A few months before I moved from Halifax to Ottawa, I was given the wonderful opportunity to have an exhibition of my photographs of Nova Scotian churches at the Dalhousie Art Gallery. These photos were made in the course of my two-year research stint at Dal as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, from 2008-2010. The theme of the exhibition, broadly speaking, was to be the Anglican Church in Nova Scotia - which was celebrating its 300th anniversary. As my research had uncovered a multitude of wonderful historical stories, and as the Church of England is steeped in storytelling, I decided to structure the exhibition as a series of stories, each of which would be told briefly in text and manifested in a series of photographs. My goal was to present a polyphony of stories that would interweave, intersect, diverge, complement and even contradict one another. Together, they formed a tangled collage that was as delightful to the photographer as it was perplexing to the historian.
 
The stories were "Prologue", "The Loyalist's Tale", The Goth's Tale", "The 'Eskimo's' Tale", "The Romanist's Tale", "The Dissenter's Tale", "A Tale of Three Churches", and "Epilogue".
 
I am hugely grateful to Peter Dykhuis and Michele Gallant of the Dalhousie Art Gallery for making this possible.
 
The exhibition ran from 21 May - 4 July, 2010.