CHURCHES
Over forty churches were built under the leadership of Bishop Charles Inglis, a United Empire Loyalist, who was the first Anglican Bishop appointed for British America in 1787. There are seven still standing. Among them Old Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Middleton, Nova Scotia is known as the “only unaltered church of its’ kind”.
In New Brunswick the oldest Loyalist church, and also the oldest surviving Anglican Church in the province is Trinity Anglican Church in Kingston. It was built in 1789.
The oldest church building in Ontario that has Loyalist connections is Her Majesty’s Royal Chapel of the Mohawks, built in 1785 for the Mohawks that supported the British during the American Revolution. It is also the first Protestant church in Upper Canada and a National Historic Site.
Old Hay Bay Church in Adolphustown, Ontario was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1999 because it was built in 1792 by United Empire Loyalist settlers and is associated with the province’s early days of settlement and with the Methodist’s contributions to Upper Canada’s early social and political development.
The earliest church established by Black Loyalists was David George's Church in Shelburne around 1783, which is considered the birthplace of Black Baptist churches in Canada. Other significant and early Black Loyalist congregations occurred at Salmon River (1849), which was built by a colony of Black Loyalist descendants, and the Tracadie United Baptist Church in Guysborough County, established by Black Loyalists who relocated there after the Port Mouton settlement burned down in 1784.
Additional reading:
From Slaveowner's Son to African Baptist Church by Brian McConnell,UE
Old Holy Trinity Church & the United Empire Loyalists by Brian McConnell, UE
The Loyalists Who Built Digby's First Methodist Church by Brian McConnell, UE
Brian McConnell, UE
Author of Old St. Edward's Church & the Loyalists , and The First Church: Old Holy Trinity in Middleton, Nova Scotia
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