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The Remarkable Rev. Thaddeus Osgood: A Study in the Evangelical Spirit in the Canadas
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The Remarkable Rev. Thaddeus Osgood: A Study in the Evangelical Spirit in the Canadas
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A biography of the American-born Congregationalist Minister Thaddeus Osgood (1775-1852) whose evangelical missionary work first brought him to Lower Canada in 1807. Though initially he concentrated on the distribution of religious tracts in the Eastern Townships and Montreal, his interests increasingly turned to the problem of illiteracy among the poor. In Montreal, he opened several schools during his life-time, but received little support from either the Anglican or Catholic hierarchy for these undertakings. In 1835 he founded the Friendly Union for "the suppression of vice and the promotion of useful knowledge" in Montreal, which was endorsed by the city's dissenting clergy. A building, sometimes called the Bethel, was erected in Montreal in 1837 to accommodate religious services and a Sunday school, and within a year it harboured a small day-school. However, over the next fifteen years, Bethel functioned primarily as a shelter from the city streets for the city's poor.
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Histoire sociale/Social History
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Vol. 10
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no. 19
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59-76
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1977
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en
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Millar, W. P. J. “The Remarkable Rev. Thaddeus Osgood: A Study in the Evangelical Spirit in the Canadas.” Histoire sociale/Social History Vol. 10, no. 19 (1977): 59–76. http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/hssh/article/view/38648/35059.
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