Otestant instruction; so the Protestant children are reared Roman
Catholics. Nairne wished to have a Protestant clergyman established at
Murray Bay; he could make that place his headquarters and carry on
missionary work in the neighbouring parishes. But the five Protestant
families at Murray Bay soon became three, for Nairne says, in 1801, that
his and Colonel Fraser's families and one other man, an Englishman, are
the only remaining Protestants. He and Fraser, he adds, are growing old
and, in any case, it was doubtful whether the Englishman would attend
service. Yet Nairne still begged for a Protestant missionary. He desired
most of all a free school. The teacher should be, he says, French but
able also to preach in English; there was now no school at Murray Bay; a
free school and a church system which would release the people from
paying tithes could work wonders and, probably, most of the people would
soon become Protestants. Knowing the tenacity with which the French
Canadians have clung to their faith, it seems hardly likely t
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