The reserves were allotted in two hundred acre (800,000 m ) lots. Except in the Talbot Settlement they were scattered haphazardly and were a serious obstacle to economic development. The 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 Chateau Clique.
In the 1840 a bill was passed distributing the profits of the clergy reserves amongst all leading Protestant groups (except for the Baptists, 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 governments of Upper and Lower Canada.
Clergyreserves were tracts of land in Upper Canada and Lower Canada reserved for the support of Protestantclergy by the Constitutional Act of 1791 which established the two provinces.
The reserves in Upper Canada were managed by the Clergy Corporation which was chaired by the Anglican Bishop of Quebec and run day-to-day by a Secretary Receiver.
In the 1840 a bill was passed distributing the profits of the clergyreserves amongst all leading Protestant groups (except for the Baptists, who refused to involve themselves in government funding).
ClergyReserves were tracts of land in Upper Canada reserved for the support of "Protestantclergy" by the Constitutional Act of 1791 which also established Upper and Lower Canada as distinct regions each with an elected assembly.
Although the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe interpreted Protestantclergy to mean mean the clergy of Church of England only, by 1824, the Church of Scotland was also granted a share of the projected revenues.
The Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada passed a law to sell the reserves in 1840, but it was disallowed by the imperial (British) government.
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