Nipigon Bay Anglican Parish fonds

Geographic Access:

Access Restriction:

May be restrictions on access based on the terms of the Deposit Agreement, the Diocese's Policy on Privacy and Archives. Subject to all applicable privacy legislation.

Description Level:

Fonds

Language:

End Date:

2015

Date Range:

1890-1987, 2015

Repro Restriction:

May be restrictions on use based on the terms of the Deposit Agreement, the Diocese's Policy on Privacy and Archives. Subject to all applicable privacy legislation.

Conservation:

Minor conservation performed on fonds.

Physical Description:

0.23 m of textual records and graphic material.

Arrangement:

Fonds is arranged in three sous fonds.

History Biographical:

The Nipigon Bay Anglican Parish comprises St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.); St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Dorion, Ont.); and St. Peter's Anglican Church (Red Rock, Ont.). St. Mary's is the mother church of the current parish. St. Matthew's, Dorion is now a community museum and St. Peter's was closed and sold to the United Church of Canada. St. Mary's (Nipigon, Ont.)

In 1872, the Rev. D. B. Douglas arrived as the first Anglican missionary in the Thunder Bay area. The Rev. E. F. Wilson directed the construction the first St. Mary's - Negwenenang on McIntyre Bay, Lake Nipigon in 1880 (this was later ordered abandoned and removed at the order of the Indian Agent). In 1881 the Rev. Robert Renison, father of the future Bishop of Moosonee arrived in the area. The Bishop Edward Sullivan visited the Lake Nipigon area in 1882 organizing services and games for local children. Also in 1882, monthly worship services commenced in the home of Mr. Flanagan, the local Hudson's Bay Company manager. At them time, his was the only permanent residence at what is now Nipigon, Ontario. Rev. Renison moved services for the area to the new Canadian Pacific Railway station's waiting room at Nipigon (also called Neepigon or Nepigon). In 1888, the local people raised $250 to construct what is now St. Mary's Anglican Church, Nipigon. Growth in resource extraction in the area led to population increases. In 1920 the diocese established St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Dorion, Ont.) and in 1948 St. Peter's Anglican/ United Church was built at Red Rock, Ontario at the mouth of the Nipigon River.

Sources:

"Anglican Parish of Nipigon Historical Highlights", Diocesan History of St. Mary's in Nipigon, 1990-1992, Diocesan Heritage Centre History Files Collection, File 2013-078/007(005), Algoma University Archives.

Scope Content:

Fonds is comprised of records documenting the activities at Nipigon Bay Anglican Parish fonds, including its historical churches St. Peter's Anglican Church (Red Rock, Ont) and St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Dorion, Ont.), as well as its currently active church St. Mary's the Virgin Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.). Includes parish registers, service registers, minutes and other materials.

Repository:

aua

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

Custodial History:

Accrual 2009-089 was transferred from Laurentian University to Algoma University in May 2009 by Ken Hernden and Robin Isard. Accrual 2015-027 transferred by the Reverend Diane Hilpert-McIlroy to the Synod Office and Algoma University in May 2015. Accrual 2016-014 transferred by the Reverend Diane Hilpert-McIlroy to Algoma University in April 2016. Accrual 2017-020 transferred by the Ven. Harry Huskins to Algoma University on May 31, 2017. Further accruals are expected.

Start Date:

1890

GMD:

Geographic Access:

Access Restriction:

May be restrictions on access based on the terms of the Deposit Agreement, the Diocese's Policy on Privacy and Archives. Subject to all applicable privacy legislation.

Description Level:

Sous Fonds

Name Access:

Language:

End Date:

2015

Date Range:

1890-1964, 1984, 2105

Repro Restriction:

May be restrictions on use based on the terms of the Deposit Agreement, the Diocese's Policy on Privacy and Archives. Subject to all applicable privacy legislation.

Conservation:

Minor conservation performed on sous fonds.

Physical Description:

0.16 m of textual records

31 photographs : col.

50 negatives : col.

Arrangement:

Sous fonds is arranged in files.

