St. John's on the Main Street and St. Brice's on Cassells Street both already offered Anglican services to the population of North Bay, however expansion of the “Hill Area,” now known as the Pinewood, led to Christ Church's first vestry meeting April 23, 1956. Services were held in the Harvey Street Public School beginning in August 1957. Almost immediately, the new congregation formed a Women’s Auxiliary and a Brotherhood of Anglican Churchmen group (October 1, 1958).
On October 1, 1958 The Archbishop Wright Parish Hall
was dedicated by the Most Reverend William L Wright; Archbishop of Algoma
and Metropolitan of Ontario. The Diocese of Algoma had purchased the land for Christ Church for $11,400 two years earlier, the Parish Hall had cost $40,000,with an additional $16,000 for the Sunday School.
In 1991 the building was renovated, a new roof helped the church to resemble a church more than a school. The latest change in building structure occurred in 1996 as a new porch and entry way was added.
Incumbents of Christ Church North Bay include: the Rev. Murray Tipping, the Rev. Leslie T. Peterson (later became Bishop of Algoma), the Rev. Bill Ellam, the Rev. Dawn Henderson, the Rev. Canon Arthur Chabot, the Rev. Douglas
Parrett, and the Rev. Marie
Loewen.
Sources:
Christ Church North Bay, http://christchurchnorthbay.ca/wordpress/?page_id=55 [accessed 2013 July, 27]
