Elgin County
Places of Worship
Records Inventory
Yarmouth Township
Elgin County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society
Published 2006
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist (became United Church of Canada in 1925)
Name of Church: Orwell
Location: Lot 28, Concession 9 (or lot 73, North Talbot Road) 
Date of Formation: 1840’s
Date of Closing: 1958 or 1959
Affiliations:
Aylmer Circuit (1857)
Sparta Circuit (1870 – 1906)
Orwell, Kingsmill, Crossley-Hunter (1906 – 1909)
Yarmouth Circuit (1909 – 1929)
St. Paul’s United Church, Aylmer (amalgamated 1929)
Records:
See listings for above affiliated churches
The United Church Archives lists the following records for the Orwell Circuit, including Kingsmill & Crossley-Hunter:
Minutes of the Official Board (1907-1915)
History:
In Aylmer – A Walk Through Time, author Sue McConnell states that the Methodists in Aylmer held some of their early meetings at the Orwell school house in the 1840’s. A frame church was built and dedicated in 1857, but it is not known if there was a prior building. It was also used as a Union Church for a time. A deed in Yarmouth township, dated Nov. 11, 1857 between Jemima Teeple, widow of W. B. Teeple, and the Trustees of the Orwell Congregation of the Methodist church, for ½ acre, part of lot 28, concession 9 (or lot 73, North Talbot Road)
In 1870 the church became part of the Sparta Circuit and in 1906 formed a circuit with Kingsmill and Crossley-Hunter. For five years the ministers lived at Orwell. From 1909 until 1929, Orwell was part of the Yarmouth Circuit.
In 1929 the congregation amalgamated with St. Paul’s United Church, Aylmer, but services continued to be held in Orwell once a month, but were eventually discontinued due to decreased attendance. Later, student ministers held services in Orwell, the last being held in 1958 or 1959.
The church was sold to Gus Balbach to be used as a community centre. The building was torn down in February 1991.
Ministers:
Rev. Saunders
Rev. J. Phelps
Rev. Ward
Rev. Russell
Rev. W. Penhall
Rev. G. Jackson
Rev. T. R. McNair
Rev. W. Copeland
Rev. W. H. Graham
Rev. S. R. McVittie
Rev. R. J. McCormick
Rev. Bert Robinson
Rev. William Conway
Rev. C. R. Gundy
Rev. E. Matthews
Rev. W. Quick
Rev. A. M. Stewart
Rev. T. Snowden
Rev. J. W. Pring
Rev. L. Bartlett
Rev. H Godfrey
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Baptist
Name of Church: New Sarum Baptist Church (2nd Yarmouth Regular Baptist Church)
Location:
Lot 21, Concession 9 (46195 New Sarum Line) 
Mailing address: Box 22110, 204 First Ave., St. Thomas, ON N5R 6A1
(519) 765-1108; e-mail: [email protected]
Date of Formation: 1838
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations: Salty Creek Baptist (ca 1864 – ca 1876)
Jaffa Baptist (Malahide) (ca 1893-1950)
Sparta Baptist Church (1998 – present)
Records:
The Canadian Baptist Archives in Hamilton lists the following records in their collection:
Minute Books (1838 – 1862); 1863 – 1899); (1900 – 1924) (includes membership list)
Minute Books (1838-1899) are also found on LDS Microfilm number 886756 [available at St. Thomas LDS Family History Centre]
Records held at the Church: Marriage Register (1976 – )
Marriage Registers (1858 – 1975) – Elgin OGS has published a four-volume index to these registers. Located at St. Thomas Public Library
– a history of the church prepared in 1988 includes many excerpts from the minute books (Elgin OGS has a copy)
History:
The Baptist congregation at New Sarum was organized on January 9, 1838 with Hosea Baker and Peter Caughell acting as deacons, and Mark W. Hopkins as clerk. Services were held for nine years in the old Union School which was located about one mile west of Orwell on the north side of Talbot Road. Hosea Baker and Thomas Mills were the first pastors. On September 10, 1847, three-eighths of an acre was purchased from
O’Neal Cloes, being the northwest angle of his farm at the intersection of what is now Belmont Road and Talbot Line (Highway 3). The trustees at this time were Hosea Baker, Stephen Wilcox and Daniel F. Yorke. A church was built on this property, and the first service was held in it on March 20, 1850. In 1879, the church, which originally faced west to the Belmont Road, was raised and turned around to face north. The old white brick facing was replaced with red brick. The renovated building was dedicated on October 26, 1879. This is still the building is use today. In 1864 Hosea Baker deeded one acre to the church for a cemetery, where burials already dated back to 1844. Baker’s farm was just west of New Sarum on the south side of the Talbot Road, and is known as Nineteenth Mile Creek cemetery. In 1889, it was decided to change the name of the church from 2nd Yarmouth, to New Sarum Baptist Church. In 1906 the building underwent extensive renovations, including a basement, front entrance, and extension on the back to accommodate a Baptistry.
Further history:
-article in Aylmer Express, June 30, 1939 on 100th anniversary
– New Sarum Baptist Church History, 1838-1988 (Elgin OGS has a copy)
Ministers:
Pastor Mills (ten years)
Samuel Baker, 1840’s
Abraham Smith, 1851-1865
Elder Clutton, 1865
Elder Gosleton, 1866-1869
Elder Richmond, 1869-
Brother Thompkins, 1876-
Elder Rowland, 1880
Rev. H. Richmond, (to 1883)
Elder Gostelon, 1884
Edler Dann, 1885
Rev. J. H. Sowerby, 1889-1891
Rev. John Gray, 1891-1898
Rev. William Spencer, 1898-1903
Rev. Wray, 1904-1906
Rev. Buckberrough, 1907-1916
Rev. Walker, 1916-1920
Rev. L. D. Huxtable, 1920-1926
Rev. E. J. McEwen, 1925-1932
Rev. Walter James, 1932-1940
Rev. Roy Taylor, 1941-1944
Rev. P. Phinney, 1944-1946
Rev. Joseph Janes, 1946-1951
Victor Hohn, 1952
Rev. E. J. Whan, 1952-1956
Mr. Klassen, 1956-1957
Rev. Charles Saunders, 1957-1966
Rev. Hugh Stewart, 1966
Rev. O. E. Broughton, 1967-1971
Rev. Elmore Young, 1972-1976
Rev. Dr. Fred Ward, 1977-1980
Rev. J. K. Lewis, 1981
Mr. David Draffin, 1981-1982
Rev. J. K. Lewis, 1982-1983
Rev. Fred Knutson, 1983-1990
Calvin Kennedy, 1990-1992
Rev. Pat Ferrer, 1993-1997
Rev. James Taylor, 1997
Dr. James Davey, 1997-1998
Rev. Bryant Smith, 1998
Rev. Phil Butler, 1998-
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Free-Will Baptist
Name of Church: Dexter
Location: Lot 14, Concession 1 (44804 Dexter Line)
Date of Formation: ca 1865
Date of Closing: ca 1890 (now Dexter United Church)
Records:
The Canadian Baptist Church Archives in Hamilton lists the following records in their holdings:
Subscription List (1864)
History:
This congregation was a Free Will Baptist church. On Nov. 12, 1864, property in lot 14, concession 1 was acquired from William Parker. Another deed is found for 1/10 acre in lot 14, concession 2, dated May 17, 1864 from George Fisher to the Trustees of the Free Baptist Church.
