"The War of 1812 - 14 determined that Upper Canada would have a different destiny than Texas.  It also put an end to large-scale American frontier migration into the province.  By the 1820s, however, still larger numbers of new settlers were arriving from Great Britain itself, across the sea.  Wherever they came from and wherever they took up land, the new settlers built churches.  The spiritual life of the local church in Upper Canada was a long strong arm in a rugged and sometimes grim new environment.  Happily, some of these  churches remain standing today ~ in tribute to many now forgotten pioneer struggles of the Ontario past."

~ Elizabeth Luther, Pioneering Spirit, eastendbooks, Toronto, 2000.



St. Paul's Anglican, Middleport, ON



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