Catholicism in Canada

Catholicism prospered in New France, until 1659 when Quebec fell to the British. The Protestant British. There have always been conflicts between the French and the English, and so there was between the Canadians and the Americans and British, as the Canadians spoke French, and were Catholic, and the American/British were English and Protestant. Assimilation became an issue, until the American became discontent with its relationship with the British and so the British promised the Canadian that he could keep his lands, and more importantly his Religion, in 1774, in hopes of stoping the American from taking advantage of the Canadian's distrust of the Englishman. Mainly because of this, and the fact that the Canadian hated the American more than the Englishman, Quebec remained part of British North America, and Catholicism was kept alive.

Immigration from the British Isles began to grown, and with the Irish Famine in the 1800s, a large amount of Irish came settling in different parts of the colony, the Protestant Irish, or Orangemen, in Upper Canada (mainly Toronto where the Orange Lodge prospered until the second war) and the Catholic Irish in Quebec where their solidarity with the French Canadians was based on the common religion (and their hatred of the English).

Other such immigration throughout the years, from Catholic countries such as Ireland, Italy and Latin American countries kept Catholicism as the primary religion in Canada, a contrast to the mainly Protestant United States.

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