The University of King's College was founded in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1789. Construction of the main building was completed in 1791. King George III granted a Royal Charter to King's in 1802. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, King's offered instruction in arts and science, divinity, medicine, law and engineering at various times.
The University and King's Collegiate School operated under joint administration until fire destroyed the College's main building on 5 Feb 1920. In financial difficulty after the fire, King's, with assistance from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, entered into an association with Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Articles of Association between the Governors of King's College and the Governors of Dalhousie College (1923) provided that King's would hold in abeyance its power of granting degrees except in Divinity (s.11). In 1928, King's commenced building its new campus in its present location and opened its new buildings, designed by Andrew Cobb, in 1930. King's merged its Faculty of A1is and Science with Dalhousie's, but continued to grant divinity degrees until King's School of Divinity became part of the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax that was incorporated in 1974.
King's now offers undergraduate liberal arts and science programs in interdisciplinary humanities, including four-year degrees given jointly with Dalhousie in Early Modem Studies, Contemporary Studies, and History of Science and Technology. King's also offers Journalism degrees: a four-year undergraduate honours degree (B.J.H.), a one-year post-baccalaureate B.J.; and a master's degree (M.J.) that commenced in 2011. A minor in Journalism Studies is available as a complement to other fields of study.
King's, with a student population of 1,100, has established itself as one of Canada's leading institutions of higher learning. Its mission is to remain a small undergraduate college working in the humanities, social sciences, science and journalism, while maintaining the special character of the University, due in part to the concentration of scholarly interest in the western intellectual and cultural tradition, in part to the interdisciplinary approach involving team teaching, and in part to the counter-balancing presence in the University of the School of Journalism and its intensely practical mission of preparing students to work in contemporary print and broadcast media.
The history of the Library's Special Collections dates from the founding of the University, when the Library was referred to as the Library Hall and Museum. The Museum was part of Convocation Hall, built in Windsor around 1865 to house the Library. It consisted of a series of "curiosities" and rare books that were donated to and collected by the College. The design of the new Library, opened in Halifax in 1991, includes both a gallery and Archives.
Seventh Bishop of Quebec; Eleventh Metropolitan of Canada; Acting Primate of All Canada.
Philip Carrington was born in Lichfield, England, in 1893. He moved to New Zealand at some point in his youth, and completed school there, receiving and B.A. (1912) and an M.A. (1913) from the University of New Zealand. He went back to England during the First World War to attend Cambridge University, receiving a B.A. in 1916. Upon returning to New Zealand, he was ordained deacon in 1918, then priest in 1919, and worked as curate of the Church of St. Luke the Evangelist in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 1918 to 1922. He became the vicar of Lincoln, New Zealand in 1922, and obtained an M.A. from Cambridge in 1923. That same year, he became the Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Christchurch, until 1925. Also in 1923, he became the Warden of St. Barnabas' College, and a special preacher at St. Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1927, he moved to Canada, and became the Dean of Divinity at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec. He received an honourary D.C.L. (1933) from Bishop's University, an honourary S.T.D. (1934) from Seabury Western Theological Seminary, and Lit.D. (1934) from the University of New Zealand. In 1935, he was consecrated Bishop of Quebec, and in 1944, became the Metropolitan of Canada and Archbishop of Quebec. He was made Acting Primate of all Canada in 1959, and retired in 1960. He passed away in 1975.
Sixth Bishop of Saskatchewan.
Walter Burd was born in Cork, Ireland in 1888, and was educated primarily at military schools in Colchester, England, and Athlone, Ireland, then attended secondary school and university in Sheffield, England. From 1914 to 1919, he served with 28th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force and 4th Worcesters (Imperial). He was granted the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1916 by King George V, and married Elizabeth Millington (d.1937) in Sheffield in 1918. The couple had two sons and one daughter. He was a student at Eycliffe College from 1919 to 1920, and General Secretary of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in Canada from 1920 to 1922. He was ordained deach in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1922, and then priest in Saskatoon that same year. He was a curate in Tisdale, Saskatchewa, then a rector from 1922 to 1926. In 1923, he became the Rural Dean of Melfort, Saskatchewan, and in 1926, a canon and precentor of St. Alban's Cathedral in Prince Albert until 1929, when he was made Archdeacon. In 1933, he was consecrated Bishop of Saskatchewan, and granted honourary D.D.'s from Wycliffee College and from the University of Emmanuel College in Saskatoon. He married Florence Marian Traill in 1939. That same year, he resigned the See of Saskatchewan and passed away in British Columbia.
Third Bishop of Huron.
Maurice Scollard was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1836. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Trinity College in 1859, and became a curate at St. Thomas' Church in St. Thomas in 1860. He was ordained priest in 1861, and married that same year. His wife, Maria Ermatinger, passed away in 1863. In 1862, he received a Master of Arts from the University of Trinity College, and became the Incumbent at St. Paul's Church in Port Dover, Ontario, until 1865. He was then the rector at St. Luke's Church in Montreal, Quebec from 1865 to 1870. He married Sarah Jessie Day in 1870, and became the curate of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, as well as honourary canon (1870 - 1882). He was the rector of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal from 1872 to 1883. He was known as a great evangelical preacher who would often preach three times on a Sunday. In 1882, he received an honourary Doctor of Divinity from the University of Trinity College, and became the Dean of Montreal. He was consecrated Bishop of Huron in 1883, a position he kept until he passed away in 1904, in London, Ontario.
Sixth Bishop of Niagara.
Lewis Wilmot Bovell Broughall was born in 1876 in Toronto, Ontario. He received a BA (1897) and MA (1898) from the University of Trinity College in Toronto, and was ordained deacon in 1899, then priest in 1900. He was a missionary in Minden, Ontario from 1899 to 1901, and then Incumbent in Hagersville, Ontario from 1901 - 1903. He was curate of All Saints' in South Wimbledon, England (1903 - 1905) and of Cathedral Church of St. James in Toronto (1905 - 1907), then rector of Oakville, Ontario (1907 - 1911) and of St. George's Church in St. Catherine's (1911 - 1925). During this time, he was also a canon of Church's Church Cathedral in Hamilton, from 1916 to 1925, then was the rector from 1925 to 1933, as well as the Dean of Niagara. In 1933, he was consecrated Bishop of Niagara, a post he held until 1949, when he resigned. He received honourary D.D.'s from the University of Trinity College (1926) and from Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto (1933). He passed away in 1958.
Coadjutor Bishop of Montreal; Fourth Bishop ofMontreaL
James Carmichael was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1833, and ordained deacon, then priest in 1859 in London, Ontario. In 1860, he married Emma Dubourdiere, with whom he had three sons. He was curate of St. George's Church in Montreal from 1868 to 1878, then rector of the Church of Ascension in Hamilton, Ontario from 1878 to 1882. He was made canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal in 1882, as well as canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Hamilton and rector of St. George's Church, Montreal. In 1883, he was made the Dean of Montreal. In 1902, he was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Montreal, and succeeded the previous bishop in 1906. He passed away in 1908.
His honourary degrees include an M.A. (1878), a D.C.L. (1885), and a D.D. (1895) from the University of Bishop's College in Lennoxville, Quebec; and a D.C.L. (1893) from the University of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario. He was also the Prolocutor of Lower House of General Synod of the Church of England in Canada from 1892 to 1901.