St. James&#039; Anglican Parish (Lockerby, Ont.) fonds

Geographic Access:

French River (Ont.)

Lockerby (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:

Fonds

Name Access:

Language:

End Date:

2005

Date Range:

1947-2005

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:

0.45 m of textual records and graphic materials

75 photographs : col.

10 photographs : b&w

Arrangement:

Fonds is arranged in two sous fonds.

History Biographical:

St. James' Anglican Parish (Lockerby, Ont.) is a two point parish comprised of St. James' Anglican Church (Lockerby, Ont.) and St. Thomas' Anglican Church (French River, Ont.).

Scope Content:

Fonds is comprised of records documenting activities at St. James' Anglican Parish (Lockerby, Ont.), specifically at St. James Anglican Church (Lockerby, Ont.) and St. Thomas' Anglican Church (French River, Ont.). Includes parish registers, vestry minutes and reports, WA and ACW minutes and reports and other materials.

Repository:

aua

St. James' Anglican Church (Lockerby, Ont.) sous fonds

Custodial History:

Accrual 2009-135 transferred from Laurentian University Archives to Algoma University in May 2009. Accrual 2014-089 transferred by the Ven. Harry Huskins to Algoma University on January 19, 2015. No further accruals expected.

Start Date:

1947

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:

2005

Date Range:

1947-2005

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:

0.44 m of textual records and graphic materials

75 photographs : col.

10 photographs : b&w

Arrangement:

Sous fonds is arranged in files.

History Biographical:

Before St. James’ Anglican Church (Lockerby, Ont.) was built, Anglican services in the area were held in the McLeod Public School by Mr. A. L. Chabot in the summer of 1946. A Women's Auxiliary group was also formed in the same year.

Between 1946 and 1948 services were conducted by Mr. James Thomson, lay reader. The Diocese of Algoma appointed the Reverend J. G. M. Doolan as incumbent of the missions of Lockerby and Minnow Lake on June 1, 1948.

The first sod for the future St. James' Church was turned on May 28, 1950 with Bishop Wright in attendance. Bishop Wright laid the cornerstone on October 15, 1950 and (as Archbishop Wright) he officiated the first service on December 1, 1955 with the incumbent, Reverend J. G. M. Doolan, assisting.

Between 1950 and 1955 services were held in the church basement of St. James' while construction was completed on the rest of the building.

In 1965, St. James’ became the first church in the diocese to have a free-standing Altar with the communion rail on three sides. The church also underwent renovation; the sanctuary was opened up, the narthex expanded and rebuilt to cover the entrance steps, and six stained glass windows were commissioned.

Sometime between 1961 and 1970 the church switched from oil to natural gas after the underground oil tank split due to a very cold winter. Also during this period, the Canadian Pacific Railway donated a bell to St. James’.

Natural to the baby boom, the church saw an influx in the 60s, and then a decline in the 70s and 80s as families moved away. At this time, the church shared its incumbents with other congregations in the area and became known as “The Lakes Parish.” Specifically, this included: All Saints’ (Coniston, Ont.), St. George’s (Minnow Lake, Ont.), and St. Thomas’ (French River, Ont.).There was an attempt to become self-supporting, but it was unsuccessful.

Incumbents have included: Mr. A.L. Chabot (1946), Mr. James Thomson (1946-1948), Rev. J.G.M. Doolan (1948-1958), Rev. K. Mitchim (1959-1960), Rev. M. Porter (1970-1973), Rec. C. Clay (1961-1970), Rev. Robert Lumley (1973-1989), Rev. P. Playfair (1989-1990), Rev. Jennifer Sisson and Rev. Geoffrey Woodcroft (1990-1991), Rev. Jennifer Sisson (1991-1990), Rev. Marty Keatings (1999-2000).