About 1865, Stephen Griffin and William Taylor of Sparta were active in preaching a Free Will Baptist doctrine in South Yarmouth. When a church was formed in Dexter, Lyman Lewis donated half the funds for the Community church and it was built in 1865 on land donated by Benjamin Fisher. The framework of this early church has been improved into the present church on the same location. Baptists held services here for about 25 years. Then an unorganized congregation of Presbyterians and Anglicans held services until 1891 or 1892. About 1875, the Methodists established a church on lot 11, concession 1, on land donated by William Armstrong, and called it Providence Church (see separate listing). In 1892, Providence church was sold, and the deed of the Dexter church was secured, joining Presbyterians, Baptists, Anglicans and Methodists together to form Dexter Methodist Church, part of the Port Stanley circuit. In 1921 the church was modernized by raising the building, making a full-size basement and bricking the exterior of the church.
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist (became United Church of Canada in 1925)
Name of Church: Dexter United Church
Location: Lot 14, Concession 2 (44804 Dexter Line) 
Date of Formation: 1865
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations: Sparta (1917); Dexter-Port Stanley Charge (? – present)
Records:
Methodist Baptisms, Dexter Methodist Church (1917 – 1926)
Original format, at Union United Church
History:
A deed dated March 22, 1892 exists for 1/10 acre, part of the south part of lot 14, concession 2, from Charles Newland & Frank Barrett to the Trustees of Dexter Methodist Church – Ralph Vansickle, William Smith, Joseph Cook, William Binns, Elihu Nickerson & Henry Burgess
– see also history of Dexter Free-Will Baptist church (same building)
In 1967 the pews were removed and a new floor was laid and the entire church upstair was carpeted. In 1977 one side of the church wall was torn down and replaced with new bricks.
Ministers:
G. Harris, 1875
James Whiting, 1878
James Gray, 1881
J. Ford, 1883
W. Freeman, 1886
C. Parsons, 1888
D. Hamilton, 1891
W. Reid (assistant)
B. Aylesworth, 1894
H. Going, 1897
G. Fallis, 1900
W. Holmes, 1902
G. Powell, 1903
E. Lloyd, 1906
W. McTavish, 1910
J Durant, 1914
N. Gould, 1917
W. Brown, 1921
James Husser, 1922
Wallace Moss, 1925
A. Malcolm, 1926
D. Boa, 1929
M. Haith, 1936
S. Hammond, 1939
J. McKaye, 1947
A. Malcolm, 1950
Morley Clark, 1952
Wesley Smith, 1956
D. Boa, 1960
P. Smetheram, 1962-1967
Stanley L. Shippey, 1967-1968
Edgar Gill, 1968-1972
H. Stewart, 1972-1981
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Baptist
Name of Church: Salty Creek
Location: Lot 8, Concession 12
Date of Formation: ca 1864
Date of Closing: ca 1876
Affiliations: New Sarum Baptist
Records: see listing for New Sarum Baptist
History:
According to the minutes of New Sarum Baptist church, meetings were held at Salty Creek prior to 1864, where a church had been built. In 1864, the Deacons at New Sarum voted that the members of Salty Creek be constituted as a branch of their church, and were known as the “North Branch”. In 1868, the congregation at Salty Creek made an application to New Sarum to be organized as their own church, although a pastor was still shared between the two.
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Baptist
Name of Church: Port Stanley
Location: in village of Port Stanley; no known edifice
Date of Formation: 1800’s
Date of Closing: short duration
Records: no known records
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Baptist
Name of Church: Sparta Baptist
Location: Lot 21, Concession 4, Village of Sparta (46170 Sparta Line) 
Date of Formation: 1869
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations:
First Yarmouth Baptist Church (Plains) (1869 – 1989)
New Sarum Baptist (1998 – present)
Records:
The Canadian Baptist Archives lists the following records:
Minute Books (1869 – 1903); (1903 – 1963) (includes membership list 1873-1903)
Marriage Register (1897 – 1943; 1943-1970; 1972-1973)
Church Treasurer’s records (1925-1943)
Minute Book (1869-1903) are also found on LDS Microfilm number 886756 [on indefinite loan at St. Thomas LDS]
See also listing for First Yarmouth Baptist Church (Plains)
History:
This congregation may have been part of the Convention Baptist at one time. The first Baptist service was held in the home of Andrew Montross. Settlers of the Sparta and Union districts worshipped at the First Baptist Church at Plains (Union) from 1850. A deed exists dated June 15, 1883 for 1/4 acre in the north part of lot 21, concession 3 between John Callard and the Trustees of Sparta Regular Baptist church – Thomas Dangerfield, A. L. Sanderson, Peter McDiarmid, John Laidlaw, George Dangerfield & Hugh H. McDiarmid. It would appear that the church was built several years prior to the date of this deed, as Sims History of Elgin County states that a frame edifice was erected in Sparta and opened on October 31, 1869. In 1894 the church basement was constructed and in 1873 the building was veneered with brick.
