Lord's Day Alliance (of Canada)

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an interchurch body founded in 1888 to preserve Sunday as a day of rest, prominent in the movement leading to the passing of the Lord's Day Act.

Quotations

1897

It is about time a contingent of the Lord's Day Alliance went over there and made the Scotch be mum on the Sabbath.

1962

Surprisingly, the Calgary campaign earned no opposition from the strait-laced, Toronto-based national Lord's Day Alliance.