The Toronto Star's Noor Javed reports on how the Cathedral of Transfiguration, which gave the Markham town of Cathedraltown its name, is now finally open for worship. It's good that this building is finally going to be put to some use.

For residents of Cathedraltown, the news was nothing short of a Christmas miracle ( Read more... )

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John Lorinc's article in the Friday edition of The Globe and Mail reports on how Toronto's multicultural history can be intriguingly layered.

Growing up in the 1960s in Chinatown in a flat above her parents’ silk shop, Jennie Norman had no idea about the buried history beneath the Toronto Chinese United Church (TCUC), on Chestnut Street south of ( Read more... )

A Google search for St. Columba Presbyterian Church, located in the unincorporated community of Marshfield to the immediate northeast of Charlottetown, brings up nothing but links to church directories and snippets from Google Books. I know of this church from my years as a cyclist on the Island, as this church and the hill it lies on was the ( Read more... )

In "Toronto’s St. Michael’s Cathedral reopens to joyous applause after five year, $128M renovation", the National Post's Joseph Breen reports on the reopening of the central building of the Roman Catholic Church in Toronto. My theological and political issues with said church aside, this is an attractive building. It is good to see it back in use ( Read more... )

Moira Welsh's article in the Toronto Star describes how the congregation of United Church of Canada minister Gretta Vosper, whose church has recommended her removal from her position on account of her disbelief in core tenets of Christianity, remains loyal to her. I appreciate the congregation's loyalty, and think there may be much good in Vosper's ( Read more... )

I'd blogged in January 2014 about Trinity United Church, the building at 220 Richmond Street (Richmond at Prince) housing a United Church of Canada Congregation that happens to be one of Canada's Historic Places.


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The Long River Presbyterian Church, built in 1874 on the western end of the Island's North Shore for a Scottish Presbyterian community, would have decayed into ruin if not for the chance of L.M. Montgomery having attended service there on numerous occasions, when she was with her family in the area. The church was moved to Avonlea Village, where it ( Read more... )

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John Lorinc reports for the Toronto Star about a fascinating dig on the site of an old African Canadian church, the British Methodist Episcopal church in the middle of Toronto.

It has been called “one of the most important blocks of black history in Toronto,” a place where African Americans, fleeing slavery, found refuge to live, work and worship ( Read more... )