194 THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. chap, xxxiir. 



CHAPTER XXXm. 



CHURCH OF ENGLAND MISSIONS ON THE GULF AND 

 LABRADOR COASTS MORAVIAN MISSIONS. 



Journal of the Bishop of Newfoundland — The first Consecration of 

 a Church on the Labrador — Brief History of the Church of Eng- 

 land on the Labrador — Resident Ministers — The Mission House 

 at Forteau Bay — The first Confirmation — English Point — The 

 first Church on the Labrador Proper, since the Destruction of 

 Brest, consecrated by a Bishop of the Church of England — The 

 Bishop of Newfoundland on the Importance of the Labrador 

 Fisheries — Visitation of 1861 — The Church Ship — Meeting of 

 the Bishops of Quebec and Newfoundland at Forteau Bay, in 18G1 

 — Two Bishops, assisted by three Clergymen, celebrate the Church 

 Service on the Labrador — Number of People belonging to the 

 Church of England on the North Shore of the Gulf — The Moea- 

 viAN Missions — Stations — Character of the Missionary Work — 

 Climate of these Stations. 



IN liis journal of tlie voyage of visitation, on tlie coast 

 of Labrador, in the Church Ship Hawk, during the 

 summer of 1853, the Bishop of Newfoundland says: — 

 ' I am looking forward to a third visit to the Labrador 

 coast, and to all the settlements on the north and eastern 

 side of Newfoundland. In this visit I expect to cele- 

 brate the first consecration of a church, and the first con- 

 firmations on the Labrador, and I trust to mark many 

 other signs and proofs of the Church's progress on that 

 wild and desolate shore.' * 



*" Journal of the Bishop of Newfoundland, 



