ABSTRACT
The colonies in North America are of significance to the story of confirmation in the Anglican Church. This chapter looks at colonial North America, including the development of a new province. In this Anglicanism's self-understanding is becoming reformulating in its new surrounding culture. In Canada the episcopate was founded first in Nova Scotia, and the Church of England began a policy of developing overseas dioceses, the next being in India. The overseas parishes and chaplaincies of the Church of England were nominally under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, be they in America or Canada, in the eighteenth century. An alternative Anglican approach to confirmation developed. Those who lived overseas were baptised and then catechised and admitted to communion. In the absence of a bishop and an increasingly organised Anglican Church, even if always chronically short of resources, the interpretation of this rubric was to take a new direction.
