ALL WELCOME!
Holy Eucharist:

    Sept. 3 to July 3 at 11.

Summer services:
    July 10 to 31, 10 a.m.
    at St Paul's in Kirkton,

    August services
    in St Marys at 10.

From 1860 to 1887 the parish owned a rectory on Thomas Street.
The house pictured was built in 1889 behind the church.

In 2003 it became the offices of an accounting firm.

Rectors of St James

1851 - 1858
1858 - 1865
1865
1866 - 1870
1870 - 1888
1888 - 1889
1890
1890 - 1917
1917 - 1923
1923 - 1936
1937 - 1944
1944 - 1950
1950 - 1960
1960 - 1964
1964 - 1972
1972 - 1976
1977 - 1982
1983 - 1995
1988 - 1995


June 1, 1996


1996 - 2000
2001 - present

Archibald Lampman
James Smythe
Stephen Benson Kellogg
John J. Curran
Joel Tombleson Wright
Charles O'Meara
Thomas Magahy
William James Taylor
Charles Keith Masters
A.B. Farney
William Snelgrove
George Percival Parson
Leonard Jacklin
Garwood George Russell
Handley R. Perkins
Robert Crocker
Robert Birtch
Walter Mills
Noel Paterson

The parishes of
St Paul's, Kirkton
and St James merged

Glenda Meakin
Dalice Sim

In 1842 there were only 77 people in the whole of Blanshard Township, including St Marys.

In 1843, Rev. Canon Charles Crosbie Brough, based at St John's, Arva, conducted the first Church of England service in St Marys at Thomas Ingersoll's grist mill.

The church in about 1900
before the Parish Hall was built.
(from History of Perth County 1825-1902
by William Johnston, published 1903)