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Pages of Parish History
Victoria County, Ontario Canada
The religious life of a people is a vital factor in
its history. Few interests, if any, affect man more closely than his
spiritual convictions. To attempt, however, to sketch a century of
church development throughout the whole of a county would give only
a diffuse confusion of petty, parochial details without any unifying
principle as yet to give the narrative coherence and
intelligibility.
I have therefore taken the church history of
Lindsay, the county town, as typical of that diversity of creed and
practice which is so common in our own and other Ontario counties.
We have here six denominations of varying strengths. The abounding
activity of congregations in this new country is nowhere shown
better than in the building of churches. From 1841 to 1921 the
population of Lindsay has grown from perhaps 50 up to about 8000,
and during that same 80 years the local congregations have put up no
fewer than 19 church buildings. This seems at once a. proof of
enormous vitality and a confession of the prodigality of energy and
means which goes with diversity of faith and duplication of effort.
These points are implicit in the more detailed sketches of
individual churches which now follow.
Victoria County, Ontario
Canada Centennial History, Watson Kirkconnell M.A., 1921
Victoria County
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