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The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia:The History of a piece of arrested British Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961; History of Bridgewater, NS Archived 2015-07-22 at the Wayback Machine; History of Riverport District, NS; The Foreign Protestants
The Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church is the second-oldest building in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, after St. Paul's Church. It was built for the Foreign Protestants, and is the oldest site in Canada associated with Lutheranism. [1] It is a National Historic Site of Canada.
He was fined and imprisoned on Georges Island (Nova Scotia) for two years, [2] after what appears to be Nova Scotia's first (aborted) treason trial in 1754. [7] After the rebellion a number of the French and German-speaking Foreign Protestants left the village to join Le Loutre and the Acadians. [8]
Upon the founding of Halifax in 1749, Nova Scotia was a British Protestant colony with only Catholic Acadian settlers. In an attempt to assimilate the Catholic Acadians, the British invited Protestants from across Europe to settle in Nova Scotia. Between 1750 and 1753, over 2500 "Foreign Protestants" had arrived in Halifax. [12]
It is the second Church of England built in Nova Scotia, and is the second oldest continuous Protestant church in present-day Canada. Early on 1 November 2001, St. John's church suffered significant damage by fire. It was restored and re-dedicated June 12, 2005. The early congregation was mainly Foreign Protestants, including Lutheran Germans.
The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia:The History of a piece of arrested British Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961; Mather Byles DesBrisay (1895). History of the county of Lunenburg, pp. 494-501; Linda G. Layton.
The Foreign Protestants and the Settlement of Nova Scotia: The History of a Piece of Arrested British Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth Century. University of Toronto Press. Mather Byles DesBrisay (1895). History of the county of Lunenburg
The "foreign Protestants" and the settlement of Nova Scotia: the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0919107281