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A Survey of Canadian Church History*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
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It is a constant theme of all writers on Canada that the feat of “extending the thin ribbon of population towards the Pacific and of holding all together demanded both the alert resourcefulness of the pioneer and the strategic daring and tactical caution of the true statesman.” It is also affirmed that “in the annals of political architecture the formation of the Dominion of Canada deserves a foremost place.” Both in the process of extension and in the formation of the federal constitution the leaders of the Canadian churches played a vital role. Also they helped to give substantial reality to an artificially contrived nation by fashioning their own church structures in accordance with the new national boundaries of 1867. But what was far more important, they actively cooperated, perhaps even against their own inner convictions, in bringing about a modus vivendi between the two warring cultures that found themselves compelled to live together in one house. Preceding the present “mutual agreement to forgive and forget” there is a long story of religious warfare and rivalry which ought to be of interest to church historians generally, if only to gain some insight into the character of a Christianity which has been so largely shaped under negative conditions.
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Henry H. Walsh is Professor of Church History, Faculty of Divinity, McGill University. He holds academic degrees of B. A. and M. A. from King’s College, Halifax, N. S., B. D. from the General Synod of the Anglican Church in Canada, S. T. M. from the General Theological Seminary, New York, Ph. D. from Columbia University. He is an Honorary Canon of All Saints Cathedral, Halifax, and one-time examining chaplain to the Bishop of Nova Scotia. His most important publications are: The Concordat of 1801 (New York, 1933), and The Christian Church in Canada (Ryerson, 1956). Address: Divinity Hall, 3520 University St., Montreal, P. Q., Canada.
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