In April 1912, Matthians celebrated the culmination of more than twenty years of dreaming (and fundraising), and almost two years of building with the first Eucharist in their new building…
Read MoreCookbook fundraisers are a tradition that goes back to the 1860s, and were so popular that over the 80 years between then and the 1920s, over 3000 cookbooks were published, mostly by churches, in North America. What began…
Read MoreLittle did the Association of Women (link to Votes for Women) know, but when they embarked on the yearlong project of developing a new edition of the St. Matthias’ cookbook in 1989, it would be their last major endeavour…
Read MoreMarch of this year, we considered a letter from a mysterious “John,” who detailed several physical remnants of the original church persisting to the new 1912 building. One of John’s pieces was the Memorial Chapel altar. John’s letter says that “the altar in the North Transept came from the old church and was stored down in the furnace room of the present building until Canon Oliver found it there after the transept was built and put it back in use.” But was he right?
Read MoreThe morning of April 28th, 1912 dawned cold and clear after an unseasonably warm but cloudy Saturday. Matthians on their way to church would have donned their hats and gloves, made sure their prayerbooks were in hand, and then set foot for the first time into a service held in the building they’d been dreaming about for over twenty years. Their service of morning prayer would have been rather different than ours…
Read MoreOn April 12th, 2020, 78 separate devices (phones, computers, and tablets) logged on to St. Matthias’ Easter Morning Zoom service, a month after the only pandemic service that St. Matthias’ cancelled. Those 78 connections…
Read MoreIt took a lot of people a lot of dreaming to get to this moment in 1910. The original church, built in 1875, was no longer big enough to fit the approximately 80 families who were members of the church by 1892, nor did it have electric lights or a suitable organ…
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