1826 1828 1829 1830 1831 1833 1834 1836 1839 1843 1846 1847 1848 1850

1852 1854 1857 1858

1862 1864 1867 1870 1871 1873

1875

1878

1881 1884

1886 1889 1892 1896 1900 1904

The Wesleyan Methodist Church of this Area

Rev. Henry Pope

Rev. William Temple

Rev. Matthew Richey

Rev. William McDonald

Rev. Stephen Bamford

Rev. William Dawson

Rev. J. P. Hetherington

Rev. Richard Knight

Rev. William Smith

Rev. J. B. Strong

Rev. William Webb

Rev. Charles DeWolfe

Rev. Edmund Botterell

Rev. Frederick Smallwood (remarkable revival, over 300 members were added to the Church, 8 or 9 of these new members later entered the Methodist ministry)

Rev. Ephriam Evans

Rev. John McMurray

Rev. Ingham Sutcliff

Rev. Henry Pope Jr. (Cornwall and York become a separate circuit)

Rev. J. V. Jost

Rev. Henry Pope, Jr.

Rev. J. Winterbotham

Rev. E. Evans

Rev. E. Evans assisted by Rev. W. Brewer

Rev. G. Heustis & Rev. A. Lucas (June 25, 1874 Organization of Nova Scotia Conference took place in Charlottetown at the conclusion of the last session of the old Eastern British America Conference. Rev. J. McMurray who was the last president of the E.B.A. Conference was elected president of the new Nova Scotia Conference.)

Rev. J. C. Berrie (York & Cornwall each become separate circuits)

Rev. H. R. Baker (followers on the Little York circuit are from Marshfield, Pleasant Grove, Brackley and York)

Rev. George Steel

Rev. J. S. Phinney (Union of all branches of Methodists)

Rev. M. R. Knight

Rev. W. H. Spargo

Rev. Sila(s) James

Rev. R. Opie Rev. T. Hicks Rev. G. F. Dawson (Little York pastorate includes Pleasant Grove, Stanhope,

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Union Road, Brackley, Black River [now

Donaldston], York and Dunstaffnage) 1908 Rev. E. Bell 191 1 Rev. E. A. Westmorland 1913-1916 Little York and Winsloe appear as one circuit with 2 men Rev. E. A. Westmoreland & Rev. F. A. Littlejohns Rev. E. A. Westmoreland & Rev. J. L. Lund Rev. J. L. Dawson & Rev. J. L. Lund Rev. J. L. Dawson (from the History of Methodism in Eastern British America, D. W. Johnson tells us that in 1916 Dunstaffnage was a part of the Mount Stewart Circuit along with Mount Stewart, Marie and Black River. He says that the church at Dunstaffnage was practically rebuilt and rededicated on September 24, 1916 by Rev. F. H. Littlejohns and F. W. Sawdon being the preachers.) Rev. F. H. Littlejohns Rev. C. W. Keirstead (Methodist Official Boards are asked to vote on a proposal to open Methodist ministry to women) Rev. H. T. Smith

1913 1914

1915 1916

1918 1921

1923

MINISTERS from Mount Stewart circuit include:

1917 Rev. B. Carew

1918 Rev. K. Kingston

1919 Rev. R. M. Brodie

1 920 supply

1921 Rev. H. A. Brown

1922—4 supply

1924-5 Rev. H. P. Tupper

1925 The United Church of Canada came from the union of the Methodist, Congregational and Presbyterian churches.

RELIGIOUS LIFE

Religion was a very important part of the early settler’s life. The 1880 Meacham’s Atlas shows WM Church (Wesleyan Methodist Church) on the property of Edward Lane next to William Thompson’s farm. Earlier, on the 1863 Lake Map, this church is indicated at the same location.

Mildred (Thompson) Johnstone in her notes on the Dunstaffnage - Frenchfort School District mentions that in the summer of 1848 “a ‘tea’ was held on the farm of Edward Lane Sr. near the Wesleyan Methodist Church (just west of where Irving Thompson now lives, on Borden Boswall’s