The Loyalist
Churches
of
Sorel
Three Rivers
St. Johns
Chambly
and
surrounding Areas
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Compiled by: Jacques Gagné - gagne.jacques@sympatico.ca
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Christ Church Anglican in Sorel
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Table of Contents
The Loyalist Churches of ................................................................................................. 6
Sorel - Three Rivers - St. Johns - Chambly ..................................................................... 6
and surrounding area ...................................................................................................... 6
The Anglican Churches ................................................................................................ 6
The Anglican Church in Trois-Rivières ...................................................................... 6
Christ Church Anglican in Sorel ................................................................................ 6
Saint James Anglican in St. Johns ............................................................................ 6
Saint Stephen’s Anglican in Chambly ....................................................................... 7
St. Johns Methodist Church ...................................................................................... 7
Saint Paul’s Anglican Church in Abbotsford .............................................................. 7
Saint Thomas Anglican in Rougemont ...................................................................... 8
Hemmingford History ................................................................................................ 8
Berthier en haut, the first Protestant Church in Lower Canada.................................. 8
Lac Maskinongé (Berthier en haut) ........................................................................... 8
Lanaudière Heritage Web ......................................................................................... 8
Loyalist Resources on Ancestry ................................................................................ 8
The Churches.................................................................................................................. 9
Abbotsford - County of Rouville .................................................................................... 9
Berthier County ............................................................................................................. 10
Berthier en Haut - County of Berthier ......................................................................... 10
Berthierville - County of Berthier................................................................................. 10
Brandon Township ..................................................................................................... 11
Carufel - County of Maskinongé ................................................................................. 12
Chambly Village - County of Chambly ........................................................................ 12
Crabtree - County of Joliette ...................................................................................... 13
Fort St. Johns - County of St-Jean ............................................................................. 13
Grant - County of Joliette ........................................................................................... 13
Hemmingford - County of Huntingdon ........................................................................ 13
Joliette County ........................................................................................................... 17
Kildare - County of Joliette ......................................................................................... 17
l'Acadie - County of St-Jean ....................................................................................... 18
Louiseville – County of Maskinongé ........................................................................... 18
Maskinongé County....................................................................................................... 18
Maskinongé - ............................................................................................................. 18
Mount Johnson - County of Iberville ........................................................................... 18
New York - County of Maskinongé ............................................................................. 19
Nicolet – County of Nicolet ......................................................................................... 19
Odelltown – County of Champlain .............................................................................. 19
Peterborough - County of Maskinongé ....................................................................... 19
Radnor Forges - County of Champlain ....................................................................... 19
Rawdon - County of Montcalm ................................................................................... 20
Richelieu County ........................................................................................................... 20
Rivière du Loup en haut (Louiseville) - County of Maskinongé ................................... 20
Rougemont - County of Rouville................................................................................. 20
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Rouville - County of Rouville ...................................................................................... 21
Sherrington - County of Napierville ............................................................................. 21
Sorel - County of Richelieu......................................................................................... 22
Sorel Seigniory - County of Richelieu ......................................................................... 23
St-Gabriel de Brandon – County of Berthier ............................................................... 23
St. Johns - St-Jean-sur-Richelieu - County of St-Jean ............................................... 23
Ste-Ursule – County of Maskinongé ........................................................................... 25
Trois Rivières – County of St-Maurice ........................................................................ 25
Warwick County ......................................................................................................... 26
William Henry - County of Richelieu ........................................................................... 26
Yamachiche - County of Maskinongé ......................................................................... 26
Yamaska Mountain - County of Rouville..................................................................... 27
Yamaska Region - County of Yamaska ...................................................................... 27
Repositories .............................................................................................................. 27
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The Loyalist Churches
of
Sorel - Three Rivers - St. Johns - Chambly
and surrounding areas
The Anglican Churches
The Anglican Church in Trois-Rivières
The years immediately following the declaration of Independence by the American
Colonies saw an influx of refugees from that country into the British provinces in the
north. Some of them settled in three communities a few miles southwest of Three Rivers
(Trois-Rivières), namely Maskinongé (founded in 1714), Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville,
founded in 1714), and Machiche (Yamachiche, founded in 1702), 24, 20, 15 miles
respectively from Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers), and forming at the time, part of the
Anglican Parish of Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers). Before the end of the eighteenth
century and during the first quarter of the nineteenth, the names of several of these
original English families occur in the parish registers of Saint James Anglican of Three
Rivers until the year of 1821, when Reverend John Campbell Driscoll was appointed ‘’to
the cure of the souls in the Protestant portion of Rivière-du-Loup, together with the
charge and inspection of the Protestant inhabitants of the Parishes of Machiche and
Nicolet, all in the district of Three Rivers’’ - Source: Arthur Ernest Edgar Legge - QFHS
book #HG-154.99 L3 The Anglican Church in Three Rivers 1768-1956 - 191 pages
Christ Church Anglican in Sorel
In 1777, a military chaplain, the Reverend Thomas Scott, had begun holding services in
a military barrack at the foot of King Street near the River. Following the American
Revolution, the city of Sorel became a haven for many Loyalists driven from their homes
in the former British colonies to the south, the largest wave of Loyalist immigration
occurring in 1783-84. On July 4, 1784, the Reverend John Doty arrived from England,
sent by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Celebrating
Divine Service on the day of his arrival, this date is viewed as the founding of the second
oldest Anglican parish in Canada after Saint Paul’s Church, Halifax, in 1749.
Source; http://www.christchurchsorel.ca/en/history.html
Saint James Anglican in St. Johns
St-Jean sur Richelieu
In the years after the American Revolution, there was an influx of some 5000 United
Empire Loyalists into the Province of Quebec and a large number of them came to this
district. The needs of these new settlers for spiritual direction soon became a priority. At
first, passing missionaries and the resident army chaplains ministered to the Protestant
population. Then, in 1816, following a suggestion by the Rev. Micajah Townsend of
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nearby Clarenceville, a subscription list was circulated in St. Johns, Isle aux Noix,
Chambly, St. Luc, Montreal and Quebec City, and £1,433 was raised to build a
Protestant chapel in St. Johns. The history of this first church in St. Johns is closely
linked with the history of the garrison of Port St. Johns. The selected building site was a
piece of War Department land adjacent to a brick barrack shown on a plan from 1791.
The land immediately behind the site became the official Church cemetery. This area
was a burial ground prior to the construction of the Church and very readable tombs
bearing dates prior to 1816 still exist. Some are for soldiers who fell in the War of 1812,
and the oldest legible stone is from 1798. Source: Phyllis Hamilton, With Heart and
Hands and Voices - Histories of Protestant Churches of Brome, Missisquoi,
Shefford and surrounding area - QFHS Library - UEL Section - Pointe Claire
Saint Stephen’s Anglican in Chambly
The names of those closely connected with the early days of Fort Chambly read like a
roll call of the great and famous in New France and Lower Canada -- Samuel de
Champlain; Jacques de Chambly; Lieutenant Colonel de Hertel de Rouville; Sir John
Johnson and Sir Guy Carleton of Loyalist fame; Colonel Charles de Salaberry; General
Richard Montgomery and John Thomas from the U.S., and Sir John Bourgoyne. The first
Protestant clergyman to serve the Chambly area was the Rev. D.C. DeLisle who was
stationed in Montreal. From 1771 until his death in 1794, he travelled twice yearly to
Chambly to conduct services in French. When the Rev. Brooke Bridges Stevens, a
Church of England military chaplain, arrived in Chambly in 1819, he managed to unite
the leading civil and military personnel to take steps toward building a Protestant Church
in the village - Source; Phyllis Hamilton - With Heart and Hands and Voices Histories of Protestant Churches of Brome, Missisquoi, Shefford and surrounding area QFHS Library - UEL Section Pointe Claire
St. Johns Methodist Church
St-Jean sur Richelieu
In 1804, records show that a Methodist missionary, the Rev. Lathan Clark, tried to start a
Methodist circuit in the settlements of the Richelieu Valley, but was unsuccessful. The
next record of any religious activity in the Methodist cause in this area is found in the
diary of the Rev. Richard Williams in an entry for February 12, 1816. He writes: “About
30 miles from Montreal is the village of St. Johns. It is large and its inhabitants are
wicked to a proverb. In this place, I spent one Sabbath day and preached twice in a
store house belonging to the government.” As this excerpt indicates, Wesleyan
Methodist preachers visited St. Johns occasionally. The earliest recorded ministers to
serve the community on a regular basis were the Rev. John Johnson in 1835, the Rev.
Edmund Ingalls in 1836, the Rev. R.L. Lusher in 1840, the Rev. William Squire in 1841.
