Sunday service: 10:00 am, September through June. (Closed during August: joining with Echo Bay UC for services at 11:15 am.)One of the earliest settlers in the Bar River area was John Evoy. Although a lay preacher of the Methodist church he labored for many years as Sunday School...
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Sunday service: 11:30 am, all year.Note: a vacancy has been declared for 1 July 2017Situated 11 miles north of Iron Bridge, this church was built by pioneers who came north by crossing Basswood Lake and the Mississagi River by rowboat and walking the rugged bush trail to settle in Parkinson and...
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Sunday service: 11:00 am, all year.With the discovery of copper in Bruce Mines in 1846 a number of people came from Cornwall, England to work in the mines. Many of these were Wesleyan Methodists and brought with them a strong Christian faith and Methodist traditions.For a time the Methodists,...
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The Central Algoma Church Communities is a "cluster" of United Churches in the Central Algoma area, and includes:
Bruce Mines United Church
Desbarats United Church
Cloudslee United Church
Zion United Church (Thessalon)
Rev Erasmus Madimbu serves all four pastoral charges, and leads...
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Sunday service: 10:30 am, all year. During the summer, services are shared with St Andrew's UC.June 29, July 3, 12, 19 & 26 at Central UC, 10:30amAugust 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30 at St. Andrew’s UC, 10:30amThe Central United Church congregation worships in a heritage building in...
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Rev. G.W. Hewitt came to the Bruce Mines Methodist charge in July 1894 and became minister of the Cloudslee Methodist Church also when it opened on October 28, 1894. The Bruce Mines choir assisted with Mrs. Peterson as organist. Later a shed was built for horses with a hall overhead which was used...
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Sunday service: 9:15 am, all year.Desbarats United Church was built in 1898 by a Presbyterian congregation. The land was donated by Mr. L.O. Armstrong of the Dusset Mining Company, and a colonization agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Home Missions Board donated money to assist in the...
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Worship and Sunday School, 10:00 a.m. (Year round).The original building was erected in 1896 as a place of worship for the Methodist congregation of East Korah. In May 1896 a half-acre of land was donated by John and Albert Moore and Mary Elizabeth Moore to the trustees of East Korah congregation....
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Sunday service: 11:15 am, August through June.(Closed during July; joining with Bar River UC for service at 10:00 am.) During the years of the First World War union churches were organized in many parts of Algoma. Thus, in 1917 we find a Union Church being organized in Echo Bay. The first...
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Sunday service: 10:30 am, all year. In 1950 the United Church launched an extension campaign; Emmanuel was the first church built in Algoma Presbytery under this program. The congregation grew from an interested group of parents forming a Sunday School in October, 1951 to meet in a school in...
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Sunday service: 11:15 am, all year. In 1933 the Home Missions Board of the United Church received a request for a minister to serve the people of the wilderness area around Michipicoten River. The Board was unable to interest anyone in organizing the area until Rev. R.W. Beveridge of Thessalon...
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Sunday service: 11:00 am, all year.The first settlers of the Goulais River area met for church services in the first log schoolhouse built on a hillside near St. James’ Anglican Church. This was a big frame church, difficult to heat. There was also a shelter for horses in the yard. The Rev. A...
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Sunday service: 9:30 am, all year. The St. Joseph Island Pastoral Charge had its beginning over 100 years ago when several committed persons of the Methodist and Presbyterian faiths began the work of the church on the Island.One of these dedicated persons was Mr. E.O. Vanhorn who established...
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Sunday service: 11:00 am, all year.The St. Joseph Island Pastoral Charge had its beginning over 100 years ago when several committed persons of the Methodist and Presbyterian faiths began the work of the church on the Island.One of these dedicated persons was Mr. E.O. Vanhorn who established seven...
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Sunday service: 10:00 am, all year.Note: a vacancy has been declared for 1 July 2017The Iron Bridge United Church is located on Highway 17 on the west side of the Mississagi River.The first church, Methodist, was built in 1892 but burned down before completion. It was a hard blow to the little...
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John Wesley United Church has closed. The final service was held on Sunday 29 March 2015 -- Palm SundayRev Larry Burton has retired.HistoryIn 1901 Sault Ste. Marie was a flourishing town of 6,323 people, already predicting our city of 80,000. In the east end of town there were mew three-...
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The Little Rapids church was closed in the autumn of 2015, and the congregation has amalgamated with Zion UC, in Thessalon.The building has been sold. History:The first church services at Little Rapids were held in the homes of the pioneers, in the gristmill, and in the school. Although...
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After 52 years, Northland Central United Church has closed. The congregation has amalgamated with, and meets at, Cloudslee United Church, 918 Cloudslee Road.History.In a small valley surrounded by tree-clad hills nestles a small white church which serves the people of the former Dunn’s Valley...
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The Rydal Bank Pastoral Charge has a long history filled with many changes and times of realignment. At present, there are four church buildings standing, but only three congregations due to the closure of the Rydal Bank Church in 1978.The Leeburn Church has been closed and sold and is now a...
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Sunday Service: 11:00 am (September through June); 10:00 am (July & August).Note: a vacancy has been declared for 1 June 2017St. Andrew’s United Church, worshipping in the oldest Protestant church building in Blind River, has an interesting history. In the late 1800’s the...
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Sunday service: 10:30 am, all year. In 1866 Donald McKerracher, a young divinity student from Queen’s University organized the eight families as the nucleus of what became St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. Services were held for four years in the old schoolhouse on Wellington...
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On October 27, 1957, a group of United Church worshippers gathered in this new and remote mining community and were constituted a congregation of The United Church of Canada. Two years later, after worshipping in homes and schools and the community centre, the church building was erected and...
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Sunday worship all year at 10:30 am. Children's program September-June. Children's resource area available during summer months. Our Mission StatementWillowgrove United Church welcomes all to be a part of a caring and compassionate church community dedicated to doing God’s...
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Methodists were the first Protestants to build a church in Thessalon. It was a small building, in keeping with the number of people in the congregation. It was built about 1881, the year the townsite was surveyed, on the corner of Genelle and Main Streets. The population of Thessalon at that time...
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