Tue, Aug 19th - 4:12PM
St Mary Magdalene, Picton, Ontario
 The Parish of Picton was established in 1823. The first rector, Rev. William Macaulay (1794-1874), donated the land and primarily paid for the building of the first St. Mary Magdalene Church, which is now part of the Macaulay Heritage Park. Macaulay remained Rector for over 50 years until his death in 1874. He also donated the sites of the St. Gregory's Roman Catholic Church, Prince Edward District Court house and jail, and opened the first school. 
In 1890, a Parish Hall was built on the site of the current church to accommodate evening services. The present church was opened on May 1, 1913 and the Parish Hall moved behind the church where it is today.
A major addition and improvement took place in 1992 when the building complex was made accessible to the handicapped through the addition of a walkway between the Church and the Parish Hall, and an elevator.
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Tue, Aug 12th - 11:21AM
St Thomas Anglican, Belleville, Ontario
Belleville, Ontario is located on the Bay of Quinte, an arm of Lake Ontario about 180 km east of Toronto. The original settlers were fur traders, then the town became an important sawmilling centre. When logging died out the city developed a cheesemaking industry and the economy is now based on diversified light manufacturing.
The congregation of St Thomas Anglican, Belleville was formed on December 26, 1818. A larger building was erected in 1858. Just 18 years later the church was partially destroyed by fire. Keeping the same dimensions and appearance, the church was rebuilt on the standing walls.
In 1975 fire destroyed the building, leaving only the outside walls and tower standing. The interior was rebuilt as a freestanding structure within the restructured outside walls. In 1990, a modern glass-enveloped Parish Centre was built joined to the church.
New incumbant is the Rev. Brad Beale who comes to St Thomas, Belleville from the 6-point Parish of the Resurrection, Diocese of Huron, where he and his wife, Rev. Nancy Beale, were Associate Priests.
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Tue, Aug 5th - 4:10PM
St Alban-the-Martyr, Adolphustown, Ontario
St. Alban-the-Martyr, Adolphustown, Ontario was erected 1884-88 as a memorial to the Loyalists of the area. The Loyalists, American colonists who supported the British cause during the American Revolution, first began arriving in the area in 1784. About 7,500 settled along the St Lawrence River to the Bay of Quinte.
The Rev. John Langhorn who, from 1787 to 1813, was the resident missionary for the Townships of Ernesttown and Fredericksburgh conducted the first Anglican services at the home of Nicholas Hagerman. In 1822, a frame church named St. Paul's was built, which still stands just west of this site. In that year Adolphustown became a mission, and its first resident clergyman, the Rev. Job Deacon, served until 1850.
St Alban's is currently part of 2-point parish with St. Paul's, Sandhurst within the Diocese of Ontario.
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Tue, Jul 29th - 4:48PM
St Paul's Cathedral, London, Ontario
The Diocese of Huron was formed out of the Diocese of Toronto in 1857. The diocese includes most of southwestern Ontario, with the major urban centres being London, Windsor, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Brantford, Sarnia and Chatham-Kent. It contains more than 200 churches, 180 clergy and has about 60,000 Anglicans on the parish rolls. The diocese is organized into 8 archdeaconeries including the Archdeaconery of Brant/Norfolk/Oxford and the Archdeaconery of Saugeens. Each archdeaconery has 1 or 2 deaneries, the 13 deaneries include the Deanery of Perth, Deanery of Huron and the Deanery of Medway.
 The first Bishop was Benjamin Cronyn who was born in Ireland and emigrated to Canada in 1832 when he was 30. He settled in London Ontario where 3 years later St Paul's Church was built with Rev. Cronyn as rector. It was a frame structure that was destroyed by fire on Ash Wednesday 1844.
St. Paul's Church was rebuilt from the design of Canadian architect William Thomas and opened in February 1846. It was made the cathedral when the Diocese of Huron was created. The building was enlarged with the addition of transepts and an extended chancel in the 1890s.
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Tue, Jul 22nd - 10:42AM
Sarnia, Ontario's Anglican Churches
 Sarnia (2006 population 71,419) is located at the southern end of Lake Huron and is a busy port and one of Canada's principal centers for refining petroleum.
Sarnia is connected to Port Huron, Michigan by the St. Clair railway tunnel constructed in 1891 and the Blue Water Bridge at Point Edward (shown) built in 1938 and twinned in 1997.
The contractor for the first Anglican Church in Sarnia, St. Paul's (a red brick building on London Road) was Alexander Mackenzie, afterwards the second Prime Minister of Canada. Mackenzie was raised a Presbyterian but became a Baptist at age 20. Mackenzie moved to Sarnia in 1847 and was elected to the provincial assembly in 1861. Mackenzie died in 1892 in Toronto and is buried in Sarnia.
Sarnia Ontario's Anglican Churches are:, St Bartholomew's, St George's, St James', St John's, Trinity, Canon Davis Memorial and St. John-in-the-Wilderness, Bright's Grove.
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