HERITAGE PROPERTY DETAILSDue to the website information being contained within a frame and not easily linked to, the site has a PDF which can be viewed here.
Name of Historic Place: Holy Trinity Anglican Church Site
Other Name(s): Holy Trinity Anglican Church
Date of Origin: 1914
Historic Use: Religious Facility or Place of Worship
Current Use: Religious Facility or Place of Worship
Location: Shellbrook RM 493
FORMAL RECOGNITION
Type of Recognition: Municipal Heritage Property
Date of Recognition: September 3, 1981
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The Holy Trinity Anglican Church Site is a Municipal Heritage Property located approximately 20 kilometres northeast of Shellbrook. The designation applies to a small, wood-frame church built in 1914.
The heritage value of the Holy Trinity Anglican Church Site lies with its association to the establishment of the Anglican faith in this region of the province. Constructed by local builders and made from locally cut timber, this church was used by the congregation for more than forty years. It remains today one of the oldest Anglican churches in the Shellbrook region and was used until the congregation built a new church at another location in 1958.
The heritage value of the church also lies in its architecture. The church displays the traditional architectural style of rural churches and includes Gothic-Revival elements such as the arched windows, arched main entrance, and front bell tower.
Source: Rural Municipality of Shellbrook No. 493 Bylaw No. 5-1981.
Heads up if you go looking for the page yourself, there are three other historic Holy Trinity Anglican churches in Saskatchewan, with a total of seven historical churches being named "Holy Trinity" so make sure what you're looking at is in R.M. 493.
Source: Holy Trinity Anglican Church Site - Shellbrook RM 493. 29-Aug-2009. www.tpcs.gov.sk.ca/heritage-property-search
I live in England.My Canadian cousins & I travelled to Sturgeon Valley to search for our great grandfather last summer. We found him buried at Holy Trinity & his grave was marked John Hannibul. He was really John Annable, born in Engaland in 1850 & died in 1922 after a fall from the cart pulled by young horses. He was an emigrant there from 1906, with the promise of 160 acres of farmland!! We were kindly helped to find the grave by Ron & his wife. John's neighbours were the Bruces. John's wife never joined him from England. Only one of his sons,my grandfather, who had emigrated from uk to Toronto in 1909, went to help John, (for a year). I have a photo of John outside his log cabin c 1917! I have letters written by John from 1912, chronicling the terrible life he endured. He had smallpox & ended up in the Pest House & was a bitter old man by the end.
ReplyDeleteWonderful to hear from you Sue.
ReplyDeleteWhen transcribing the cemetery, Ron and Shelia actually mentioned your visit and the story behind Hannibul/Annable's marker and that it was incorrect! So it's doubly interesting that you found my blog.
When I get to posting his marker on Tombstone Tuesday I'm also going to be doing a separate post about the real identity of the gentleman buried beneath the marker.
Thanks for providing his birth and death years though! I don't think I have those yet. And for the other information, as I got the impression from the history book that has a brief biography of him that he was a bachelor. You do have a copy of that biography?
Thank you for sharing!