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From: "Wayne Cook" <>
Subject: Re: [ONTARIO-L] church records
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 03:06:47 -0500


RE: I have filled in the information for St Columbkille, but can't
> find any mention of St Malachy's or of Vroomanton. I know
> where Vroomanton is or was, according to the Candn. Geographic
> Index, but nothing shows up on the map.
Hope this helps

Plaque #2 on the Durham page

SAINT MALACHY'S - VROOMANTON

By the 1830's missionary priests occasionally visited the pioneer Irish
settlers of Brock Township to administer the sacrements and to instruct the
people in the Catholic faith. Around 1850 a small catholic church was built
on this site. In the autumn of 1854 Father John Walsh (later archbishop of
Toronto, 1889 - 1898) became the first pastor of the newly-established
parish of Brock, which originally served all of the old County of Ontario
from Uxbridge and Port Perry in the south to Uptergrove in the north.

The parish priests resided in the rectory built on this site in 1853. From
1909 the priests resided at St. Joseph's church, Beaverton, while still
continuing to serve the churches of St. Malachy's and St. Anthony's at
Virginia. In 1942 the second church, built on this site in 1901, burned.
Around 1950 a third St. Malachy's church was built by Father Joseph Murphy,
north of Sunderland so that mass could still be celebrated in Brock.

This plaque was blessed and dedicated on Sunday June 28, 1901, by the Most
Rev. Robert B. Clune, D.D., I.C.D., auxiliary bishop of Toronto for the
eastern region.

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An Historical Plaque of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto

Regards

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