Ministers:
see affiliated congregations (Plains, New Sarum)
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Baptist
Name of Church: First Yarmouth Baptist (Plains Baptist)
Location:
Lot 8, Concession 5 (6071 Fairview Road – at Sparta Line) 
RR #4 St. Thomas, ON N5P 3S8; e-mail: [email protected]
Date of Formation: before 1830
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations:
First Southwold Baptist (or Iona) (1830 – 1833)
Sparta Convention Baptist (1869 – 1989)
Records:
The Canadian Baptist Archives in Hamilton lists the following records in their holdings:
Minute Books (1832 – 1839); (1855 – 1923) (includes membership lists)
Membership Lists (1831 – 1889)
Found on LDS Microfilm number 886755 are the following: [located at St. Thomas Family History Centre]
Letters of Transfer of Memberships (1824-1933)
Miscellaneous correspondence (1833-1903)
Treasurer’s Records (1836-1866)
Subscription Lists (1845-1856)
Found on LDS Microfilm number 0804329 are the following: [located at St. Thomas LDS Family History Centre]
Minutes (1832-1923)
Membership & Subscription Lists (1842)
Published in a church history called “The First Yarmouth Regular Baptist Church – The Plains”, by Jean I. Griffin (1981) are the following records [Elgin OGS has a copy]:
Baptisms (1830-1980)
Letters of Transfer (1824-1980)
Membership List (1899) and (1981)
List of Burials (1830’s – from minutes and gravestone inscriptions)
See also listing for First Southwold Baptist (Iona)
History:
This Regular Baptist congregation was first located on lot 7, concession 3 as early as 1833. Two land transactions were found for this property, the earliest dated Jan. 6, 1844 between William Vanhorn and the Trustees; another dated Feb. 7, 1846 between Jesse Zavitz to the Trustees, for ½ acre. The congregation later moved their location to lot 8, concession 5.
Another deed exists, dated July 18, 1848 for 1 acre in the southeast part of lot 7, concession 4 between John McKenzie and the Trustees of the 1st Regular Baptist church in Yarmouth.
The first Baptist meetings were held in the home of Anderson Montross, on lot 6, concession 5, who settled in Yarmouth in 1816. The congregation later met in a little log school where the church is now located. In 1830, the church became a branch of Iona (First Southwold Baptist church), and became a separate church in 1833. In 1835, the congregation was meeting in a school on lot 8, concession 5. By 1838, a church had been erected, known as the Baptist Meeting House on lot 8, concession 5. In 1870, the building was enlarged. In 1912 it was raised and a basement put under it, and other extensive renovations were made. In 1981 a new church was built to celebrate the congregations 150th anniversary.
Further history:
“The First Yarmouth Regular Baptist Church – The Plains”, by Jean I. Griffin, 1981 (Elgin OGS has a copy)
Ministers:
Elder Baker, 1833
Jesse Crandall, 1835
Thomas Mills, 1838-1849
Elder Baker & Thomas Mills, 1850-1856
McConnell, 1856
Elder Mills, 1857-1858
William Gonne, 1858-1860
W. Rowland, 1860
Isaac J. Rice, 1861-1863
John Treneman, 1864-1866
Rev. A. McDonald, 1869-1873
Rev. J. Lince, 1874
Elder Story, 1875-1877
Brother McLauren, 1877
Rev. Douglas Laing, 1879-1882
Brother D. B. Davidson, 1883-1886
Richard Marshall, 1887-1889
H. Sowerby, 1890-1891
John Gray, 1891-1893
B. Davis, 1894-1896
Rev. J. J. Baker, 1896-1901
Rev. Kirkpatrick, 1901-1902
Rev. W. P. Reekie, 1903-1909
Rev. W. Westel, 1913-1917
Rev. John Marshall, 1917-1919
Rev. W. H. Bower, 1920-1924
Rev. Waddell, 1925-1930
Rev. Medley, 1931-1936
Rev. J. Maitland Jones, 1936-1938
Rev. G. Sherman, 1939-1959
Rev. Seymore Boyce, 1959-1963
Rev. Anthony Penner, 1964-1967
Mr. Brian Sherry, 1968-1969
Rev. John Dickinson, 1969-1973
Rev. Gordon Hill, 1974-1976
Rev. James Lewis, 1976-1979
Rev. Malcolm Rust, 1979-
Township: Port Stanley (Southwold side of village)
Denomination: Presbyterian
Name of Church: St. John’s Presbyterian, Port Stanley
Location: 238 Colborne Street, Port Stanley, ON N5L 1B9 
Date of Formation: 1854
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations: Knox Presbyterian Fingal (1936- )
Records:
Baptisms (1910 – present)
Marriages (1855 – present)
The above records are in original format and are accessible at the church.
Elgin County Archives also has on microfilm number 1435 and 1460, church records from 1855 to 1988. Access is restricted to these records. Contact the Elgin County Archives for further information.
History:
Services were first held in the Union School house, west on Francis Street. The congregation was organized in 1854, and on March 12, 1855, lot 32 on North Colborne Street was purchased from Bryce Thomson, and tenders were called for a 50′ X 37′ brick church, but the church was never built. The first pastor, Rev. William Doak, came in 1855 but resigned in 1857 because of his health, and the Port Stanley congregation was placed under the “Home Missions” of the Presbytery of London. The congregation rented the Congregationalist Church, a frame church built in 1852 on the west side of Colborne Street near Hetty Street, which they eventually purchased in 1871, selling the lot they had hoped to build a church on earlier. This is the church still in use today. Before the union in 1875 of various Presbyterian denominations in Canada, the Port Stanley congregation was part of the Free Church of Scotland. The Port Stanley church was named St. John’s in 1898.
