Through the lens of R. J. Fleming, Irish Methodist businessman, alderman, and four times mayor of Toronto in the 1890s, this paper re-examines the moral reform campaigns of middle-class Protestants described by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles in their now classic study, The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company (1977). Instead of looking at the Sunday car issue from the perspective of the promoters and as evidence of secularization, it presents as a case study Fleming’s conflicted and controversial role as an evangelical politician confronted with a divisive moral and religious issue within the late nineteenth-century liberal state. Scholarly debates on the process of secularization in late nineteenth-century Canada have given lit...
Scholars who have studied the political behavior of residents of Canada\u27s province of Saskatchewa...
“Fraught With All Sorts of Dangers” examines how the uniquely fragmented Dominion Parliament of 1924...
Abstract This paper tries to analyse, from the exemple of the industrial and calvinist town of Mulho...
This article challenges the premise that a Protestant consensus emerged in Upper Canada by the mid-n...
This study traces the growth of the Sabbatarian lobby in Canada. Limited to sporadic and ephemeral g...
Increasing social and spatial segregation along class lines in nineteenth-century Montreal brought a...
This article focuses on a debate that raged in Upper Canada during the early and mid-nineteenth cent...
After decades of raising the “no popery” cry and fighting for the strict separation of church and st...
This paper examines the public faith which sustained the social passion of 1930’s reformers such as ...
The Sentinel and Orange and Protestant Advocate was the organ of the Orange Order in Canada and spok...
This paper examines a series of anti-smoking campaigns by the Montreal Women's Christian Temperance ...
This paper examines the work of Rev. Peter Bryce in establishing a progressive “institutional church...
The Liberal campaign for self-government in Newfoundland made great headway in the early 1850’s only...
Despite the vast academic attention paid to the political development of Alberta, the role of religi...
This thesis traces the origin and growth of the sectarian divide between Protestants and Catholics o...
Scholars who have studied the political behavior of residents of Canada\u27s province of Saskatchewa...
“Fraught With All Sorts of Dangers” examines how the uniquely fragmented Dominion Parliament of 1924...
Abstract This paper tries to analyse, from the exemple of the industrial and calvinist town of Mulho...
This article challenges the premise that a Protestant consensus emerged in Upper Canada by the mid-n...
This study traces the growth of the Sabbatarian lobby in Canada. Limited to sporadic and ephemeral g...
Increasing social and spatial segregation along class lines in nineteenth-century Montreal brought a...
This article focuses on a debate that raged in Upper Canada during the early and mid-nineteenth cent...
After decades of raising the “no popery” cry and fighting for the strict separation of church and st...
This paper examines the public faith which sustained the social passion of 1930’s reformers such as ...
The Sentinel and Orange and Protestant Advocate was the organ of the Orange Order in Canada and spok...
This paper examines a series of anti-smoking campaigns by the Montreal Women's Christian Temperance ...
This paper examines the work of Rev. Peter Bryce in establishing a progressive “institutional church...
The Liberal campaign for self-government in Newfoundland made great headway in the early 1850’s only...
Despite the vast academic attention paid to the political development of Alberta, the role of religi...
This thesis traces the origin and growth of the sectarian divide between Protestants and Catholics o...
Scholars who have studied the political behavior of residents of Canada\u27s province of Saskatchewa...
“Fraught With All Sorts of Dangers” examines how the uniquely fragmented Dominion Parliament of 1924...
Abstract This paper tries to analyse, from the exemple of the industrial and calvinist town of Mulho...