The first resident minister at St. Johns Methodist was the Rev. Hugh Montgomery in
1841 - Source: Phyllis Hamilton, With Heart and Hands and Voices - Histories of
Protestant Churches of Brome, Missisquoi, Shefford and surrounding area - QFHS
Library - UEL Section - Pointe Claire
Saint Paul’s Anglican Church in Abbotsford
Among the first Loyalist settlers in Abbotsford was Joel Fraser, who arrived around
1802. Fraser married a French Canadian, Marie Gravelle and they settled at the north
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end of the North Road which skirts Yamaska Mountain. In 1824, the Rt. Rev. Jacob
Mountain, Bishop of Quebec, appointed the Rev. William Abbott to the parish. Mr.
Abbott only stayed six months before trading parishes with his brother, Joseph from St.
Andrew’s, Quebec. The name for the village of Abbotsford, which was suggested by
Bishop Mountain is a combination of Abbott and Bradford, from the surnames of the
Rev. Joseph Abbott and his wife Harriet Anne Bradford. Source: Phyllis Hamilton, With
Heart and Hands and Voices - Histories of Protestant Churches of Brome, Missisquoi,
Shefford and surrounding area - QFHS Library - UEL Section - Pointe Claire
Saint Thomas Anglican in Rougemont
During the American War of Independence, the Yamaska River, was of strategic
importance as it provided an invasion route from the south. English settlers began to
arrive in greater numbers in the early 1800s, many of them United Empire Loyalists such
as Dennis Downing, Peter Truax, and the Batchelder family. The Batchelders were
largely responsible for encouraging the building of a Church in the small village of
Rougemont. As in other areas, the first religious services were held in homes when a
travelling missionary visited from time to time, This continued for about 20 years, until
the Rev. C.F. Thorndike of Chambly Canton, acting as missionary for Rougemont,
organized the first regular religious services in 1840 - Source: Phyllis Hamilton - With
Heart and Hands and Voices - Histories of Protestant Churches of Brome, Missisquoi,
Shefford and surrounding area - QFHS Library - UEL Section Pointe Claire
Hemmingford History
http:www.hemmingford.ca/canton/
Berthier en haut, the first Protestant Church in Lower Canada
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/
M1168?Lang=1&accessnumber=M1168
Lac Maskinongé (Berthier en haut)
Saint-Gabriel de Brandon
Les rapports entre catholiques et protestants au Bas-Canada
au milieu du 19ème siècle
Le cas du Lac Maskinongé (Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon)
Source: Estelle Brisson - QFHS REF #HG-157.9 B7 - 275 pages
(Quebec Family History Society)
Pointe-Claire
Lanaudière Heritage Web
http://quebecheritageweb.com/attraction/lanaudiere-heritage-trail
Loyalist Resources on Ancestry
genealogycanada.blogspot.ca/2014/08/loyalist-resources-on8
ancestry.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Fee
d:+GenealogyCanada+(Genealogy+Canada)
The Churches
Abbotsford - County of Rouville
A Loyalist region - Also referred to as Yamaska Mountain and first settled about 1803
and located northwest of Granby and southwest of Roxton Pond. - Abbotsford has
since been renamed St-Paul-d’Abbotsford
1822 – Saint Paul's Anglican Church – First opened and ministered by Rev.
William Abbott in 1824 and by Rev. Joseph Abbott, his own brother a year later - By
1832, the parish at the time was responsible for missions in Farnham, Granby,
Milton, Rougemont, St. Hyacinthe - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese,
Montréal; parish registers (1830-1889 and perhaps also up to the mid 1990's)
contact Archives, Barbara McPherson, assistant archivist - archivist@montreal.
anglican.ca - BAnQ films (1824-1899) & (1824-1884) & (1884-1940) - DrouinPépin (1824-1940) - QFHS (1824-1940) - Ancestry.ca (1824-1940) - Please note,
early church registers of the Anglican and Congregationalist churches of Abbotsford
were intermingled into one microfilm, namely #411 (1824-1884) - The civil registers
which appears on Ancestry.ca and Drouin-Pépin most likely are also intermingled
between these two churches.
1835 – Congregationalist Society - United Church Archives ETRC, Lennoxville:
parish registers under #UC-029 (1835-1836 & 1865-1879) contact Archives, Jody
Robinson, archivist etrc2@ubishops.ca - BAnQ films (1837-1842) & (1843-1855) &
(1824-1884) - Drouin-Pépin (1824-1884) - QFHS (1824-1884) - Ancestry.ca (18241884) - The Congregational Church and the Anglican Church church registers of
Abbotsford were intermingled into one film, namely #411 (1824-1884)
1835 - Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries - Opened in 1835, burned in 1840 - For a
period of time, it appears that the Methodist congregation used the Congregational
church as a house of worship - United Church Archives ETRC Lennoxville, fonds
under #UC-029 civil registers (1835-1836 & 1865-1879), contact Archives, Jody
Robinson, archivist etrc2@bishops.ca
1840 - Methodist - Congregational - Anglican Cemetery - verify the QFHS
cemetery binders.
1855 - Granby & Eastern Townships Newspaper Extracts - BAnQ book #3185
marriage, birth, death extracts (1855-1910)
1885 - United Congregational & Methodist Church - United Church Archives
ETRC Lennoxville, parish registers (1865-1879), contact Archives, Jody Robinson,
archivist etrc2@ubishops.ca - BAnQ film (1884-1940) - Drouin-Pépin (1884-1940)
- QFHS (1884-1940) - Ancestry.ca (1884-1940) 1930 - United Church - United
Church Archives ETRC Lennoxville under fonds #UC-029, content not reported,
contact Archives, Jody Robinson, archivist etrc2@ubishops.ca - BanQ film (19301940) - Drouin-Pépin (1930-1940) - QFHS (1930-1940) - Ancestry.ca (1930-1940)
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Berthier County
An old county under the French Regime located between Maskinongé and Joliette
counties on the northern shores of the St. Lawrence river - Governor Frederick
Haldimand had selected the region of Berthier and nearby Maskinongé as a staging
region for incoming Loyalists to Lower Canada - Hamlets such as Machiche
(Yamachiche), Louiseville, Brandon (Berthier-en-haut), Berthier, Maskinongé were
settled in part by Loyalists - In 1786, the Prebyterian Church had sent missionaries to
the region
Berthier en Haut - County of Berthier
A Loyalist region - Also referred to in the eighteenth century as Brandon and much
later as Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon - see Brandon Township - see; Berthier en haut,
the first Protestant Church in Lower Canada
http://www.mccordmuseum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M1168?Lang=1&acces
snumber=M1168
1823 - Lac Maskinongé Anglican Missionnaires - BAnQ films under Berthier-en-Haut
Anglican (1823-1828 & 1830-1834 & 1855-1856 & 1858-1899) & under Louiseville
Protestants (1821-1845 & 1846-1854) - BAnQ book of indexes of marriages #1601
(1823-1932) - Drouin-Pépin (1821-1845 & 1846-1854 Louiseville Protestants) - QFHS
(1821-1845 & 1846-1854 Louiseville Protestants) - Ancestry.ca (1821-1845 & 18461854 Louiseville Protestants)
Berthierville - County of Berthier
A town also referred to in Protestant Church registers as Berthier, a town located on
the St. Lawrence river in the region of Louiseville - QFHS books #HG-157.9 K5 &
HG-157.9 B3 - see; http://www.ville.berthierville.qc.ca/index.jsp?p=87 - see also;
Lanaudière Heritage Web - http;//quebecheritageweb.com/attraction/Lanaudièreheritage-trail
1786 - Cuthbert Presbyterian St. Andrew’s Chapel - Organized in 1786. The
building now house a museum - No known surviving parish registers - see;
www.biographi.ca/en /bio/cuthbert_james_4E.html
1823 – Episcopalian & Saint James Anglican Parish with missions in Brandon
Township (Berthier-en-haut), Kildare and Maskinongé - Missions began in 1823,
most likely staffed by missionaries from the Anglican Church of Trois-Rivières (Three
Rivers) - Erected in 1850 as a parish, Rev. W.A. Merrick, presiding - Church in
Berthier would close in 1957 - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese Montréal,
parish registers Berthier-en-Haut (St-Gabriel-de-Brandon) (1823-1832) & parish
registers Berthier (1864-1957), contact Archives, Barbara McPherson, assistantarchivist - archives@montreal.anglican.ca - BAnQ films (1823-1828 & 1830-1834 &
1855-1856 & 1858-1899) & (1823-1930) - BAnQ book of indexes of marriages
#1601 (1823-1832 & 1855-1952) - Drouin-Pépin (1823-1930) - QFHS (1823-1930) Ancestry.ca (1823-1930) - see; http://www. lachapelledescuthbert.com/
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1866 - St. James Anglican Cemetery - see;
http://www.ville.berthierville.qc.ca/index.jsp?p=87
1892 - Baptist Missions of Maskinongé - Rev. William Stephen Bullock, served
from 1892 to 1906, a Baptist missionary, pastor and member of parliament
ministered in a small Baptist Church in the village of Maskinongé - Families from
surrounding villages were most likely members of this small church. Church records
have survived - BAnQ films under Maskinongé Baptist (1893-1906) - Drouin-Pépin
(1893-1906 Maskinongé Baptist) - QFHS (1893-1906 Maskinongé Baptist) Ancestry.ca (1893-1906 Maskinongé Baptist)
Brandon Township - County of Berthier
A Loyalist region - Also referred to as Berthier-en-haut in early Church registers and
today known as Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon - Located north of Louiseville and
Berthierville - see; Berthier en Haut, the first Protestant Church in Lower Canada
-http://www.
mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/
M1168?Lang=
1?accessnumber=M1168
see also; Lanaudière Heritage Web
http://quebecheritageweb.com/attraction/ lanaudiere-heritage-trail
1822 - Episcopalian & Anglican Missions of Maskinongé & Berthier - Anglican
Archives Montreal Diocese Montréal, parish registers described as Berhier-en-haut
(1823-1832) under Louiseville fonds, contact Archives, Barbara McPherson,
assistant-archivist - archives@montreal.anglican.ca - BAnQ films (1823-1828 &
1830-1834 & 1855-1856 & 1858-1899 under Berthier-en-Haut Anglican) & 18211845 & 1846-1854 under Louiseville Protestants) - BAnQ book of indexes of
marriages under Lac-Maskinongé Protestant #1601 (1823-1832) - Drouin-Pépin
(1821-1845 & 1846-1854 Louiseville Protestants) - QFHS (1821-1845 & 1846-1854
Louiseville Protestants) - Ancestry.ca (1821-1845 & 1846-1854 Louiseville
Protestants)
1823 - Berthier-en-Haut Anglican Missionaries or Lac-Maskinongé Anglican
Missionaries - BAnQ films under Louiseville Protestants (1821-1845) & (1846-1854)
& under Berthier-en-Haut Anglican (1823-1828 & 1830-1834 & 1855-1856 & 18581899) - BAnQ books of indexes of marriages #1601 (1823-1831) #1095 (1822-1854
Episcopalians) & (1822-1868 Anglicans) - Drouin-Pépin (1821-1845 & 1846-1854
Louiseville Protestants) - QFHS (1821-1845 & 1846-1854 Louiseville Protestants) Ancestry.ca (1821-1845 & 1846-1854 Louiseville Protestants)
1869 - Ste-Ursule Anglican Circuit Ministry with preaching points in Brandon
Township (Berthier-en-Haut), Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville) and other hamlets in
Maskinongé and Berthier counties - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese
Montréal, fonds not reported, contact Archives, Barbara McPherson, assistantarchivist - archivist@montreal. anglican.ca - BAnQ films under Saint (e)-Ursule
Anglican (1869-1882) & (1883) & (1884) & (1885-1887) & (1888-1904) & (18691939) - Drouin-Pépin (1869-1939 Anglican Saint (e)-Ursule) - QFHS (1869-1939
Anglican Saint (e)-Ursule) - Ancestry.ca (1869-1939 Anglican Saint (e) Ursule)
1893 - Baptist Mission of Maskinongé in Berthier-en-Haut (St-Gabriel-deBrandon) - From 1893 to 1906, Rev. William Stephen Bullock, a Baptist Missionary
based in the village of Maskinongé appears to have visited a number of hamlets
within the counties of Maskinongé and Berthier, in villages such as Louiseville, Ste11
Ursule and most likely St-Gabriel-de-Brandon (Berthier-en-Haut) - The church
records of the Baptist Church of Maskinongé have survived - BAnQ films under
Maskinongé Baptist (1893-1900) & (1893-1906) - Drouin-Pépin (1893-1906
Maskinongé Baptist) - QFHS (1893-1906 Maskinongé Baptist) - Ancestry.ca (18931906 Maskinongé Baptist)
Carufel - County of Maskinongé
A settlement of the 1790's or most likely earlier, bordered by the hamlets of New
York to the west, Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville) to the east
Chambly Village - County of Chambly
Located on the Richelieu river, officers and soldiers from the Imperial Army were
present from about 1760 onwards, including the nearby hamlet of Carignan
1771 – Anglican Missionaries - No known surviving parish registers, contact
Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese Montréal, Barbara McPherson, assistantarchivist - archivist@montreal-anglican.ca
1815 – Saint Stephen’s Anglican - Rev. B.B. Stevens, Rev. Edwar Parkin,
presiding in 1820 - Rev. I.P. White, presiding in 1847 - Anglican Archives Montreal
Diocese Montréal; parish registers (1819-1955) contact Archives, Barbara
McPherson, assistant archivist - archivist@montreal. anglican.ca - QFHS book #HG152.44 S7 - 67 pages - BAnQ book of indexes #1453 (1815-1955 deaths) - BAnQ
films (1819-1941) & (1819-1869) & (1870-1899) - Drouin-Pépin (1819-1941) QFHS (1819-1941) - Ancestry.ca (1819-1941) - see; http://st-stephens-churchchambly.org/church.php
1815 - Anglican Cemetery - BAnQ book of burials #1453 (1815-1955) - see also;
QFHS cemetery binders
1820 - History of St. Stephen's Anglican - A book by W.J. Ellis, C.P.C. Downman,
T.A. Ramsey, George Pyke - QFHS book #HG-152.44 S7 67 pages (1820-1970)
1851 – First Chambly Methodist Circuit Ministry - Rev. Thomas Cleworth,
presiding in 1856 - From 1858 to 1859, Rev. George Davis would minister to the
congregation in Chambly and St. Johns - In 1865, Rev. Robert Ferrier took over the
congregation - Rev. John Armstrong, presiding from 1869 - BAnQ films (1851-1873)
& (1851-1898) - Drouin-Pépin (1851-1873) - QFHS (1851-1873) - Ancestry.ca
(1851-1873) - QFHS films (1851-1898) & (1851-1875)
1876 – Chambly Methodist Church & Second Chambly Methodist Circuit
Ministry - Church organized in 1876 - United Church Archives, Montreal-Ottawa
Conference - Fonds of civil registers under UCAM #P603, S2, SS-94 (1883-1908) BAnQ films (1873-1912) & (1851-1898) - Drouin-Pépin (1873-1912) - QFHS (18731912) - Ancestry.ca (1873-1912) - QFHS films (1851-1898)
1965 – United Church - Richelieu Valley Pastoral Charge at 450-467-7674 - 62
Constable, McMasterville, QC J3G 1N1 - http://richelieuvalleyunitedchurch.ca
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Crabtree - County of Joliette
A village now part of Joliette Township
1831 - Anglican Missionaries - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese, Montréal Barbara McPherson, assistant-archivist - archivist@montreal.anglican.ca - BAnQ
book of indexes of marriages #1601 (1831-1964 under Protestant marriages in
Joliette County (various denominations))
Fort St. Johns - County of St-Jean
Located within the city of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu within the grounds of the Military
College.
1757 - Fort St. John's Anglican Chapel - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese,
Montréal; civil registers (1785-1795) contact Archives, Barbara McPherson, assistant
archivist - archivist@montreal.anglican.ca - BAnQ book of indexes #1430 (17571760 marriages) - BAnQ film (1757-1760) - Drouin-Pépin (1757-1760) - QFHS
(1757-1760) - Ancestry.ca (1757-1760)
1760 - Fort St. Johns Anglican Mission to the Imperial Forces - Church registers
of marriages, births, deaths only available in London, England -
Grant - County of Joliette
A hamlet of the 1790's and most likely earlier in an old county by the name of
Warwick. The township of Grant as it was then known was at the time located north
of Lanoraie township in a region now referred to as Joliette within a county by the
same name - Grant was bordered to the west by Kildare, Chertsey, Lavaltrie and to
the east by Berthier
1831 - Anglican Missionary Society of Joliette, Kildare, New Glascow, Rawdon,
Ramsey - see Rawdon, see Berthier for early church registers.
