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USPG C series records relating to Canada: general papers, 1785-1864

USPG C series records relating to Canada: general papers, 1785-1864

Collection: Canada in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1722-1952    Volumes    USPG C series records relating to Canada: general papers, 1785-1864
These general papers have a significant focus upon the laws and legislature of Canada that were to affect the USPG, and especially so with regard to Acts that covered their reserves. The reserve fund accounts, from 1843 until 1848, serve to illustrate some of the significance that these lands held for the Society. The Government correspondence extends beyond the issue of laws relating to clergy reserves, into the laws governing the union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. The expansion of the Society's work into new settlements was not always combined with an increase in funds and new areas were being settled as clergy wrote appeals against cuts to their income. Another issue of some significance, is the transfer of the Mohawk Mission to the New England Company. The papers and correspondence of the Upper Canada Clergy Society also feature, together with details of pension and salary payments. Further information about these documents is available via this link.
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Miscellaneous content, 1815-1864

The ever-present challenge of funding the USPG's missionary work, is covered in official records, notes and financial records amongst these items. The report from the Select Committee of the Upper...

Date:1815-1864
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:C-Can-Gen-11

Assorted minutes, 1813-1831

These minutes cover the years 1813 and 1826-1831, they include the record of a meeting where the USPG agreed to transfer their Mohawk Mission to the New England Company; the...

Date:1813-1831
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:C-Can-Gen-10

Upper Canada Clergy Society miscellaneous papers, 1834-1840

This document includes Appeals for support for the proposed Upper Canada Clergy Society (UCCS) with related papers; correspondence and papers of Captain Wellesley, founder of the UCCS; Candidates' Papers; correspondence...

Date:1834-1840
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:C-Can-Gen-09

Upper Canada Clergy Society correspondence, 1835-1845

This correspondence from and to the Upper Canada Clergy Society covers that with the SPG, home correspondence, and overseas correspondence. Two core concerns of this correspondence are recruitment and fundraising....

Date:1835-1845
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:C-Can-Gen-08

Petitions, pamphlets and printed content, 1790-1903

These papers include Memoranda upon a wide range of subjects, including: the condition of the relationship of the Church of England with other denominations, education, missionaries' salaries, a suspension of...

Date:1790-1903
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:C-Can-Gen-07

Infrastructure, schools and churches, 1817-1836

These items contain a clear focus on the infrastructure of Canada with regard to education and churches. The content upon churches includes discussion of their provision, of the 'Churches Building...

Date:1817-1836
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:C-Can-Gen-06

Boxes of Assorted Correspondence, 1785-1856

This correspondence reveals a Society that was expanding into new settlements, despite an apparent shortage of funds that left its missionaries and clergy struggling on a wage they claimed to...

Date:1785-1856
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:C-Can-Gen-05

Missionary and Clergy Letters and Salaries, 1811-1862

These records lists of the clergy working in Upper Canada and the pensioners formerly employed there from 1830 until 1839 and in 1851. Pension statements and salary statements dating from...

Date:1811-1862
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:C-Can-Gen-04
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