DCHP-3

English ranter

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a member of a fundamentalist sect of Methodists in Upper Canada.

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1897
In 1826 to 1830, in Hamilton, and generally in Upper Canada, there were four divisions--the Episcopal Methodists, in connection with the American body; the Ryanites, as they were called, or Canadian Wesleyans of that day; the New Connexion body, who had a church on Main, near Walnut Street; and the Old Primitives--the extremists, or some called them English ranters. . . .