Christ Church was granted royal status by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004, and St Catharine's in 2017. In April 2007 St. George's Church (Georgetown, Ontario) became the first church in Canada to join the Messy Church initiative which places a premium on community, creativity, hospitality and celebration. Messy Church had been born in the Church of England "Fresh Expressions" movement and was just beginning to spread. It is a very untraditional and informal gathering with a Christian message communicated through crafts, activities, songs, prayers, and always ends with a meal. Messy Church at St. George's made a connection with young families beyond the sacrament of baptism and built a community around it. St. George's continues to offer "Messy Church" services on the second Wednesday of each month at 5:00 p.m. (not during summer). Notes and references Further reading Buckle, Francis. The Anglican Church in Labrador. (Labrador City: Archdeaconry of Labrador, 1998.) Bumsted, J.M. "Church and State in Maritime Canada, 1749-1807." In Historical Papers presented at the Annual Meeting held in Ottawa, 7–10 June 1967 pp 41–58. Ottawa: The Canadian Historical Association, 1967. Christie, Nancy, and Michael Gauvreau. Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965: A Social History of Religion in Canada (U of Toronto Press, 2010). Cuthbertson, Brian. "Charles Inglis: A Reassessment." Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 30#2 (1988): 88–101 on Bishop Charles Inglis Fahey, Curtis. In His Name: The Anglican Experience in Upper Canada, 1791–1854 (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 1991). Fingard, Judith. The Anglican Design in Loyalist Nova Scotia (London: SPCK, 1972). Fletcher-Marsh, Wendy. "Revolution From Above: Women and the Priesthood in Canadian Anglicanism, 1968–1978." Historical papers (1995). online Hayes, Alan L. "The Anglican Church of Canada." in Ian S. Markham ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion (2013): 474–488. Headon, Christopher. "Developments in Canadian Anglican Worship in Eastern and Central Canada: 1840–1868." Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 27#2 (1975): 26–38. Peddle, Geoffrey. "The Anglican Church in Newfoundland: an exceptional case?" (PhD Diss. Cardiff University, 2011) online Roper, Henry. "The Anglican Episcopate in Canada: An Historical Perspective." Anglican and Episcopal History 57.3 (1988): 255-271. online Schurman, Donald M. A bishop and his people: John Travers Lewis and the Anglican Diocese of Ontario, 1862–1902 (Anglican Church of Canada, Ontario Diocesan Synod, 1991). Wilson, Alan. The Clergy Reserves of Upper Canada (Canadian Historical Association, 19690 online. Primary sources Hills, George. No Better Land: The 1860 Diaries of the Anglican