IV KOY A L SOCIETY OF CANADA 



ill tlie religious devi'lo})m(.'nt of Nova Scotia to give ii brief sketch of the 

 establishment of the five great denominations, the lioman Catholics, 

 Prc-ybyterians, ]}a])lists, Church of England and Methodists — to place 

 them in their numerical order — who comprise in iheir membership nearly 

 all the pi)j)ulation of a province, where the Church has always exercised 

 a powerful influence on the social and moral conditions of a country where 

 the Puritan anil English element of New England has, in the course of 

 over a century, intermingled with English, Scotch and Irish and given 

 birth to the "Nova Scotian." in conclusion 1 shall only say that I have 

 had no other desire, in the preparation of this monograph, which com- 

 prises in as small a compass as possible the results of the studies and 

 investigations of years, than to recall the names and services of men who 

 did good work for their country in the most critical periods of its history. 

 Many of these men ai-e now almost forgotten, but it is m}^ hope that the 

 3'outh of Nova Scotia will be itispired even by so imperfect a sketch as 

 this to revive their memories and do them some justice even at this late 

 date. I should also like to think that S!)me readei-s in the other provinces 

 of the Dominion will be induced to take an interest in the record of 

 the Makers of a province, of whose history and eminent men of ante- 

 federation davs Canadians outside of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 

 have still relatively little knowledge. Canada can never be a Nation 

 until the peoples, who live either by the sea, or in the valley of the Saint 

 Lawrence, or by the great lakes, or on the western prairies, or on the 

 Pacific slope, take a common interest and joride in each other's history 

 and in the achievements of the men who reflect lustre on the respective 

 provinces that make up the federation to the north of the ambitious 

 American Republic. 



J. G. B. 



