It’s been a busy summer for
New Brunswick Anglicans
Survivors, descendents and others of all faiths remembered the 35 who died in the 1950 Escuminac Disaster …
The people of Christ Church Cathedral supplied the basics to Ugandan primary school students …
The people of the diocese are encouraged to support the Archives Committee with the purchase of a print.
On June 21, people of all faiths and from villages, towns and cities along the eastern shore of New Brunswick gathered at St.
John’s Church in Bay du Vin to observe the 50th Anniversary of the Escuminac Disaster at a special memorial service. The night of June 19, 1959 fishing boats left the wharf at Escuminac expecting to land record salmon catches. A rare and certainly unexpected hurricane struck the Gulf of St. Lawrence that night and early the next morning. It claimed 22 fishing boats and 35 men (some of them really just boys) and left in its wake 26 widows and 83 fatherless children. None of the men who died carried life insurance. Bishop Claude Miller, the Rev. Richard Steeves, priest in charge of Bay du Vin, and former rector Canon Howard Anningson all participated in the memorial service in Bay du Vin.
The grade five students at the new primary school established at Bishop McAllister School in Uganda have textbooks and desks, 
thanks to the efforts of the missions committee of Christ Church Cathedral in Fredericton. New Brunswick Anglicans know of the success of the Bishop McAllister School through its principal, the Rev. Canon Paul Jefferies, a missionary to Uganda supported by a diocesan mission committee. Many groups and churches throughout the diocese also support the school directly. Christ Church Cathedral’s Lenten “U-Give to Uganda” campaign and a bluegrass and gospel concert held in the cathedral in May raised more than $3,500 for the school.
Prints of this Lloyd Fitzgerald painting of Christ Church Cathedral are now available at
Anglican House in Saint John <angbk atnbnet.nb.ca> and from Diocesan Archivist Frank Morehouse <frankm at nbnet.nb.ca>. The cost is $100. This is a fundraiser for the Diocesan Archives Committee which would appreciate your support.
Diocesan Communications
04 August 2009
