St. Peter's Anglican Church (West LaHave, Nova Scotia)

St. Peter's Anglican Church is a church in West LaHave, Nova Scotia (formerly New Dublin) that was established in 1818 by Roger Aitken, the missionary at Lunenburg for Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1817–1825).

[1][2] Aitken gave to the church the oldest known Anglican Chalice and Paten in Canada.

Aitken presented the church with a silver chalice (c.1663) and paten (c.1766) from Aberdeen, Scotland, both of which are in the King's College Chapel, Halifax.

[6] Aitken is reported to have received them both while he was at St John's, Aberdeen and then took them to Moose Island for two years (1814–1816) and then to Nova Scotia.

[7][8] Upon discovering the chalice and paten were being sold in Halifax, Senator William Johnston Almon purchased them and donated them to the King's College Chapel (1891).

St. Peter's Anglican Church, West LaHave, Nova Scotia
Rev. Roger Aitken , missionary instrumental in establishing St. Peter's Anglican Church and gave the congregation a silver chalice and paten, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Rev. Roger Aitken gave this chalice and paten to the St. Peter's Anglican Church (1818), King's University Archives