Diocesan Archives

Saint John, VanKleek Hill

Glenn J Lockwood December 1, 2021

What are we to make of Saint John’s Church, VanKleek Hill? It is one of those rare houses of worship that defies all the categories ...

Saint Anthony, Whitney

Glenn J Lockwood November 1, 2021

Saint Anthony as patron for this church stands out among Anglican patron saints. If there is a simple explanation, there may be a more complicated ...

Stafford, Saint Patrick

Glenn J Lockwood October 1, 2021

Here we see Saint Patrick’s Church, Stafford, as photographed by the writer on a fine spring day in 1987. Both inside and out, Saint Patrick’s ...

Black and white image of Saint Mark's church being built.

Ottawa, Saint Mark

Glenn J Lockwood September 1, 2021

On a summer evening just before dusk in 1955, in a part of the City of Ottawa that had not yet quite fully adjusted to ...

Orléans, Saint Helen

Glenn J Lockwood June 1, 2021

Planners for the national capital were concerned by the 1990s that growth in the urban core was getting increasingly lopsided. Two generations earlier, in the ...

Archive photo of the interior of Trinity Anglican Church, Ottawa

Ottawa, Trinity

Glenn J Lockwood May 1, 2021

Trinity Church, Ottawa South, had humble beginnings in 1876, with its first worship services held in a local temperance hall. By the end of the ...

Franktown, Saint James

Glenn J Lockwood April 1, 2021

We think of the late nineteenth century as an era of church building. In what is now the Diocese of Ottawa some 87 churches were ...

Silver Creek, Saint Thomas

Glenn J Lockwood March 1, 2021

We see here the Church of Saint Thomas, Silver Creek in the Deanery of West Quebec, as photographed by Brian Glenn on 7 May 2009. ...

Cathedral Deanery

Glenn J Lockwood January 1, 2021

We see here Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa, as photographed from the southwest by William James Topley in 1899. So inferior was the design reputation of ...