Unfortunately I cannot find the article. It was supplied by a cousin in Manitoba and was published in some Canadian journal. Beyond that I'm at a loss. I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the article though. I am aware that many Protestants did stay in Quebec, but if one looks at their population numbers, one can see a decline - again I don't have access to the source, but Google should be able to provide some information. Personally, I have little or no interest in this. Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Dale" <ron.dale@sympatico.ca> To: "Cliff. Johnston" <moments-in-time@houston.rr.com>; "Al&Diane Warren" <adwarren@sasktel.net>; <NIR-DERRY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:21 PM Subject: QRe: [NIR-DERRY] passenger lists >I don't think that any of this is accurate. In Quebec, Protestants could >choose to pay Protestant School Taxes and Catholics supported the public >schools which were Catholic in Quebec. Income tax did not come in until >World War 1 and all had to pay property taxes and excise taxes etc. > > This would not have been a cause of a Protestant exodus. A great many > Protestants stayed in Quebec after settling there. One of the early 19th > century phenomena that did cause a lot of movement was the cholera > epidemics of the 1830's. Another big factor was economic depression in > the 1850's. > > I would love to see this article if you can dig it up. It certainly does > not seem to have any basis in fact--although I could be wrong. > > > Ron > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cliff. Johnston" <moments-in-time@houston.rr.com> > To: "Al&Diane Warren" <adwarren@sasktel.net>; <NIR-DERRY@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:56 PM > Subject: Re: [NIR-DERRY] passenger lists > > >> Diane, >> >> I don't know what I did with the reprint, but a few years ago a cousin >> sent >> me a reprint of an article about the Protestant exodus from Quebec. >> Evidently the federal government fearing French-Canadian unrest engaged >> in >> talks with Roman Catholic officials in the province of Quebec. A deal >> was >> struck whereby the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec would be allowed to >> tax >> all of the residents of Quebec. Roman Catholics in Quebec then did not >> have >> to pay Federal government taxes; however, Protestants had to pay both >> taxes - taxes to the Roman Catholic Church and taxes to the Canadian >> government. This led to protests by the Protestants residing in Quebec, >> to >> no avail. As a result many chose to leave the province of Quebec. It >> was a >> distasteful situation for many, but the Federal government got what it >> wanted as the Roman Catholic Church then proceeded to keep their "flock" >> in >> line and relatively peaceful. Politics does indeed make for strange >> bedfellows. By the way, this was never taught in history classes in >> Canada >> when I lived there and went to school... >> >> Cliff. Johnston >> "May the best you've ever seen, >> Be the worst you'll ever see;" >> from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Al&Diane Warren" <adwarren@sasktel.net> >> To: <NIR-DERRY@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:48 AM >> Subject: [NIR-DERRY] passenger lists >> >> >>> Hi I have looked at so many passenger lists and have not found my >>> Morrison >>> family on any . They lived at Killala Bay co Mayo they are said to have >>> left around 1835-1850 (I think it could have been 1841) with 5 other >>> protestant families facing the similar crisis and came to canada they >>> say >>> they settled enbloc in an eastern township in the Quebec area for a a >>> few years but being at enmity with the Roman Catholics again the >>> Catholics >>> invaded thier vicinity and these families moved again to upper Canada >>> and >>> others scattered to the states and to the east also.My Mathias Morrison >>> and family went to Walton Ont. sons Matthew and Andrew cleared land and >>> farmed abit, Mathias went back to shoemaking and alittle farming. I >>> don't >>> know why the Catholics sot them I do know Mathias married a girl with >>> the >>> last name Shannon which was Catholic!But this dosent explain the reason >>> why .Can anyone help me out here? Thankyou for your time Diane >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> NIR-DERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NIR-DERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>