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St Albans Church History Preserved in Ministers Booklet Reverend Richard Ruggle minister of St Anglican Church In Glen Williams has put together a historical sketch of the parish on the an of the laying of the church corner stone It is reprinted below The history in pamphlet form with historical pictures Is available at The Book Shop Till- ST BAN h CHURCH Like many riverside com the Glen took its name from the mill owners on whom the pioneers depended for the grinding of flour and the sawing of lumber Originally called Williamsburg a new post office brought the name Jacob Williams had set up a carding and fulling mill to supplement the other trades As the 19th century passed the halfway mark people began to depend less on the local sources of flour and wood and small industries more important to the villages of Canada West In wool was becoming the major Fire was a constant hazard to the wooden structures of the Ullage In May of 1866 a large fire in Mr Williams woods consumed the rake factory and damaged the saw mill and the Milton paper reported The engine fell a victim to the impetuosity of Its keepers and was itself extinguished by the clement It was Intended to overcome The following year the woollen mill was destroyed by fire Bad fortune continued when In IBM the building was being replaced while raising the heavy timbers in top of the woollen mill no less than men went to the bottom storeys with ell the timbers boards etc with them Three died and the mill had to be restored again after another fire in 1B75 From 18M to 1907 it was owned by an Old John Sykes and his son In law Alfred Though he was an Anglican Mr Sykes was not an active churchman and he had the reputation of being overly concerned with the profits of his business The owners brought to the village another Englishman Harry to be their general manager A second woollen mill was set up In the northern end of the village by Samuel Beaumont in 1878 When his son Joseph took over it was said perhaps that only Anglicans need apply to work there He did however en courage his workers to attend church In the 19th century people were more anxious to attend church than they seem to be to day They would drive long distances in their buggies or sleighs as people from the Glen probably did after St George Church was established in Georgetown In Or they would attend whatever church was near at hand from the on there was a Methodist Episcopal chapel In the village of Glen Williams and a Presbyterian Free Church close by Often services in a village were arranged so that the twicers could join with one congregation in the nlng and another In the evening time to time Anglican services were held In the Glen In County Atlas for example tells of he Church of England minister from Georgetown holding services every Sunday in Iho Town Hall This seems to have been the practice as well around the turn of the century But one can only guess as to whether the vices carried on during the years in between A public school scribbler containing an account or the founding of the church seems to have been lost but fortunately some of the Information was used or a story in The Niagara Anglican that tells us Earlier attempts to establish a Church in the Village ended in failure but in 1899 the Rev A Vesey rector of St George s Georgetown succeeded in founding a Mission Mr Vesey who was in Georgetown about three years did much during his time to encourage on appreciation of music the town When Mrs Rose Ann Mc Master died in October isoi she left and tot on the bank of he mill pond leading to the Sykes and mill to the Church of England The home wns renovated and Ihe following month service to be held there When it a was built two stained glass windows in her were placed In the sanctuary At that time the Rev G Wallace a graduate of Trinity College Dublin who was remembered here for his fine sermons was Rector of Georgetown and Norval He headed a building committee appointed by the vestry in April 1903 that included a number of people mentioned above Joseph Beaumont Harry John Sykes and William Armstrong A Toronto architect S Baker designed a church which is charming from the outside which an immediate atmosphere of worship inside Bishop it Moulin was not He felt that the villagers should continue to use St George The villagers disagreed Mr Beaumont and Mr reeling the need particularly nee they had young families Glen Williams is far from the see city of Hamilton and the plans tarried on Mr was at the time a prominent member of Credit Lodge las was Mr Ilcoumont and the Masons aid was enlisted for the project The foundations were and the of native from the Iogan quarries began to rise One stone tells a story Tills Cornerstone was laid by Grand Iidge of Canada A I- A Sept 1J02 M His Hon Judge J Harding rand Master It is situated on the northeast corner of church the traditional plate for corner bti The weather on the afternoon of the ceremony was good and the village had been decorated with flags evergreens and bunting The Glenwilliams band led the Grand lodge from the town hall to the building where John presented a silver trowel engraved for the occasion to Judge Harding to lay the stone Mr Wallace and the Rural Dean were among the clergy who took part in the service Afterwards the ladies Rave tea on lawn of Beaumont Perhaps It was felt that Bishop DuMoulin would not have been Interested in taking part in this ceremony but he was furious that the Masons had been invited in place of himself to officiate For some reason he was not present when on June of the following year the new church was opened A rough line of red crayon drawn across the page of the service register marks the beginning of services there people heard Davidson of Guclph preach that evening The following Sunday it Is recorded that attended evensong at a church which is crowded with 150 The register suggests thai though attendances were high were low even by modern Along with the yearly remembrance of Christmas and astir and the Harvest Thanksgiving the register notes when there were no us March Sunday in 1X15 Owing Hood of the Credit River and all through October 191H owing to In fluenza epidemic clerical visitor his sins signing the book by writing in Irc loo long In day after whom the parish is mined there were no church building fie Mart of the century and whin the Roman persecuted christians he sheltered one time to share his filth For this he was the first christian for his faith His church in the has given shelter to many weighed down Except the Lord build the the Sunday after the opening of by life s pressures Hopefully house ih church too It has helped to build concern for others trust in God such as Alban showed No Present 100 MM 75 100 their labour is but lost that built it Psnlm 127 NNING The first baptism recorded In A pretty church often attracts the parish register is that of enquiries about weddings from Lily Beatrice Norton who was outside Its membership This is baptized on June 1903 the case with St and the first marriage here took El ace between a Methodist and a Presbyterian bride On the next page la recorded how John Sykes after a year of being a widower remarried at the age of The first funeral was for Nathaniel Brown in his year a native of County magh In Ireland and a former sergeant In the British Army I Si mber 1901 Georgetowns Sage Named Top Group at Folk One Folk 1 a province wide folk festival held in Georgetown on October Wand was a popular event wiih performers and spectators alike More than 120 secondary school folk musicians took part in the event sending folk music all through the corridors of D Some 500 Georgetown spectators cheered on On Friday Oct the out of town performers and look part in a get together The performers then went to the homes of many Georgetown residents who had volunteered to billet them for the weekend Preliminary competition took place during Saturday morning and afternoon and six solo five duet and four group finalists were chosen out of forty three solo twenty duct and eight groups entered r Judges for the competition were Allan Weeks and Andy Hush of Kingston Glen Ingram Heather Bridges or Brantford Roger frost of Georgetown and Gay and Norm Slim era of Toronto They had a most difficult job in choosing the finalists out of all the atls entered and an even more difficult task in picking the winners from the finalists The finals took place on Saturday evening In a formal folk toneerl formal and Ron Fiddler two local keeping the audience in stitches with their emcee work First place in Ihe solo division went lo Bruce Reynolds of who sang an original composition An Old Man Song and played an original Instrumental piece entitled Carol Pocket Book Second place honours went to Hod Brown or Thunder Bay who played original numbers on the Banjo and guitar Third place laurels went to Ken another Thunder Bay musician who sang Cat Stevens I- other and Son First place in the 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