St. Paul's Church, L'Amoreaux
St. Paul's Church, L'Amoreaux
1840-1935
In 1808 Josue L'Amoreaux, a Loyalist of Huguenot descent who had fled from New York to New Brunswick at the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783, settled here in Scarborough on Lot 33, Con. 3. A log school was built nearby in 1817, and from 1832 to 1840 Anglican church services were held there from time to time by Adam Elliot, a travelling missionary, and masters of Upper Canada College, including Charles Dade and Henry Scadding. In 1840 William H. Norris was appointed first incumbent of the Parish of Scarborough, and with wardens John Hopper and Paul Sheppard began the building of a small frame church on a site given by Cornelius Ward. St. Paul's Church was opened by the Right Rev. John Strachan, Bishop of Toronto, on Nov. 18, 1841, and served for 94 years as a place of worship and centre of community life until it was destroyed by fire in 1935.
St. Paul's Church, L'Amoreaux 1935-1978
After the 1935 fire the congregation met temporarily in nearby Christie's Methodist Church. In 1937 the erection of a new church was begun under the leadership of the Rev. Godfrey S. Scovell and wardens S. Watson and and J. Forbes. The corner stone was laid on Nov. 11 by the Most Rev. Derwyn T. Owen, and the congregation held their first service in the new basement on Dec. 5. The construction and furnishing of the church was completed in 1940 during the incumbency of the Rev. Wm. E. Kibblewhite. When urban development engulfed adjacent farmland, a large new church and multipurpose centre, incorporating senior citizen's apartments, Agincourt social agencies, and Cana Place, was erected on a site west of the old churchyard and was dedicated by the Rt. Rev. Lewis S. Garnsworthy on Nov. 22, 1978. The 1937 building was then demolished.
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