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Young acolytes portrait

  • CA PEI SPCA PHOTO 0147
  • Item
  • 191?

The photograph shows two young boys dressed in a full length portrait in choir robes. The book, "Act of Faith", identifies them as W.B. Brady, 1910; Earl Whitlock, 1911.

"High Tea" photograph

  • CA PEI SPCA PHOTO 0299
  • Item
  • [200?]

This photograph shows the "High Tea", run by the Bishop Binney group just before the New Hall was built. The members include (l-r) Nancy Oxford, Pauline Smith, Rosemary Mathis, Yvonne Weatherby Annie Carter, Hannah Ghiz, Betty Acorn, Dorothy Acorn, Katie Woodside, Carrie Costain and Marjorie Vessey. Note that the painting on canvas behind the ladies was sketched by Jean Paul Westin.

St. Peter's Church

Bibles, service books, and special collections

  • CA PEI SPCA 016
  • Collection
  • 1682-2020

This collection consists of bibles, service books and other published items selected as special collections, primarily because they were acquired and/or used by St. Peter's Cathedral Church over the years. The selection will be reviewed periodically and items added or removed as new information is received related to their provenance and relationship to the church.

General publications

  • CA PEI SPCA 017
  • Collection
  • 1800?-2019?

Publications are added to the St. Peter's Cathedral Church archives' collection if they fit the Archives' mandate and have a direct relationship to the history of the church or contain information closely relevant to the story of the church or community. Additional copies of ephemera and grey literature have been retained if they seem to have been actively collected and/or used by ministers and church officials or members over the years. Series have been established for the following; extent is an estimate only, based on the size of the box. Each series, aside from Church Calendar, needs to be reviewed, appraised, arranged and described in more detail:

(1) Church Calendar (32 x 27 x 6 cm box)
(2) Church art and architecture (44 x 30 x 8 cm box)
(3) Sunday School and children's literature (44 x 30 x 8 cm box)
(4) Scouting publications (32 x 27 x 6 cm box)
(5) World War I and post-war or war-related military and government publications (32 x 27 x 6 cm box)
(6) Churches general (39 x 27 x 6 cm box)
(7) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge publications (40 x 31 x 28 cm box)
Nos: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 are in one 40 x 31 x 28 cm box)
(8) Catholic Literature Association
(9) Mowbray Publishers
(10) St Peter and Paul London
(11 League of American Loyalists (LAL)
(12) Association for Promoting Retreats (APR)
(13) Various booklets
(14) Various pamphlets and tracts (44 x 30 x 8 cm box)

Thomas Heath Haviland portrait

  • CA PEI SPCA PHOTO 0144
  • Item
  • 1840 - 1895

The photograph shows Thomas Heath Haviland, warden and parish trustee, in a seated studio portrait.

Reverend T. T. Carter portrait

  • CA PEI SPCA PHOTO 0361
  • Item
  • 1844-1880

The photograph is a seated portrait of Reverend T. T. Carter. Below the photograph are printed the name of the photography studio, W. Walker & Sons, and its London, England, address. The handwritten note on the front of the photograph reads: "Rev. T. Carter." Research indicates that Thomas Thellusson Carter SSC (19 March 1808 – 28 October 1901), also known as T. T. Carter, was a significant figure in the Victorian Church of England. He was responsible for reintroducing Catholic practices to the church and for founding the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. Carter also founded several charitable organizations and was a prolific writer on church matters. He served as Rector of Clewer, a parish in Berkshire, England, or 36 years. In 1870 he became an honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Reverend William Bullock portrait

  • CA PEI SPCA PHOTO 0365
  • Item
  • 1847 - 1874

The photograph is a seated portrait of Reverend William Bullock. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads "Halifax." According to research, William Bullock was a naval officer, Church of England clergyman, and hymn-writer; he was born on 12 January 1797 at Prittlewell, Essex, England and died on 7 March 1874 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and he was buried in the Camp Hill Cemetery. Bullock went to Halifax in 1847 for temporary clery duty, after serving in St. John's, Newfoundland, serving as curate of St Paul’s Cathedral. Bullock later became the first dean of St. Luke's Cathedral Church when Queen Victoria made St Luke’s the cathedral church of the Diocese of Nova Scotia. In 1854 William Bullock published a collection of 166 hymns, titled "Songs of the Church," which he dedicated to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The best-known of these hymns, “We love the place, O God,” composed for the opening of a new church in Trinity Bay, was later inserted in the official hymnbook of the Church of England.

Robert Harris portrait

  • CA PEI SPCA PHOTO 0456
  • Item
  • 1849 - 1919

The photograph is a reprint of a portrait of Robert Harris who is the artist who created the paintings in the Chapel. C.M.G. follow his name.

Robert Harris

Textiles collection

  • CA PEI SPCA 022
  • Collection
  • [1850?-2020?]

Textiles collected by St. Peter's Cathedral Church over the years, primarily because they have a direct relationship to the church or the community.

St. Peter's Cathedral Church

Dr. Frederick George Lee D.D. portrait

  • CA PEI SPCA PHOTO 0354
  • Item
  • 1850-1902

The photograph is a full-length portrait of Reverend Frederick George Lee. The handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads: " Rev. F. G. Lee D.D. " Reverend Frederick George Lee, DCL, FSA (1832–1902) was a theological writer born at Thame, Oxfordshire; he was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Oxford in 1854 and priest in 1856. See also the altar book that Lee edited: PEI SPCA 016 Item 1.

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