East Seneca United Church



East Seneca Celebrates 150 years ~



"On the Monday night following the dedication service a grand Tea Meeting was held in the church where the young men brought their best girls in lumber waggons, there being no buggies in the immediate neighbourhood at that time.  This meeting proved a great success.  I believe the Tea Meeting was an annual event in the winter and the Garden Party in the summer.

"I can hardly remember Tea Meetings but the Garden Party was continued on into this century.  Usually they were held on Jas Patterson's place, it being central, that is where the Overends now live.
"Ice cream when they had it was always made with hand freezers, there being no such a thing as the commercial variety and with everyone having a hand in it and telling how it should be done.
"Along with one or two bunches of bananas and a box of "Long Torn Popcorn" at one cent a bag, the boys were able to treat their ladies...Of course, there was a program also ~ usually didn't cost much but it appears to me was much more appreciated than some of the expensive artists of the present day."

~ John Turnbull, late resident of Seneca Twp. (1890 - 1975)



Recently Discovered Sunday School Attendance Chart