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BUILDERS OF NOVA SCOTIA 



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Montreal combined, but it transpired after a short and bitter experience 

 that it had none of the elements of stable prosperity, largely owing to 

 the rugged nature of the country around it : and when the British gov- 

 ernment stopped the supplies and withdrew the troops, its people began 

 to leave and seek homes elsewhere in the provinces, and a few even in the 

 United States. A pretty town now nestles by the side of the beautiful and 

 spacious harbour which attracted the first ill-fated settlers, and its residents 

 point out to the tourist the sites of the buildings of last century, one or 

 two of which still remain, and show you many documents and relics of the 

 days when the old inhabitants were full of hope. 



If we review the lists of the Loyalists who settled in the maritime 



BISHOP CHARLES INGLIS.l 



provinces, we find the names of many men who had distinguished them- 

 selves in divinity, law, medicine and commerce in the old colonies, especi- 

 ally in New England. Among them, there were some who were direct 

 descendants of the famous Puritan migration of 1629-1640. A few were 

 sprung from the Huguenots — the Bayards for instance — who fled from 

 France on the revocation of the edict of Nantes. I shall only 

 now recall the names of Inglis — who gave two bishops to the Church and 

 a famous general to the British army — Mather Byles, an ancestor of 

 Senator Almon — Isaac Wilkins, the ancestor of several men distinguished 

 in law and politics — Gideon White, one of the founders of Shelburne 

 and great-grandson of the first born of New England — John Howe, the 



1 This portrait of the first colonial bishop is taken from one in the Magazine of 

 American History, vol. ix., p. 403. It is that generally given in all books relating to 

 the Bishop. 



