Michael Gauvreau is professor of history, McMaster University, and the author and editor of numerous works including Mapping the Margins: The Family and Social Discipline in Canada and The Catholic Origins of the Quiet Revolution

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Ollivier Hubert is associate professor, history, Université de Montréal, and the author of numerous works including Sur la terre comme au Ciel. La gestion des rites par l'Église catholique du Québec (fin XVIIe-mi XIXe siècle).

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Beyond Church History:
Recent Developments in the History of Religion in Canada 3
MICHAEL GAUVREAU AND OLLIVIER HUBERT

1 The Emergence of a Statistical Approach to Social Issues in Administrative Practices of the Catholic Church in the Province of Quebec 46
CHRISTINE HUDON AND OLLIVIER HUBERT

2 Carnal Connection and Other Misdemeanors: Continuity and Change in Presbyterian Church Courts, 1830-90 66
NANCY CHRISTIE

3 Evangelicals, Church Finance, and Wealth-Holding in Mid-Nineteenth-Century St Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais, Maine 109
HANNAH M. LANE

4 Finishing Badly: Religion, Authority, and Clergy in Late-Victorian London, Ontario 151
KENNETH L. DRAPER

5 Developing Christians, Catholics, and Citizens: Quebec Churches and School Religion from the Turn of the Twentieth Century to 1960 175
BRIGITTE CAULIER

6 The Saint Vincent de Paul Society and the Catholic Charitable System
in Quebec (1846-1921) 195
JEAN-MARIE FECTEAU AND ÉRIC VAILLANCOURT

7 Factories and Foreigners: Church Life in Working-Class Neighbourhoods in Hamilton and Montreal, 1890-1930 225
MICHAEL GAUVREAU

8 Churches and Immigrant Integration in Toronto, 1947-65 274
ROBERTO PERIN

9 Governance of the Catholic Church in Quebec: An Expression of
the Distinct Society? 292
GILLES ROUTHIER

About the Authors 315