Further history:
History of St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Port Stanley, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 1954 (Elgin OGS has a copy)
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Presbyterian
Name of Church: Kilmartin
Location:
Lot 15, Concession 11; north of Yarmouth Centre
Date of Formation: 1838
Date of Closing: 1905 (moved to St. James)
Affiliations:
Knox Presbyterian Church, St. Thomas (1838 – 1856)
South Dorchester Circuit (Belmont) (1856)
Records:
Communion Roll (1862 – 1889)
Marriage Register (1896 – 1915); (1915 – 1923)
The above records are combined with Knox Presbyterian Church, Belmont, and are housed at the church in Belmont (Knox Church in Belmont has since closed)
St. James – Kilmartin Session Records (1889 – 1962); located at Belmont church
Baptisms (1889-1914) are found on LDS microfilm number 0161573 [at St. Thomas LDS Family History Centre]
History:
A deed dated Nov. 12, 1846 exists between Hugh Douglas and the Trustees of the Presbyterian congregation of Kilmartin, for part of lot 13, concession 11. On March 27, 1877 lease was made between Hugh Douglas and the Trustees for part of the east half of the north half lot lot 12, concession 10. In 1838 Alexander Douglas donated ½ acre in the southeast corner of lot 12, concession 11 which became the site of Kilmartin Cemetery. In 1838, a log church was built in the cemetery which served for 20 years. In 1858, a frame church was built across the road to the east on lot 13, property owned by Hugh Douglas. After about 20 years, this church was moved across the road into the cemetery property and stood there until 1905. The church was removed from the property in 1906 when St. James Presbyterian church was built on the corner one mile north.
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Presbyterian
Name of Church: St. James Presbyterian Church
Location:
Lot 12, Concession 12 (44936 Ferguson Line at Yarmouth Centre Road) 
Date of Formation: 1837 – 1838 (as Kilmartin Church)
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations:
Knox Church, St. Thomas (1838-1856)
Knox Church, Belmont (1856-present)
Records:
Birth and Baptismal Register (1850 – 1889)
St. James – Kilmartin Session Records (1889 – 1962)
St. James – Kilmartin Communion Roll & Register (1919 – 1970)
St. James – Kilmartin Communion Roll & Register (1974 – 1978)
The above records are located at Knox Presbyterian Church, Belmont (Knox Belmont has since closed)
The Presbyterian church archives lists the following records, on microfilm:
Baptisms, 1889-1984
Session Minutes, 1889-1993
Communion Roll, 1893-1978
History:
St. James Church was built in 1906 to replace Kilmartin church. The congregation celebrated its 144th anniversary on June 20, 1982. See Kilmartin church (above) for earlier history of this congregation.
Ministers:
see affiliated congregations of St. Thomas (St. Thomas volume) and Belmont (South Dorchester & Springfield volume)
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Anglican
Name of Church: Barnum’s Corners
Location: Lot 21, Concession 1
Date of Formation: 1883
Date of Closing: short duration
Records: no known records
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist
Name of Church: Barnum’s Corners
Location: Lot 22, Concession 2
Date of Formation: ca 1883
Date of Closing: open a short duration
Records: no known records
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Anglican
Name of Church: Christ Church
Location of Church: Colborne St., Port Stanley (at Matilda Street) 
Date of Formation: 1812 or 1834 Cong.
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations:
St. Thomas Anglican (1834-1848)
St. Peter’s Tyrconnell (1860)
Fingal (1862)
St. John’s in St. Thomas (1879-ca 1889)
St. Luke’s Yarmouth Heights (1936-ca 1947)
St. Stephen’s (1967-1974)
St. Stephen’s, Dutton, St. Peter’s, West Lorne (1974-1979)
Records:
Parish Register (1854 – 1974)
Communicant & Service Register (1890 – 1897)
Vestry Record (1846 – 1858); (1907 – 1944)
The above records are located at the church.
Transcripts of parish records are included in two publications:
Church in the Valley, by Rev. H. Rokeby-Thomas, 1950
Church at the Bend of the River, by Elgin OGS, 1995
The following records are found microfilm number 200 at the Elgin County Archives:
Baptisms (1846-1853; 1858-1870)
Marriages (1846; 1849-1853; 1856-1864)
Funerals (1848)
Burials (1856-1857; 1859; 1865; 1872)
General Book (Baptisms & Burials 1854-1855)
History:
A deed exists dated July 25, 1845 for 4/5 acre, being lot 25, East Colborne Street, between John Bostwick and the Bishop of Toronto & Successors.
Services were first held in Port Stanley as early as 1812, but the organization of the congregation did not take place until 1834. Services here held in the old frame schoolhouse. A church was completed in 1845 on land donated by John Bostwick. The original building, with a spire 90 feet high, still stands today. In 1921, extensive renovations were made to the church, including being raised and a basement put in, and an addition of seven feet to the chancel. Mason and Berry windows were also put in the church. In 1948 and 1949 considerable work was carried on by extending the churchyard with the intention of increasing the burial space. In 1960, a historical plaque commemorating Lt.-Col. John Bostwick, the founder of Port Stanley, was unveiled on the grounds of Christ Church. The 150th anniversary of the church was celebrated in 1995.
Further history:
Church in the Valley – by Rev. Rokeby-Thomas, 1950 (includes transcript of parish registers) (Elgin OGS has a copy)
Church at the Bend of the River, published by Elgin OGS, 1995 (includes transcript of parish registers).
– article in Huron Church News (Elgin OGS has a copy)
Ministers:
Rev. Charles James Stewart, 1820
Rev. Alex. McIntosh, 1820-1829
Rev. Edward J. Boswell, 1829
Rev. Mark Burnham, 1829-1834
Rev. J. I. McKenzie, 1834-1837
Rev. Mark Burnham, 1837-1848
Rev. George C. Street, 1848-1854
Rev. T. J. M.W. Blackman, 1855
Rev. J. A. Preston, 1855
Rev. James Mockridge, 1856-1863
Rev. Thomas Watson, 1864
Rev. J. Schulte, 1865-1868
Rev. A. St.George Caulfield, 1868-1870
Rev. William Clotworthy, 1870
Rev. W. B. Rally, 1871-1873
Rev. R. V. Rodgers, 1873
Rev. Peyton Gallagher, 1874-1876
Rev. Adrian Zimmerman, 1876
Rev. T. C. Desbarres, 1876
Rev. H. Haywood, 1877
Rev. M. M. Dillon, 1878-1881
Rev. J. L. Strong, 1881-1884
Rev. H. Banwell, 1885-1888
Rev. J. Schulte, 1888-1894
Rev. William Hinde, 1894-1897
Rev. H. D. Steel, 1897-1904
Rev. J. P. Hincks, 1904
Rev. Canon John Downie, 1909-1915
Rev. Mark Turnbull, 1915-1921
Rev. John R. Bythell, 1921-1936
Rev. J. E. Merrick, 1936-1938
Rev. R.M.P. Bulteel, 1938-1944
Rev. A. E. Taverner, 1944-1947
Rev. Howard R. Rokeby-Thomas, 1948-1960
Rev. William K. Morrison, 1961-1966
Rev. Harold A. Kay, 1966-1968
Rev. Edward Cecil Ward, 1968-1973
Rev. Brian Holt, 1974-1976
Rev. Gordon J. J. Simmons, 1977-1979
Rev. James M. Donaldson, 1979-1984
Rev. G. W. “Nick” Wells, 1984-1988
Rev. Tony Falkner, 1988-1991
Rev. John William Marsh, 1991-1995
Rev. Patt Nunn, 1995-
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist
Name of Church: Providence
Location: Lot 11, Concession 2
Date of Formation: ca 1875
Date of Closing: ca 1892 (later moved to Lot 14, Concession 2)
Affiliations: Port Stanley Circuit
Lake Road
Union
Sparta
Port Stanley
Records:
Membership Lists (ca 1875 – ca 1892); original format, located at Port Stanley United Church
History:
A deed dated June 3, 1869 exists between Thomas Weldon & Susannah Armstrong to the Trustees of Providence Congregation of the Wesleyan Methodist church, for part of the south half of lot 11, concession 2.
