This is a project that seeks to explore the historical churches and congregations in Ontario, Canada. To be included, the church must meet the following criteria, the congregation (or source congregations) must have been founded before 1900. This will allow churches in the United Church of Canada (formed in 1929) to be included, and the current building must have been built prior to 1950 and be occupied by a congregation of the original denomination that constructed the building (Roman Catholic, United, Presbyterian).
Houses of Holy | Historical Churches of Halton Region
The overall colonial history of the Halton Region only began in the first years of the 19th Century. These churches represent some of the oldest congregations within the region. And while certainly not all the historic churches, this is the first round with the project theme.
0 – Houses of Holy | An Introduction
1 – Palermo United Church (1812)
2 – St. Peter’s Mission Church (1819)
3 – Boston Presbyterian Church (1820)
4 – Munn’s United Church (1823)
5 – St. John’s United Church (Oakville) (1832)
6 – Knox Presbyterian Church (Oakville) (1833)
7 – St. Luke’s Anglican Church (Burlington) (1834)
8 – St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church (1835)
9 – St. John’s Anglican Church (Burlington) (1835)
10 – St. Stephen’s Anglican Church (1836)
11 – St. George’s Anglican Church (Lowville) (1838)
12 – St Jude’s Anglican Church (1839)
13 – Nassagaweya Presbyterian Church (1839)
14 – St. John’s Anglican Church (Nassagaweya) (1840)
15 – St. John’s United Church (Georgetown) (1841)
16 – St. Luke’s Anglican Church (Palermo) (1842)
17 – Knox Presbyterian Church Sixteen (1845)
18 – St. George’s Anglican Church (Georgetown) (1845)
19 – Grace Anglican Church (1851)
20 – St. Paul’s United Church (1853)
21 – Knox Presbyterian Church (Milton) (1855)
22 – L’Eglise Sacré-Coeur (1855)
23 – St. David’s Presbyterian Church (1869)
Houses of Holy II | Historical Churches of Wellington County
Wellington County is one of the old historic areas of Ontario. While it didn’t see colonisation until the 1820 that doesn’t mean it isn’t home to some historic congregations. In this volume I’ll be focusing on twelve historic congregations in Guelph, Centre Wellington, and smaller rural communities. Like the original volume, these congregations (or their source congregations) date back to the 19th Century, and the church must be home to that congregation still today and have to have been built prior to 1920.
01 – Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate (Guelph, Ontario)
02 – St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (Fergus, Ontario)
03 – St. Mary of the Purification (Mount Forest, Ontario)
04 – St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (Guelph, Ontario)
05 – Knox Presbyterian Church (Elora, Ontario)
06 – James Street United Church (Palmerston, Ontario)
07 – St. George’s Anglican Church (Guelph, Ontario)
08 – Melville United Church (Fergus, Ontario)
09 – Arthur United Church (Arthur, Ontario)
10 – First Baptist Church (Guelph, Ontario)
11 – St. Mary’s Immaculate (Elora, Ontario)
12 – Knox-Calvin Presbyterian Church (Harriston, Ontario)