Halifax (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Joseph Chisholm · 1913
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Description
Nova Scotia's Archdiocese of Halifax takes its name from the capital founded by Lord Cornwallis in 1749 and covers the province's middle and western counties with Bermuda, attached since 1851. Its story opens at Port Royal, founded by De Monts in 1604. Mass was first offered there on what is now Canadian soil.
French Jesuits, Recollects, and Capuchins worked among settlers and Micmacs until the Acadian expulsion of 1755, and penal laws kept Catholics down until Irish petitioners won repeal in 1783. A vicariate in 1817 became a diocese in 1842 and an archdiocese in 1852, under bishops Burke, Fraser, Walsh, and Connolly, the last a champion of confederation and foe of Fenianism.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Joseph Chisholm |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |