community activities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     While in Port Hill, the rector served on the Board of Directors of the Stewart 
     
     Memorial Health Centre and, on occasion, doubled as an ambulance driver since 
     
     he owned a station wagon. One night when asked to pick up an ill young girl (he 
     
     would know her home as the porch light would be left on), he drove for an 
     
     extended period of time trying to locate the house. When he finally called the 
     
     doctor, he was told that the light was turned off as the girl had begun to feel 
     
     better! 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the spring the roads were not the best and the rector often walked home. On 
     
     numerous occasions he had to clean his carburetor or starter and retrieve his car 
     
     the following day. Ever active in working to have the road in Port Hill paved, 
     
     Rev. Findlay was not to see this completed until two weeks prior to his departure 
     
     for Lunenburg. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The St. James’ Rectory had a two hundred gallon tank in the attic; water was 
     
     pumped from the well to the tank and gravity fed the faucets. At one time the 
     
     line was plugged and Henry Birch, Parish warden, was called. He bailed the tank 
     
     until a connected pump signified the line was clear. It appeared that a mouse had 
     
     fallen into the tank, drowned, and plugged the pipe. Henry became sick behind 
     
     the barn, but recovered enough to wash the tank with Javex and get it working 
     
     again. The inhabitants of the rectory transported water in creamers for about two 
     
     weeks. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Of his ministry in Port Hill, Rev. Findlay commented: 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Parish of Port Hill was the Findlays first home. It was where the first two 
     
     boys were born. It was where they had their first instructions by parishioners 
     
     into the life of the ministry. It was where they first felt the depth of faith and 
     
     love in the lives and between parishioners. It was the foundation of ministry. 
     
     It was in the Parish of Port Hill that the first lessons in forgiveness were found. 
     
     Parishioners forgave their clergy for making mistakes and pointed them in the 
     
     right direction. The foundations of the Findlays’ ministry was formed in the 
     
     Parish of Port Hill and has been a growth ministry. 
     
    
   
   
    
     From the Parish of Port Hill, the Findlays moved in 1959 to the Parish of St. Mark’s, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Martin’s Point (usually referred to as the Parish of St. Martin’s). Their next move, in 1965, 
     
     was to the Parish of Wilmot in Middleton, Nova Scotia where Rev. Findlay was president of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rotary Club, active in the scout movement, a coach of minor hockey, and involved in other 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sydney, Nova Scotia. Here, his wife Sheila is an instructor of graphic design in the Nova Scotia 
     
     Community College, Sydney campus. She began teaching in this area at vocational schools in 
     
    
   
   
    
     Nova Scotia in 1968. Rev. Findlay compliments his wife on always being a supporter and 
     
    
   
   
    
     blessed helper to him in his ministry. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     In 1977 Rev. Findlay moved to his present Parish, St. George’s in