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BUILDERS OF NOVA SCOTIA 



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institution so intimately associated with the establishment of the church 

 in all the colonies of the British crown. The first missionaries, sent out 

 in 1749 and the following years, were Eeverend Messrs. Anwell, Moreau 

 Tutty, and Breynton. St. Paul's Church — the oldest Protestant church 

 in the Dominion — was commenced in 1750 on its present site, with 

 materials brought from New England, and was opened for service in an 



OLD SAINT Paul's church in 1800 and later. 



incomplete state on the 2nd September, 1750, by the Eeverend Mr. Tutty, 

 who died in 1754, and was succeeded by the Eeverend Mr. Breynton. 

 The present St. Paul's^ has had additions made in the course of a hundred 



1 St. Paul's church contains more mural tablets and escutcheons than even the 

 Anglican Cathedral at Quebec. Governor Lawrence was first buried in its vaults 

 and his escutcheon has been placed on its walls. Other eminent men buried here 

 are the following : Baron de Seitz, Baron Kniphausen, both Hessian officers ; Lord 

 Charles Greville Montagu, another distinguished military man; Vice-Adniiral 

 John Parr, a governor of Nova Scotia, at the time of the coming of the Loyalists, in 

 honour of whom St. John, N. B., was first called Parrtown ; Sir John Wentworth, 

 Bart., the Loyalist governor of Nova Scotia, formerly of New Hampshire ; Chief 

 Justices Jonathan Belcher, Bryan Finucane, Sir Brenton H. Halliburton ; Right 

 Reverend Charles Inglis, first bishop, and a number of other distinguished persons 

 identified with the early history of Nova Scotia. Among the mural tablets are those 

 of the first bishop, Charles Inglis, and of his son, John Inglis, third bishop ; Sir John 

 Wentworth, named above ; Captain Evans of H. M. ship Charlestown, killed in 

 action 1781 ; Lord Montagu, mentioned above ; Sir John Harvey, a lieutenant- 

 governor of Nova Scotia, the hero of Stoney Creek in the war of 1812-14 ; Chief Jus- 

 tices Blowers and Halliburton ; Mr. Justice Uniacke, to whom I refer on page 40 ; 

 Brigadier General McLean ; Hon. M. W. B. Almon ; Mr. Justice Norman F. 

 Uniacke of the Superior Court of Lower Canada ; Mr. Justice J. W. Ritchie of the 

 Supreme Court of Nova Scotia (see infra, page 73) ; Archdeacon Willis, long a 