This congregation began when Methodists in the Dexter area wished to have a church of their own. The church was built in 1875, and was connected with the Port Stanley circuit. In 1892, a request was made by the Presbyterians at Dexter to have the Providence minister conduct services for them. The deed to the Dexter church was secured, and the Providence church was sold to Thomas Glidden, and the lot reverted back to the Armstrong farm. The congregation of the Providence church went to Dexter as a unit.
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist (became United Church of Canada in 1925)
Name of Church: Port Stanley (Methodist) United Church
Location:
239 Colborne Street, Port Stanley, ON N5L 1B9 
Church office phone: (519) 782-4288
Date of Formation: 1842
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations: St. Thomas circuit – (including Fingal, Yarmouth, Malahide, Southwold, Port Stanley)
Port Stanley circuit (ca 1854 – 1855) – (including Port Stanley, West Talbot Road, Union, Sparta, Providence)
Port Stanley & Dexter (1925-present) [Fingal added in 1964]
Records:
Port Stanley Circuit Membership Roll (1858 – 1896)
Baptisms (1912 – 1954)
Marriages (1913 – 1961)
Death Register (1912 – 1954)
The above records are located at the church
The United Church Archives in Toronto lists the following records in their holdings:
Marriages (1896-1913)
Elgin County Archives has the following records on microfilm number 1452:
Port Stanely & Dexter Church records (ca 1858-1974)
History:
A deed exists dated May 10, 1854 between Murray Anderson and the Trustees of the Port Stanley congregation of the Wesleyan Methodist church, for 2/5 acre, being lots 10 & 11, E. Bostwick Street. Another deed, dated Jan. 28, 1868 exists between Andrew Lemon & Charlotte Laura Lemon to the Trustees of the Methodist church – Thomas Edgecombe, James Latimer, Benjamin Wintermute, Mordecai Willson, James Hebblethwaite, George Ferguson & Levi Walker – for lots 8 & 9, Colborne Street.
Prior to 1842, services had been held in the school house every other Sunday, but in 1842 a frame church was built on the east bank of Kettle Creek. This building was later moved to lot 8, Colborne St. In 1888 it was decided to build a new church, and the cornerstone was laid on May 24, 1889, and the building dedicated on Aug. 18 and 25, 1889. In 1890 a parsonage was built on the north side of the church. In 1962 a Christian Education Building was added.
Ministers:
Rev. Vandusen & Williston, 1836
Rev. H. W. McTavish, 1910
Rev. Fawcett & Goodrich, 1837
Rev. J. J. Durrant, 1914
Rev. Jas. Norris & David Hardy, 1838
Rev. G. C. Gifford, 1917
Rev. Pollard
Rev. J. N. Gould, 1921
Rev. Bredin
Rev. C. A. Malcolm, 1926
Rev. Whiting
Rev. A. D. Boa, 1929
Rev. Francis Chapman, 1854
Rev. J. M. Haith, 1936
Rev. George Cochran, 1856
Rev. G. S. Hammond, 1939
Rev. Alexander Campbell, 1859
Rev. A. J. McKaye, 1947
Rev. William Walker, 1861
Rev. C. A. Malcolm, 1950
Rev. Phineas D. Will, 1862
Rev. Morley G. Clarke, 1952
Rev. James F. Latimer, 1865
Rev. Wesley C. Smith, 1956
Rev. Wm. Lund & Thomas Campbell, 1869
Rev. A. D. Boa, 1960
Rev. Peter German & George W. Calvert, 1872
Rev. W. P. Smetheram, 1962
Rev. Peter German & Jasper Wilson, 1874
Rev. A. G. Harris, 1875
Rev. James Gray, 1881
Rev. W. J. Ford, 1883
Rev. H. W. Freeman, 1886
Rev. R. C. Parsons, 1888
Rev. R. D. Hamilton, 1891
Rev. J. B. Aylesworth, 1894
Rev. A. H. Going, 1897
Rev. J. G. Fallis, 1900
Rev. J. W. Holmes, 1902
Rev. E. G. Powell, 1903
Rev. A. E. Lloyd, 1906
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist (became United Church of Canada in 1925)
Name of Church: Yarmouth Centre United Church
Location:
Lot 15, Concession 9 
Lot 14, Concession 9 (present site) (9463 Yarmouth Centre Rd. at Talbot)
Date of Formation: ca 1836
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations:
St. Thomas circuit (1836) – (including Sparta, Port Stanley, Union, Townline)
Yarmouth Circuit (1871) – (including Townline, Salt Creek)
Sparta Circuit (1875) – (including Orwell, Salt Creek, Port Bruce)
Orwell (1909)
Crossley-Hunter (1931)
Talbotville & Townline (1944)
Homedale (1954)
Talbotville & Townline (1958- present) (Suburban Pastoral Charge)
Records:
Marriages (Oct. 13, 1909 – Aug. 1939), located at Talbotville United Church
Marriages (1969- ) located at Talbotville United Church
Marriages – Yarmouth Circuit (1914 – 1945), located at Talbotville United Church
Burials (1960 – ) located at Talbotville United Church
Baptisms (1940 – ; includes Townline) located at Talbotville United
Elgin County Archives has on microfilm numbers 1453, 1454 and 1455, records of Yarmouth Centre Church from 1938-1961. Access to these records is restricted. Contact the Elgin County Archives for further information.
