The Deachman Brothers Revivals of Lanark County
Linda Seccaspina–Larry--I knew where this location was immediately.. this house belonged to abner nichols and we call it the little yellow house. Its endangered of being torn down as it has been kept vacant for 10 years over a fight about something. I am constantly talking about it and going to send it to Jennifer at the museum– Did you live in that home?
Larry Clark–Linda–The house you are referring to is next to the one occupied by the Brazer’s (brick house) and is more or less in the background. Beth doesn’t remember very much about the house except that her grandparents lived there and Helen (Beth’s mother) was staying with them while her husband was away serving with the military. He and Linton must have been on leave when these photos were taken and is perhaps the first time that Helen had met her brother since the adoption 21 years previous.
Linda Thought this might be of interest due to the location, your recent story and this story is by no means complete. My wife Beth’s family 1940 in front of their rental property (Brazier’s) on Bridge St. It seems to be located half way between Herriot and Charlotte streets. I believe this was the occasion of the first meeting between Helen, and Linton Johnson (siblings) as they had both been put up for adoption in 1919.
Helen was adopted by Braziers (lived at one time, corner of Landsdowne and Arthur, ca.1950) and Linton, by the Johnsons (farm between the Naismith’s house and Cedar Hill rd, north side.) The circumstances of their re-uniting is for the most part lost. Linton was in the Engineers and served in Europe? and Caple (family name but was known as “Bill” to everyone else) first joined the tank corps and then transferred to airborne. He was involved in “Operation Varsity” into Germany in Mar 45, whereupon they battled their way to Lismar on the Baltic Coast. They were not allowed to go further and waited there to meet up with Russian troops in May.another photo which I didn’t send due to quality but there is some background.
It was not the original Baptist church in the early 1900s
Stephen GilesWas this the Free Methodist church that was destroyed by fire?
Lila Leach-JamesStephen Giles yes it was the Free Methodist Church and also another one was on way to Innisville beside the Anglican Church which is now a converted home…Even though I was Anglican, I did go to Sunday School there with my best childhood friend ! One of the men of the congregation would come out to country and pick us up and bring us home! Her and I use to trade rabbits so the poor guy would often find a rabbit in the car! 
….I’m sure at times he felt like a livestock dealer!
I think Joann Voyce does too
I’m talking about the little white frame church on the corner of Herriott and Bridge St which was torn down many years ago.It sounds like that is the one you are referring to as well-– Joann Voyce
Joan StoddartIt looks like the Free Methodist on the south side of Herriot It is the brick beside it that I cannot picture I think Dixon’s house was brick that was burnt but it seems to be on the wrong side.
Joan this is not the first time that a photo has come out wrong side up so I think you are all right.
Wesleyan Methodist— Did you know?
Methodism was introduced into this area in the 1820s by missionaries from the United States. The Canadian branch separated from the American Church in 1824, forming the Canadian Methodist Conference, then united in 1833 with the Wesleyan Methodist Conference.
The Carleton Place Methodist congregation was organized by the Rev. Mr. John Black (great grandfather of the first organist for Zion-Memorial) in 1829, and in 1831, built the first church in the village of Carleton Place (Morphy’s Falls). It was a frame structure, large enough to seat 250 persons, situated on Bridge St. on the site of the present Baptist Church. The wooden church was moved, and a new brick building was built (the present Baptist Church). Read– Facts You Might Not Know About Carleton Place for our 150th Birthday – Part 3
Larry Clark– It’s hard to determine. I tend to agree with whomever said the church was on rh corner of Bridge and Herriot, south-west corner would be my guess. There was a frame building behind Linton and the corner of Herriot is in the background. Can’t say that it is the same building with the church-like windows?? To me the door behind Linton’s head is a little unusual for a home??
Here is something else you did not know about Bridge Street…The Heathen School in Carleton Place — Salem’s Lot?
The Remains of the Bethel Methodist Church
Larry Clark stories
Memories of a Photo — The Forgotten Canadian Forestry Corps, Booze and a Mud Quagmire
Update to the Charles Lindbergh Story — Larry Clark
Tales You Did Not Know About—Charles Lindbergh Landed in Carleton Place
Memories of Neighbourhood Kids — Larry Clark
Larry Clark Memories : Billings Bridge, Willow Trees and the Orange Lodge
Skating on Fraser’s Pond and Hobo Haven — Larry Clark
Glory Days in Carleton Place– Larry Clark
Larry Clark — Your Veribest Agent
A Personal Story — Caught in the Ice– Rocky Point- Larry Clark
Baptist Church – Carleton Place, Ontario.
March 29 1873– Almonte Gazette-–The handsome new brick church in Carleton Place, erected by the Wesleyan Methodists, will be dedicated on Sabbath next, 31st at 10.30 a.m. The Rev. Mr. Elliott will conduct the service and also preach in the afternoon. The Rev. Mr. McDowell will also preach in the evening. A tea-meeting will be held on Monday evening following, at which a number of speakers will be present.
