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First Perrytown Church c1842 At one time, the local church was the social hub of the community, providing a regular opportunity for families to come together for worship and special events.


maple leaf   The Canton Circuit of the Methodist Church included the Hope Township churches of Canton, Eden, Zion, Perrytown, Elizabethville and Garden Hill. These two financial reports list the donors' names and contributions for 1889-1890 and 1890-1891.

maple leaf   Morrish United Church: Centennial Celebration programme (1865-1965)

maple leaf   Port Hope Baptist Church: Centennial Celebration programme (1855-1955)

maple leaf   Port Hope United Church: 75th Anniversary programme (1875-1950)

maple leaf   St. Anne's, Bewdley
...from Catherine Milne's & Donna McGillis', The Early History and Founding of Bewdley, Ontario (1990)

St. Anne's Anglican Church, located on Pine Street in Bewdley, has no connection with the cemetery that lies to the south of it. According to the late Bob Hancock, once a lay reader at St. Anne's, the building was originally a chicken barn that had been moved from a farm south of Bewdley around the turn of the century. It was renovated with donated materials into a church building by volunteer labour and a stone fixed in the gable which still reads: Bewdley Church/Open to all Protestant denominations/1901.

Thomas Butterfield Chalk, a wealthy and prominent resident and mayor for several terms at Port Hope, owned a great deal of property in the Bewdley area. He allowed the Bewdley residents to erect the church on two of his lots. Ministers of various Protestant denominations took turns holding services there until the early 1920s when it remained vacant for several years.

During the incumbency of the Rev. J. M. Crissal, rector from 1925-28 at St. George's Anglican Church, Gore's Landing, the Bewdley church building was acquired by the Anglican Synod and named St. Anne's. The Synod purchased the land from Chalk for the sum of $1.00 with the provision that it would return to the Chalk family if there ever ceased to be a church on the property. St. Anne's was designated an historic building in 1988 by the Heritage Branch of the Ontario Government on the recommendation of Hamilton Township L.A.C.A.C., and continued to hold weekly services.

It is now a private residence.

maple leaf   St. Mark's Church: Notes, by Agatha Simister

maple leaf   St. Paul's Church (Perrytown): Centennial Celebration programme (1842-1942)

maple leaf   Wesleyville United Church & Its People: Centennial Service (1860-1960)

maple leaf   Zion United Church: One Hundredth Anniversary programme (1858-1958)


Peter and Barbara Bolton - Port Hope, Ontario
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