Sources:

Grace E. Farrell, "St. James', Lockerby, anniversary observed", The Algoma Anglican 37, no. 10 (1990): 3.
“Life begins at Forty!”, 40^th Anniversary Celebration, 1990, St. James’ Anglican Church (Lockerby, Ont.) sous fonds, Algoma University Archives, 2014-089_002_004.
“St. James’ Anglican Church 50^th Anniversary”, 2000, St. James’ Anglican Church (Lockerby, Ont.) sous fonds, Algoma University Archives, 2014-089_002_005.

Scope Content:

Sous fonds is comprised of records documenting the activities at St. James' Anglican Church (Lockerby, Ont.). Include parish registers, financial records, vestry minutes and reports, Women's Auxiliary and Anglican Church Women minutes and reports, photographs, parish histories and other materials.

Repository:

aua

Vestry Book

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1948

Description Level:

End Date:

1961

Date Range:

1948-1961

Physical Description:

1.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-135-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Parish Register, Baptisms

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1948

Description Level:

End Date:

1965

Date Range:

1948-1965

Physical Description:

1.8 cm of textual records

Notes:

Baptisms, 1948-1965

rec_shelfloc:

2009-135-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Parish Register

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1949

Description Level:

End Date:

1990

Date Range:

1949-1990

Physical Description:

4 cm of textual records

Notes:

Baptisms, 1965-1989; Confirmations, 1949-1964; Marriages, 1949-1990; Burials, 1952-1989;

rec_shelfloc:

2009-135-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Cash Book

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1961

Description Level:

End Date:

1963

Date Range:

1961-1963

Physical Description:

.8 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-135-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Cash Book

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1964

Description Level:

End Date:

1970

Date Range:

1964-1970

Physical Description:

2.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-135-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Financial Records

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1969

Description Level:

End Date:

1971

Date Range:

1969-1971

Physical Description:

.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2009-135-001

Repository:

Algoma University

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Vestry minutes and reports

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1952

Description Level:

End Date:

1974

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1952 - 1974

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

10 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Vestry minutes and reports (1 of 2)

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

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Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1975

Description Level:

End Date:

1990

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1975 - 1990

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

2.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Vestry minutes and reports (2 of 2)

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

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GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1975

Description Level:

End Date:

1990

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1975 - 1990

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

2.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Vestry minutes and reports (1 of 2)

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

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Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1997

Description Level:

End Date:

2000

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1997 - 2000

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Vestry minutes and reports (2 of 2)

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

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Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1997

Description Level:

End Date:

2000

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1997 - 2000

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

St. James' Lockerby, guest book

Publication:

Volume:

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GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1975

Description Level:

End Date:

1997

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1975 - 1997

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1.6 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Photo album from Lockerby family

Publication:

Volume:

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Issue:

Standard No:

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Language:

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Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

[ca. 1967]

Description Level:

End Date:

[ca. 1967]

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

[ca. 1967]

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

3 cm of textual records

Notes:

75 photographs : col.

1 photograph : B&W

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Photographs of clergy and congregation of St. James' Lockerby

Publication:

Volume:

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Standard No:

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GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1947

Description Level:

End Date:

1963

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1947 - 1963

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.5 cm of textual records

Notes:

9 photographs : B&W

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

St. James' Lockerby, May 1990, "Life Begins at 40"

Language:

GMD:

electronic

Start Date:

1990

Description Level:

End Date:

1990

Date Range:

[Digitized 2015 (originally created 1990)]

Language:

English

Document:

2014-089_002_004.pdf

Physical Description:

0.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

St. James' Lockerby 50th anniversary

Language:

GMD:

electronic

Start Date:

2000

Description Level:

End Date:

2000

Date Range:

[Digitized 2015 (originally created 2000)]

Language:

English

Document:

2014-089_002_005.pdf

Physical Description:

0.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Women's auxiliary minutes

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1947

Description Level:

End Date:

1948

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1947 - 1948

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Women's auxiliary minutes

Publication:

Volume:

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Issue:

Standard No:

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Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1951

Description Level:

End Date:

1954

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1951 - 1954

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Women's auxiliary minutes

Publication:

Volume:

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Issue:

Standard No:

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Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1955

Description Level:

End Date:

1958

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1955 - 1958

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Devotions handbook compiled by the Anglican Church Women of the dioceses of Algoma and Moosonee

Publication:

Volume:

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Standard No:

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Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1980

Description Level:

End Date:

2000

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

[between 1980 and 2000]

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Ellen May's address : history of the W.A. and A.C.W.

