Communications : I. Bray Libraries: 2. King's College, Halifax : Bray Collection
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article37073
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society
- Date
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 68-69
- Notes
- "The Bray Collection consists of the surviving books from three early clerical libraries. In the spring of 1977 about a score of boxes full of old books were discovered in the belfry of Christ Church, Windsor [Nova Scotia], where they had lain forgotten for decades. The hundreds of volumes were the remains of a library owned in the eighteenth century by a clergyman in England". "As indicated by their bookplates, the books were presented to the parish in 1797 by Dr. Bray's Associates of London, which had acquired the library from its former owner". "While the library at Windsor was the first of the Bray Libraries in Nova Scotia, and probably in Canada, a number of others were established throughout the province in the nineteenth century. Two of these are also preserved at King's [College, Halifax]. The parochial library from Trinity Church, Digby (Bray II), founded about 1844 .... The parochial library from Trinity Church, Liverpool (Bray III), dates from the middle of the nineteenth century".
- Subjects
- Bray, Thomas, 1656-1730
- Libraries - Canada
- Church libraries - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Libraries
- Location
- General Synod Archives