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1AS! CHURCH ST. THOMAS These are memories written by Mrse, Henry Porte0U'®» | (Evelyn MaJor) of Ottawa, She sent them to YMTS ' Sam Wilson when we were looking for material for | | the history of St. Thomas! in 1965, The first clergyman of our church that I kn;w of was Mr,., Merrit, He married mny Father and MOtl'i'e in 1271 at Fitzroy Harboug and he started gatherinE * money to build the old church.About 8 years aft er y %t O c [ we moved to Torbolton to live and our next Rector 4 | * _ L es c [ knew of wasMr, Weatherdon, I remember, he Bapti T pirsle > ~--_ M . o4 °_ | _ your Father in the home because he was sick. | AU" Chmax ooOB4 oo [ Vence was with him.(The baby was Victor MajJor) oaeeeks .tc Then when I got old enough to go to Churc h, Mr. @h MLT h e 5%@?%?%!&5 #3. J.F. Snowdon was Rector. It was under him I was confirmed e t arrartti ie mt 0: 0 Wl c mm weal -- _ aiiinerg| in on 10 and families whowers real chnrch % n t o mt e people and TIam WOODLAWN | |MIIIEAAENISGOSADNNE| | workers werei the Redleys, the Wilsons, the Yance 5e . i t 10 .32 2 0A| -- Dolans, Delahunts, Browns, Majors too, and many Others,. Eie Nee on e raaaney on nc on e e 2o Mr. Snow don wa s £ ol 1 owe a by Mr. Pick § then MTr. ' THE OLD Osborne, then Mr. Johnston who really got us working s for the pregsent church, Form of Service About that time, the Davis family :C:'%gne to live : FoRr THR there, first Isaac,before he was married. %ey were a good | O o d C § boost to our work. Mrs. Davis played :rgan andsionally ractised for our concerts which we put on occa o ; penlng a11 Onsecratlon \ge usually held a picnic at the old Sand Hills now OF THE NEW ST. THOMAS' CHURCH, WOODLAWN Constance B&y. We really had a good time at our P ilcnics. think we had one nearly every summer. By the Right Reverend John Charles Roper, D.D. P The éongregation catered a.ndythere was always BISHOP OF OTTAWA plenty of food, also a platform for dancing. I do not remember many outstanding events except I do remember TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1915 the boys getting into a lady's basket. It was always a basket in those days, we had no cardboard cartons there. The boys got into a large cake(fruit cake) IN THE BEGINNING . . . which some lady planned to take home with her, but the boys divided it in chunks and each one was running On Jan. 12, 1872, St. Thomas was given "bone quarter acre around with a large handful. She Aid not have much more or less" of land on the farm of James and Susan Abbott. left. ('This land was never used by the Church, perhaps because of Mr. Johnston went to North Gower about 1907. j the location which was between Woodlawn and Dunrobin,. ) Mr. Iveson came, and they were all ready with the The present site, (Woodlawn corner) was transferred to new church, . . . . . . . . St. Thomas! Jan.18, 1876, by John Hedley and his wife. &A document was forwarded to the Rt. Rev. John Travers Lewis reduesting him to consecrate St. Thomas'Church and cemetery both being free of debt. Names attached to this document | were: John W,. Weatherdon William Wilson W.J. Humphries John Hedley po it q _ L Thomas T. Vance Thomas Wetherley ars.nenry rortecous Thomas Vance Sr. yel-- --| n 1 who wrote these On the 20th day of December, 1882, Bishop Lewis consecrated a.'..a' ~44 nemories. the first "St. Thomas", the small frame church many still B___ ce \I MB u: wl . remember with deep affection. itmrownceuiny meo CC ~| °P (It is interesting to note that it was six years from &'[,jfl%fi E(Qfi paani' s , esmm -- when the redquest was made to the Bishop, before the Bishop ';';"'. ." P .= finally came, This was because of the difficulty of CC h oT S5*"* transportation, no doubt, and the visit from the Bishop . would be a wonderful occasion because of the infrequency of @ the event.) j | i C Page 8