. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. w-exiles, asthese set to work to cut out for themselves newhomes amid the forests of this northern Charles Inglis, who had been Rector ofTrinity Church, New York, during the progressof the Revolutionary War, was consecrated firstBishop of the nascent Church in 1787, and hebecame the first Colonial Bishop of the Churchof England. He was settled at Halifax, and hadfo
. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. w-exiles, asthese set to work to cut out for themselves newhomes amid the forests of this northern Charles Inglis, who had been Rector ofTrinity Church, New York, during the progressof the Revolutionary War, was consecrated firstBishop of the nascent Church in 1787, and hebecame the first Colonial Bishop of the Churchof England. He was settled at Halifax, and hadfor his Diocese the whole of British North Am- 37° CANADA: AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA. erica, which then comprised a much larger terri-tory than at present. This one Diocese has nowgrown to twenty-one, with promise of speedyincrease to twenty-four or twenty-five. Thetwenty-two Clergy then employed in that wholevast territory have now multiplied to over elevenhundred. These twenty-one Bishops are exercis-ing jurisdiction over a territory stretching fromthe Atlantic to the Pacific, and considerablylarger than the whole United States. Theirdioceses are joined together by the CanadianPacific Railway, 3,668 miles in length, running. I He Kt. Kiv. Chailes lnt;lis, almost due west from one ocean to the other, andthrough a territory varying from two to eighthundred miles in depth of as fertile and produc-tive land as is to be found anywhere under thesun. As this territory must perforce come in forrapid settlement before long, there is evidently agreat work before the Canadian Church, as thereis also the possibility of great achievements forher within her own territory. In polity, by which is meant the orders of herMinistry, or her mode of government, the Angli- can Communion in Canada differs in no particularfrom the Church of England in the position on this point is defined in the Pre-face to her ordination services, written in allprobability by Cranmer himself, which state
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