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St-James Anglican Church in old Hull Quebec was sold
last year and is now called St-James Décor (furniture); a sad ending. This Church
was erected in the time of Philomen Wright. The Anglican St. James Parish, founded in 1823, was the first in the
entire region on either side of the Ottawa River. The current church,
dating from 1901, succeeded two others that had burned down in 1865 and
1900. The church was the place of worship for most of the early
anglophone settlers of Hull, but since 1977, it has served the
multi-ethnic francophone Christian Community of
Saint-Bernard-de-Clairvaux. An active centre of religious, community and
cultural activities, St. James Church, has played an important role in
the revitalization of the Promenade du Portage
You can read more on the church at http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=5f6ee361-d0fc-4375-80ba-5b766a510528 .
Information on the church cemetery is included at: http://geneofun.on.ca/cems/qc/QCGAT0173?PHPSESSID=f1f0a5df384043ef74950d3861818753
and the church records are listed at http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=999999999_142&l=0&lvl=1&v=0&coll=0&itm=261115&rt=1&bill=1 .
Thanks to Norah Cousins-La Rocque for this information
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