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The reserves were allotted in two-hundred-acre 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 1854Events January 13 The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. February 11 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time. February 14 Texas is linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas i and the revenues from the reserves were transferred to the governments of Upper and Lower Canada.

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• Anglican Church of CanadaThe Anglican Church of Canada is the Canadian branch of the Anglican Communion. It is made up of 800,000 members worshipping in 30 dioceses; over 2 million Canadians, or 6. 9% of the population, declared themselves as Anglican in the 2001 Census. The Prim