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Knox
Presbyterian Church
photo taken by the
author, May 9, 2004
Text from Archives Canada, Canadian Archival Information Network
website
TITLE:
Knox Presbyterian Church (Harrington, Ont.) fonds
DATES:
1859-1957 1859-1911
ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH:
"Knox Presbyterian Church, Harrington was established in 1857. The
congregation built a church on a site donated by Mr. John Fraser and that year,
called the Rev. William Meldrum as its first minister. He served until 1870. The
Rev. Daniel Gordon was inducted in 1871 serving until his resignation in 1890.
His son Charles W. Gordon, also became a minister of the church and gained fame
as the outstanding Canadian writer "Ralph Connor". In 1891, the frame
church building was moved nearer the road and the building brick veneered. A new
brick manse was also built in 1897, replacing the frame structure built just to
the east. The congregation was associated with Brooksdale from 1919 until 1925.
That year with the Church Union vote, just under half the members and the
minister left to join Broadview United Church. The Harrington congregation
continued on its own and briefly (in 1927) Harrington came under the care of
Knox, Embro in Paris Presbytery, although it was part of the Stratford
Presbytery. In 1930, Burns Church, East Zorra and Harrington were linked and
this arrangement continued until 1941 when Burns was linked with Tavistock and
Harrington was transferred to Paris Presbytery and linked with Knox Embro, an
arrangement which continues to the present day. The Acts and Proceedings of 1948
first associates the name Knox with the Harrington congregation that year."
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