Christ Church

The 5th Annual Lobster Supper/Fund Raiser will take place at the Parish Hall on Saturday, 8 May 2010. Click here to download a poster with more information.

Monday, March 8th
4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class – Rm. 204, KES

Tuesday, March 9th
6:00pm Prayers & Praises – Haliburton Place
6:30-7:30pm Brownies/Sparks – Parish Hall
7:30pm Parish Council Meeting

Thursday, March11th
1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In
5:00 pm Fr Curry preaches at King’s College Chapel, Halifax

Sunday, March 14th, Fourth Sunday in Lent (Mothering Sunday)
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Morning Prayer (followed by Semnel Cake)
4:30pm Evening Prayer at Christ Church

Monday, March 1st
4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class – Rm. 204, KES

Tuesday, March 2nd
6:00pm Prayers & Praises – Haliburton Place
6:30-7:30pm Brownies/Sparks – Parish Hall
7:30pm Holy Communion & Lenten Programme: “The Creeds” – II

Thursday, March 4th
1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In
7:30pm West Hants Historical Society: Fr. Curry, ‘Flora’s Winter in Windsor‘ (Flora MacDonald)

Friday, March 5th
2:00pm St John’s Presbyterian Church, Women’s World Day of Prayer

Sunday, March 7th, Third Sunday in Lent
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion
4:30pm Evening Prayer at KES

Monday, February 22nd
4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class – Rm. 204, KES

Tuesday, February 23rd, Eve of St Matthias
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-7:30pm Brownies/Sparks – Parish Hall
7:30pm Holy Communion & Lenten Programme: The Creeds I

Thursday, February 25th
1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In
6:30pm Christ Church “Cinema Paradiso” – Movie Night: “Wit”

Friday, February 26th
11:00am Holy Communion – Dykeland Lodge
3:30pm Holy Communion – Gladys Manning Home

Sunday, February 28th, Second Sunday in Lent
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Morning Prayer
2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf
4:30pm Evening Prayer at KES

Monday, February 15th
4:45-5:15 Confirmation Class – Rm. 204, KES

Tuesday, February 16th, Shrove Tuesday
3:30pm Holy Communion – Windsor Elms
4:30-6:00pm Pancake Super – Parish Hall

Wednesday, February 17th, Ash Wednesday
7:00am Penitential Service with Ashes
1:00pm Holy Communion with Ashes
2:30pm Imposition of Ashes at KES Chapel

Thursday, February 18th
1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In

Sunday, February 21st, First Sunday in Lent
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Family Service – Holy Communion
4:30pm Evening Prayer at KES

Dr. Henry Roper on ‘Haliburton: Complexities and Contradictions’
West Hants Historical Society Heritage Banquet
Saturday, February 20^th at 6:00pm, Windsor Legion Hall

Windsor, of course, is not the home of Sam Slick, road signs notwithstanding, anymore than the Valley is the Land of Evangeline. Sam Slick and Evangeline are the fictional creations of two authors, Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), both writing in the middle of the 19^th century, albeit with different sensibilities and interests. Windsor, however, is the home of Haliburton.

Longfellow’s romantic and imaginative telling of the story of the expulsion of the Acadians from these lands, which he never visited, may or may not be to our modern tastes and liking, but it is part of our legacy. His poem, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), has left an indelible mark upon the sense of our history and our sense of the landscape, however awkward the descendents of the displacers, whether they were Planters or Loyalists, might feel about those whom they displaced. But, then, the Maritime and Canadian story is the story of displaced peoples.

It is, perhaps, nice to think of this area as once being “the forest primeval” with “murmuring pines and hemlocks” as well as recalling the remarkable enterprises of the Acadian settlers whose “hands … had raised with labour incessant”, the “dikes” that continue to define the land, “the happy valley” that Blomidon overlooks, as Longfellow imagined. The land he evokes is a kind of Arcadia, an ancient image of the harmony of man and nature imaginatively realised in the idyllic Acadian culture he describes but which, after the “grand dérangement”, remains only as a memory, a story told “by the evening fire” by the remnants of the Acadians, and by Longfellow for us in his poem.

Longfellow got his story from another American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, but he drew on Haliburton’s remarkable 1829 History of Nova Scotia, An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia, for a sense of the land and for some of the political background.

There may be features of the personality and perspective of Thomas Chandler Haliburton that are not to our liking and that even disquiet and disturb us greatly. A lawyer, judge and statesman who played an important role in the establishment of responsible government in Nova Scotia, an historian and a novelist of popular note, especially in England, he was not without his faults. Not altogether unlike Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), perhaps. Jefferson was the third President of the United States of America, and the main architect of the American Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. A strong proponent of the rights of man against all forms of tyranny, he yet had slaves and fathered children through them, namely, the Hemingses of Monticello. There are the contradictions of character in Haliburton, too, with respect to the black people, free and slave, who were part of the post-Acadian settlements in these parts. It is simply part of the story.

