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This ..'group photo should recall many memories to residents of Goderich
township who lived in or around Taylor's Corner about 1909, or who are
descendants of the members of , this handsome group. In front row are
shown Ruth Skillings, _, tormearly Ruth Thompson; Mrs. Albert Oke, the
former Irene Hick; Joe Yuill, Mrs. Reg. Sturdy, formerly Margaret Yuill,
Mamie Yuill; second row, left to, right: Mrs. G. G. Newton, formerly
Ned -
Walters, Andrew 'Holmes, Miss Foster, Nixon Sturdy, Irene Holmes,
formerly Clark; Charles' Whitely, Linda Sturdy, Mrs. Thomas Laing;
third row, left to right: Austin Sturdy, Nina Walters, Margaret Lamprey,k
George Sturdy, Gertie Sturdy; back.row, left to right:' Reg. Sturdy, Melville
Sturdy, Regina Hicks, Bert Holmes, Bruce Holmes, -Robert Fuller. The
picture ler eproduced throughconrtesy of Mrs. Newton, Huron Road, Goderich.
Once . In Barn
St. George
By W. E. Elliott
At the annual congregational
meeting of St. George's Church -
in 1935, "attention.was called,"
as the minutes record, "to the
fact that two young men of the
congregation were soon to enter
for the . ministry, in the per.
sons of LyallCrawfordandReg. -
Fisher, which was to be room.
mended." Both went on to,Hur.
on College, but Mr. Fisher
turned his talents 'to the teach. ,
ing profession.
Parish history dates from
1834; when the first incumbent,
Rev. Robert Fra.ncis Campbell,'
a former navy officer, was sent
out by the Church Missionary
Society. He obtained as rec-
tory a house Thomas Kneeshaw
had built for_himself, on North
street. First Anglican services
were held in a schoolhouse be.
hind the town half. Later the
congregation oocupied Dr. Mor.
gan Hamilton's barn on West
street, in Which square pews`
and : suitable, furnishings- were.
installed. A 'brick church er-
ected on St. George's crescent
burned to 1879; and the pre-
sent one was formally opened
in 1881. The rector at that
. time, Archdeacon Elwood, died
in 1887 and was, succeeded by
Rev. W. A. Young.
Whether or . not the congre.
gation celebrated the 50th ann.
iVersary is not indicated in the
minutes,, but those, for 1884
disclose many familiar names.
Church wardens were J. Deacon
and Richard Radcliffe; lay de.
legates were Messrs. Deacon,
Radcliffe and Naftel; others pre-
sent at, the annual vestry were
Messrs. Vanevery, Cox, Par.
sons, Rice, Williams, Cook,
Glass, Salkeld, Seager, Lewis,
Ball, Weatherall, Spence,
Proudfoot, Rathwell, .McBride,
Woodcock, Furse, McMicking,
cDon7ru� gli;-'Hurmes,_McDer: =
mot, , Pretty, and Brirnicombe.
-_ PEW RENTS
Dates From
Centralia and Exeter, also for
an excursion on the lake by -
the steamer Saginaw Valley,'
chartered at $40. Tickets were
sold *at 25c and the Project
yielded $28.20 profit.
Three-quarters of a. ea • .
ago,- _the _ Ladies' Aid took on
the task of canvassing the con.
t,gregation for funds, and in.
creased subscriptions by $300
to $1,400 'Total,.. -receipts that.
year were -4.1,296.' It `was pro.
posed in 1887 that -"lady mem-
bers have a vote •in the ves-
try, and that the lay delegates
be asked to bring the matter
before Synod." That came about
in due course, with a proviso
that women members should not
be qualified as churchwardens,
and now the Synod of Huron
has a committee studying the
admission of women as merry,
bers of Synod.
• OERATING COSTS
Fuel and lighting. necessarily°
occupied the attention of suc-
-cessive vestries. In .1886, the
business committee ordered 20
cords of' wood at 52.75. In 1887
the gas light in the -church
were complained of as dim.
and the sexton was asked, to
learn the cause. In 1896, imam.
desoent-lighting was installed,
Ten years la.er it was decided
to continue hot air heating, and
installation of steam heat was
deferred until 1920. -
In_ 1905 it was proposed- by
Messrs. Fowler and Eliot (W.
.L; Eliot, Bank of Montreal),
that the vestry, "considering
the important position. of St.
George's in this diocese, is of
opinion that the time has come
when the service wouldbe much
improved by introduction of a
vested choir." This being; ap-
proved, a committee was named
to collect funds for necessary
alterations in the church.
About .1922 the vestry . dis»
cussed a new parish hall. The
rector, at that time, Rev. �S
S. Hardy, recommended a full
basement, containing a gymnas
- ium, kitchen-, -lavatory, and a
hail above, with stage, to seat
18
350 to 400. Evidently this pro-
ject was, not undertaken, for in
1924 permission was given the
executive committee to repair
and enlarge. The parish hall
was in fact added to in 1957,
in the 'rectorate of Rev. , Ken
notlr.4;aylori
Though, it does not appear
'to have been acted upon, it was
recorded .in 1898 that the con. w.
gregatioa"favored insuring the
lives_. of .two young men .•-fQ k1*
52,000 each for 15 or 20 years,'
in order to extinguish the moi`t. f `
gage debt,, .•9,;•vided a sufficient
number • of - pcongregation,en-
gage to guarantee the prem-
iums."
FORMEg'SIDESMEN
Sidesmen in 1902 were John "
Platt, F. F. Lawrence, -Lloyd,
F. Jordan, Wm. Tye, - Hosken,
D. J. Nafte', Jos,. Salkeld, E;
N. Lewis, Lionel Parsons and
Harry Sturdy.
. In 1933 Ms. Blackstone sug-
gested to the vestry that the
Centennial- year, 1934; -be cell
(continued -on page 7)
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Saluting Goderich's 140th Anniversary
At -this meeting it was moved '
by Mr. Lewis. (that would be
Ira) that a committee `draft a
scale orf pew rents "at so much
per sitting according to pos-
ition in the church." In the
following year it was enacted
that pew rents must be paid
in advance, otherwise they
would be re -let without notice.
Later the rate was set at $2
{per sitting, No. 5 pew was the
rector's; No. 6 was valued at
$34, No. 8 at $45. Revenue from
pew rentals was $520 in 1888.. In
1894, R. S. Williams and George
Porter moved that the free
pew system be adopted. The
matter was shelved, and in 1906'
the vestry discussed a proposal
to increase the rentals. Six,
years • later, `Charles Seager
sand C; c. Lee moved that the'
pews 'The absolutely free," et.
fective July -1, and this time
the vote was 24,in favor, three
against, two abstaining,
tri the 18(10 -wit the rector evtd.
entry was paid.$850 the organ
1St $200, sexton $150, organb10,
we $20' arid vestry clerk $50.
before the motor age ended
em, e*cu�rsions were popular,
in 1886, St. deorge's eon.
.04gattort minted a Commits
tee to arrange 'for brie from
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