There’s a lot for St. Matthias’ to be thankful for, 150 years on…
Read MoreThe St. Matthias’ Annual Vestry Meeting is this Sunday! In lieu of a regular blog post, we’ve compiled a list of Vestry Attendance Dos and Don’ts, based on some curiosities from past Vestry minutes and attendance sheets…
Read MoreIn the 1880s and 90s, when Vestry was still held at Easter (no wonder there were sometimes only a dozen or so attendees!), financial reporting was fairly simple. St. Matthias’ was still a small church, and the entire balance sheet for the year could fit on a single page…
Read MoreAfter the new church building was finished in 1912, St. Matthias’ occupied two buildings on their single property: the old church, and the one we now call home. But in 1933, a stray comment at the Annual Vestry meeting about the difficulty the Sunday School was having trekking back and forth between buildings started a conversation that would grow, in two short years, into the hall where Miss Vicky’s now welcomes Westmount’s pre-schoolers…
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