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Archive Record
Metadata
Item ID# |
BBCA series 10 |
Title |
Bruce Beach church |
Object Name |
Archival Series |
Creator |
Bruce Beach Cottagers' Association |
Description |
This series consists of minutes, newspaper clippings, articles, cash books, correspondence, flyers, photographs, and a video documenting the members, and activities of the Bruce Beach church and church service committee. |
Admin/Biographical History |
The first religious worship occurred at Bruce Beach in 1900. James Anderson and his wife purchased cottage number 12 and set up a tent to hold religious services on Sunday evenings. As the first inhabitants were ministers and their families, religious services were extremely popular. As the number of attendants grew, the services were moved first to the McCosh flats and then to the Tout Flats. The church services always occurred outside on Sunday evenings so as not to clash with the weekly baseball game on Sunday mornings. The executive was later authorized to build a Church shell so that services could be held indoors during inclement weather. The area in which the services were held was part of Stephen Tout's property, who kindly reserved that part of his land. In 1941 Tout passed away and arrangements were made to acquire his land and a new stone pulpit was built in his memory. A few years later a piano was purchased by the Church Services Committee with funds from the concerts held at the church and help from the other committees. However, the plans to put up the Church shell had to be abandoned because the estimate of $300.00 exceeded the funds available for the project. Source: MacEachern, Ian. "A History of Bruce Beach." 1994. |
Collection |
Bruce Beach Cottagers' Association |
System of arrangement |
This series is part of the Bruce Beach Cottagers' Association fonds. |
Parent Object |
BBCA fonds |
Level of Description |
Series |
Physical Description |
6.4 cm of textual records 2 photographs : colour ; 15 x 10 cm 1 photograph : colour ; 14 x 10 1 photograph : colour ; 13 x 9 cm 1 videotape (1 hr., 17 min., 18 sec.) : sound, colour ; 13 mm (VHS) |
Restrictions on Use |
Responsibility for determining the copyright status and permissible use rests with the user. |
Places |
Bruce Beach Huron Township |
Child Records |
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