Bishop Hibbert Binney was still Bishop of the of Nova Scotia when Canada became a reality on July 1st, 1867. Being an independent country, and with the recent Privy Council decision in the court case, there was no longer any need of Letters Patent being issued from the British Crown to subsequent appointees as Bishop of Nova Scotia . This, in part, led to a lapse on the part of later Bishops of Nova Scotia to realize and understand the special relationship which Prince Edward Island had as an area placed specifically under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Nova Scotia and not as an integral part of the of Nova Scotia . 46