"St George's Church and Community"

Church and Community: Saint George's, 1756-1827
by Henry Roper, parish historian

This essay was read before the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society on November 24, 2000. It is now published in the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society. What follows is an excerpt from that essay.

"... To understand the history of St. George’s, we must study the evolution of the congregation that gave, and continues to give, life to this magnificent structure, and in turn has been shaped by it. Even during my short time here, it has changed through death or departure, a process that has been happening year by year, even week by week over the past two hundred and fifty years. My task this evening is to indicate how St. George’s was gradually transformed from one type of church in 1756 into something quite different in 1827, the year it finally became a parish. My focus will be the German "Foreign Protestants" who first gave life to this church; I will attempt to explain how their evolution combined with changes in the larger community resulted in a church quite different from what they had envisaged...."

Click here to read more about Saint George's beginnings in the Little Dutch Church.