MITCHELL, GEORGE STEWART (1873-1952)

MITCHELL, GEORGE STEWART, Presbyterian minister, Red Bank and Whitneyville, 1905-08; b. Linden, Cumberland Co., N.S., 5 Jun 1873, s/o Thomas Mitchell and Elizabeth Truman; m. Jean Skene Hislop, of Pictou, N.S.; d. there, 18 Oct 1952.

George S. Mitchell attended Pictou Academy and the universities of Dalhousie (1897-98) and McGill, and was trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Montreal. Ordained in 1905, he had his first pastorate at Red Bank. While he was there he was given credit for having the original St Stephen's Church, which dated from 1853, replaced by a new structure. This was erected in 1906 by the contractor Peter A. Forsyth and dedicated on 30 June 1907.

In 1908 Mitchell accepted a call to Oxford, N.S. In World War I, he served in France as a chaplain with the Dalhousie Medical Unit. After his return, he had a pastorate at Summerside, P.E.I. He did not join the United Church at the time of union in 1925 but continued as a Presbyterian minister. In 1944, he was elected moderator of the Synod of the Maritime Provinces and was also granted an honorary DD by the Presbyterian College. He and his wife, Jean S. Hislop, had no children.