The adherents of the Church of England along the Eastern Shore belonged to St. Paul's Church of England at Halifax in the sense that they travelled there in fishing vessels and coasters to be married and to have their children christened. Later they were visited by Rev. John Stevenson, a professor at King's College in Windsor.
St. James Anglican Church, built in 1850, when the Rev. Joseph Alexander was the beloved clergyman, was consecrated on August 15, 1855.(102) The journal of Mr. Alexander, which he sent to the Colonial Church Society, describes how on July 20, 1850 the building committee at Sherbrooke had invited him to examine the structure. The exterior was completed and there was a good double floor, a plain reading desk and a number of temporary seats. Dr. Henry Elliott, president of the building committee, gave Mr. Alexander the key, and he hoped to procure a good stove by winter.(103) The Sherbrooke church was five miles from the Anglican Chapel at St. Mary's River, where Mr. Alexander lived.
Mr. Alexander continued in his report: "At Sherbrooke, I hope to be enabled to organize a Sunday School after we shall have got our Stove and pipe up. The stove is presented to us by the Messers. John Williams and Son of Halifax, to whom, for myself and the congregation, I feel truly grateful."
On Sunday, August 15th, 1852 Bishop Hilbert Binney consecrated St. James. Mr. Alexander described it thus: "At 5pm his Lordship and Clergy reached Sherbrooke Church (from St. Mary's River settlement) where divine service was held and a sermon preached by the Bishop to a very attentive congregation, many of whom had probably never seen a chief pastor of the church before, as a Bishop had never prior to this been seen at that place".(104)