Jubilee of the Centenary Church, Hamilton, Canada, 1868-1918 . REV. WM. SPARLING, , , The Centenary INTERIOR, AUDITORIUM, THE CENTENARY CHURCH Fifty . Years • of • Service Iff the The foundations of Methodism in the Niagara egtnmng Peninsula and Westernlatter part of the Eighteenth Century. egtnmng Peninsula and Western Ontario were laid in the In the first year of the Nineteenth Century all this Westernsection of the Province, from the Niagara to the Thames Riverwas one circuit, with a total membership of 320 The first division of the Niagara circuit was in 1807. Asecon
Jubilee of the Centenary Church, Hamilton, Canada, 1868-1918 . REV. WM. SPARLING, , , The Centenary INTERIOR, AUDITORIUM, THE CENTENARY CHURCH Fifty . Years • of • Service Iff the The foundations of Methodism in the Niagara egtnmng Peninsula and Westernlatter part of the Eighteenth Century. egtnmng Peninsula and Western Ontario were laid in the In the first year of the Nineteenth Century all this Westernsection of the Province, from the Niagara to the Thames Riverwas one circuit, with a total membership of 320 The first division of the Niagara circuit was in 1807. Asecond in 1808 detached the Ancaster circuit, which includedthe present City of Hamilton. With further expansion other circuits were set off, until in1835 the name of Ancaster disappeared, and Hamilton wasmade the head of one of the six circuits comprised within theboundaries of the old Niagara circuit, and the Methodist mem-bership now totaled 2456. The Mother In 1840 the union of Canadian and BritishMethodism was sundered. A re-union tookplace later. Congregations that had divided, on again uniting,found themselves
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