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Park St Baptist Church
Park St Baptist Church (taken 2005)

16 Park St N (at Chamberlain) 705-742-5583


Membership Roll Books 1896 - 1906, 1911 - 1922

            The first book lists the members of Murray St who formed Park St in 1895

The second book has, towards the back, a list of congregation members who served in WW1, complete with regimental numbers.

Church Minutes (4 books) 1895-1907, 1907-1923, 1924-1955, 1955 Apr 3 - 1959 Jan 16 BA

Marriage Registers (3 books) BA

            1897 Jul 7 - 1940 Dec 14

            1941 Jan 25 - 1951 Sep 22

            1951 Sep 22 - 1964 May 2

Sunday School Attendance 1920 - 1929

Ladies Aid Minutes and Membership Roll 1913 - 1924 


For a time this congregation occupied a building on Dalhousie St between Stewart and Rubidge that had been used by the Presbyterians to start Peterborough-Knox.


(Some dates for pastors comes from the church Membership Roll)

            1888 Aug                                started as a mission of Murray St

            1892 Oct 2                              Dedicated, Mission

            1893                                        J J Reeves (student?)

            1894 - 1896 Apr                     W J Pady (student at start) No longer called “mission”.

            1895 May 8                            organized as a separate church

            1895 Sep 15                            Re-opened

            1896 summer                          Jas Chapman (student)

            1896                                        Trapscott

            1897 - 1901 Jun                      O C Elliott (student at start)

            1901 Jun                                 J H Hannah

            1902 - 1906                            A H Brace

            1908 Aug - 1913 Mar             W C Riddiford

            1908                                        second church opened

            1913 - 1914                            F A Conners

            1915 May 9 - 1920 May 2      Dougald Brown

            1920 May 9 - 1924 Mar          W E Morrow

            1924 Jun - 1926 Dec               N R McLeod

            1927 Apr - 1932                     J L Harton

            1932 Jun - 1936                      G K Tyler

            1937 Jun - 1942                      C C Boyter (the 1941 Yearbook lists N S McKechnie, but a check of the church’s Deacons Minutes and the Peterborough Association minutes indicate that Boyter was there throughout 1941)

            1943                                        vacant

            1944 - 1952                            Edward J Whan

            1953 - 1955                            A S Roblin

            1956                                        vacant

            1957 - 1979                            Edward Williams

            1980 - 1984                            John A Wilton

            1983 - 1984                                        David Graham (asst)

            1985                                        vacant

            1986 - 1988                            Paul White

            1989 - 2002                            Ian G Dixon