St. Alban’s Anglican Church Cemetery
Location:
17219 Hwy 50 (Palgrave), Caledon, Peel Region, Ontario, Canada.
Concession 7 Lot 7 W½, Albion Township.
GPS:
Latitude: 43.9508°N
Longitude: -79.8365°W
History:
Trudy Mann, in her book, Early Churches of Albion and Caledon Townships, Peel County, writes that Anglicans originally worshiped in a log house in Palgrave belonging to Hugh Matson, as well as at Rowley’s Schoolhouse which was situated on the northeast corner of Lot 27, Concession 7 in Albion Township and was used for services by other denominations. The schoolhouse was listed on the Rev. H. B. Osler’s preaching schedule.
The congregation then moved to the Orange Hall where the Rev. Osler of Lloydtown began holding regular services until an Anglican church was erected in the village Rev. Swallow purchased Lot 3 from Henry Mullen in 1880 in the Gower Block on the east side of Main Street and Lot 4 from Robert Gower for a church site. By 1901 the census shows St. Alban’s Church as having 30 members. The church was closed in 1917, though the Toronto Anglican Synod showed Palgrave as a preaching point until 1995. Members probably transferred to Tottenham or Bolton Anglican Church. In 1998 the church property was sold.
The first interment in St. Alban’s Cemetery, according to William Perkins Bull, was that of Florence May Taylor whose body was later reinterred in Laurel Hill Cemetery. In fact, most of the burials recorded by Bull in 1938 were removed to Laurel Hill, Morningside or St. John’s, Mono. There was supposedly only one grave remaining, that of John Rowley — at least the monument was there. The windows of the church were removed to Morningside.
Dorothy Kew
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