History Biographical:

Rev. E.F. Wilson travelled to Lake Nipigon in 1878 to meet with the people of Chief Manitoshens and to begin planning the establishment of the Neepigon Mission and the First St. Mary's Anglican Church. St Mary the Virgin Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) was constructed in 1888 under the oversight of Rev. Robert Renison, the first resident missionary. The first Neepigon Mission Church was located on Lake Nipigon at McIntyre Bay. Local residents initially raised $250 for the construction; additional help was given by visitors and tourists to the area, allowing the debt to be paid off in two years (although the painting of the church was incomplete). Despite the Bishop of Algoma being unable to visit until June of 1890, the church was consecrated January 1890.

St. Mary's is the mother church of the current Anglican Parish of Nipigon Bay; the church is located on the same area of land that was used by resident missionaries who originally arrived in 1872. When built, this church was equipped with a bell and an organ. However, the bell tower was later struck by lightening, and the bell is now mounted to a pedestal outside of the church.

Incumbents of St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) include Robert Renison (1880-1894), Benjamin Philip Fuller (1902-1909), Leslie Adler Todd (1911-1912), Percy Frank Bull (1912-?), William Coombe Dunn (1918-1923), Stephen Turner (1923-1927), Alfred Joseph Bull (1927-1928), Frederick Elmer Jewell (1929-1930), E. H. Burridge [layman studying for Holy Orders (1931), D. D. MacQueen (1932), Albert Ernest Cardling (1933-1938), Napoleon Henry (1937), Tom Cann (1938-1943), Arthur Preston Scott (1944), Alfred Joseph Bull (1944-1946), Charles Frederick Large (1946-1951), Kenneth George Rutter (1951-1952), William Draper (1952-1954), Hector George Collingwood Bousefield (1954-1957), Alfred Gustav Reimers (1957-1961), Graham Kenneth Gibbs (1961-1966), Reginald John Seymour Inshaw (1967-1974), George Quibell (1974-1977), Timothy Delaney (1978-1981), Michael Scott McCarthy (1981-1984), Guy S. Snell (1984-1988), Lawrence Harold Winslow (1988-1991), Elliott A. Sheppard (1992-).

Sources:

St. Mary's Anglican Church web site, http://stmarysanglicanchurchnipigon.com/HistStMarys.htm [accessed July 19, 2013].
"Anglican Parish of Nipigon Historical Highlights", Diocesan History of St. Mary's in Nipigon, 1990-1992, Diocesan Heritage Centre History Files Collection, File 2013-078/007(005), Algoma University Archives.

Scope Content:

Sous fonds is comprised of documents recording the activities at St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.). Includes service registers, vestry books, parish registers, an O.G.S. Transcript of St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery, photographs, a cash book, and other materials.

Repository:

aua

Service Register

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1890

Description Level:

End Date:

1910

Date Range:

1890-1910

Physical Description:

.8 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Vestry Book

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1909

Description Level:

End Date:

1924

Date Range:

1909-1924

Physical Description:

1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Service Register

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1924

Description Level:

End Date:

1953

Date Range:

1924-1953

Physical Description:

1.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Vestry Book

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1953

Description Level:

End Date:

1964

Date Range:

1953-1964

Physical Description:

.8 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Parish Register, Confirmations (1915-1956), Baptisms (1910-1956), Burials (1893-1957)

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1893

Description Level:

End Date:

1957

Date Range:

1893-1957

Physical Description:

2 cm of textual records

Notes:

Baptisms, 1910-1956|Burials, 1893-1957|Confirmations, 1915-1956

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Nipigon Mission Baptisms

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1904

Description Level:

End Date:

1915

Date Range:

1904-1915

Physical Description:

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Nipigon Mission Burials

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1909

Description Level:

End Date:

1918

Date Range:

1909-1918

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

O.G.S. Transcript of St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1984

Description Level:

End Date:

1984

Date Range:

1984 June

Physical Description:

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Marriage Register

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1912

Description Level:

End Date:

1957

Date Range:

1912-1957

Physical Description:

1.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Cash Book

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1947

Description Level:

End Date:

1951

Date Range:

1947-1951

Physical Description:

.8 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Blessing of the Van, Seafarer's Centre

Language:

GMD:

