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Brown, William Clarke, Bernard Michael llowseal, Nathaniel Fisher, 

 John Hamilton Rowland, John Rutgers Marshall, (ieor^c Panton, Ro<,'er 

 Veits, William Walter— the first pastor at Shelburne— Joshua Wingate 

 Weeks, Mather By les and John Wiswell. 



At Sj'dney, which was made the capital of Cape Breton in 1784, the 

 first clergyman was the army chaplain, the Reverend Benjamin Lovell, 

 but in 1786 the Reverend Ranna Cosset, who was of French extraction, 

 and had officiated in New Kngland, was appointed to the incumbency of 

 St. George's Church, which still stands, though much changed in 



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OLD KINGS COLLEGE, WINDSOR, N.S. 



appearance, on its old site, and has the honour of being the pioneer church 

 of the English regime in the island.' 



The Rev. Dr. Charles Inglis, who had been a leading divine for many 

 years in New York, and forced to fly from the country when the 

 revolution was successful, was consecrated at Lambeth on the 12th 

 August, 1787, as the lirst bishop of Nova Scotia — and of the colonics in 

 fact — with jurisdiction over the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, 

 New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Bermuda and Newfoundland, 



I See an interesting article on " Tiic Historic Anglican Church of Sydney ", in 

 the Halifcur Herald, June 27, 18i)fl, by Arcluleiicon Smith, D.D., rector of St. 

 George's. The same paper has also published a series of vuluublc papers on " His- 

 toric Churches of Nova Scotia ". 



