Post-Loyalist Settlement I (1814 - 1830)

Opinion of Crown Law Officers, 1819

Document Summary:

The Law Offices of the Crown replies on July 5, 1819, to a request by the Parliament of Upper Canada. The Crown reports that funds from the sale or lease of clergy reserve lands may be given to the Church of Scotland (Presbyterians), if any such parishes exist in Upper Canada. However, these lands are not to be given to any dissenting Protestant congregation other than the Anglican Church of England and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.