REV. MELVIN JOHN FINDLAY 1954 - 1959

Rev. Melvin John Findlay, son of Charles Edward and Ellen Jane (Gaetz) Findlay, was born April 13, 1928 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He was the fourth son and seventh child in a family of eight children. He began his education in Findlay School, thence to Hawthorne, Park, and Dartmouth High. He then journeyed to Halifax by way of the Dartmouth Ferry to attend Dalhousie—Kings for two years. A year of teaching followed in Port Dufferin, Halifax County where, in a single classroom, he instructed thirty students in all grades from four to eleven. He then returned to Dalhousie-Kings from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1953, and a Bachelor of Sacred Letters in 1954. While at university, he joined the Canadian Officers Training Corps and became qualified as a lieutenant in the Canadian Infantry and as a captain in the Royal Canadian Chaplaincy Corps. He also served as a divinity student at Emmanuel Church in North Dartmouth, and in St. Andrew’s, Cole Harbour, under the Rev. F.G. Moore, Rector of St. Alban’s, Woodside.

During his high school and university years, Rev. Findlay worked at a wide variety of

jobs: truck driver, meat cutter, warehouse manager, store clerk, painter, laborer, carpenter’s

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