"St George's Church and Community"

Robert Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Uniacke at St. George's Evangelical Fervour and Good Works, 1825-1870
by Brian Cuthbertson

This essay was read before the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society on November 24, 2000. What follows is an excerpt from that essay.

"... St. George's history went back to the arrival in 1751 of Germans and Swiss settlers, known as the Foreigh Protestants, many of whom were Evangelical Lutherans, whose form of worship closely resembled that of the Church of England. They formed a small congregation and opened a church, commonly referred to as the Little Dutch Church. Over the years, the congregation began using the Church of England liturgy. With the construction of St. George' Church between 1799 and 1819 and the acceptance as their rector of the Reverend George Wright, the congregation fully adopted the usages and liturgy of the Church of England. On Wright's death in 1819, the congregation called on Benjamen Gray to be their rector. ..."

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