Galt Free Methodist Church Multiple locations Cambridge

• Name	Galt Free Methodist Church Multiple locations Cambridge
  Nickname	2
  Born	congregation begun 1876	Galt Free Methodist Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario
  Gender	Unknown
  Died	still exists 1993
  Alt Address	2011	31 South St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario
  	Now known as Lincoln Park Free Methodist Church.
  Name	Lincoln Park Free Methodist Church Cambridge
  Person ID	I602	Properties
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2011

  
  

• Notes

  Galt Free Methodist Lincoln Park Free Methodist Church Begun: 1876      A group of thirteen people who had been holding prayer meetings in Galt were organized in 1876 into a Free Methodist Society by Rev. Charles H. Sage of the North Michigan Conference. Galt was the first Free Methodist congregation in Canada. Rev. D.D. Marston (1877-1878) was the first resident minister, followed by James Craig (1879) and J.H. Winter (1880). The Canada Conference of the Free Methodist Church was organized at a meeting in Galt in 1880. Early services of the Galt Free Methodist Church were held in a house on Brook Street owned by Mr. & Mrs. E. Rhodes until a church was built. The first parsonage was built in 1904 on land donated by J. Ballantine. In 1909, when J.A. Fletcher was minister, the church and parsonage were sold and a downtown church was built at 37 Wellington St. An adjacent building was purchased for a parsonage. In May 1953 the sod was turned for a new church on South Street at Centre Street; a basement church was opened in October of that year; the upper part of the church was built c.1956. Records: Baptism dates: unknown Location of records: unknown Marriage dates unknown Location of records: unknown Burial dates: unknown Location of records: unknown [ADDRESS/LOCATION: 31 South St., Cambridge, ON N1R 2N6 - in the Galt section of Cambridge; 621-7722.] References: Cant 1915:71-72; R. Taylor 1986. Church History: Campbell, J.A. History of the Galt Free Methodist Church, 1956.1a 1aAmbrose, Rosemary. Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide to Churches Established Before 1900. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada: Waterloo-Wellington Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1993. [used the kind permission of Rosemary Ambrose 2011]

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - congregation begun 1876 - Galt Free Methodist Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario Alt Address - 2011 - 31 South St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario  = Link to Google Earth