Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-12-19

Ezz-u~a.a Other buildings of prominence are the Dalhousie College. Provincial Museum, Academy of Music, Y. 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. Paul's 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 q church the earl replied by sending to Canada the architect who built St. Peter's in London.
 The architect patterned the desired church exactly after St. Peters. When parts arrived the colonists often had to lay down their implements and take to their guns to drive off the Indians, who made frequent attacks upon the workers.
 St. Matthews Presbyterian Church, which was built during the late years of the eighteenth century. Mas de- stroyed by fire in 1857. only to be re- built
 Cathedral Also Noted.
 One Q. tha. most heaEtsstul buildings In the dst Is the St. Marys Catholic Cathedral. With tall white spire extending upward, it is visible for miles.
 Religion of all denominations seems to thrive ip Nova Scotia, for in 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, 106,000 Presbyterians. S3,00O Baptists, 66000 Anglicnns, 57,o00 Methodists and Q 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 1iourishing colony Of Roman Catholics 1t Cape Breton The Baptists then 'sc:. an in- considerable body of poor peasants with badly educated teachers and preachers. Today the Baptsts stand third in the list of denominations.
 One of Worlds Best Earbors.
 Halifax has one of the finest har- bors in the world and is the chief T,lr is the capital of Nova Scotia, with a population of 60000 The city is three miles long and a mile wide; is built on the eastern slope of a small penin- sula.
 'It is garrison city and has eleven forts and batteries, including the Cita- del, once one of the strongest fortitica- 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 40 ocean vessels in the basin at once.
 vast new wharyes and railway ter minals are being constructed by the government at a cost of $30000, GOO. but these are near the tip of the penin- sula at the south, and evidently were not harmed.
 Halifax is GIG miles nearer Liver pool than is New York for trans-Atlan- tic liners. It is GOO miles from New York.
 Founded By cornwaiIis in 1749.
 Colonel Edward Cornwallis left Britain in 1749 and founded the city. The French armada gathered there in | 1757 bent on demolishing Louisburg. only to meet disaster through storm and plague. Howe went to Halifax with bis men after they were defeated | at Boston. Great numbers of royalists from New York found refuge there l. the revolution. Halifax was the chiet British base of supplies.
 "One hundred and six warships made harbor there in 1912. The expedition that burnt Washington started from Halifax. And it was there the Shan. non sailed with her prize, the Chesa peake."