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Priests and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896

Priests and Politicians: Manitoba Schools and the Election of 1896

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Canadian HistoryGeneral ChristianityGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 144263958X
ISBN13: 9781442639584
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1974
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the decade beginning with the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885, a series of radical and religious conflicts shook Canada, culminating in the Manitoba school crisis of the 1890s. By 1896, the focal point of the controversy was remedialism, the attempt to have Roman Catholic school privileges in Manitoba restored by federal action against the provincial government. The struggle over remedialism involved nearly every aspect of Canada's internal history - Conservative-Liberal, federal-provincial, east-west, French-English, Catholic-Protestant, church-state. But, illustrating as it does the complexity and sensitivity of the ground where politics and religion meet, the election of 1896 has remained particularly fascinating for the degree to which Roman Catholic church authorities, above all in Quebec, entered the political process and were involved in the struggle to power of Wilfrid Laurier.

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