{"title":"“The World of Politics is the World of Possibilities”: Bill C-43 and Canadian Evangelical Political Engagement","authors":"Aaron A. Mix-Ross","doi":"10.25071/0848-1563.39687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/0848-1563.39687","url":null,"abstract":"In 1969, Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s Liberal government redefined abortion within the context of the Criminal Code of Canada. In so doing, the federal government lifted legal limitations on abortion without rendering it universally accessible. Prior to this, abortions could only be performed in hospital, and only if a committee of professionals determined that continuation of the pregnancy would endanger the expectant mother’s health. On 17 April 1982, the British Parliament’s Canada Act patriated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (better known as the Charter). The Charter’s purpose was, and remains, to limit the encroachment of the Canadian government upon the rights of citizens. In January 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada (Supreme Court) handed down the well-know abortion decision involving pro-choice physician Dr. Henry Morgentaler. The Supreme Court interpreted Section 251 of the Criminal Code of Canada (Criminal Code) – the section that pertained to abortion – through Section 7 of the Charter. Section 7 of the Charter declares the Canadian citizen’s rights to “life, liberty and security of person”; the Supreme Court considered access to abortion to fall within these rights. Chief Justice Brian Dickson wrote:","PeriodicalId":81435,"journal":{"name":"Historical papers. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69194330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lived Religion and the Changing Spirituality and Discourse of Christian Globalization: A Canadian Family's Odyssey","authors":"Marguerite Van die","doi":"10.25071/0848-1563.39666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/0848-1563.39666","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81435,"journal":{"name":"Historical papers. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69194713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Popery and Tyranny\": King George III as a Late Stuart","authors":"P. Lacroix","doi":"10.25071/0848-1563.39660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/0848-1563.39660","url":null,"abstract":"The Glorious Revolution cast a long shadow. Throughout the eighteenth century, English subjects found in it evidence of a commitment to longstanding constitutional principles: parliamentary supremacy, due process of the law, protection of civil and property rights, and Protestant rule. This understanding of liberty had a life of its own in the colonies as American insurgents cited the same principles in the course of their own revolution. Theirs, after all, was a case built on precedent, and few precedents were then as significant as the expulsion of the Catholic Stuarts. For two crucial years, from the Quebec Act of 1774 to the summer of 1776, the issue of Protestant rule in particular played a key part in the march towards independence. “Popery,” in language inherited from the wars of religion, remained the foremost threat to the rights and well-being of Englishmen. Accordingly, the constitutional and religious discourses of the early revolutionary period were entwined. As one of the central planks of the British Constitution, religion was never wholly depoliticized. This paper details how anti-Catholic discourse evolved through the revolutionary period and, through the invasion of the Province of Quebec, presents Catholicism as a political problem that insurgents could in turn utilize as a political lever. American colonists found, in 1774, a failure to protect their rights on the part of British authorities and expected that despotism in politics and in religion would ensue. Central to that debate were the role of executive power in the British system of governance, as well as the place","PeriodicalId":81435,"journal":{"name":"Historical papers. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69194600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pentecostal Dominance in French Evangelicalism in Quebec, 1921-1963","authors":"Jerry A. Thomas","doi":"10.25071/0848-1563.39662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/0848-1563.39662","url":null,"abstract":"During the period of the 1920s through to the early 1960s there was a marked change regarding which denominations were predominant in French evangelicalism in Quebec. New groups such as the Pentecostals, Christian Brethren, and Fellowship Baptists became predominant in terms of measures like numbers of churches due to the decline of all the major pre-existing French evangelical groups and to the continuous if limited growth of these new groups. The experience of the Pentecostals illustrates well the factors involved in the change among French Protestant groups in Quebec regarding which groups were predominant. In the context of the decline of the older groups, Pentecostals experienced a continuous if very limited growth. This growth was rooted in a theological anti-Catholicism, a conviction that many French Catholics in Quebec were in need of salvation. This theological conviction motivated a strong commitment to evangelism and church planting, and the establishment of a French Bible school to facilitate such work, all of which provided the motor of Pentecostal growth. This theological anti-Catholicism motivating church planting was also shared by the Brethren and Fellowship Baptists and similarly led to continuous if limited growth. Together these three groups established over fifty new French churches in fifteen of the seventeen present administrative regions of Quebec in the period 1921-63, with each having roughly the same number of churches. This period was the beginning of the trend of the predominance of the Pentecostals and these","PeriodicalId":81435,"journal":{"name":"Historical papers. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69194644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rev. Harvey G. Foster and the All Peoples' Mission in Welland, Ontario","authors":"Betsy Anderson","doi":"10.25071/0848-1563.39661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/0848-1563.39661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81435,"journal":{"name":"Historical papers. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69194609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living by Faith: Family Life and Ministry in the Diary of a Pentecostal Woman Preacher, 1940-1960","authors":"Linda M. Ambrose","doi":"10.25071/0848-1563.39665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/0848-1563.39665","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81435,"journal":{"name":"Historical papers. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69194682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ideology, Identity, and a New Role in World War Two: A Case Study of the Canadian Missionary Dr. Richard Brown in China, 1938-1939","authors":"Shenyang Guo","doi":"10.25071/0848-1563.39659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/0848-1563.39659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81435,"journal":{"name":"Historical papers. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69194425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The College and Missions: June Drummond Redpath","authors":"Lucille Marr","doi":"10.25071/0848-1563.39663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25071/0848-1563.39663","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81435,"journal":{"name":"Historical papers. Canadian Historical Association. Meeting","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69194655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}