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Providing religious services
to white settlers also called
for missionary effort. The French
orders and societies that worked
among the Indians also served
the colonists of New France.
Some leading Protestant
organizations were the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel
(Anglican), the Glasgow Colonial
Society (Church of Scotland), the
Colonial Missionary Society
(Congregational) and the
American Home Missionary
Society
(Congregational/Presbyterian).
American preachers founded
Methodist and Baptist churches in
central Canada, while the
Methodists of the Atlantic
provinces received missionaries
mainly from England. Roman
Catholic missions, both white and
Indian, were generously
subsidized by the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, founded

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We can see in this
photo a catholic
missionary with
Canadian natives,
showing us the
Europeans tried to
convert directly the
natives of the
colonies to
Catholicism.
Europeans have led
many missions in
Canada as well as the
other colonies in the
19th century.

A missionary with
Canadian natives

This document makes us know that many missions took
part in the convert of the Canadian natives to
Catholicism. This shows the colonialist made many
things to convert them, spending lots of money in it.

at Lyon in 1822.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com

Many missions were led
in Canada
During the colonial era, the British have forced the natives to adopt their religion,
Christianity, through different methods : children education, many missions... Resulting to
this, Natives have lost their religion and a part of their traditional culture, linked to their
religion, in numerous area in the colonized countries. The ethnic diversity lost is ginormous,
British people have made Humanity lose lots of its culture and religion liberty. These loss are
still seen able.

Vocabulary
-Native : Original
inhabitants of a colonized
country (=Aborigine)
-Missionary : Priest leading
a conversion aim mission in
non-christian countries.

Questions
Doc 1 1- Describe the document.
Doc 2 2- What do the natives seem to have
lost ?
Doc 3,4 3- Write a paragraph about the missions.
To conclude
4-Write a short text about the imposed
religion in the colonies, how they imposed it, and
how it was bad.