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The Covenanters in Canada : reformed Presbyterianism from 1820 to 2012 / Eldon Hay.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; ; 59.Publication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 397, 28 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780773587823
  • 0773587829
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 285.271 23
LOC classification:
  • BX9001 .H39 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
1 Scots, Irish, and American Roots in Canadian Covenanter Communities -- 2 Clarke and Sommerville: Can the Centre Hold? -- 3 Sommerville at Horton and Cornwallis -- 4 Alexander McLeod Stavely and Saint John -- 5 James Reid Lawson and Barnesville -- 6 Robert Miller Stewart and Wilmot -- 7 Robert Sommerville: Fitful Follower of a Powerful Father -- 8 Thomas McFall and Robert Park -- 9 Lower Canada Covenanters and the Scots Synod -- 10 Upper Canada Covenanters and the Scots Synod -- 11 Transfer, Transition, and Challenge in Upper Canada -- 12 Picking up the Pieces: Covenanters in Nineteenth-Century Ontario -- 13 Conventers in Alberta -- 14 Covenanters in Saskatchewan -- 15 Covenanters in Manitoba -- 16 Covenanters in Twentieth-Century Ontario.
Summary: A sensitive and nuanced narrative of a dissenting religious minority in a pluralistic society.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

1 Scots, Irish, and American Roots in Canadian Covenanter Communities -- 2 Clarke and Sommerville: Can the Centre Hold? -- 3 Sommerville at Horton and Cornwallis -- 4 Alexander McLeod Stavely and Saint John -- 5 James Reid Lawson and Barnesville -- 6 Robert Miller Stewart and Wilmot -- 7 Robert Sommerville: Fitful Follower of a Powerful Father -- 8 Thomas McFall and Robert Park -- 9 Lower Canada Covenanters and the Scots Synod -- 10 Upper Canada Covenanters and the Scots Synod -- 11 Transfer, Transition, and Challenge in Upper Canada -- 12 Picking up the Pieces: Covenanters in Nineteenth-Century Ontario -- 13 Conventers in Alberta -- 14 Covenanters in Saskatchewan -- 15 Covenanters in Manitoba -- 16 Covenanters in Twentieth-Century Ontario.

A sensitive and nuanced narrative of a dissenting religious minority in a pluralistic society.