Hemmingford - County of Huntingdon
A loyalist region - Located southeast of St. Johns (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu) and north
of the U.S. border
1799 - Hemmingford Two Hundred Years of Hope and Challange 1799-1999 QFHS #HG-152.01 MCK4 & HG-152.9 H4 - 605 pages by Betty McKay Mackenzie
& Jacquie Hebert Stoneberg
1799 - Hemmingford Then and Now - QFHS book #HG-152.9 S6 by Alister
Somerville, Dan Mark, E.James Tarlton - 232 pages
1808 - Hemmingford Atkinson Cemetery - Located on Fisher street - First burial
1808
1815 – Episcopalian Missions of Saint George of Caldwell and Christie Manors
– In the early years, Rev. Charles James Stewart and Rev. Micajah Townend who
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served the Parish of St. George occasionally journeyed west of the Richelieu to
infant settlements along the slightly used trail from Odelltown through Roxham,
Scriver's Corners, Covey Hill and on to Hinchinbrooke as far west as Huntingdon.
Names of early Hemmingford landowners appear among the Caldwell and Christie
Manor Anglican records - source: The History of the Anglican Church by Mickey
Maynard - QFHS books #HG-152.01 MCK4 & HG-152.99 H4- This parish would later
be associated with Saint Luke of Hemmingford among others.
1813 - Trinity Anglican Cemetery - QFHS cemetery binders #REF-CL-152.4
compilers: Jeannie & Garry Bickes
1823 - Hemmingford Protestant Cemetery - BAnQ book of burials #1480 (18231978) - QFHS cemetery ninders #REF-CL-152.4 (1823-1978) compilers: Gerry
Rogers and others
1823 - Hemmingford Cemetery Records - compiler: Garry Bickes - reproduction of
content restricted - see: http://www.rocler.qc.ca/d.mark/prev/hemcem.htm
1823 – Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church - Rev. John Merlin, presiding from
1822 to 1855, Rev. James Patterson, Rev. William Robertson, Rev. Roderick
McKay, Rev. A. Lee, Rev. C. Haughton, Rev. S. Gorley, Rev. D.M. Reid, presiding
from 1858 to 1915 - QFHS books #HG-152.44 H4 & #HG-152.01 MCK4 & HG-152.9
H4
1823 - Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Cemetery - BAnQ book of burials #1480
(1823-1978) - QFHS cemetery binders #REF-CL-152.4 (1823-1978) - compilers:
Gerry Rogers and others
1823 – St. Armand Methodist Circuit Ministry with preaching points in Burtonville,
Caldwell Manor, Clarenceville, Hemmingford, Isle aux Noix, Odelltown, Sherrington Under the missionary endeavours of Rev. Richard Pope, Rev. Thomas Best, Rev.
James Covell, Rev. William Ross, Rev. Gershom Pearce, the above American
Methodist preachers were ivisitors to the region.
1823 - St. Luke's Anglican Cemetery - BAnQ book of burials #1480 (1823-1978) QFHS cemetery binders #REF-CL-152.4 (1823-1978) - compilers: Gerry Rogers and
others
1829 - Knox Presbyterian Robson Street Church in Covey Hill - Organized in
1829 by the Associate Synod of North Limerick, a secessionist Presbyterian body of
the United States - QFHS books #HG-152.44 H4 & HG-152.01 MCK4 & HG-152.9
H4
1833 - Hemmingford Episcopalian Mission at Scriver's Corners - In 1833, Bishop
George Jehosaphat Mountain appointed Rev. William Dawes as minister to the new
congregation - Rev. Dawes was asked to visit families along the English River to
Bogton and from Roxham north to the crown land bordering Sherrington - A few
years later Rev. William Bennett Bond was appointed to the parish. The missionary
endeavours of both Rev. Dawes and Bond resulted with the eventual opening of
permanent missions of the Church of England in Hemmingford Township and nearby
Sherrington - QFHS books #HG-152.9 H4 & #HG-152.01 MCK4- BAnQ film (183614
1940 Hemingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Drouin-Pépin (18361940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - QFHS (1836-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (1836-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1834 – Hemmingford Methodist Church - Rev. Mr. Judd, presiding in 1835 Church opened in 1834, two years later the church of Hemmingford was included in
the Odelltown circuit, see Odelltown for early church registers under the Richelieu
River Valley compilation for additional details on the availability of additional and
much more complete church registers listing - BAnQ films (1855-1899) & (18361940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Drouin-Pépin
(1836-1940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - QFHS (18361940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (18361940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1835 - Saint Andrew's Presbyterian - In 1835 under the leadership of Rev. John
Merlin who organized that parish and the construction of their church Saint Andrew's
near Scriver's Corners in 1842 - QFHS books #HG-152.9 H4 & #HG-152.01 MCK4 BAnQ films (1836-1899 Hemmingford Presbyterian) & (1836-1940 Hemmingford
Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Drouin-Pépin (1836-1940 Hemmingford
Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - QFHS (1836-1940 Hemmingford
Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (1836-1940 Hemmingford
Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1836 – Hemmingford Anglican Circuit Ministry with preaching points in Dundee,
Godmanchester, Hinchinbrook, Sherrington - Organized in Hemmingford in 1836
under the leadership of Rev. Richard Dawes - BAnQ films (1838-1842 Hemmingford
Anglican) & (1836-1940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) QFHS books #HG-152.9 H4 & HG-152.01 MCK4 - Drouin-Pépin (1836-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - QFHS (1836-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (1836-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1838 – Saint Paul’s Anglican Church - Rev. Henry Hazard, presiding from 1842 to
1850, Rev. J. McKeoun in 1851-1852, Rev. Gerald O'Grady in 1852 to 1855, Rev.
Thomas Mussen in 1856, Rev. Edward Duvernet from 1856 to 1860, the latter date
being the actual year of closing of this Church building - Anglican Archives
Montreal Diocese Montréal (1875-1892, parish registers including those of
Sherrington St. James the Apostle), contact Archives, Barbara McPherson,
assistant-archivist - archivist@montreal.anglican.ca - QFHS books #HG-152.9 H4 &
#HG-152.01 MCK4 - BAnQ films (1838-1899 Hemmingford Anglican) & (1842-1855
Hemmingford Anglican) & (1836-1940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian,
Methodist, United) - Drouin-Pépin (1836-1940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian,
Methodist, United) - QFHS (1836-1940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian,
Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (1836-1940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyerian,
Methodist, United)
1840 - St. Paul's Anglican Ruins and Cemetery - Located on Napper Road QFHS cemetery binders #REF-CL-152.3 - compilers: Jeannie & Garry Bickes -
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1851 - Wesley-Knox Cemetery - BAnQ book of burials #1480 (1851-1981) - QFHS
cemetery binders #REF-CL-152.4 (1851-1081) - compilers: Gerry Rogers and
others.
1852 – Associate Presbyterian Church of Hemmingford & Hinchinbrook Organized in 1852, closed in 1855 - source; Ken Steffenson and others - BAnQ film
(1852-1855 Associate Presbyterian in Hemmingford)
1853 – United Presbyterian Church of Hemmingford with preaching points in
Russelltown (The Little White Church) and Sherrington - Organized in 1853. From
1881 to 1884, Rev. James Patterson of the Hemmingford Church was pastor at both
the Hemmingford and the Little White Church in Russelltown, see:
http://www.littlewhitechurch.ca/?p=about - Registres de l'état civil (1853-1966
under Presbyterian and United in Hemmingford) - BAnQ film (1853-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Drouin-Pépin (1853-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - QFHS (1853-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (1853-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1855 – Wesleyan Knox Methodist Church in Hemmingford - Organized in 1855,
still operational in 1918 - sources: Ken Steffenson and others - BAnQ films (18551899) & (1855-1918 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) BAnQ book of indexes of baptisms #2836 (1855-1909) - Drouin-Pépin (1855-1918
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - QFHS (1855-1918
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (1855-1918
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1859 - Wesley Methodist Cemetery - BAnQ book of burials #1480 (1859-1976) QFHS cemetery binders #REF-CL-152.4 (1859-1976) - compilers: Gerry Rogers and
others
1860 – Saint Luke’s Anglican – Hemmingford Village – Organized in 1860 under
the ministry of Rev. Edward Duvernet 1860-1868, followed by Rev. James D.
Morrison 1869-1872, John C. Davidson 1873-1881, Rev. William Weaver from 1885,
Rev. H.L. Wood from 1889, Rev. Thomas B. Jeakins from 1891, Rev. A.B. Caldwell
from 1916 - The parish was still open in 1998 under the leadership of Rev. Linda
Faith Chalk - sources; QFHS books #HG-152.9 H4 & HG-152.01 MCK4 - The parish
of St. Luke's would later amalgamate Saint John the Baptist of Hallerton, Saint Paul’s
of Hinchinbrook, Saint James the Apostle of Sherrington, Saint James Anglican of
Roxham - Rev. Edward Duvernet presiding from 1860 to 1868, Rev. J.D. Morrison,
Rev. J.C. Morrison, J.C. Davidson presiding from 1869 to 1881 - Church was still
open in 1982 - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese Montréal , fonds of parish
registers, (1875-1892 including those in Sherrington (St. James the Apostle)),
contact Archives, Barbara McPherson, assistant archivist - archivist@montreal.
anglican.ca - BAnQ films (1842-1855) & (1860-1899) & (1918-1940 Hemmingford
Anglican, Prebyterian, Methodist, United) - Drouin-Pépin (1918-1940 Hemmingford
Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - QFHS (1918-1940 Hemmingford
Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (1918-1940 Hemmingford
Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1918 - Union of Methodist and Presbyterian Churches of Hemmingford - The
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governing bodies of both the Methodist Church and St. Andrew's Presbyterian met in
April of 1918 and agree to unite. This arrangement continued for seven years
1925 - Hemmingford United - Rev. C.C. Salisbury, presiding - - BAnQ films (19251940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Drouin-Pépin
(1925-1940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - QFHS (19251940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (19251940 Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1927 – Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian & Knox Robson Presbyterian Churches –
Hemmingford - Rev. J.J. Mc Caskill, Rev. Allan S. Reid, Rev. Herbert P. Mailand
presiding from 1926 to 1929 - BAnQ films (1927-1940 Hemmingford Anglican,
Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Drouin-Pépin (1927-1940 Hemmingford Anglican,
Presbyterian, Methodist United) - QFHS (1927-1940 Hemmingford Anglican,
Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (1927-1940 Hemmingford Anglican,
Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1927 – Saint Andrew's United Church – Hemmingford - Rev. Herbert Maitland,
presiding in 1930 - By law, the newly formed congregation calling itself St. Andrew's
United now owned three churches, St. Andrew's Presbyterian, Knox Presbyterian,
Robson - Covey Hill, and the Methodist Church - BAnQ films (1927-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Drouin-Pépin (1927-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - QFHS (1927-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United) - Ancestry.ca (1927-1940
Hemmingford Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, United)
1927 - Saint Andrew's United Cemetery - BAnQ book of burials #1480 (1823-1926
under St. Andrew's Presbyterian Cemetery & 1927-1978 under St. Andrew's United
Cemetery) - QFHS cemetery binders #REF-CL-152.4 (1823-1926 & 1927-1978) Compilers: Gerry Rogers and others
Joliette County
Located between Berthier and Montcalm, from the St. Lawrence river to the great
north.
Kildare - County of Joliette
A Hamlet now referred to as St-Ambroise-de-Kildare - see;
http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Ambtoise-de-Kildare,_Quebec
1853 - Wesleyan Methodist Protestant Mission with the participation of Anglican
ministers - From about 1866, perhaps earlier, Rev. Calvin Amaron, a Wesleyan
Methodist minister from nearby Shawbridge was a visitor to the region of Kildare. BAnQ films under Protestant Kildare (1853-1909) & under Wesleyan Methodist
Shawbridge (1866-1922) - Drouin-Pépin (1853-1909 Protestants Kildare (StAmbroise-de-Kildare)) & (1866-1922 Wesleyan Methodist Shawbridge) - QFHS
(1853-1909 Protestants Kildare (St-Ambroise-de-Kildare)) & (1866-1922 Wesleyan
Methodist Shawbridge) - Ancestry.ca (1853-1909 Protestants Kildare (St-Ambroisede-Kildare)) & (1866-1922 Wesleyan Methodist Shawbridge)
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l'Acadie - County of St-Jean
A small town in the Richelieu Valley, just southeast of the city of Iberville
1830 - Grace Anglican Church - Episcopalian Church - Opened in 1830, closed in
1940 - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese Montréal: parish registers (18691940)
contact
Archives,
Barbara
McPherson,
assistant-archivist
archivist@montreal.anglican.ca - BAnQ films (1869-1875) & (1869-1873 & 18751876 & 1888-1899) & (1888-1899 & 1926-1940) & (1869-1876) - BAnQ book of
indexes #1430 (1869-1888 & 1888-1948 marriages) - Drouin-Pépin (1869-1876 &
1888-1940) - QFHS (1869-1876 & 1888-1940) - Ancestry.ca (1869-1876 & 18881940) - Parish registers for the years of 1877 to 1887, see the Anglican Church in St.
Johns (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu) or/and the Anglican Church in Chambly
1839 - L'Acadie Grace Anglican Cemetery - BAnQ book of indexes #1478 (18391932 burials)
1844 - L'Acadie Whitman Cemetery - QFHS cemetery binders under St-Jean
County
Louiseville – County of Maskinongé
A small city located on the shores of the St. Lawrence river, west of Trois Rivières
1869 - Saint Ursule Anglican - Anglican Archives Quebec Diocese under St.
Ursule Anglican (1869-1939), contact Archives, James Sweeny, archivist archivist@quebec. anglican.ca - BAnQ films under Saint(e) Ursule Anglican (18691939) & (1869-1899) - Drouin-Pépin (1869-1939) - QFHS (1869-1939) Ancestry.ca (1869-1939)
Maskinongé County
A narrow county located between the counties of Saint-Maurice and Berthier Maskinongé county had a special affiliation with the United Empire Loyalists (UEL) Some of the hamlets and villages within Maskinongé had been selected by Governor
Frédéric Haldimand as staging regions for incoming Loyalist families - Most of these
families would move-on to other regions of Canada, but some stayed - The
Protestant Missionary Societies of Trois-Rivières were at the fore-front of missionary
endeavours for Maskinongé and surrounding counties during the early years of the
British mandate in Lower Canada - Source: Estelle Brisson
Maskinongé - County of Maskinongé
Located in the Louiseville region slightly west of Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers) on the
shores of the St. Lawrence - see; http://www.uelac.org/ Loyalist-Monuments/LoyalistSettlers-Monument/php
Mount Johnson - County of Iberville
A mountain located east of the Richelieu River near Monnoir, named for Sir. John
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Johnson, the mountain is now referred to as Mont-St-Grégoire
New York - County of Maskinongé
A hamlet of the
early 1790's and perhaps a few years earlier on the northern shores of the St.
Lawrence river between Rivière-du-Loup-en-haut (Louiseville) and Carufel - The
settlement of New York was later renamed Du Sable. The county of Maskinongé or
at least a portion of the latter was secured by Governor Frédérick Haldimand as a
staging area for the incoming United Empire Loyalists (UEL) for eventual relocation
to other parts of Canada, mostly to Ontario (Upper Canada at the time
Nicolet – County of Nicolet
Located across the St. Lawrence river from Trois-Rivières - The Anglican and
Methodist missionaries from Nicolet ministered to Anglo Protestant families in
hamlets through-out Nicolet county and surrounding counties such as Drummond,
Arthabaska, Bagot, Yamaska and even families from the Trois-Rivières region.
1823 – Saint Bartholomew Episcopalian - Anglican Church - Those who served:
J. Almond, Andrew Balfour, John L. Ball, William M. Ball, Henry Burgess - Anglican
Archives Quebec Diocese Lennoxville, parish registers: (1823-1908) contact
Archives, James Sweeny, archivist - archivist@quebec. anglican.ca - BAnQ films
(1826-1899) & (1826-1876) - BAnQ book of indexes of marriages #2564 (18231908) - Drouin-Pépin (1826-1899) - QFHS (1826-1899) Ancestry.ca (1826-1899)
1831 or about - Methodist Mission - see Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers) for parish
register under Wesleyan Methodist - see:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjmartin/wm-index.htm
Odelltown – County of Champlain
A hamlet in the region of Grand-Mère (Shawinigan) - Please note that a second town
with the same name of Odelltown does exist, the latter located near the US border in
the Lacolle region.
1831 or about – Methodist Mission - see Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers)
Peterborough - County of Maskinongé
A hamlet of the 1790's and most likely earlier, located east of Brandon Township
(Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon - Berthier-en-Haut) and of Warwick county, east of
Hunters Worth (Hunterstown), a region now referred to as Saint-Zénon
Radnor Forges - County of Champlain
First settled in the 1790's and referred at the time as Radnor, the latter located west
of Batiscan
1895 – Christ Church of Radnor Forges (Shawinigan) & Grandes Piles (GrandMère) - Those who served: Rev. Mervyn Awcock, Robert Charlton, J.W. Harrison,
William Henry Moorhead - Anglican Archives Quebec Diocese Lennoxville under
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Grand-Mère (St. Stephen's) civil registers (1899-1993) contact Archives, James
Sweeny, archivist - archivist@quebec.anglican.ca - QFHS book # HG-154.99 L3
under St. James Anglican of Three Rivers, list of families including those of Radnor BAnQ films under Grand-Mère Anglican (St. Stephen's) (1899-1936) & (1937-1940)
- BAnQ book of indexes of marriages #3086, 182 pages in total of families who
worshipped at Saint John the Evangelist Anglican in Shawinigan (1902-1983) & Saint
Stephen's Rectory Anglican in Grand-Mère (1899-1981) - Drouin-Pépin (1899-1940)
- QFHS (1899-1940) - Ancestry.ca (1899-1940)
Rawdon - County of Montcalm
1820 - Rawdon Church of England & Christ Episcopalian (Anglican) Church Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese, Montréal, Barbara McPhherson, assistantarchivist - archivist@montreal. anglican.ca - BAnQ films under Rawdon Church of
England (1820-1832 & 1847-1940) & under Rawdon Episcopal (1832-1871) Drouin-Pépin (1820-1832 & 1847-1940 Rawdon Church of England & 1832-1871
Rawdon Episcopal) - QFHS (1820-1832 & 1847-1940 Rawdon Church of England &
1832-1871 Rawdon Episcopal) - Ancestry.ca (1820-1832 & 1847-1940 Rawdon
Church of England) & (1832-1871 Rawdon Episcopal) - see also;
http://montreal.anglican.ca/en
1839 - Rawdon Methodist Church - BAnQ films under Rawdon Methodist (18391911 & 1912-1925) - Drouin-Pépin (1839-1911 & 1912-1925 Rawdon Methodist) QFHS (1839-1911 & 1912-1925 Rawdon Methodist) - Ancestry.ca (1839-1911 &
1912-1925 Rawdon Methodist
1926 - Rawdon United - BAnQ film (1926-1940) - Drouin-Pépin (1926-1940) QFHS (1926-1940) - Ancestry.ca (1926-1940)
Richelieu County
1784 - County of Richelieu Research Guide - Protestant Churches - A review of
the various microfilms dealing with the Protestant Churches of the County of
Richelieu - QFHS #REF GN-152.4 R5 (1784-1899)
Rivière du Loup en haut (Louiseville) - County of Maskinongé
See; Louiseville or Ste-Ursule
Rougemont - County of Rouville
A Loyalist region - Located east of Granby
1840 - Saint Thomas Anglican - Church located at 21 Rang de la Montagne,
Rougemont 450-469-3432 - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese Montréal: parish
registers (1847-1848 & 1913 & 1921-1993), contact Archives, Barbara McPherson,
assistant archivist - archivist@montreal. anglican.ca - BAnQ films (1885-1899) &
(1885-1940) - Drouin-Pépin (1885-1940) - QFHS (1885-1940) - Ancestry.ca (18851940)
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1861 - Seigniory of Rougemont - Cadastre Abrégé - QFHS #REF-AD-151.4 C3
Vol. III District of Montreal - 17 pages of settlers in 1861
Rouville - County of Rouville
1861 - Seigniory of Rouville - Cadastre Abrégé - QFHS REF #AD-151.4 C33 - Vol.
III District of Montreal - 34 pages of settlers in 1861
Sherrington - County of Napierville
A Loyalist region - An old township of 1809 located north of Hemmingford, both
located west of the Richelieu River between the U.S. Border and St. Johns
1820 - Sherrington - 1820-1830 - QFHS book #HG-152.99 S5 - 15 pages by Alice
Tully 1823 – St. Armand Methodist Circuit Ministry with preaching points in Burtonville,
Caldwell Manor, Clarenceville, Hemmingford, Isle aux Noix, Odelltown, Sherrington American Methodist preachers from Plattsburgh, New York and Vermont as early as
1801, headed by Rev. Elijah Chichester, Elijah Hedding, Henry Ryan, Gershom
Pearce, Bela Smith, William Ross, Cyrus Prindle were visitors to the regions north of
the border. No known surviving parish registers
1828 – Presbyterian Mission – A preaching point of Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian of
Hemmingford - Rev. John Merlin from Hemmingford, presiding from 1828 to 1842 QFHS book #HG-152.44 H4 St. Andrew's Presbyterian of Hemmingford - see
Hemmingford for church records
.
1838 – Sherrington Saint James Anglican Mission - A preaching point of
Hemmingford Saint Paul’s Anglican Circuit Ministry, the latter with other preaching
points in Dundee, Godmanchester, Hinchinbrook - Rev. William Dawes found about
40 English Protestant families in 1838 and brought church services to Sherrington Other who served in Sherrington were Rev. Mr. Wail, Rev. Henry Hazard (18421850), Rev. J. McKeown (1851-1852), Rev. Gerald de Courcey O'Grady (18521855), Rev. Edward Duvernet (1856-1860), Rev. T.W. Mussen (1856) - From 1860,
the parish of Sherrington was under the guidance of Saint Luke's Anglican of
Hemmingford, for the parish Saint Paul's of Hemmingford had ceased to exist - Other
ministers who served in Sherrington were Rev. Edward G. Sutton, Rev. James
Fulton, Rev. C.A. Wetherall, Rev. Walter Windsor - Anglican Archives Montreal
Diocese Montréal (1842-1872), contact Archives, Barbara McPherson, assistantarchivist - archivist@montreal. anglican.ca - BAnQ film (1842-1855 Episcopal
Sherrington) - Drouin-Pépin (1842-1855) - QFHS (1842-1855) - Ancestry.ca
(1842-1855) - see also Hemmingford under St. Paul's Anglican and St. Luke's
Anglican for additional parish registers. The last service held at St. James was on
June 11th 1872 - QFHS books #HG-152.9 H4 & #HG-152.01 MCK4
1853 – Sherrington United Presbyterian Church - Rev. Alexander C. Stewart,
presiding from 1853 -A preaching point of St. Andrew's Presbyterian of Hemmingford
- This congregation appears to have been also associated with the Presbyterian
church in Russelltown Flatt, the latter known as the Little White Church, see:
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http://www.littlewhitechurch.ca/?p=about - Ministers from the Little White Church in
Russelltown were also assigned responsibility of the families at the Sherrington
mission - It appears that church services in Sherrington stopped in the 1860's - see
Hemmingford for parish records
Sorel - County of Richelieu
An early military post for both the French Regiments and the Imperial Forces Located at the mouth of the Richelieu river with the St. Lawrence river - Some of the
earliest Protestant church documents are found in Sorel - Sorel is the second largest
city on the Richelieu River
1642 - The History of Sorel -1642-1958 - A book by Walter S. White - QFHS #HG153.99 W5 173 pages
1774 – Sorel - First Anglican Mission – Later renamed Christ Church in 1784
1779 – Sorel - First permanent Anglican Church – 34th Regimental Mission –
Later renamed Christ Church in 1784 - See also 1774, 1784, 1810
1784 – William Henry Christ Church Anglican - QFHS book #HG-153.44 W54
(1784-1984) 64 pages - BAnQ film (1784-1899) - BAnQ book of indexes of
marriages #123 (1784-1966) 1784-1984 - Sorel - The Parish of Christ Church - A book by Walter S. White QFHS #HG-153.44 W54
1784 – Sorel Christ Church Anglican - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese
Montréal; parish registers, family listings, confirmations (1784-1993), fonds most
likely include St. Francis Mission to the Abenakis in Odonak & 34th Regiment
Mission of Fort Henry & Fort Henry's William Henry Mission & William Henry
Congregationalist Mission - contact Archives, Barbara McPherson, assistant-archivist
- archivist@montreal. anglican.ca - QFHS binders "Christ Church Records" (17841889) Reference section next to the UEL section - BAnQ films (1810-1868) & (18681939) & (1843-1885) - BAnQ book of indexes #123 (1784-1966 marriages) - DrouinPépin (1810-1939) - QFHS (1810-1939) - Ancestry.ca (1810-1939)
1803 - Sorel & St. Johns Methodist Episcopal Church - Rev. Laban Clark, a
Methodist preacher from Plattsburgh, New York ministered in Sorel and St. Johns in
1803 and 1804 - see St. Johns in 1803 for additional information in regard to the
early ministerial endeavours of the American Methodist Circuit Riders to this region.
1834 - Sorel Old Anglican Cemetery - BAnQ book of deaths
surviving tombstones
#174 index of
1839 – Sorel Saint Francis Congregationalist - BAnQ film (1839-1865) - QFHS
film (1839-1865)
1842 – William Henry Anglican Parish - BAnQ film (1843-1885) - QFHS film
(1843-1885)
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1844 – William Henry Congregationalist Society - Rev. J. Buckman, presiding in
1847 - United Church Archives Montreal-Ottawa Conference Montréal, fonds
under UCAM #P-603, S2, SS106 (1844-1847) - BAnQ film (1844-1847) - QFHS film
(1844-1847)
1849 - Sorel Union Church - Opened about 1849, closed in 1849 - no known
surviving parish registers.
1893 – Sorel Baptist Church - BAnQ film (1893-1895)
1911 - Sorel Anglican Cemetery - BAnQ book #174
Sorel Seigniory - County of Richelieu
1861 - Seigneurie of Sorel - Cadastre Abrégé - QFHS #REF-AD-150.4 - #2
Seigneuries de la Couronne - 72 pages of settlers in 1864
St-Gabriel de Brandon – County of Berthier
A Loyalist region - see Brandon Township and Berthier-en-Haut - A region first
referred to as Berthier en Haut in the eighteenth century and later as Brandon
Township and much later as Saint-Gabriel de Brandon - see; Berthier en Haut, the
first
Protestant
Church
in
Lower
Canada
http://www.mccordmuseum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/ M1168?Lang=1&accessnumber=M1168
1823 - Anglican Missionaries Lac-Maskinongé - BAnQ film under Anglican
Berthier-en-Haut (1823-1828 & 1830-1834 & 1855-1856 & 1858-1899) - BAnQ book
of marriages #1601 (1823-1832)
St. Johns - St-Jean-sur-Richelieu - County of St-Jean
The largest city on the Richelieu River, the town was first named St-Jean-surRichelieu during the French Regime, the town's name was changed to Dorchester
or/and Dorchester's St. Johns, then later to St. Johns and much later back to StJean-sur-Richelieu.
1757 - Fort St. Johns Anglican Mission - BAnQ book of indexes #1430 (17571760 marriages under Fort St. Johns)
1757 - St. Johns County (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu) Protestant Mariages - BAnQ
book of indexes of marriages #1430 (1757-1989)
1803 - St. Johns & Sorel Methodist Episcopal Church - In 1803 and 1804, Rev.
Laban Clark tried to establish a Methodist Church in the Richelieu Valley, Pastor
Clark came from Plattsburgh, New York and remained for two years in Sorel and St.
Johns - In 1816, Rev. Richard Williams established Methodist church services in St.
Johns, most likely in barns or warehouses, the latter owned by the government of
Lower Canada. In 1835, Rev. John Johnson and Rev. Edmund Ingalls were frequent
visitors to the St. Johns region. In 1840, Rev. R.L. Lusher was a visitor to the region.
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In 1841 the Wesleyan Methodist Church was erected, Rev. William Squire, Rev. E.L.
Lusher, Rev. Hugh Montgomery, presiding - see the Missisquoi County compilation
for surviving civil registers under Dunham Methodist Missions
1809 - St. Johns Saint James Cemetery - BAnQ book of indexes #1478 (18091903 burials) - QFHS cemetery binders
1816 - St. Johns Anglican Church of Saint James - Opened in 1817 by Rev.
Micajah Townsend - Anglican Archives Montreal Diocese Montréal; parish
registers (1817-1993), banns book (1912-1937), contact Archives, Barbara
McPherson, assistant-archivist archivist@montreal.anglican.ca - QFHS book #HG152.44 S7 - 67 pages - BAnQ films (1817-1846) & (1846-1942) & (1817-1868) &
(1869-1899) - BAnQ book of indexes #1430 (1816-1989 marriages) Drouin-Pépin (1817-1942) - QFHS (1817-1942) - Ancestry.ca (1817-1942)
1828 - The Protestant & Catholic Marriages within the County of St-Jean - BAnQ
book of indexes of marriages #1430, 767 pages (1828-1950) under St-Jean County
1835 - St..Johns Methodist Church - Rev. John Johnson, presiding in 1835, Rev.
Edmund Ingalls, presiding in 1836 - Church erected in 1841, Rev. Hugh
Montgomery, presiding - In 1842 and 1843, Rev. Benjamin Slight would assume the
leadership of the congregation - In 1846, Rev. James Brock, took over the mission In 1854, Rev. John Carroll would assume the leadership - From 1857 to 1858, Rev.
George Davis would minister to the congregation in St. Johns and Chambly - In
1858, Rev. Richard Clark, took charge - In 1861, Rev. Robert Ferrier was
supervising both missions - From 1861 to 1863, Rev. Edward Harley Dewart was in
charge - From 1864 to 1866, Rev. J.F.F. Dickson took over - United Church
Archives Montreal-Ottawa Conference Montréal; parish registers under UCAM #P603, S2, SS93 (1842-1887) - United Church Archives Montreal Presbytery
Westmount; parish registers under UCMP UCC #301-302 (1887-1939) - QFHS book
#HG-152.44 S6 - 70 pages - BAnQ book of indexes #1430 (1842-1925 marriages) BAnQ films (1842-1851) & (1852-1899) & (1842-1898) & (1899-1942) - DrouinPépin (1842-1942) - QFHS (1842-1942) - Ancestry.ca (1842-1942)
1926 - St. Johns United Church - Church opened in 1926, still open to this day United Church Archives Montreal Presbytery Westmount; parish registers under
UCMP UCC #301-302 (1926-1939) - QFHS book #HG-152.44 S6 - 70 pages BAnQ film (1926-1942) - BAnQ book of indexes #1430 (1926-1989 marriages) Drouin-Pépin (1926-1942) - QFHS (1926-1942) - Ancestry.ca (1926-1942)
1951 - St. Johns Saint Thomas More Church - BAnQ book of indexes #1430
(1958-1989 marriages)
1967 - St. Johns Military College Protestant Chapel - Opened in 1967, still open
to this day - BAnQ book of indexes #1430 (1967-1989 marriages)
1974 - St. Johns Good Sheppard Chapel - BAnQ book of indexes #1430 (19741989 marriages)
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Ste-Ursule – County of Maskinongé
see Louiseville - also referred to as St. Ursule in various Protestant Church registers
Trois Rivières – County of St-Maurice
The only mid-size city between Montréal and Québec city first settled in the 1650's Also referred to as Three Rivers within Protestant church records
1763 – Saint James Anglican - Episcopalian – Trois Rivières – Following the
British take-over on February 10th 1763, the British would take possession of the
Récollets Church and Monastery situated on des Ursulines street in Trois Rivières –
The church, hall and rectory were built in 1754 as a Récollet Monastery - Saint
James’ Anglican church is still in existence today at the same location - First
Anglican church service in French in Trois Rivières in the Chapelle des Récollets –
First marriage on December 26th 1767 – Rev. Légère Jean Baptiste Noël Vessière,
presiding - Those who served: H.R. Bigg, Henry Burgess, Philip Carrington, John
Doty, Andrew Hunter Dunn, Francis Evans, John Foster, I. Gamble Geddes, C.
Gorley, James Grant, J.W. Harrison, G. Heaton, John H. Jenkins, William N. Jenkins,
D.W. Kidd, Arthur Ernest Edgar Legge, James S. Moore, Jacob Mountain, George
Jehoshaphat Mountain, G. Mullaney, G.H.A. Murray, Robert Quirk Question Short,
F.A. Smith, W.W. Smith, Charles James Stewart, H. C. Stuart, John Torrance, Léger
Jean-Baptiste Noël Veyssière, James W. Williams, Lennox Waldron Williams,
Samuel Simpson Wood - Anglican Archives Quebec Diocese Lennoxville, parish
registers: (1768-1956) fonds also includes confirmations and marriage banns,
contact Archives, James Sweeny, archivist - archivist@quebec.anglican.ca - QFHS
book #HG-154.99 L3 (1768-1956, 191 pages) - The Anglican Church in Three
Rivers, Quebec 1768-1956 by Arthur Ernest Edgar Legge - BAnQ films (1768-1809)
& (1768-1792) & (1768-1883) & (1810-1882) & (1863-1940) & (1883) & (1884) &
(1885-1887) & (1888-1900) & (1916) - BAnQ book of indexes of mariages, baptisms,
deaths #951 (1767-1875) - Drouin-Pépin (1768-1883 & 1863-1940) - QFHS (17681883 & 1863-1940) - Ancestry.ca (1768-1883 & 1863-1940)
1767 – Wesleyan Methodist Church – BAnQ film (1768-1883) - BAnQ book of
indexes of marriages #951 (1767-1875) - Drouin-Pépin (1768-1883) - QFHS (17681883) - Ancestry.ca (1768-1883) see:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjmartin-index.htm
1823 – Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian - Those who served: Rev. Mr. Aitken, Calvin
Elijah Amaron, John A. Clark, Dugall Currie, George D. Ferguson, William Jones,
Peter Lindsay, A.Y. Love, J.R. MacLeod, George R. Maxwell, James McCaul, Robert
G. McClaren, G.H. Murray, Ernest Pacouil, James Thorne - United Church
Archives Montreal & Ottawa Conference, civil registers (1846-1925) - BAnQ films
(1846-1882) & (1883) & (1884) & (1885-1887) & (1888-1900) & (1879-1899) &
(1846-1940 & 1902-1923) & (1900-1901) - Drouin-Pépin (1879-1923) - QFHS
(1879-1923) - Ancestry.ca (1879-1923) - QFHS film (1844-1882)
1831 – Three Rivers Wesleyan Methodist Circuit - Those who served: Rev. James
Armstrong, David Balfour, Thomas Bell, William Blackstock, John B. Brownell,
Thomas Campbell Clark, Joseph Shaw Coffin, L. Conley, John Corbett, George H.
