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The reserves were allotted in two hundred acre (800,000 m²) lots. Except in the Talbot Settlement they were scattered haphazardly and were a serious obstacle to economic development. The Legislative Assembly Of Upper Canada passed a law to sell the reserves in 1840, but it was disallowed by the imperial ( British ) government. The reserves created considerable dissatisfaction with the Anglican church and with the oligarchical rulers of Upper and Lower Canada, the Family Compact and the Château Clique . In the 1840 a Bill was passed distributing the profits of the clergy reserves amongst all leading Protestant groups (except for the Baptist s, who refused to involve themselves in government funding). The lands were finally removed from church ownership and secularized in 1854 and the revenues from the reserves were transferred to the government. SEE ALSO |
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