In this series, we do a quick survey of the different contributions that Protestants have made in Canada’s earliest days.
We review our Protestant beginnings in France at the beginning of the French Reformation:
We then trace the influence of Protestants from Europe who settled in the British colonies of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Then we examine the influence of ‘Loyalists’, fleeing from the American War of Independence, who migrated North to the British colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Quebec. They brought the greatest Protestant influence and represented the following denominations: Presbyterians, Anglicans, Methodists and Baptists.
These laid the foundations of society and culture by the legacies they left behind.
We identify the men who left large footprints in Canadian History and examine these legacies in Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Their legacies continue to live on in various well-known businesses and educational institutions.
The French Connection is a ‘story-based’ video History course.
It links our history to the marble frieze mounted over the left doorway of the House of Commons. Covering 200 years of history, this frieze shows King Francis I of France on the left, and King Louis XIV on the right.
It uncovers the stories of the French Protestants (Huguenots) who invested their lives and resources to establish the first colonies in the Atlantic Provinces (Acadia), Quebec and Ontario (New France).
It exposes the reason why this marble frieze represents stories of the persecution of the Huguenots, which started under Francis I and continued under all but one king.
Under Henry IV, not only did the Huguenots gain freedom of worship (which ended after he died), but the freedom to travel and to invest in trade. Canada was forged in the fires of persecution.
In God’s Providence, the Huguenots had a small window of opportunity for 12 years, which gave them freedom to engage in trade in the New World. Their stories are bound up in that frieze which is found over the left doorway of the House of Commons, and displays two figures – King Francis I of France, and King Louis XIV of France.
This Canadian History program is the first of its kind – chronological, explicitly Biblical, with video based stories for all of the family. It traces God’s Providence in bringing different people to write His story.
Our mission is to Educate, Equip and Empower you to make an impact for the Kingdom in the sphere which God has ordained for you. It is not enough to learn history. We must see it as a continuum of God working out His plan to build an everlasting kingdom of which we are a part.
We must: Learn from the past. Impact the present. Plan for future change.
The French Connection is a ‘story-based’ video History course.
It links our history to the marble frieze mounted over the left doorway of the House of Commons. Covering 200 years of history, this frieze shows King Francis I of France on the left, and King Louis XIV on the right.
It uncovers the stories of the French Protestants (Huguenots) who invested their lives and resources to establish the first colonies in the Atlantic Provinces (Acadia), Quebec and Ontario (New France).
It exposes the reason why this marble frieze represents stories of the persecution of the Huguenots, which started under Francis I and continued under all but one king.
Under Henry IV, not only did the Huguenots gain freedom of worship (which ended after he died), but the freedom to travel and to invest in trade. Canada was forged in the fires of persecution.
In God’s Providence, the Huguenots had a small window of opportunity for 12 years, which gave them freedom to engage in trade in the New World. Their stories are bound up in that frieze which is found over the left doorway of the House of Commons, and displays two figures – King Francis I of France, and King Louis XIV of France.
This Canadian History program is the first of its kind – chronological, explicitly Biblical, with video based stories for all of the family. It traces God’s Providence in bringing different people to write His story.
Our mission is to Educate, Equip and Empower you to make an impact for the Kingdom in the sphere which God has ordained for you. It is not enough to learn history. We must see it as a continuum of God working out His plan to build an everlasting kingdom of which we are a part.
We must: Learn from the past. Impact the present. Plan for future change.