The Baptists have been nearly as long in the country as the Presbyterians. They have met with much suc- cess in the province, and rank third in numbers among the different religious bodies. They support a college and several elementary schools, and send missionaries to foreign parts. The Wesleyan Methodist body was started by missionaries from the mother country as early as 1769. No permanent organization was ef- fected until 1786, A theological school is supported by them, and many academies and one college. The Congregational Church started as early as any of the foregoing, but its success has been ver^' limited thus far.
The following table, from the census of 1871, gives the number of churches, buildings attached, and ad- herents of the principal denominations:
Denominations.
Cliurches.
Buildings.
Adherents.
Baptist
234 142 157 197 120 47
267 193 196 222
182 47
73,394 55,124
40,871 103,539 102,001
12,871
Methodist
Presbyterian
Roman CnthoHc
Miscellaneous
Total
897
1107
387,800
Of the Baptists 19,032 are Free-will Baptists, and of the Methodists 38,683 are Wesleyans. Among the miscellaneous are included 4958 Lutherans, 2538 Con- gregationalists, 1555 Christian Conference, 869 Advent- ists, 647 Universalists, and 128 Bible Believers. Be- sides the denominational efforts of each of these evan- gelical bodies, they severally unite in general schemes of benevolence and Christian philanthropy. The Nova Scotia Bible Society, and other auxiliaries of the Brit- ish and Foreign Bible Society, enlist the sympathies of all but the Baptists, and are very generally supported. The Halifax Naval and Military Bible Society is in like manner dependent upon the Christian public gen- erally. The IMicmac Missionary Society, while its prin- cipal agent and missionary is Baptist, meets with the countenance and support of all classes. The Nova Scotia Sabbath Alliance consists of the leading min- isters and members of all the leading Protestant de- nominations in Halifax.
Educational Status. — Nova Scotia has a sj'stem of free public schools, organized in 1864. The schools are under the general supervision of the provincial super- intendent of education, with inspectors for the several
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counties, and are imnieiliatcly managed by boards of commissioners fur the counties, and of trustees for the ditferent sections or districts. The number of scliools in operation during the summer term ending Oct. 31, 187-1, was 1G73; number of teachers, 1744 (002 males and 1142 females) ; number of pupils registered, 79,910 ; average daily attendance, 46,233 ; number of different children some portion of the year ending on the above date, 93,512 (48,604 males and 44,908 females); number of school sections, 1932, of wliich 210 had no school any portion of the year; value of school property, $830,926 41 ; number of pupils for whom accommoda- tion is provided, 88,258. Included in the above figures are ten county academies, with 45 teachers and 2614 pupils enrolled during the year. Aid was granted from the provincial treasury to four especial academies, hav- ing 14 teachers and 370 pupils, and also to Mount Alli- son male and female academies in New Brunswick. There are live colleges, as follows, with their statistics for 1874 :
either expelled or completely mastered ; and Cape Bre- ton, which at an earlier period had been disunited frum Nova Scotia, was reunited to it in 1819. Nova Scotia was incorporated with the Dominion of Canada July 1, 1867, and is represented in its Senate by 12 senators, each of whom must be a citizen thirty j-ears of age, and possessed of an income of ^;4000 in the province. Nine- teen representatives sit in the Canadian Parliament for Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia has also its own provincial Parliament and lieutenant-governor. Sec Haliburton, llistoriral and Statistical Account nfNova Scotia (Hali- fax, 1829) ; Martin, History of Nova Scotia, etc. (Lon- don, 1837 ) ; Akins, Selections from the Public Docu- ments of the Province of Nova Scotia (Halifax, 1869) ; Amer. Ct/clop, s. v.; Blackwood's Mag. 1854, i, 12; 1866. ii, 158; Anderson, Hist. Col. Church (see Index in vol. iii).
Novatian (Novatianus) of Rome, the first anti- pope, and one of the most noted characters in the Church of the 3d century, and the founder of a sect
Denomination.
Number
of
Instructors.
Volumes Library.
Kind's College and University . . .
St. Mary's College
Dalhousie College and University
Acadia Collesje
St. Francis Xavier College
Windsor... .
Halifax
Halifax
Wolfville... AutijTonish.
17SS 1840 1S20 1S3T 1S55
Episcopal
Konian Catholic Presbyterian. . . .
Baptist
ll(jman Catholic
IT 6400
46 1400
78 13T3
39 341T
41 2090
These receive small grants from the provincial treasury, as does also Mount Allison College in New Brunswick. In Dalhousie University a medical department was or- ganized in 1868, which in 1874 had 11 professors and 29 students. In Halifax is situated the theological de- partment of the Presbyterian Church of the lower prov- inces of British North America. The Halifax School of Medicine was incorporated in 1873. The provincial normal and model schools are at Truro. The number of teachers in the normal school in 1874 was 4; of pu- pils, 118. In the model school there were 9 teachers and about 550 pupils. The census of 1871 enumerates five young ladies' boarding-schools, with 146 pupils. The total expenditure for educational purposes in 1874 was $619,361 87, viz. : public schools, $552,221 40; nor- mal and model schools, $4733 ; special academies, $26,- 970 ; colleges, $35,337 47. Of these sums, $175,013 65 was derived from the provincial treasury, viz. : for pub- lic schools, $157,480 65; for normal and model schools, $4733 ; for special academies, $6800 ; for colleges, $6000. Of tiie expenditure for public schools, $107,301 39 was derived from county tax, and $287,349 30 from taxation in the different school sections. The number of news- papers and periodicals published in the province in 1874 was 38, viz. : 4 daily, 5 tri-weekly, 24 weekly, 1 bi- weekly, and 4 monthly.