The diary of a country clergyman, 1848-1851 / James Reid ; edited by M.E. Reisner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, James, 1780-1865.

Contributor:

Reisner, M. E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clergy--Quebec (Province)--Frelighsburg--Diaries.

Clergy.

Frelighsburg (Québec)--Biography.

Frelighsburg (Québec).

Frelighsburg (Québec)--History.

Québec (Province)--Social life and customs--19th century.

Québec (Province).

Church of England--Quebec (Province)--Clergy--Diaries.

Church of England.

Reid, James, 1780-1865--Diaries.

Reid, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A crusty yet diffident Scot, James Reid began his career as a sectarian evangelical missionary. The diary finds him thirty years later as a moderate, if conservative, Anglican clergyman. Through this remarkable document, village routines and intrigues, as well as Reid's circle of friends and his clerical colleagues, come vividly to life. His private reflections on the tensions and growing pains experienced by the colonial church at a formative stage in its evolution, and his reaction to events on the wider political scene, give us valuable insights into his life and the times. Reid was a man of considerable complexity and his foibles and vanities are apparent in his narrative. The glimpses of his home life shed much light on gender relations and the history of the family. The diary has been edited and annotated by M.E. Reisner, who provides the background to Reid's narrative. Her informative biographical sketches, collected in an appendix, shed further light on representative local figures and the community dynamics of his town. The Diary of a Country Clergyman will be of interest to the general reader and social historian alike.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Abbreviations

Chronology

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Diary

Volume 22

Volume 23

Appendices

Excerpt from the Missiskoui Post and Canada Record, 5 August 1835

Biographical sketches of selected local figures

Bibliography of the published writings of James Reid

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85835-1

9786612858352

0-7735-6813-1

OCLC:

244765744