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Scarborough Album

Churches in West Hill, Scarborough St. Martin de Porres Scarborough Seventh Day Adventist

St. Margaret's in the Pines

St. Margaret's

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. December 2007.

St. Margaret's in the Pines Anglican Church on Lawrence Avenue East west of Kingston Road.

ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH

SCARBOROUGH'S FIRST ANGLICAN CHURCH WAS BUILT IN 1833 ON A TWO ACRE LOT GIVEN FOR A CHURCH YARD AND BURYING GROUND BY SIMON E. WASHBURN, CLERK OF THE HOME DISTRICT AND A CHURCH WARDEN OF ST. JAMES' YORK. THE CHURCH WAS NAMED AFTER HIS WIFE, MARGARET FITZGIBBON, AND THE SAINTLY ELEVENTH CENTURY QUEEN OF SCOTLAND. EARLY SERVICES IN THE PARISH WERE CONDUCTED BY DR. JOHN STRACHAN'S DIVINITY STUDENTS AND MASTERS OF UPPER CANADA COLLEGE UNTIL THE APPOINTMENT OF THE FIRST RESIDENT CLERGYMAN, REV. WM. H. NORRIS, IN 1840. A BRICK PARSONAGE WAS BUILT ON SIX ACRES ADJOINING THE CHURCHYARD IN 1857, PROVIDED A COMFORTABLE HOME FOR SUCCESSIVE CLERGY FOR 100 YEARS. THE ORIGINAL WOODEN CHURCH, DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1904, WAS REPLACED IN 1905 BY THE SMALL BRICK BUILDING STILL STANDING IN THE CEMETERY
ERECTED BY THE SCARBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1975

Other pictures like this one can be found at West Hill Churches.