Start Date:

2015

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2015

Date Range:

2015 June 2

Physical Description:

0.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2015-027-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

St. Mary's Anglican Church newsletters

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

2005

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2006

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

2005-2006

Marks:

Language:

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2015-027-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

St. Mary's Anglican Church 125th anniversary invitation

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

2015

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2015

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

2015 May30-31

Marks:

Language:

Physical Description:

0.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2015-027-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

St. Mary's Anglican Church history

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1890

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2015

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

[excerpt printed 2015 (originally created 1890 July 15)]

Marks:

Language:

Physical Description:

0.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2015-027-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Photographs of St.Mary's Anglican Church construction

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

2006

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2006

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

2006 July 17

Marks:

Language:

Physical Description:

1.5 cm of graphic material. - 32 photographs : col. negatives ; 12 x 16 cm and 35 mm

rec_shelfloc:

2015-027-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Annual vestry meetings, members of vestry

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1956

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

1984

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1956-1984

Marks:

Language:

Physical Description:

1.1 cm of textual record

rec_shelfloc:

2016-014-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Photographs of Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to S.S.J.E.

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1966

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

1966

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1966

Marks:

Language:

Physical Description:

2.0 cm of graphic material. - 32 photographs : b&w ; 7.9 x 12.9 cm

Notes:

- postcards

rec_shelfloc:

2016-014-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Photographs of Sunday School events

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1991

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

1993

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1991-1993

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 cm of graphic material.

23 photographs : col. ; 12.5 x 9 cm

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Photographs of induction service

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1996

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

1996

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1996 May

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 cm of graphic material.

18 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Photographs of church events and activities

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1998

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2001

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1998-2001

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

3 cm of graphic material.

119 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Photographs of St. Mary's events

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

2002

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2003

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

2002-2003

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.5 cm of graphic material.

5 photographs : col. ; 10 x 15 cm

1 photograph : b&w ; 13 x 17 cm

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-001

Repository:

Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Photographs from Rev. Large's time as incumbent

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1946

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

1982

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1946-1951, 1981

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 cm of graphic material and textual records.

9 photographs : col. slides (Kodachrome)

3 photographs : b&w ; 2.5 x 3.5 cm

2 photographs : col. ; 3.5 x 4.5 cm

Notes:

Includes a letter by Mrs. Large to St. Mary's Church.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Annual report

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

Creator:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.)

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

2001

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2001

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

2001

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Annual report

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

Creator:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.)

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

2002

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2002

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

2002

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Annual report

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

Creator:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.)

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

2003

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2003

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

2003

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Newsletters

Geographic Access:

Name Access:

Language:

Creator:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.)

GMD:

Start Date:

1998

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2001

Date Range:

1998 September - 2001 February

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

St. Mary's Messenger

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

Creator:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.)

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

2003

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2005

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

2003 March - 2005 June

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Anglican Parish of Nipigon photo directory

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1988

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

1988

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1988

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.2 cm of textual records and graphic material.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Anglican Parish of Nipigon 100 years 1890-1990

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1990

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

1990

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1990

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Anglican Parish of Nipigon historical highlights

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1996

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

1996

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1996

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Newspaper clippings

Geographic Access:

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

2005

Description Level:

St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2005

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

2005

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2017-020-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Dorion, Ont.) sous fonds

Custodial History:

Accrual 2009-119 transferred from Laurentian University Archives to Algoma University in May 2009.

Start Date:

1911

GMD:

Geographic Access:

Dorion (Ont.)

Access Restriction:

May be restrictions on access based on the terms of the Deposit Agreement, the Diocese's Policy on Privacy and Archives. Subject to all applicable privacy legislation.

Description Level:

Sous Fonds

Name Access:

Language:

End Date:

1987

Date Range:

1911-1987

Repro Restriction:

May be restrictions on use based on the terms of the Deposit Agreement, the Diocese's Policy on Privacy and Archives. Subject to all applicable privacy legislation.

Conservation:

Minor conservation performed on fonds.

Physical Description:

0.09 m of textual records

Arrangement:

Sous fonds is arranged in files.

