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FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH HISTORIC RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS OF ONTARIO This page intentionally left blank This page intentionally left blank FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH I* HISTORIC RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS OF ONTARIO VIOLET M. HOLROYD NATURAL HERITAGE /NATURAL HISTORY INC. Copyright © Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc., 1991 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Natural Heritage, P.O. Box 69, Station H, Toronto, Ontario M4C 5H7 Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Holroyd, Violet M. Foundations of faith: historic religious buildings of Ontario Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-920474-64-0 1. Church architecture - Ontario. 2. Ontario - Religious and ecclesiastical institutions - Guide-books. 3. Historic buildings - Ontario - Guide-books. I. Title NA5246.O5H6 1991 726'.09713 C91-094842-9 The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council. Design: Molly Brass Printed and bound in Canada by Hignell Printing Limited I dedicate this book to my husband Gordon Arthur Holroyd without whose help and understanding it could not have been written This page intentionally left blank This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Foreword 9 Preface 11 Acknowledgements 13 St. Thomas Church, Anglican, Moose Factory 17 St. Peter Celestine, Roman Catholic, Pakenham 20 St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Wilno 24 The Blue Church, Anglican, Prescott 27 Christ Church, Anglican, Tyendinaga 30 Half Moon Bay, Non-denominational, Gananoque 34 The White Chapel, Early Loyalist Methodist, Picton 37 Hay Bay Church, Methodist Episcopal, Bay of Quinte 40 St. Peter's Church, Anglican, Cobourg 44 St. Marks Church & St. John the Evangelist, Anglican, Port Hope 47 St. Luke's Church, Anglican, Burlington 51 St. Mark's Church, Anglican, Niagara-on-the-Lake 54 The Chapel of the Mohawks, Anglican, Brantford 58 Uncle Tom's Chapel, Non-denominational, Dresden 64 Woodland United Church, Woodland Springs 67 The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Roman Catholic, Manitoulin Island 70 The Church of Mary, Non-denominational, St. Joseph's Island 7 5 The Madill Church, Wesleyan Methodist, Huntsville 78 St. James-on-the-Lines, Anglican, Penetanguishene 81 FOUNDATIONS AOF FAITH Christ Church, Anglican, Bobcaygeon 84 St. Thomas Church, Anglican, Shanty Bay 87 St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Leaskdale 91 St. Paul's Anglican, The Quaker Meeting House, & The Thomas Foster Memorial, Uxbridge 94 St. John the Evangelist, Anglican, Elora 99 The Church of Our Lady, Roman Catholic, Guelph 103 St. John the Evangelist, Anglican, Rockwood 106 Trinity Church, Anglican, Bond Head 109 The Temple of Peace, Sharon 113 The Fisherville Church, Early Presbyterian, Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto 116 St. John The Baptist, Anglican, Oak Ridges 119 The Martyrs' Shrine, Roman Catholic, Midland 122 The African Episcopal Church, Oro Station 125 Christ Church, Anglican, Ilfracombe 128 An Old Order Mennonite Meeting House, Waterloo 132 Hiawatha United Church, Rice Lake 135 Metropolitan United Church, Toronto 138 St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Toronto 142 The Kiever Synagogue, Toronto 145 St. John's United Church, Alliston 149 Paris Plains & St. James, Wesleyan Methodist & Anglican, Paris 153 Knesseth Israel Synagogue, Toronto 158 Ja'Ffari Islamic Centre, Thornhill 161 St. Andrews & The Ruins of St. Raphael, United & Roman Catholic, Williamstown 165 Postscript 169 Suggested Reading 171 Bibliography 173 About the Author 175 FOREWORD O ntario, not unlike other provinces of Canada, is a land of immigrants. Wherever the pioneers and later immigrants settled, they brought with them "the Faith of their Fathers". Throughout rural and urban Ontario, spires tall and small point the people to God. There is not a hamlet without a House of Worship and there is not a community without its Church Street. In this work, Violet Holroyd has relived for us the local his- tory of many of the places of worship in our province. She further portrays for us how the people built their temples of faith. These historic buildings are memorials to the determination and hardship of the pioneers who found strength, guidance and comfort in the message of these meeting places. It was they who laid the foundations, visible and invisible, upon which the moral fibre of the province was built. This book, well researched, and written in a very readable style, is a work that should be in the collection of every local his- tory library in the province of Ontario. (REV.) F. ALLEN PICKERING 9

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