The Baptists organized in 1822 as the New Testament Baptists which was just one year after the founding of Morphy’s Falls/ Carleton Place. Two missionaries arrived in Beckwith on a Wednesday evening and remained with the Baptist people for about twelve days. They began with a prayer meeting in one of the homes, and held further meetings on the succeeding evenings of that week. The first log church was built in 1817 Lot 27, Con 6 of Drummond in 1817. It was then replaced with a large permanent brick building beginning late in the year of 1907.
The property that the current Carleton Place Baptist church sits on at the corner of Bridge and Herriot Street was once just very dense bush. A short distance from this present church was another place of worship that the Baptists attended that was simply known as the Town Line Church. The Rev. Lawrence Halcroft (1798-1887), a resident of Carleton Place for over forty years, came here by call in 1843 and for eleven years was minister of the local Baptist Church and they met every Sunday just after 2 pm.
Miss Gillies in front of the Gillies home on Bridge Street with the Baptist Church on the right- Photo- Public Archives
The present day Carleton Place Baptist Church that sits on Bridge Street today was actually built in 1831 by the Wesleyan Methodists. The Carleton Place Methodist congregation was first organized by the Rev. Mr. John Black in 1829, and in 1831 and they built the first church in the village of Carleton Place/Morphy’s Falls. The Carleton Place Baptists were at first led by a layman named John McEwen, but in April 1843 a Scottish immigrant named Lawrence Halcroft arrived in the village. Halcroft was soon ordained and became pastor of the churches at Tennyson and Drummond as well as Carleton Place. In 1868 the Baptists in Beckwith decided it was cheaper to repair the Town Line church in Carleton Place than build a new one in Black’s Corners.
The church at 299 Bridge Street was a frame structure at its early beginnings, large enough to seat 250 persons. It was more than likely sold to the Baptists by the Wesleyan Methodists when they decided to move in 1888. According to some historical writings in newspaper archives the chapel was used as a grammar school in the early days as well as a church. In 1871, the wooden church was moved (*would love to know where it was moved to) and the present brick church on Bridge Street was built by Wesleyan Methodists, not the Baptists. When the Methodist’s congregation became larger they built and moved to a new church at the corner of Beckwith and Albert Streets. (Zion-Memorial United Church)
In June of 1891 it was moved and passed at a meeting that the Beckwith Church be recognized and received into the fellowship of Carleton Place. An argument erupted whether to honour the Sabbath on a Saturday or a Sunday. The two families that did not agree with Sunday were excluded from the church.
Photo- Ottawa Journal 1973
Sadly in September of 1973 there was a steeple fire in the Baptist Church which caused a lot of smoke and water damage. But, the original pews remained and two old ceiling fixture medallions were also saved. A new hall was added that consisted of 9 classrooms, a choir room and a minister study. Pastor Brian Affleck is currently the Senior Pastor at Carleton Place Baptist Church. He and his wife, Edith, have been ministering together here for the past 15 years.
Church Guide
Guide to Church Services, 1870. St. James’ (Church of England) – ½ past 10 o’clock a.m. on each alternate Sabbath, and at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on the other Sabbath. St. Andrew’s (Church of Scotland) – 11 o’clock a.m. every Sabbath. Zion Church (Canada Presbyterian) – ½ 2 o’clock p.m. every Sabbath. Reform Presbyterian – 11 o’clock a.m., and 3 o’clock p.m., on alternate Sabbaths. Wesleyan Methodist – ½ past 10 o’clock on alternate Sabbaths, and ½ past 6 o’clock on the other Sabbath. Baptist – ½ past 2 o’clock every Sabbath. Roman Catholic – occasionally, of which notice will be given.-Howard Morton Brown
*Searched for two hours in 1871 newspaper archives and could not find out where the building was moved too.. sigh…
As the Methodist numbers increased, a larger more central location was desired, and subscriptions were sought. Some 200 members and adherents participated, and construction began on the present site early in 1888. The cornerstone was laid on May 6 of that year. The first worship service was held in the new building on Sunday, 9 December, less than a year after the cornerstone was laid. The next year, the bell was placed in the tower.
After Union in 1925, when St. Andrew’s and the Methodist congregations joined and the church became Memorial Park United Church.
With files from: Beckwith by Glenn Lockwood, A History of Drummond Township by John C. Ebbs, The Almonte Gazette and the Ottawa Journal
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First Baptist Church- from Perth Remembered–The New Baptist Church
The opening of the now very complete Baptist Church, on D’Arcy Street, under Rev. D. Laing, took place last Sunday and marks another step in the progress of the church history of this town. The people of Perth have the reputation of being an eminently church going people which estimation does them no more than simple justice. This being the case, it follows that they should desire a convenient and modern place of worship.
