HIS 3107 Lecture Notes - Quebec French, Ultramontanism, Quebec Nationalism
2 Dec 2013
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An overwhelming proportion of nineteenth-century french canadians were roman catholics. Structured almost every aspect of society, birth, illness, life as a married person, literarily every aspect of your life. Religious observance was high at the mid 19th century, but it will intensify and get stronger as the century goes on. Irish catholics were the next highest group forming 10% of the catholic population. The catholic church was a far more important institution than the state in 19th century quebec. It administered the catholic school systems, ran hospital, orphanages, published newspapers, part of rural development, and economy, (for examples) The bishop of quebec was the top level of the church but now there are archbishops, The creation of other archdiocese brings down the power of the one in montreal. At first all of the catholics and bishops must respond to the archbishop of montreal, this changes as time goes on.
