the day school or college, as the people there delight to call it" and wrote that it had five classes, ranging from students learning the alphabet to students learning the "intricacies of French and English grammar, composition, and the other studies of the school, besides the elements of Algebra, Latin, and Greek." Alexander F. Kemp was chairman of the Synod of the Canada Presbyterian Church committee that examined Chiniquy's application for admission as a minister. According to Kemp, Chiniquy was involved in both presbytery and civil court proceedings connected with the administration of charitable funds and with what Kemp described as an educational institute. The Presbytery of Chicago charged him with un-ministerial and un-Christian conduct; Chiniquy was expected to answer these charges before the presbytery. At that stage of the proceedings, he and his congregation resolved to separate from the Presbytery of Chicago and the Old School (PCUSA), and to request recognition from the Canada Presbyterian Church. The Presbytery of Chicago charged Chiniquy with misrepresenting that a real college was in operation in St. Anne. After conducting an inquiry, Kemp suggested that Chiniquy and his congregation be admitted into the Canada Presbyterian Church. In St. Anne, a religious society was incorporated in the state that was named the "Christian Catholic Church at St. Anne". It was classified as a Protestant religious association. Two years later, when it joined the PCUSA in 1860, it took the name of "First Presbyterian Church of St. Anne". See also Archives There is a Charles Chiniquy fonds at Library and Archives Canada. The archival reference number is R7160. References Bibliography Caroline B. Brettell, Following Father Chiniquy: Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015). Richard Lougheed, The Controversial Conversion of Charles Chiniquy, Toronto, Clements Academic, 2009. Richard Lougheed, Charles Chiniquy : l'homme de controverse, Toronto, Clements Academic, 2015. Serup Paul, Who Killed Abraham Lincoln?, Prince George, Salmova Press, 2010. Marcel Trudel, Chiniquy, Trois-Rivieres, Editions du Bien Public, 1955. External links Chiniquy's personal archive Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online 1809 births 1899 deaths 19th-century Canadian non-fiction writers 19th-century Presbyterian ministers 19th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests Abraham Lincoln American Calvinist and Reformed ministers American evangelicals American people of French-Canadian descent American Presbyterian ministers American temperance activists Anti-Catholic activists Anti-Catholicism in the United States Canadian Calvinist and Reformed ministers Canadian conspiracy theorists Canadian evangelicals Canadian Presbyterian ministers Canadian temperance