St. Simon's Anglican Church mission was founded in 1917 with the Rev. Hankinson as first incumbent. The parish expanded over the next 13 years and by 1930 a new church was needed. The parish received 500 pounds sterling from a memorial legacy for the Rudd family, with the condition that the name be changed to St. Brice in honour of the fifth-century saint Britius from Tours, France. The corner stone of the new St. Brice Anglican Church (North Bay, Ont.) was laid on October 15, 1932. The mortgage was paid off in 1952, and 25 years later a narthex was added in honour of Canon Baxter Gosse.