History Biographical:

St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Dorion, Ont.) located within the current Anglican Parish of Nipigon Bay opened for worship on December 9, 1915. However, as early as 1910, the Rev. Leslie Todd had ministered to scattered congregations of the people in that area. From 1913-1915, the Rev. P. F. Bull ministered to the congregation at Farmers' Club Hall and the old schoolhouse at Dorion. The church was free of debt by Easter 1921 and Archbishop Thorneloe consecrated it on June 14, 1921. On May 23, 1923, the mission at Dorion was definitely established as a separate mission (having previously been an out-station of the mission at Nipigon). It served Dorion, Hurkett, Loon Lake and the surrounding area.

A drainage problem developed in the basement of St. Matthew's Church building in the 1950s. After much discussion the congregation decided to move the church building -- a large hole was dug right next to the church, it was filled with gravel, then a weeping title and a concrete slab were added. They hired a house mover from Port Arthur and during the week of September 11, 1960 the Dorion church was moved onto a solid foundation.

In 1966, the church celebrated its 50^th Anniversary and three stained-glass windows and other memorials were dedicated by the rector of the parish, the Rev. K. R. Gibbs, who was assisted by the Rev. F. Moore of Red Rock, and Canon A. J. Thomson, Rector of St. John's Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ont.). The modernistic altar windows were presented by the women of the parish and they were dedicated at the same time. St. Matthew's is now closed for worship and serves the community as a museum. The Anglicans from Dorion now worship at St. Mary's Anglican Church (Nipigon, Ont.).

Incumbents of St. Matthew's Anglican Church included Percy F. Bull (1912-1918), William Coombe Dunn (1918-1924), W. H. Crouch (1924), Stephen Turner (1924-1926), A. J. Bull (1927-1929), F. E. Jewell (1929), L. I. Greene (1930-1936), B. A. Wood (1936-1938), T. Cann (1938-1943), F. M Belt (1943).

Sources:

The Algoma Anglican (January, 1966) Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 1, Algoma University Archives, [accessed July 24, 2013]
"Dorion: St. Matthew's," 1943, Diocesan Heritage Centre History Files Collection, File: 2013-078/003(003), Algoma University Archives.
St. Mary's Anglican Church, http://stmarysanglicanchurchnipigon.com/HistStMarys.htm [accessed 2013 July, 19]
"Basement Leaked, Dorion Church Moved", The Algoma Anglican 4, no.9 (1960): 6. Algoma University Archives.

Scope Content:

Sous fonds is comprised of documents recording the activities at St. Matthew's Anglican Church (Dorion, Ont.). Includes financial records and vestry minutes, parish register, service register, and W.A. minutes and cash books.

Repository:

aua

Financial Records and Vestry Minutes

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1914

Description Level:

End Date:

1923

Date Range:

1914-1923

Physical Description:

.3 cm of textual records

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2009-119-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Parish Register

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1911

Description Level:

End Date:

1987

Date Range:

1911-1987

Physical Description:

2.5 cm of textual records

Notes:

Baptisms, 1911-1986; Confirmations, 1915-1970; Marriages, 1915-1984; Burials, 1914-1987

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2009-119-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Register of Church Services

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1916

Description Level:

End Date:

1961

Date Range:

1916-1961

Physical Description:

2 cm of textual records

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2009-119-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

W.A. Minutes and Cash Book

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1923

Description Level:

End Date:

1927

Date Range:

1923-1927

Physical Description:

1.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-119-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

W.A. Minutes and Cash Book

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1928

Description Level:

End Date:

1945

Date Range:

1928-1945

Physical Description:

2.8 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-119-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

St. Peter's Anglican Church (Red Rock, Ont.) sous fonds

Custodial History:

Accrual 2009-117 transferred from Laurentian University Archives to Algoma University in May 2009.

Start Date:

1946

GMD:

St. Peter's Anglican Church (Red Rock, Ont.)

Geographic Access:

Red Rock (Ont.)

Access Restriction:

May be restrictions on access based on the terms of the Deposit Agreement, the Diocese's Policy on Privacy and Archives. Subject to all applicable privacy legislation.

Description Level:

Sous Fonds

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Language: