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Originally Posted by someone123
The best-known ones in the city are St. Paul's, because of its age (1750, oldest Anglican church in Canada)
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Right. I had in the back of my mind the feeling that the "oldest Anglican church" was in Quebec City (see below) but I was mistaken. It's the first Anglican cathedral ever built outside the British Isles. So oldest cathedral, not oldest church.
The Anglican "Diocese of Quebec" was formed in 1793 and it covered all of Canada (Lower Canada and Upper Canada) which excluded Halifax at the time.
As you rightly point out, it's interesting to realize that since the creation of Halifax predates the British invasion of Canada, Halifax is nowadays likely to own pretty much all the claims to "oldest British whatever" within the current borders of Canada. St. Paul's church, for example. As a history buff, I never tire of hearing you bring up info about Halifax. The city's best spokesman on here lives in Vancouver
(Anglican) Cathedral of the Holy Trinity:
