St. Margaret's Church

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted August, 2007

At 4130 Lawrence Avenue East, just west of Kingston Road, a 1975 Scarborough Historical Society plaque has been erected on a post across the cemetery from this church. Here's what it has to say:

Plaque coordinates: 43.768309 -79.193305

Scarborough's first Anglican Church was built in 1833 on a .8 ha lot given for a church yard and burying ground by Simon E. Washburn, clerk of the home district and a church warden of St. James' York. The church was named after his wife, Margaret Fitzgibbon, and the saintly eleventh century Queen of Scotland. Early services in the parish were conducted by Dr. John Strachan's divinity students and masters of Upper Canada College until the appointment of the first resident clergyman, Rev. Wm. H. Norris, in 1840. A brick parsonage was built on 2.5 hectares adjoining the churchyard in 1857, and provided a comfortable home for successive clergy for 100 years. The original wooden church, destroyed by fire in 1904, was replaced in 1905 by the small brick building still standing in the cemetery.

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