {)arisbes of the C'hurch 
 of England, the division of the diocese into archdeaconries, and tho 
 creation of coi porations, consisting of the Church Clergy for the man- 
 agement of the reserves, having all been in harmony with the original 
 puq)ose of the Crown, as stated above : I submit to the judgment of your 
 Excellency, whether the guardians of the interests of the Church of Eng- 
 land, in Canada, can conscientiously do otherwise than oppose themselves, 
 by eveiy means in their ])ower, to an abaridonment of her pec-uliar 
 claims, — claims it is to be observed, of which the maintenance involves 
 no burthen imposed for l:er benefit upon the members of other religious 
 bodies, and no interference in any shape whatever with any but her own 
 people. A declaration on the part of Government of the privileges 
 assigned irrevocably to tho Church of England, and an extension, at tho 
 
 Roman Church was liberally tolerated, and left in possession of very considerable 
 property. At the same tiine it was distinctly understood in the Hritish Parlia- 
 ment that the Establishment was to be the National Church of the Empire. 
 
 By subsequent Acts a considerable portion of Wild Land in each fuiure 
 Township was reserved, for the simport and maintenance of this future Barrier 
 against Romanism and Irreligion. These Reserves, if they had been gradually and 
 properly applied, woiild have entirely precluded the possibility of the present 
 Spiritual Destitution in the Provinces, by securing the growth of the National 
 Church, in dr j proportion to the increase of the population, and would thus have 
 afforded to the Protestant Colonists a Spiritual influence to counterbalance the 
 advantages conceded to Rome, and have been a barrier for all minor christian distinc- 
 tions against the domineering aggressions of that w^U endowed Hierarchy, whose 
 
 reserved to the Crown ; probably with a view to facilitate improvements, and to 
 afford encouragement in the Colony, without expense to the Mother State, or 
 distress to an infant and poor population, in providing schools, teachers, &c. for 
 themselves, at their own cost. 
 
 It was therefore wholly tmnecessary, and as impolitic as unnecessary, (con- 
 sidering the indulgences granted to Romanism) to excite a contest between the 
 Protestant Churches of the Empire, regarding the Church Reserve ; or to rob 
 and weaken the main bulwark, in order to provide for other parts of "the Chris- 
 tian Defences ;" since these Crown Reserves afforded ample means of accomplishi''g 
 the object, unless (as is not obscurely hinted at in the History of MassachustiCS 
 Bay, to which Sir R. Peel compares another Bill) the covert object sought to be 
 obtained by the conflict, was, to render both, aiuie inefficient for the actual, and 
 annually incroDsing, SpiRi'ru.M. Duties of a Church, amongst a poor and 
 widely dispersed Population, and ultimately to reduce both, under The Domi- 
 nation OF the R.03IAN See, a system more consonant to Despotic rule than 
 either of the British Churciies. (See Ezekiel xvii. 22.-24. 
 
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 same time, of such just advantages to the Church of Scotland, as are 
 compatible with the retention of those privileges by our own Establish- 
 ment, would, in my humble judgment, be infinitely better calculated to 
 heal the religious dissensions of the Colony than any temporizing course 
 of policy, or any timid evasion of a question, which must at last be met 
 in the face. 
 
 I cannot forbear, my Lord from introducing some mention in this 
 Report of the labours of our Clergy among the native India' 3. There 
 are two Clergymen stationed among the Six Nations on the Grand 
 River, one at the Mohawk Village, and the other at Tuscarora. A 
 Missionary has been sent to the Manitoulin Islands, and another to the 
 Sault St. Marie, at the upper extremity of Lake Huron. These four 
 are engaged exclusively in the charge of Indians. There are two other 
 Clergymen, who combine this charge with that of congregations of 
 whites ; one in the Bay of Quint^, where a branch of the Mohawk 
 tribe is established, and one who resides in Caradoc, and devotes part 
 of his time to the Mounsees and Bear Creek Chippawas in his neigh- 
 bourhood. I have never seen more orderly and, to all appearance 
 devout worshippers than among some of these Indian congregations 
 which I visited ; and I have the fullest reason to believe that the min- 
 istry of the Clergy among them has been attended with very happy 
 effects. His Excellency Sir George Arthur is much interested in their 
 welfare ; and whatever the Government can do for their Religious 
 improvement, their temporal comfort, or the education of their children, 
 will, I am persuaded, be well and wisely expended. A great and prom- 
 ising field is here open to Christian philanthropy. A long debt is due 
 to the Indians from the inhabitants of European descent, and it is by 
 means such as those which I have just stated, that the reparation must 
 be made. They have been uniformly loyal. The Mohawks preserve 
 to this day, with much veneration, a set of communion-plate and other 
 appendages of divine worship, which were given them by Queen Anne, 
 when they were seated in the colonies which now form part of the 
 United States of America. I shall be happy to think that your Excel- 
 lency will not forget the claims of these poor people^ in what you 
 are engaged in doing for Canada at home. * 
 
