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Wooden church in the forest

St. Leonard, Rockingham — Deanery of the Northwest

In the late 1850s, Canada West (now Ontario) decided to push a series of colonization roads through the southern portion of the Canadian Shield to ...
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Black History Month display with photos and text at the Diocesan Archives.

Archives exhibit for Black History Month 2024

by Glenn J Lockwood Promised Land? 1833-1880 Two years ago, the Rev. Canon Hilary Murray proposed an exhibit to celebrate Black Anglicans in the Diocese ...
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Church of the Epiphany, Gloucester, East Ottawa Deanery

A funny thing happened to the architecture of Anglican churches in the 1960s. It got religion. Or, to put it another way, people began thinking ...
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Archivist Glenn Lockwood in the Archives at Christ Church Cathedral

Preservation and order at the Diocesan Archives

At most archives new holdings accumulate quickly. At the Diocesan Archives we have a 25-year backlog on top of our daily work of assisting the ...
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Archival photo of Saint Paul Shawville

Saint Paul, Shawville—West Quebec Deanery

Up until a decade ago, this photograph dating from circa 1910 would have been a revelation to members of Saint Paul’s, Shawville. Where, they would ...
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exterior view of St. James, Wright

Wright in the Laurentian Hills

Something looks familiar about this rural house of worship, but it is hard to place at first. Wright, of course, is the name of the ...
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Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa – Cathedral Deanery

Christ Church Cathedral looks timeless and certainly familiar in this undated photograph. Doubtless architect King Arnoldi intended it to be when he was handed the ...
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Interior of Good Shepherd, Wakefield

Church of the Good Shepherd, Wakefield, West Quebec Deanery

It is curious how visitors see things when they visit a church that regular worshippers miss. Equally curious is how people who once were regular ...
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Saint Stephen, Kazabazua

Saint Stephen, Kazabazua

We see here Saint Stephen’s Church, Kazabazua, as photographed by Brian Glenn on 24 April 2010. Any newcomer to Saint Stephen’s Church, Kazabazua—however momentarily mystified ...
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