A history of the Diocese of Toronto: Hughes, Alan L (ed) – By Grace Co-Workers – Anglican Book Centre (1989) ISBN 0-921846-15-0
Some information on early Anglican ministers can be found in Talman, J J - Some Notes on the Clergy of the Church of England in Upper Canada Prior to 1840 - Trans Royal Soc of Canada, 3rd Series, Section II, Vol 32 (1938)
Information on the location of records can be found in: Guide to the Holdings of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario - Generation Press (1990)
The data in the Anglican section comes from Yearbooks and from individual church histories. By “Yearbook” is meant: from 1846 to 1868 the annual Report of The Church Society of the Diocese of Toronto (Reports prior to 1846 do not contain any useable data), from 1858 to 1980 the annual Journal of the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto (Journals prior to 1858 do not contain any useable data), from 1981 to 1992 the Anglican Yearbook, and from 1993 the Anglican Church Directory. Information in the Synod Journals can be in two places: the List of Clergy and Lay Representatives and, often containing more detail, the Tabular Statement of Collections. The Statement of Collections did not exist from 1885 to 1888. OGSK has two files: Brief Histories of Anglican Churches in the Kawartha District and Anglican Church Histories.
The ministers listed in the Anglican sectin have been checked in a card index of clergy at AAT. This has resulted in some additions, marked here as from “AAT Index”
History (as it affects Peterborough County)
1787 - Diocese of Nova Scotia formed (included Peterborough)
1793 - Diocese of Quebec formed (included Peterborough)
1839 - Diocese of Toronto formed (includes Peterborough)
1853 - Synod for Diocese of Toronto organized
1860 - Ecclesiastical Province of Canada formed (included Diocese of Toronto)
1893 - General Synod established
1912 - Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario formed (includes Diocese of Toronto)
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG)
The SPG was established to encourage the establishment of Anglican churches and ministers outside
England. It had a long and active life, including activity in Upper Canada. SPG information is from Digest of
SPG Records, 5ed - SPG, London, England (1895). SPG records are in London, England. Microfilms of some SPG
records are at AC and AAC. The records are of interest because SPG missionaries wrote letters to the SPG describing
their activities.
Here is a list of ministers who worked in the Peterborough area and had SPG support, although both
may not have occurred at the same time. The list shows where and when the minister received SPG support. Note
that manyof these parishes / communities are not in Peterborough County.
| Armour, Samuel | Peterborough 1827 - 1831, Cavan 1832 - 1852 | |
| Beck, John Walton Romaine | Rice Lake 1853 - 1857 | |
| Bell, C Roles | Douglas 1867 - 1868, Eganville 1869 | |
| Burnham, Mark | St Thomas 1829 - 1852, Peterborough 1853 | |
| D’Olier, Richard Henry | Peterborough 1833 - 1838 | |
| Harper, W F Stuart | Newcastle 1838, 1839 Mar - 1840, Bath 1841 - 1853 | |
| Hilton, J | Norwood Asphodel 1854 - 1855, Perrytown 1856 - 1857 | |
| Mockridge, Charles Henry | Madoc 1868 - 1871 | |
| McNabb, Alexander | Rice Lake 1851 - 1852, Darlington 1853 - 1857 | |
| Street, George Charles | Emily 1840-41, Newmarket 1842-47, Port Stanley 1848-53 | |
| Taylor, Robert Joseph Crozier | Peterborough 1839, 1842 - 1852, Newmarket 1840 - 1841 | |
| Thompson, Joseph | Cavan 1819 - 1840 | |
| Tocque, Philip | Storrington 1863 | |
| Wade, Charles Taylor | Newcastle etc 1836 - 1837, Peterborough 1841 |
Very Early Records
If you are searching for records before a church was built in an area, check listings for Cavan
(1819 on), Peterborough - St John (1833 on), Norwood - Christ Church (1856 on), Hastings - St George (1862 on), Apsley
Parish (1875 on) and churches in the out-of-county towns of Cobourg and Port Hope.
Note: John Vicars, from Lindsay, visited Galway Twp 1861 - 1867