Today’s post features a look at the Giles Boulevard United Church, built in 1923
Sent along by regular reader Kathyrn, are these scans from a fund raising brochure from 1959.
The brochure was prepared to help raise funds for a new Christian Education Building to be built on the back side of the church.
Note the frame building in the middle picture on the left hand side.
Eventually, the funds were raised and the addition built, however it ended up smaller and with a different orientation than originally planned…
Anyone out there with any memories of the building (which is now a daycare I believe) or the church itself?
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This is my family church as well. Many wonderful memories from childhood to adult attending many groups/special events/services etc. Most senior family members were choir members; Grandfather and father being soloists. Grandparents lived 3 houses away on Giles as did my immediate family for a time. Are there any old records or photos available to be seen? By the way, Kathryn is my cousin. I miss this church and its great sense of community for the many families that it served over the years. We were all very close. We were blessed to have been part of its history.
This is my childhood church, where I used to belong to my dad's junior choir, and was inspired by the wonderful hymns, and gorgeous voices. My dad was organist and choir director in the early 60's, and I spent many a day and night in that place, listening to his practicing the organ and teaching the choir. I sang my first solo here-Can a little child like me, thank the Lord so fittingly...That was 50+ years ago, but the lessons have stuck, and I'm still singing in a great choir, although 3000 miles away in California. Giles is the place I met my wonderful Aunt Elsie-a single lady at church who needed children, and who we needed as an aunt. Funny how Joan and I ended up so far from the church we loved in Windsor. Life is funny that way. All my best Giles community- Sheila Crabtree-Benson