This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
82 Year History At Burnside Church
A long history of Burnside church notes early figures and builders. Jonathan Troop led efforts. construction cost items include lumber 104.77 hardware 105.99 building paper 49.22 bricks 9.25 shingles 60 and painting 100 with $1,127 raised by subscribers. The church began in hard times with organist Bella Troop and ministers such as Rev Dr. Allen Bell and Rev Farquhar McRae. The 1924 union of Presbyterians and Methodists formed the United church with Langille as minister. land donations by Kenneth McKenzie supported a church built around 1910. Memoriam windows honor Rev and Mrs McRae and Munro family. The former Methodist church joined the United church through property transfers and unions, continuing Sunday school and services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trop
Jonathan Troop
W. Rutledge
Thomas Leader
Matthew Ferriss
James Danfield
Joseph Hall
A. J. Barstop
M. Irwin
R. J. Sturgeon
R. J. Fawcett
Thomas Doherty
John Hall
C. Doherty
Hector Paisley
Angus Ferriss
Presbyterian Church
Kenneth McKenzie
Burnside
Allen Bell
Janes McKenzie
Thomas Junro
Farquar McRae
Jas
McRae
Riddel
Pecover
Jacobs
Langille
Presbyterian and Methodist
Allan Munro
Pallister
Methodist
United Church
Burnside Presbyterian Church
Edwin
No. 1
Burnside Road
United
Farghar McRae
Melville
Agnes
Ernest Munro
Uniting
Methodist Church
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