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until the Eight Eeverend Jacob Mountain was consecrated in 1793 first 

 Anglican bishop of Quebec. Bishop Inglis was a member of the executive 

 council and exercised great influence in the government of the province. 

 He was the founder of the University of King's, which had its beginning as 

 an academy, in 1787, became a college in 1789, and received a royal 

 charter in 1802. It received large imperial and provincial grants for 

 many years, and was a povver in the politics of the country, when a fierce 

 controversy raged between the supporters and opponents of denomina- 

 tional colleges. Among the distinguished men who were educated within 

 its walls in its palmy and prosperous days were Judge Haliburton (" Sam 

 Slick "), Sir John Eardly Wilmot Inglis, of Lucknow fame, Chief Justice 

 Cochran, of G-ibraltar, Judge E. J Uniacke, Bishop John Inghs, Chief 

 Justice Stuart, of Lower Canada, Eeverend Dr. Crawley, Judge Wilkins, 

 Martin J. Wilkins, Eev. Dr. McCawley (a president of the college), 

 Judge Bliss, Sir Edward Cunard, Judge John Gray, Honourable J. Boyle 

 Uniacke, Chief Justice Jarvis, of Prince Edward Island. Until the 

 separation of the executive from the legislative council, and the foun- 

 dation of a responsible system of government, the Church of England 

 was practically dominant in official life. In an address of the assembly 

 to the king in 1837, praying ior an elective legislative council and other 

 constitutional changes, it was set forth that the Church of England 

 though only one-fifth of the population of the province, had nine 

 members in the council, while the Presbyteiians, who were more 

 numerous, had only two members, and the Eoman Catholics, who were 

 about equal, had only one, and the other religious bodies none at all, on 

 the board. The Episcopahan bishop had also a seat at the council, but 

 the same privilege was not extended to the Eoman Catholic episcopacy. 

 The Church of England has made more progress since it is removed from 

 the political animosities and religious jealousies which its position evoked 

 in old times. At present, it comprises between sixty and seventy 

 thousand people, and upwards of two hundred and ten churches, with 

 one hundred and eight clergymen. ^ 



1 For interesting particulars respecting the Church of England in Nova Scotia, 

 see :— " The Church of England in Nova Scotia, and the Tory Clergy of the Revolu- 

 tion, by Rev. A. W. Eaton, B.A., New York, 1S91." Mr. Eaton is a descendant of 

 one of the Nevr England settlers of 1760-1762. The successors of Bishop Charles 

 Inglis were the Right Reverend Doctors R. Stanser (1816-24), John Inglis (1825-50), 

 Hibbert Binney (1851-87), and Frederick Courtney, who still occupies the position. 

 " Early History of the Parish of St. George's, Halifax," by Rev. Canon Partridge, in 

 Collections of N.S. His. Soc, vols. VI. and VIII., 1887-8, 1891. 



" A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Church of England in the B.N. A. 

 Provinces. By T. Beamish Akins, Halifax, 1849, 12 mo." 



" The University of King's College, Windsor, N.S., 1790-1890, by H. Y. Hind, 

 M.A., New York, 1890." 



