With the war over, Strachan returned to his role as the city's religious leader and pursued the development of provincial education. He eventually became the first bishop of Toronto. He was appointed to the executive council of Upper Canada in for "his zealous and valuable services during the late war.
Strachan's own war conduct was never forgotten by the people of Upper Canada, who found in him a tough and educated leader when they needed it most. ISBN Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. Strachan, J and Terry, R Poetry. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. Strachan, J Advertising and satirical culture in the Romantic period.
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Strachan, J Parodies of the Romantic Age: poetry of the anti-Jacobin and other parodic writings. Strachan, J 'Ulysses and the Dublin advertising business. James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, pp. Strachan, J 'John Wilson and sport. Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine: 'an unprecedented phenomenon'. In May , in addition to his other duties, Strachan was appointed president of the Board of the General Superintendence of Education. In Strachan was appointed archdeacon of York.
By the mids, as his religious duties became more burdensome, he withdrew more and more from participation in political affairs. On Aug. The balance of his long life was to be devoted to his diocese and to education. In Strachan had obtained a royal charter for the founding of the University of King's College, York, but the first classes were not held until Strachan supported a strict interpretation of the Constitutional Act of , claiming that clergy reserves were to be given to the Church of England alone rather than to Protestants in general.
In this interpretation was opposed by Egerton Ryerson, who advocated the separation of church and state and argued that the reserves should be sold for the benefit of education in the province. Although Strachan controlled the reserves through the Clergy Corporation for much of this time, he was ultimately forced to oversee the selling off of most of the land in Much of Strachan's life and work was focused on education.
He tried to set up annual reviews for grammar schools to make sure they were following Church of England doctrines, and tried to introduce Andrew Bell's education system from Britain, although these acts were vetoed by the Legislative Assembly. In Strachan chartered King's College, an Anglican university, although it was not actually created until In he was forced to resign from the Executive Council, and he resigned from politics in after the Act of Union.
He continued to influence his former students, although the Family Compact declined in the new Province of Canada. Strachan helped organize the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops in but died that year before it was held. Strachan was buried in a vault in the chancel of St.
James' Cathedral. He was succeeded by Alexander Neil Bethune. Strachan was concerned with the Native peoples and called on people to embrace these "sons of nature" as brothers.
He claimed that the United States desired Upper Canada primarily to exterminate the indigenous tribes and free up the West for American expansion. Strachan defended the autonomy of the Natives, the superiority of British governance, and the centrality of Upper Canada in the theatre of war against the U.
He rejected the prevalent assumption at the time that Natives were simply pawns in the contest and gave an original and influential explanation of why Upper Canada was vital to both Native and Imperial concerns. Strachan was intensely devoted to the promotion of the Anglican position in Canada. He was born a Presbyterian in Scotland, but he never fully accepted it and first received communion at an Anglican church in Kingston.
Strachan preached that the Anglican Church was a branch of the universal church, and that it was independent of both Pope and king.
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