The West Hants Historical Society is committed to the preservation, presentation and promotion of the rich heritage of our area in all of its moments and in connection with the larger features of Maritime and Canadian history. It is very much a work in progress. On Saturday, February 20^th, at 6:00pm, the Society will hold its Annual Heritage Banquet at the Windsor Legion Hall. This year’s banquet will feature as the guest speaker, Dr. Henry Roper, President of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. He will speak on Haliburton: Complexities and Contradictions.

Henry Roper is a retired professor of humanities at the University of King’s College, Halifax, where he also served as vice-president, registrar and director of the King’s Foundation Year Programme. In 2009 King’s awarded him an honorary doctorate of canon law.  He has written numerous articles on the intellectual and religious history of Nova Scotia and is the co-editor of The Collected Works of George Grant, Vols. 3 and 4 (University of Toronto Press, 2005 and 2009).

The Heritage Banquet has itself become an event of historical significance. For over twenty-five years, the banquet has been held as a way of celebrating the rich history of our area and as an important fund-raiser for the work of the Society. The cost of the banquet is $ 20.00 and includes hot cider, a full hot meal with juice and dessert. There will also be a door prize. Please contact Veronica Connelly (798-5212), Elliott Daniels (798-1065), or Don & Betty Sheehan (798-2659) for tickets or purchase them at Daniel’s Flower Shop on Water Street or the Apple Blossom Shop on Water Street or at the West Hants Historical Museum, 281 King Street, Windsor on Wednesdays, 10:00-3:00pm (798-4706).

(Rev’d) David Curry
President of the West Hants Historical Society
February 1^st, 2010

Monday, February 8th
4:45-5:15pm Confirmation Class – Rm. 204, KES

Tuesday, February 9th
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-7:30pm Brownies/Sparks Mtg. – Parish Hall

Thursday, February 11th
1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In

Sunday, February 14th, Quinquagesima
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Morning Prayer followed by Pot-Luck Luncheon and ANNUAL PARISH MEETING
5:00pm Fr. Curry preaches at Evensong, St. George’s, Halifax

Upcoming Event

Tuesday, February 16th, 4:30-6:00pm, Parish Hall: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper

Saturday, February 20th, 6:00pm, Windsor Legion: West Hants Heritage Banquet – $20.00 per person.  Dr Henry Roper, President of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, will give a talk on Haliburton: Complexities and Contradictions

Monday, February 1st, Eve of Candlemas
7:00pm Holy Communion

Tuesday, February 2nd
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-7:30pm Brownies/Sparks Mtg. – Parish Hall
7:30pm Christ Church Book Club – Coronation Room: “The Shack” by Wm. Paul Young

Thursday, February 4th
1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In

Sunday, February 7th, Sexagesima
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion
4:30pm Evening Prayer at KES

Upcoming Events

Sunday, February 14th: Annual Parish Meeting & Luncheon, following the 10:30am service
Sunday, February 14th, 5:00 pm: Fr Curry preaches at Evensong, St George’s, Halifax
Tuesday, February 16th, 4:30-6:00pm: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper

Monday, January 25th, Conversion of St Paul
4:45-5:15pm Confirmation Class – Rm. 204, KES
7:00pm Holy Communion

Tuesday, January 26th
3:30pm Holy Communion – Windsor Elms
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-7:30pm Brownies/Sparks – Parish Hall

Thursday, January 28th
1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In
6:30pm Christ Church “Cinema Paradiso” – Movie Night: “Babette’s Feast”

Friday, January 30th
3:30pm Holy Communion – Gladys Manning Home

Sunday, January 31st, Septuagesima
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Holy Communion
2:00pm AMD Service of the Deaf

Upcoming Events

Sunday, February 14th: Annual Parish Meeting & Luncheon, following the 10:30am service
Tuesday, February 16th: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, 4:30-6:00pm

Monday, January 18th
4:45-5:15pm Confirmation Class – Rm. 204, KES

Tuesday, January 19th
3:30pm Holy Communion – Windsor Elms
6:00pm ‘Prayers & Praises’ – Haliburton Place
6:30-7:30pm Brownies/Sparks Mtg. – Parish Hall

Thursday, January 21st
1:30-3:00pm Seniors’ Drop-In

(Fr. Curry away in Charlottetown, preaching at St. Peter’s Cathedral. Fr. Michael Boyd is to be contacted for any priestly or pastoral emergencies.)

Sunday, January 24th, Third Sunday after the Epiphany
8:00am Holy Communion
10:30am Morning Prayer

Upcoming Events

Sunday, February 14th: Annual Parish Meeting & Luncheon, following the 10:30am service
Tuesday, February 16th: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, 4:30-6:00pm