The old church in which the Baptist congregation worshipped for so long had been brought to a knowledge of a better life and around which so many sweet memories had been woven—had become too small for the proper prosecution of church work and somewhat more than a year ago the congregation determined to erect a new edifice and the contract for the new building was let in April of last year and on the 28th June the cornerstone was laid by Mrs. McMillan, the oldest consistent member of the church here.
First Baptist Church- from Perth Remembered–The original First Baptist Church in Perth in the location of the present building. The building to the left of the church is the Parsonage of the First Baptist Church at 21 D’Arcy Street. Note the wooden sidewalks. In 1925 the roof of this house was raised to provide for a full second story.
Only two members who witnessed the erection of the first church survived to see the opening of the second, Mrs. McMillan of Perth and Mrs. James McLaren of Drummond. The church is of red brick with stone foundation and a basement. Cathedral stained glass windows ornament the front and the ceiling and other woodwork is of dressed pine relived by imitation of cherry. The aisles are carpeted. The pulpit desk is small but of neat design and colour. Behind this is a handsome pulpit sofa presented by D. Hogg and behind this is the main baptistery.
Electric light is used and the building is to be heated by furnaces. On the building committee were Dr. Kellock, chairman, J.F. Kellock, H. S. Leckie, Robert Ritchie, William Allan. The history of the congregation from its organization to the present time was given in a very interesting and concise form by Dr. Kellock at the Monday night meeting as follows; In the year 1841 through the generous efforts of some friends in and around Perth, a chapel was erected on the side of the present building. This structure of 30 by 48 feet was plain and innocent of paint.
Baptist ministers visited Perth and preached from time to time but the church was not organized until after the arrival of Rev. R. A. Fyfe who began his missionary labours here in April of 1842. The church was organized by him on the 31st Oct., 1842 having been dismissed from the Beckwith Church for this purpose. These with three others formed the constituent members. The only survivor of those is Mrs. (Cal) McMillan of Perth and Mrs. James McLaren of Drummond and who were, after a lapse of 47 years, present at the opening of the service on the night of the 26th inst. The Rev. R.A. Fyfe (afterward Dr. Fyfe), the devoted and honored head and founder of Woodstock College, was the first pastor with a stipend of sixty pounds a year, half of which might be paid in country produce or store goods.
Three deacons, a treasurer, a clerk and five trustees constituted the first office bearers. Mr. Fyfe continued his ministry for about a year when he was summoned to Montreal to take the oversight of the Baptist College in that city. He was succeeded by Rev. James Cooper (afterwards Dr. Cooper) just from Scotland, a faithful, earnest pastor, whose memory is dear to all. In 1847 he was succeeded by Rev. P. McDonald, who left the following year when Mr. Fyfe resumed the pastorate but owing to the failure of his wife’s health he was compelled to leave once more after another year’s service. The following ministers have been in charge since that time 1847 viz: Rev. Messrs. Porterfield, R. Hamilton, John Cameron, Ashton, J. Mackie, Thomas Henderson, R. Nutt (?), W.A. Caldwell, J. Forth, J. W. Thorne and D. Laing, the present pastor.
Fourteen pastors in 47 years, an average pastorate of over three years; the longest that of Mr. Forth, 8 years and 4 months, the shortest that of Mr. Porterfield, six months. Most of these were faithful, earnest, godly men, some of them afterwards attaining to the highest positions of honour in the denomination.
In 1841 the original church was erected on the site of the present building. The building 30 feet by 48 feet, plain, unpretentious and void of paint, was erected on the site of the present brick church on D’Arcy street, and REV. R.A. FIFE was the first minister. A year afterwards Mr. Fife was called to take charge of the Baptist College in Montreal and was succeeded in Perth by REV. JAMES COOPER. The old building in its lifetime had undergone repairs and additions as circumstances demanded. In 1851 the addition of a tower gave it a more ecclesiastical appearance.
In April, 1888, the contract for the edifice having been let the old historical church in which the Baptists had worshipped for two or three generations, where so many had been brought to the knowledge of a better life, the scene of many hallowed memories, was torn down. While the new one was being built the congregation met for worship in the Music Hall. On the 28th June, the corner stone was laid by Mrs. McMillan, the oldest member of the church, assisted by Hattie Kennedy (Mrs. Arthur Jackson) and Margaret Robertson, the two youngest members.
Services appropriate to the occasion were held, an eloquent address being delivered by Dr. Castle, principal of McMaster College, Toronto. In 1875 a vestry was added at the rear of the main building but the old chapel had to be replaced and a new structure was built in 1889. The opening of the new church took place on Sunday, May 31st, 1889.– from Perth Remembered
The Klassens in Concert
Public · Hosted by First Baptist Church, Perth, Ontario
Friday, April 28 at 7 PM – 8:30 PM
17 D’Arcy St, Perth, ON K7H 2T9, Canada
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