Although many things in our archives are, as you know by now, quite well-documented, our connections with the wider Anglican Church are not….
Read MoreIn July of 1949, then-rector Rev. Gilbert Oliver set out for England to take a well-deserved vacation, and, while he was there, to see about recruiting a young curate to become his assistant. The recruitment was ultimately unsuccessful, but the vacation, the first that we have on record, was part of a larger move through the 1940s to see our clergy as needing more than just their stipends…
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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