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BUILDERS OF NOVA SCOTIA 



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Bennett, Eobert Yincent, William Ellis, Thomas Wood, John Eagleson, 

 and John Wiswell, whose mission field extended over the districts of 

 Lunenburgh, Hants, Kings, Annapolis and Cumberland, where the New 

 England migration had brought a considerable population. Mr. Wood 

 had been an assistant to Eeverend Mr, Breynton of St. Paul's, and was 

 noted for his knowledge of the Micmac language, to the study of which 

 he had been directed by his acquaintance with Abbé Maillard. He wrote 

 a grammar, and translated various religious services, which enabled him 

 to be especially useful to the Indians, among whom he worked assidu- 

 ously. 



INTERIOR OF ST. PAUL S, HALIFAX, AT PRESENT TIME. 



The coming of the Loyalists gave a great impulse to the growth of 

 the Church of England, as nearly all of the twenty-eight thousand people, 

 who found their w^ay to the maritime provinces, belonged to that faith. 

 Over thirty clergymen sought refuge in these provinces, between 1776 

 and 1786, and the majority made their homes in the new colony of 'New 

 Brunswick. A very few soon left for England, or returned to the United 

 States, where the distinguished Mr. Seabury, of Connecticut, became the 

 first Episcopalian bishop. The following gentlemen remained in Nova 

 Scotia, and ministered to the religious necessities of the exiles whom they 

 had accompanied : The Eeverend Messrs. Jacob Bailey, Brudenell, Isaac 



Sec. II., 1899. 4 