Davis, Charles DeWolfe, Alexander Drennan, Richard Eason, A.H. Farmsworth,
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William Faulkner, Benjamin Flight, William Hansford, William Henderson, John
Holmes, Henry Irvine, Albert Johnson, Sidney C. Kendall, James Knowland, Matthew
Lang, Jeremy Lanton, David B. Madden, D. Mick, E.S. Morrison, Edward Olivant,
Samuel C. Philp, William Pollard, Richard Pope, George C. Poyser, J.A. Rankin,
Richard Robinson, M.M. Ross, William Ryan, John Ryerson, Joseph L. Sanders,
William S. Scott, John Selley, Joseph Simpson, Benjamin Slight, George W. Snell,
William Steer, Joseph Stinson, Edmund E. Sweet, Lachlin Taylor, L. Sheldon
Throop, James Watson, J. Harold Way, William Wells - United Church Archives
Montreal & Ottawa Conference, parish registers (1831-1925) - BAnQ films (18311844) & (1845-1925) & (1916) & (1831-1845) & (1846-1882) & (1876-1879) & (1884)
& (1885-1887) & (1888-1900) - Drouin-Pépin (1845-1935) - QFHS (1845-1935) Ancestry.ca (1845-1935)
1863 – Saint James Anglican - Episcopalian – The church became a parish on
April 18th 1863– The church was first organized on February 10th 1763, 100 years
prior.
1925 – Saint Andrew’s United Church - United Church Archives Montreal &
Ottawa Conference Montréal, (1925-1984)
Warwick County
A 1791 county located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence between the counties
of Leinster and St. Maurice. The town of Berthier or Berthierville was actually located
in Warwick county
William Henry - County of Richelieu
Another name for Sorel, an original county of 1792 within Lower Canada - The
expression of William Henry can be found among the earliest church registers of
Sorel.
1784 – Christ Anglican Mission of William Henry - Anglican Archives Montreal
Diocese, Montréal, content not reported - contact Archives, Barbara McPherson,
assistant archivist - archivist@montreal.anglican.ca - BAnQ films (1810-1868) &
(1868-1939) & (1843-1885) - Drouin-Pépin (1810-1939) - QFHS (1810-1939) Ancestry.ca (1810-1939)
1844 – Congregationalist Mission of William Henry - BAnQ film (1844-1847) QFHS film (1844-1847)
Yamachiche - County of Maskinongé
Referred to in Protestant church records as Machiche, the latter located on the
northern shores of the St. Lawrence river between Trois-Rivières and Louiseville Machiche was a premier relocation area for the United Empire Loyalists (UEL) - In
1778, one source placed 440 Loyalist supporters in Yamachiche
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Yamaska Mountain - County of Rouville
See Abbotsford
Yamaska Region - County of Yamaska
A district which encompass Acton Vale, Roxton, Roxton Falls, Upton and other
villages and towns
1924 - Yamaska Region United Church Civil Registers - United Church
Archives ETRC Lennoxville, fonds #UC-023 (1924-1984), restrictions are in order,
contact Archives, Jody Robinson, archivist etrc2@ubishops.ca
Repositories
Archives nationales du Québec - Montréal, Québec, Trois-Rivières, Gatineau,
Sherbrooke, Rimouski, Chicoutimi, Sept-Iles, Rouyn-Noranda - Legend: BAnQ
Anglican Church of Canada - Montreal Diocesan Archives - 1444, Union avenue,
Montréal QC H3A 2B6 514-843-6577
United Church of Canada Archives - Montréal & Westmount
Montreal & Ottawa Conference - 225, 50th avenue, Lachine QC H8T 2T7 514-6347015 ext 28 archives.mo@istar.ca - United Church Coding Legend: "UCAM P603 S2
SS #" - Please note: restrictions in regard to genealogy searches are applicable
Montreal Presbytery - Westmount - 301 Lansdowne avenue, Westmount QC H3Z
2L5 414-933-4285 mtlpres@on.aibn.com - United Church Coding Legend: "UCMP
UCC #" - Please note: restrictions in regard to genealogy searches are applicable
archives@montreal.anglican.ca - Please note: restrictions in regard to genealogy
searches are applicable, please also note, civil register books, banns, confirmations
for parishes currently active might be kept in 2010 at the Archives on Union avenue The same might apply to church registers of churches no longer active - contact
Archives.
The Quebec Association of Baptist Churches - Montréal
www.quebecbaptist.org/main/
Presbyterian Church of Canada - Canadian Archives 50 Wynford Drive,
Toronto ON M3C 1J7 800-619-7301 banger@presbyterian.ca - Please note:
restrictions in regard to genealogy searches are applicable
Contributors or source material:
Beverly Anderson Levine, H. Gordon (Gary) Aitken, Bob Anger, Ken Annett, Judy
Antle, Tracey Arial, Doug Armstrong, Kim Arnold, Joseph Badger, Diane & Ray
Baillie, Hugh Banfill, Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne, Joan Benoit, Hélène Bergevin,
Gary Bickes, Jennie Bickes, Estelle Brisson, Neil Broadhurst, William B. Bullock,
Lucille H. Campey, Jim Caputo, Luc Charlebois, Guy Coolidge, John Irwin Cooper,
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Déragon, Herbert Derick, Gail Dever, C.P.C. Downman, Mary Ducharme, Robert
Dunn, David J. Ellis, W.J. Ellis, Matthew Farfan, J.M. Fisk, E.R. Fitch, Denis Fortin,
Françine Fortin, D. Galbraith, Mark W. Gallop, Michael Gauvreau, Sylvia GreenGuenette, Janice Hamilton, Phyllis Hamilton, Beryl Hauver, Mimi Hayward, Kevin
Erskine-Henry, Derek C. Hopkins, H.B. Hubbard, Henry Judah, Cecilia Karwowski,
Jean-Pierre Kesteman, Jean-Louis Lalonde, Robert Lamb, Shirley Lamb, Marcel
Lambert, Burton Lang, Adelaide Lanktree, Elizabeth Larrabee, Winoma Lawrence,
Diane Leblanc, Ronald Léger, Arthur Ernest Edgar Legge, Sophie Lemercier, Jeanne
Lemieux, David Lepitre, Beverly Anderson Levine, Claire Lindell, J.I. Little, Bev
Loomis, Richard Lougheed, Matt Lowe, Hale Lunan, Marilynn Lund Broadhurst, Don
MacCallum, Alexander Macfie, Robert Douglas Macfie, Betty McKay Mackenzie, Dan
Mark, William Martin, Winoma Lawrence Matthews, Mickey Maynard, Connie
McClintock, David McDougall, Robert McGee, Hugh McLellan, Malcom McLellan,
Barbara McPherson, Antonio Mongeau, Sophie Morel, Françoise Noël, Daniel
Olivier, Bobbie Paradis, Jean-Pierre Pépin, René Peron, Marion L. Phelps, Mary
Plawutsky. George F. Playter, George Pyke, Michel Racicot, T.A. Ramsey, Pierre
Rannou, G. A. Rawlick, Pennie Redmile, Waltert Herbert Renwick, Melissa Richer,
Sébastien Robert, Jody Robinson, Gerald A. Rogers, Geneviève Rosseel, Pearl
Rowell, Arlene Royea, Ken Russell, Joseph Edward Sanderson, Gary Schroder,
Adam L. Sellar, Adams L. Sellar, Robert Sellar, Marlene Simmons, Albert Smith,
C.A. Smith, Alister Somerville, Peter Southam, Marion Standish, Susan Stanley, Ken
Steffenson, Jackie Hebert Stoneberg, Charles Stewart, James Sweeny, Ann Taft, E.
James Tarlton, Ernest M. Taylor, Cyrus Thomas, Micajah Townsend, Carol
Truesdell, Alice Tully, Catherine Turckle, Richard Virr, Joyce Wardlaw, Walter S.
White, Robert C. Wilkins, Pamela Wood Waugh, Connie McClintock Wilson, S.A.
Zielinski, Barbara Young
Date of completion of the above August 10th 2014
The above research guide is the property of Jacques Gagné and as such, said work
is protected by the Copyright Laws of Canada governing such intellectual properties.
Compiled by: Jacques Gagné - gagne.jacques@sympatico.ca
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