St. Paul's Church

Photo by Alan L Brown - June 13, 2004

Photo by Alan L Brown - July 8, 2007

Plaque Location

The County of Leeds and Grenville
The Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal
On the south side of County Road 2 just east of Cardinal, Street Number 107 [Note: Since the plaque was installed, the tower referred to was demolished in 1990 according to a small plaque on the stone cairn pictured above. The cairn was made from the tower's stones.]

Plaque Text

In 1828 Richard Duncan Fraser, the son of an early Loyalist settler, Thomas Fraser, donated land here for the building of a church to serve the Anglicans in this area. Their minister, the Reverend J.G. Weagandt, the missionary stationed at Williamsburgh, was the former Lutheran who had become embroiled in a bitter local controversy when, in 1812, he persuaded his congregations in Williamsburgh and Osnabruck to adopt the Anglican faith. Under his guidance, a stone church was erected here by 1833. Despite the efforts of other early pastors, the Rev. J.G.B. Lindsay and the Rev. E. Boswell, the congregation remained small. In 1872 a new St. Paul's Church was built in nearby Cardinal and, except for this tower, the old structure was taken down.