The Green Forest tribune., 1917-12-21
Other Noted Buildings.


 The Provincial Building, the Govern ment House, the City Hall, the Domin- ion Building and the new Customs House were among the edifices of which the natives of Halifax boasted. Other buildings of prominence are the Dalhousie College, Provincial Museum Academy of Music, T. NJ. c. A. Build ing, Odd Fellows Temple and the three principal hotels, Halifax, Prince George and Queens.
 Among the famous edifices of the city is the St. Pauls Episcopal Church. said to be the oldest Protestant church built in North America. It was con structed in Boston in 1750 year after the town was founded, and carried In schooners to Halifax, where the parts were put together. The story is told that when Cornwallis wrote the Earl of Halifax he wanted to build a church the earl replied by sending to Canada the architect who built St. Peters in London
 St. Matthew's Presbyterian Church, which was built during the late years of the eighteenth century, was de- stroyed by fire in 1857, only to be re built.
 One of the most beautiful buildings in the city is the St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral. With tall white spire extending upward, it Is visible for miles.
 Religion of all denominations seems to thrive in Nova Scotia, for in a re- cent census of religions only 543 per sons were listed as belonging to no sect. At present there are 129,000 Ro- man Catholics, 100000 Presbyterians &, ,OOO Baptists, 660OO Anglicans, 57,000 Methodists and a few thousand spread through the Adventists, Disciples and Jews. Of the latter there were 437.
 Eighty years ago, when the province was small and practically uninhabited, the Presbyterians were the largest body, although there was a fiourishing colony of Roman Catholics at Cape Breton. The Baptists then were an in considerable body of poor peasants with badly educated teachers and preachers. Today the Baptists stand third in the list of denominations.
 One of Worlds Best Harbors.
 Halifax has one of the finest har- bors in the world and is the chief Canadian gateway for exports. It Is the capital of Nova Scotia, with a population of 6O,OO0 The city is three miles long and a mile wide; is built on the eastern slope of small penin- sula.
 Tt is garrison city and has eleven forts and batteries, including the Cita- dei, once one of the strongest fortif1ca- tions in America.
 .The harbor is open all year. Its inner haven Is Bedford Basin, 20 miles in circumference, in which the colli- sion and explosion occurred. I have seen as many as h4O ocean vessels in the basin at once.
 "Vast new wharves and railway ter minals are bei9g constructed by the government at cost of 30,0O0, GOO, but these are near the tip of the penin- sula at the south, and evidently were not harmed.
 "Halifax is 618 miles nearer Liver pool thaYis New York for trans-Atlan- tic liners. It Is GOO miles from New York.
 Fovhded By CornwaIlis in 1749.
 Colonel Edward Cornwallis left Britanl in 1749 and founded the city. The French armada gathered there in 1757 bent on demolishing Louisburg, only te meet disaster through storm and Plague. Howe went to Halifax with Els men after they were defeated at Boston. Great numbers of royalists from New York found refuge there in the revolution. Halifax was the chief