History:
A deed exists dated May 29, 1883 between John Kilpatrick and George Newcombe to the use of the Trustees of the Yarmouth Center congregation of the Methodist church, for part of lot 15, concession 9. The first record of this church is in 1836, but it is not known if that was the beginning of the congregation. In 1871, it was part of the Yarmouth circuit, and the church at this time was a frame building situated a few rods north of the Talbot Road (No. 3 Highway), on the road that leads to the Yarmouth Railway crossing. In 1883, the congregation decided to move the building to the corner of the Talbot Road, and covered with church with white brick, added stained glass windows and built a choir gallery at the front. In 1923, the church was moved to its present location, which had been the site of a large frame motel which was purchased and demolished. The cornerstone was laid on June 17, 1923, and the old church was moved and placed on the basement made from the white brick which had been taken off. It was re-bricked with red brick.
Ministers:
[before 1871]
Messrs. Ames, Clarke, Warner & Starr
Rev. Thomas Hadwin, 1871
Rev. George Hadden, 1873
Rev. J. H. Stonehouse, 1875
Rev. James Charlton, 1877
Rev. John Saunders, 1880
Rev. Joseph Philip, 1883
Rev. Joseph Ward, 1885
Rev. George Jackson, 1888
Rev. John Russell, 1889
Rev. William Penhall, 1890
Rev. T. R. McNairn, 1893
Rev. Thomas B. Copeland, 1896
Rev. W. H. Graham, 1899
Rev. S. R. McVitty, 1903
Rev. J. W. Robinson, 1907
Rev. R. J. McCormick, 1909
Rev. Wm. Conway, 1912
Rev. Thomas J. Snowden, 1914
Rev. Joseph W. Pring, 1916
Rev. Leonard Bartlett, 1921
Rev. Henry Godfrey, 1924
Rev. W. A. Findlay, 1929
Rev. David Armstrong, 1931
Rev. Anson C. Moorehouse, 1935
Rev. C. W. Morrow, 1939
Rev. M. G. Newton, 1944
Rev. Angus R. Taylor, 1945
Rev. Scott Milley, 1951
Mr. R. C. Winlaw, 1953
Rev. H. Evan McLagah, 1955
Rev. George Shields, 1959-1969
Barry Thomas, 1969-1974
Wm. Smetheran, 1974-1975
Russell Cook
Willi Kammerer, 1975-1978
Isgani Lazaro, 1978-1982
Joe Campbell, 1982-1985
Roger Landell, 1985-2000
Rob Pierce, 2001
Stephen Iverson, 2001-2003
Donald Macpherson, 2004-
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist (became United Church of Canada in 1925)
Name of Church: Townline United Church
Location:
Lot 1, Concession 12 (J. McAlpine property), also known as Coughlin’s Corners (42014 Ferguson Line – at corner of Wellington Road) 
Date of Formation: 1840’s
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations: Salt Creek (ca 1850)
Musgrave Circuit (ca 1851 – 1854)
St. Thomas Circuit: First Methodist (pre 1858 – 1871)
Talbotville (pre 1858)
Yarmouth Circuit: (1871-1875)
Talbotville Circuit (1875-1945) (included Salem & Delaware)
Talbotville & Yarmouth Centre (1945 – present) (Suburban Charge)
Records:
Marriages (1973- ) located at Talbotville United Church
Burials (1971- ) located at Talbotville United Church
Baptisms (1940 – ) located at Talbotville United Church
The United Church Archives in Toronto lists the following records in their holdings:
Trustee Board & Building Subscription Record Book (1859-1895)
History:
The appointment to which this church had its origin is first mentioned in records of the Wesleyan Methodist Church under the name of Musgrove’s Branch in 1851. Methodists in this area had been meeting in homes in the 1840’s, and in the school in 1849. In 1854 the name was changed to Townline, since it is situated on the townline between Yarmouth and Southwold townships, four miles north of St. Thomas on what is now known as Wellington Road. A deed exists dated July 28, 1859 between Francis Berry, and Richard Bainard, Hugh McIntyre, Neil McIntyre, Charles Potticary, and William Coulter, trustees of Townline Wesleyan Methodist church, for ½ acre, part of lot 1, concession 12.
A church was built on this lot and opened for services on June 26, 1859. This structure was replaced by the present brick building which opened for service Aug. 16, 1895. In 1945, Townline church was linked with Talbotville and Yarmouth Centre to form what is now known as Suburban Pastoral Charge.
Ministers:
John Brodin, 1851
Joseph Hugill
Edward Dewart
Richard Whiting, 1852
William Price, 1854
Noble P. English, 1857
Francis Berry, 1858
William McCullough, 1860
Samuel Philip
William Ames, 1863
William C. Clarke, 1865
Lewis Warner, 1867
Thomas Campbell
Joseph Hagar
Herbert Starr, 1869
John Smiley
Robert Hall
Thomas Hadwin, 1871
William Burke, 1875
Thomas Jackson, 1877
Edwin Holmes, 1880
Daniel W. Thompson, 1881
Joseph Ward, 1883
David Rogers, 1896
C. Sanderson, 1898
C. Couzens, 1901
Redmond, 1904
P. Sutcliffe, 1908
John Holmes, 1910
John Mahan, 1915
Kennedy, 1916
M. Colling, 1920
Melvin Keys, 1922
T. T. Couzens, 1927
C. Copeland, 1929
Samuel Bridgette, 1930
Sawyer, 1936
W. Hedlwy, 1938
Harry Royle, 1940-1946
(see Yarmouth Centre listing for later ministers)
Township: Yarmouth / Southwold
Denomination: Methodist (Episcopal)
Name of Church: White’s Station Church (or Mellor Church)
Location:
Lot 4, Range 2, East River Road (near Yarmouth/Southwold Townline)
Date of Formation: 1867
Date of Closing: 1882
Affiliations:
Sparta & Union (1867)
Paynes (1874)
Fingal (1874-1882)
Corseley (Shedden), (1877-1882)
Hunt’s & Frome (1881-1882)
River (1882)
Records: no known records
History:
About 1867 there was a tiny white frame church located about one mile west of White’s Station. Adjacent to the church was a cemetery, known as Mellor’s cemetery, after the family who owned the land for many years. A deed dated June 2, 1871 exists between Mr. & Mrs. John Mellor to the Methodist Episcopal Trustees – John Henry Campbell, Gideon Howell, and Homer N. Basset – for the church property. The lot was located on the southeast corner of the Mellor farm, and measured 6 rods by 7 rods, and eleven rods from the Southwold-Yarmouth townline.
