(often called North Douro)

Queen Street 705- 652-8302

There are five registers at AAT. All are microfilmed (reel 93)

1. Register AAT

            Baptisms (1855 Feb 19 - 1883 Apr 20)

            Communicants (1874 Feb 1 - 1875 Dec 25)

                The communicants are named.

            Marriages (1856 Nov 4 - 1858 Sep 15, 1873 Dec 30 - 1883 Apr 11)

            Burials (1855 Apr 29 - 1864 Mar 22)

2. Burial Register AAT

            Burials (1864 Apr 15 - 1883 Mar 6)

3. Register AAT

            Families Belonging

                No date, no ages, some birth years, detailed description of where they lived.

                From the names, it seems to have been done in 1889 or 1890.

                Lakefield at front of the section, Warsaw at the back of the section.

            Baptisms (1883 Apr 20 - 1914 Oct 4)

            Confirmed (1884 Jul 10 - 1918 Apr 14)

            Marriages (1883 Apr 11 - 1919 Jul 20)

            Burials (1883 Apr 24 - 1919 Jan 4)

            There are some financial records and a useful name index at the back of the register.

4. Marriage Register AAT

            Marriages (1896 Aug 13 - 1897 Nov 24) Only five marriages listed.

5. Register AAT

            Baptisms (1914 Oct 14 - 1941 Mar 12)

            Confirmations (1914 Dec 20 - 1941 May 28)

            Marriages (1914 Dec 16 - 1941 Dec 16)

            Burials (1913 Jul 22 - 1941 Jul 21)

As well microfilm reel 93 contains some loose marriage entries from 1921 - 1924.

AC has a microfilm of marriages from 1859 to 1873 on reel H-1810

Baptisms for 1857 and 1858 are in the marriage register for Peterborough Co (original at OA) and transcribed in the Ontario Register, vol 6, p240-241

See Ashburnham-St Luke for a list of confirmations on 1901 Jun 5

The dates given below for ministers is from the registers, so their actual incumbency may be slightly longer.

            1863 Oct - 1873 Sep               Vincent Clementi

            1866                                        St John the Baptist built and congregation moved from Christ Church.

            1866 Oct 16                            first service in new church.

            1866 - 1888                            name changed to North Douro

            1869                                        2 churches/stations

            1870                                        Appendix Z states that the parish is undefined and has two stone churches in “good” condition worth $5400

            1873 Dec - 1876 Mar             C J Everest

            1876 Aug - 1878 Jun              E Horace Mussen

            1878 Jul - 1882 Jun                C Roles Bell (AAT index shows him in Warsaw too)

            1880                                        Warsaw-St Marks listed. This is the first time subsidiary churches are listed in the Synod Journal.

            1882 Jul - 1889 Apr                John Farncomb

            1886                                        F E Farncomb (second minister)

            1889 Jul - 1906 Nov               George Warren

            1895 - 1910                            A W Mackenzie (asst)

            1899                                        add Halls Glen

            1901                                        Warsaw and Halls Glen moved to Warsaw

            1907 Feb - 1909 Nov              Walter John Creighton

            1909 Nov - 1911 May            Frederick John Sawers

            1911 Jun - 1915 May              H A Ben-O’liel (Yearbook has him there until 1917)

            1914 - 1919                            A W Mackenzie (asst)

            1916 - 1919                            H Britten (asst)

            1917 Aug - 1918 Oct              C Spencer

            1919                                        J Lintott Taylor

            1919 Oct - 1920 Jul                Walter Archbold

            1921 - 1922                            F Vipond

            1922 Sep - 1923 Sep               Charles Grant King

            1923 Dec - 1926 Apr              Walter Cox

            1924 Jan 1                              Warsaw attached (from Stony Lake Mission)

            1926                                        Warsaw not listed

            1927 Mar - 1938                     W J Creighton

            1938 Oct - 1941 Sep              H Reginald Howden

            1941 Nov - 1944                     S A R Wood

            1945 - 1948                            M R Hunt

            1949 - 1956                            Lloyd Delaney

            1951                                        Warsaw moved from Peterborough

            1957                                        vacant

            1958 - 1962                            Duncan MacLean

            1963 - 1966 Oct 31                 J R F Moore

            1967                                        E J Guthrie

            1968 - 1977                            J A Purser

            1978 - 1986                            E Bruce McCallum

            1983 - 1994                            G Moore W Smith (asst in Warsaw)

            1987 - 1993                            Richard A Jones

            1994                                        vacant

            1995 - 2005                            Peter C Bishop

            2003 - 2004                            Ruth Knapp-McKee (asst)

            2006                                        Vacant

            2007 - 2008                            Wendy Moore

            2008                                        Naomi Miller

            2009                                        Ruth M Adams (interim)

            2010 - 2013                            Munroe Scott