 The commands laid upon me by your Excellency, having immedi- 
 ately had reference to the visitation of Upper Canada, upon which I was 
 
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 details respecting the Lower Province. The observations, however, 
 which I have submitted are, in great part, of common application to 
 both Provinces ; and although there is a far smaller number of Protes- 
 tants in Lower Canada, the Protestant portion of the inhabitants is 
 constantly gaining upon the older French population, and must be ex- 
 pected to receive progressively increasing accessions from the British 
 Isles, chiefly of Protestants ; while the original settlers of the Colony 
 experience no augmentation of their numbers from any extraneous source. 
 
 There has been no census of the population of this Province since 
 the year 183 L At that time the Church of England population was esti- 
 mated at 34,620 souls ; the Church of Scotland population at 15,069 ; 
 and the aggregate of all the non-episcopal Protestant Denominations, 
 including the Church of Scotland, at 37,937. The Clergy of the Church 
 of England are 44 in number, with 52 or 53 Churches and Chapels 
 built or in progress. From 15 to 20 additional Clergymen would, I 
 think, provide for the present wants of this portion of the Diocese. In 
 Upper Canada, I believe that employment would be found for 100 be- 
 yond the existing establishment. 
 
 The petitions which are before your Excellency from the Clergy of 
 both Provinces respectively contain suggestions which, if acted upon, 
 would open the way for improving the efficiency of the Church Estab- 
 lishment in the Diocese ; but, without some present aid from the 
 Government, would be more tardy in their operation than the wants of 
 the people would bear without detriment. Nothing can be less uniform 
 and systematic than the manner in which a meagre supply of Clergy is 
 at present eked out and distributed over the Diocese. One portion are 
 paid from the imperial treasury (the salaries to be discontinued one by 
 one, as vacancies occur) ; another from local resources at the disposal 
 of Government ; another is composed of Missionaries from home ; and 
 there are four different religious bodies (besides an individual of singular 
 zeal in the cause) to whom the diocese is in this way indebted ; and 
 another still, although an exceedingly small portion, are dependent, in 
 whole or in part, upon the people. Thus the establishment of Clergy, 
 imperfect and insufficient as it is, is made up by means of shifts and 
 expedients, and to a great extent is without any permanent character ; 
 and the task of the diocesan in procuring supplies, and maintaining 
 communication with the different parties who afford themi is complicated 
 in a distressing degree. 
 
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 I am thus led to a subject which I have reserved as the last to be 
 brought under the notice of your Excellency. The care of this diocese 
 is altogether too much for one man. Certainly one man cannot do 
 justice to it, situated as I am. Your Excellency is, I believe, aware 
 that negotiations ham for some time been on foot for the erection of a 
 separate see in Upper Canada. It is, indeed, high time that this mea- 
 sure should be carried into effect ; and for whatever time I am to remain 
 in the charge of the whole diocese, I really ought (and so, indeed, I 
 ought in any case) to be placed upon a new footing. In executing the 
 duties of the visitation in the two Provinces, I have travelled nearly 
 5,000 miles ; the extreme points which I have visited in the length of 
 the diocese being Sandwich, at the head of Lake Erie ; and the Bay of 
 Chaleurs, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence. Of the state of the commu- 
 nication in the interior parts of the country and among the new 
 settlements, your Excellency is not without information. No provision 
 exists for enabling me to employ a single functionary in conducting 
 correspondence with the Government, the Clergy, and the Societies at 
 home, keeping in proper order and arrangement the accmnulating records 
 of the see, or transacting those ordinary forms of ecclesiastical business 
 which are proper to Uie episcopal office ; and in those departments of 
 labour where the Bishop -^san receive assistance from the Arch-deacon, I 
 am deprived of this benefit, as far as Lower Canada is concerned, be- 
 cause, under the existing ammgements, I am compelled to hold the 
 office of Arch-deacon myself. : 
 
 The foregoing observations are submitted, with all respect, to the 
 serious consideration of your Excellency. Should it be your desire to 
 be furnished with statements in detail, taken from the returns of the 
 Clergy, it will be my endeavour to prepare them with all practicable 
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