This church was a Methodist Episcopal congregation and was connected with the Yarmouth-Southwold circuits and after 1874 with Southwold alone. Services were mostly conducted by local preachers, but an ordained minister was occasionally in charge. At the time of the Methodist church union in 1884, White’s Station church disappears from records. It seems that after 1884 the church building was no longer used. The church was dismantled soon after and now remains a vacant lot.
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist (became United Church of Canada in 1925)
Name of Church: Union (Methodist) United Church
Location:
Lot 4, Concession 3 (6008 Stone Church Road) 
Box 67, Union, ON N0L 2L0; church phone (519) 631-7849
Date of Formation: ca 1820
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations:
St. Thomas Circuit (1836)
Port Stanley Circuit (1854) (included Union, Lakeshore, Sparta & Providence)
Dexter (to 1926)
Sparta (1926 -present) (called Sparta-Union Pastoral Charge)
Records:
Membership Roll – Port Stanley Circuit (1858 – 1896), located at Port Stanley United Church
Baptisms (1909 – present); original format
Marriages (1915 – present); original format
Burials (1915 – present); original format
The above registers are at the Union United Church
The United Church Archives lists the following records in their holdings:
Marriages (1952-1956)
Women’s Missionary Society Minutes (1886-1929)
Women’s Missionary Society Accounts (1904-1931)
History:
Deeds – (1) June 17, 1850 John & Burley Willis to Trustees of Wesleyan Methodist church, 1 ½ acre, northwest part of northeast 1/4 lot 4, con 3
(2) March 22, 1856 Sons of Temperance Div. No. 234, to Trustees of Wesleyan Methodist church, part of northeast corner of northwest quarter, lot 4, concession 3.
(3) Dec. 15, 1870 Robert Hepburn to Trustees of Wesleyan Methodist church, 1 acre, part of lot 4, concession 3.
(4) Sept. 8, 1876 Susan Hepburn to Trustees of Methodist church, ½ acre, part of lot 4, concession 3.
(5) April 11, 1898 John T. Young to Trustees of Union congregation of Methodist church, ½ acre, part of lot 4, concession 3.
The first meetings were held about 1820 at the home of David Burgess on lot 9, concession 2. Later a school house, one mile north, was used. In 1836, the St. Thomas Circuit was formed and services were held regularly at Union, with ministers from St. Thomas. On June 17, 1850, a 1 ½ acre parcel on the west side of plank road beyond the top of the hill was bought for church and burial purposes by the Trustees from John & Burley Willis. The frame church was moved to this site and a porch added. Part of the ground was sold by the Trustees for burial purposes. On Sept. 8, 1876, a new site was purchased from Susan Hepburn. A new brick church was built with a full basement, and was dedicated on Nov. 18, 1877. The old frame church was sold for a dwelling, later converted into a garage and was eventually destroyed by fire.
During a heavy snowstorm, fire of unknown origin destroyed the church on Feb. 6, 1948. On May 9, 1948, the sod was turned for a new church and the cornerstone laid on Aug. 18, 1948. The new church was dedicated on Oct. 7, 1948.
Ministers:
[1836-1854] Revs. Fawcett, Norris, Montgomery, Waldron, Chreighton, Snider, Phillip, Pollard, Bredin, Whiting, Francis Chapman, Cochran, Campbell, Walker, Will, Latimer, Sexsmith, Lund, German
Rev. A. G. Harris, 1875
Rev. H. W. McTavish, 1919
Rev. James Whiting, 1878
Rev. J. J. Durrant, 1914
Rev. James Grey, 1881
Rev. G. C. Gifford,1917
Rev. W. J. Ford, 1883
Rev. J. N. Gould, 1921
Rev. J. W. Freeman, 1885
Rev. W. R. Hughes, 1926
Rev. R. D. Hamilton, 1891
Rev. R. B. Cumming, 1930
Rev. R. C. Parsons, 1893
Rev. N. J. Woods, 1935
Rev. T. B. Aylesworth, 1894
Rev. J. V. Clarke, 1947
Rev. Arthur Going, 1897
Rev. E. J. Robertson, 1951
Rev. J. G. Fallis, 1900
Rev. S. A. Selby, 1955
Rev. J. W. Holmes, 1902
Rev. W. H. Carnes, 1960
Rev. Ezra Powell, 1903
Rev. D. S. Mannell, 1963
Rev. A. E. Lloyd, 1906
[see Sparta listing for later ministers]
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist
Name of Church: Salt Creek Methodist Church
Location:
Lot 9, Concession 10 [cemetery 911 address is 11134 Highbury Ave]
Date of Formation: ca November 1846
Date of Closing: early 1900’s
Affiliations:
Townline in Yarmouth (1850)
Records:
no known records
History:
On Nov. 12, 1846 Hugh Douglas conveyed to Thomas Penhale, John Penhale, Joseph Cole, John Fowler and George Axford, Trustees of the Chapel of Canadian Wesleyan Methodist New Connexion in Yarmouth, a ½ acre lot, part of lot 9, concession 10, near the corner of concession 10 and Radio Road [now Highbury Ave], for the purpose of erecting a church and burying ground. A frame church was erected, and the church was linked with the Yarmouth Centre charge. The cemetery became the resting place of members of well-known families of all denominations. About 1905, the church, which had not been used for services for some years, was moved to Sparta to be used on the parsonage property.
