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FORBES, JAMES ERVINE (1888-1964)

FORBES, JAMES ERVINE, United Church minister, Loggieville, 1929-37; b. Five Mile River, Hants Co., N.S., 26 Feb 1888. s/o John Forbes and Mary Bentley; m. 1st, Sadie P. Vincent, of Truro, N.S., and 2nd, Minnie D. Anthony, of Kennetcook, Hants Co.; d. Riverside, N.B., 4 Jul 1964.

As a young man, James E. Forbes did missionary work in Saskatchewan. He then completed his undergraduate studies at Queen's University (BA 1915) and prepared for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax (grad. 1918, BD 1923). Ordained in 1918, he spent one year within the Truro Presbytery and three as a teacher at the secondary school of the Canadian Presbyterian mission in San Fernando, Trinidad. He then ministered in different churches in Nova Scotia. He was stationed at Bayfield in Westmorland County, N.B., for a short time before accepting a call to Loggieville in 1929.

Forbes's eight-year pastorate at Loggieville was one of the lengthiest in the history of Knox Church. When he resigned in 1937 he returned to Bayfield. He subsequently served in other communities in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and on the Gaspé coast of Quebec. He retired in 1959. He lived at Shepody for several years and then in a nursing home at Riverside-Albert. He had a lifelong interest in Biblical and literary subjects and wrote verse as a hobby. He was predeceased by both of his wives, as well as a son.

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[b/d] official death records / annual 1965; News 6 Jun 1979; Times 7 Jul 1964; UC archives; Walkington


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