Before the War Memorial was moved to the Memorial Chapel in the North Transept, there was a much less military bent to the chapel’s overall décor. But the differences are not really all that major…
Read MoreWhere would St. Matthias’ be without the Chancel Guild?...
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 MoreBy the early 1970s, the St. Matthias’ Association of Women had expanded to include enough subsidiary groups that they occupied over half the page count of each year’s annual report, had financial statements as long as those of the church proper, and were getting a little tired of being ignored when it came to church governance…
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