Publication:

Volume:

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Issue:

Standard No:

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Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

[ca. 1987]

Description Level:

End Date:

[ca. 1987]

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

[ca. 1987]

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Anglican Church Women minutes

Publication:

Volume:

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Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

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Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1971

Description Level:

End Date:

1974

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1971 - 1974

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

0.7 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Anglican Church Women minutes (1 of 2)

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1975

Description Level:

End Date:

2005

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1975 - 2005

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Anglican Church Women minutes (2 of 2)

Publication:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1975

Description Level:

End Date:

2005

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1975 - 2005

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc:

2014-089-002

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

002

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

Vestry book

Geographic Access:

Sudbury (Ont.)

Publication:

Name Access:

Volume:

Scan Resolution:

Issue:

Standard No:

Scan Date:

Scale:

Language:

English

Master scans folder location:

GMD:

Responsibility:

Custodial History:

Start Date:

1961

Description Level:

St. James' Anglican Church (Lockerby, Ont.) sous fonds

End Date:

2014

Style or Pattern:

Process:

Date Range:

1961-2014

Marks:

Language:

English

Physical Description:

3.5 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc:

2016-023-001

Repository:

Algoma University Archive

Accession No:

Container Number:

001

Conclusions:

Storage Method:

St. Thomas' Anglican Church (French River, Ont.) sous fonds

Custodial History:

Accrual 2010-165 transferred from Laurentian University Archives to Algoma University in May 2009.

Start Date:

1956

GMD:

St. Thomas' Anglican Church (French River, Ont.)

Geographic Access:

French River (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:

St. Thomas' Anglican Church (French River, Ont.)

End Date:

1975

Date Range:

1959-1975

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:

0.01 m of textual records

Arrangement:

Sous fonds is arranged in files.

History Biographical:

St. Thomas' Anglican Church (French River, Ont.) is a church in the St. James' Anglican Parish (Lockerby, Ont.).

Some of the earliest records of Anglican activity at French River were from the 1920's and 1930's when Rev. C.C. Simpson of All Saint's Anglican Church (Coniston, Ont.) would occasionally include the settlement in his visitations.

St. Thomas' was dedicated by Archbishop W.L. Wright in June 1959.

The church received a very generous donation from a stranger in the spring of 1966. Overhearing the Rev. Colin Clay talk about the need for an organ, the stranger donated $1,000 towards the organ fund.

In 1984 the church building underwent some small renovation; the building was repainted and new steps were put in. A census for the graveyard was also undertaken to tidy the unmarked graves.

Source:

"Warren", The Algoma Missionary News 24, no. 3 (1928): 9. Algoma University Archives, 2009-081_002_002_1928AprMay.
"The Bishop in Nipissing Deanery", The Algoma Missionary News 31, no. 4 (1935): 7. Algoma University Archives, 2009-081_002_003_1935OctNovDec.
"St. Thomas the Apostle At French River Dedicated", The Algoma Anglican 3, no. 8(1959): 3. Algoma University Archives, part of 2013-086/001(001).
"Music--A Thousand Dollars Worth", The Algoma Anglican 10, no. 8 (1966): 4. Algoma University Archives, 2013-086_001_003_1966Sept.
"St. Thomas Church, French River", The Algoma Anglican 29, no. 6 (1984): 4. Algoma University Archives, 2013-086_001_014_1984Jun.

Scope Content:

Sous fonds is comprised of records documenting the activities at St. Thomas' Anglican Church (French River, Ont.), also known as the French River Anglican Mission. Includes a vestry book.

Repository:

aua

Vestry Book

Name Access:

GMD:

Start Date:

1956

Description Level: