This year – 2022 – we will be celebrating our 160th Anniversary!! Stay tuned for special events!
And we will be renovating – to install a wheelchair accessible washroom! Stay tuned for details of this project!
We are located in the beautiful central “corridor” area of East Hants County of the province. It is a growing area with many events and ministries happening! We have had the same church building for a very long time!
Rev. John Cameron (1817-1907) became the Presbyterian minister in Elmsdale, Nova Scotia in 1844. He moved his family from Nine Mile River in 1862 to a large home (not a manse) in Elmsdale the same year that Elmsdale Presbyterian Church was completed. Cameron practiced his sermons by bellowing them out from the balcony of his new home. From there, he could see the church and thus knew when to depart on Sunday mornings by the number of his flock standing outside waiting for him.
He left Elmsdale in 1879 and was replaced by Rev. Jacob Layton (1879-1931) who preached there until 1895. One of his sons became Rev. R.B. Layton.
Today the church is St. Matthew’s Presbyterian Church.
Here is a post card of our church from April of 1921(from the Oakville Library, Ontario) …