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist
Name of Church: unknown
Location: at a school later called White’s School, southeast corner Lot 7, Con. 2
Date of Formation: unknown
Date of Closing: unknown
Records: unknown
History: unknown; possibly Methodist Episcopal
Denomination: unknown
Name of Church: unknown
Location: school house on lot 9, Concession 4
Date of Formation: 1830
Date of Closing: unknown
Records: no known records
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Methodist (became United Church of Canada in 1925)
Name of Church: Sparta United Church
Location:
Lot 21, Concession 3 (6073 Quaker Road) 
Sparta-Union Pastoral Charge, Box 67, Union, ON N0L 2L0
Pastoral charge phone: (519) 631-7849
Date of Formation: 1830’s (St. Thomas Circuit began)
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations:
Westminster Mission
St. Thomas Circuit (Fingal, Port Stanley, Townline, Yarmouth) (1836)
Port Stanley Circuit (Union, Providence, Lake Road West) (ca 1854)
Yarmouth Circuit (1871)
Sparta Circuit (Yarmouth Centre, Salt Creek, Orwell, Port Bruce) (1875)
Kingsmill & Crossley-Hunter (1906)
Orwell, Yarmouth Centre & Dexter (1909- 1918)
Union & Sparta Circuit (1926)
Records:
see listing for Port Stanley (Methodist) United Church
see listing for Union (Methodist) United Church
Marriage Records (1896 – 1912) United Church Archives, Toronto
History:
Services at Sparta were first held in homes, but a chapel of the Wesleyan Methodist Church was built in 1851. A deed exists dated March 10, 1851 between James Mills and the Trustees of Sparta congregation of the Wesleyan Methodist church for 1/4 acre in lot 21, concession 3.
In 1870 the Anglicans and Presbyterians were allowed to use the chapel on Sunday afternoons. The cornerstone for the present church was laid on April 28, 1886 and opening services were held on October 10. The old frame church was used as a church shed, then a gristmill, and later part of a house. The remainder of the old church became a barn at the parsonage, and was later converted into a garage. In 1948 during a severe electrical storm, the church steeple was damaged by lightning. The upper part of the steeple was removed and the roof remodeled to extend over the walls at each end. 
Ministers:
Rev. John Bredin, 1850’s
Rev. R. Whiting
Rev. William Lund
Rev. E. W. Walker
Rev. Harris
Rev. McDonough
Rev. George Cochran
Rev. Thomas Hadwin, 1871
Rev. George C. Madden, 1873
Rev. James H. Stonehouse, 1875
Rev. James Charlton, 1877
Rev. John Saunders, 1880
Rev. Joseph Philip, 1883
Rev. Joseph Ward, 1884
Rev. George Jackson, 1887
Rev. John Russell, 1889
Rev. William Penhall, 1890
Rev. Thomas McNair, 1896
Rev. W. H. Graham, 1899
Rev. S. R. McVitty, 1903
Rev. John W. Robinson, 1907
Rev. Herbert J. Creasey, 1910
Rev. Thomas E. Sawyer, 1913
Rev. Fred T. Kinghan, 1914
Rev. J. N. Gould, 1916
Rev. A. W. Brown, 1921
Rev. James Husser, 1922
Rev. Wallace Moss, 1925
Rev. W. R. Hughes, 1926
Rev. R. B. Cumming, 1930
Rev. J. N. Woods, 1935
Rev. R. C. Downs, 1940
Rev. J. G. Barnard, 1945
Rev. J. V. Clarke, 1947
Rev. E. J. Robertson, 1951
Rev. S. A. Selby, 1955
Rev. W. H. Carnes, 1960
Rev. D. S. Randall, 1962-1967
Rev. E. B. Morden, 1968-1975
Rev. W. P. Smetheram, 1975
Rev. F. Ewart Madden, 1976
Rev. Sue Seymour MacGregor, 1980
Rev. Eric Ledrew, 1981
Rev. Hugh MacDonald, 2000’s
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Congregationalist
Name of Church: Port Stanley Congregationalists
Location:
Colborne Street near Hetty Street, Port Stanley
Date of Formation: 1852
Date of Closing: existed only a short time
Records: no known records
History:
A deed dated June 28, 1852 exists for part of lots 8 & 9, West Colborn Street, from Alexander Hodge to Trustees of the Congregational Church at Port Stanley.
Township: Yarmouth
Denomination: Society of Friends (Quaker)
Name of Church: Society of Friends, Sparta
Location:
Lot 21, Concession 4 (Sparta) (6387 Quaker Road) 
Date of Formation: ca 1820
Date of Closing: still active in 2020
Affiliations:
Norwich Monthly Meeting (1819)
Preparative Meeting established (1821)
Representative Formally established (1823)
Hicksite Connection (1828)
Records:
Membership Register (1819 – 1991) in possession of Edward Willson, R.R. #2, St. Thomas, Ontario
History:
The first Quakers in the Sparta area held their religious services in the homes of John Kipp and Isaac Moore in 1819. In 1820, the first Friends’ Meeting hall was built, on the site of what is now the Quaker Cemetery.
A deed dated April 8, 1820 for 1 acre, part of lot 19, concession 4 exists from Jonathan Doan Sr. to John Kipp & William Harvey, Trustees of the Society of Friends. Another deed, dated March 2, 1845, exists for 1 1/4 acres, south part of the west half of lot 20, concession 4, from Amos G. Canby to A. Hough [?] & H. G. Zavitz, Trustees of the Society of Friends.
Later, a larger frame edifice was erected near the original hall and was used until 1865 when the present frame building was erected north of the corners. It was enlarged in 1873 to accommodate the yearly meeting.
Township: Port Stanley (Southwold side of village)
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Name of Church: St. Joseph’s Church, Port Stanley
Location: George Street, Port Stanley 
Date of Formation: 1852
Date of Closing: active
Affiliations:
St. Thomas (Holy Angels) (1852-present)
Aylmer (Jan. 18, 1901 – ?)
Fingal (1830- ?)
Records:
location of records unknown; probably with Holy Angels Registers
History:
According to local tradition, the first Mass in Port Stanley was held in 1852 in the Vigus residence, which was located on Main Street, south of the present site of the Clifton House. Mass was often held at the residence of Colonel Bostwick. In 1860 the congregation purchased the Sons of Temperance Hall in the north part of the village, and was served by priests from Holy Angels church in St. Thomas. A new edifice was erected in 1912 on a high knoll on the north side of St. George street. At one time, it was used only during the summer months, but because of the demand it was winterized and is in use year round. The church was constructed with bricks from the old Holy Angels Church in St. Thomas.
Priests:
Father Ryan
Father Flannery
Father Frechet
Father Zucher
Father Flannery