- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LCR .O5A5A5R4
- Category:
- Church
- Creator:
- St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church (St. Andrew's West, Ontario).
- Material Description:
- 1 microfilm textual records (2 volumes) ; 35 mm
- Background:
This church building, the oldest remaining stone structure in the province of Ontario erected as a church, was completed about 1801. Many of the settlers in this area in the county of Stormont, were Roman Catholic Highlanders, ministered to by the Rev. Roderick Macdonell, the missionary at St. Regis. The church was built under his leadership, with the assistance of a prominent local settler, John Macdonell, who obtained contribution for its construction from members of the North West Company and other fur traders. It was used as a hospital during the War of 1812, and served its congregation until replaced by the adjacent church in 1860. Simon Fraser and Sandfield Macdonald are buried in the graveyard opposite. (Ontario Heritage Trust)
- Contents:
Volume 1: baptisms, marriages, burials, and financial records, 1802-1836. The registers are not filmed in chronological order.
Volume 2: baptisms, marriages, burials, 1836-1856; and lists of persons confirmed for the following years: 1837, 1846, 1863, 1845, 1850, 1852, 1854, 1856 and 1861.
- Originals:
The original records are held by St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church and were loaned by Father J.A. Wylie, St. Andrew's, Ontario, to the Archives of Ontario for microfilming Now overseen by the Ottawa-Cornwall Archdiocese Archives.
- Archival Ref. No.:
- AO MS 162.
- Finding Aids:
- There is a brief inventory description at the beginning of the reel.
A Table of Contents is available in print.
- PDF Finding Aid:
- 450.html
- Notes:
- There is an error in the inventory description at the beginning of the reel. Volume 1 begins in 1802, not in 1806.