{"id":10337,"date":"2019-03-13T17:18:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T21:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/?p=10337"},"modified":"2019-03-14T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:12:31","slug":"a-bit-of-local-history-how-st-pauls-church-acquired-its-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/a-bit-of-local-history-how-st-pauls-church-acquired-its-bell\/10337","title":{"rendered":"A bit of Local History: How St-Paul’s Church Acquired it’s Bell."},"content":{"rendered":"

It is tempting to write about this incredible winter we are having in Dunany. Even more snow than in 2008!<\/p>\n

Witness this photograph of our lovely church, almost buried in snow, taken from Dunany Road.<\/p>\n

As you know, there is a bell in that white little steeple. This is its story *<\/p>\n

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In 1964, St.Paul’s Church received the gift\u00a0 of a new church bell (note G. sharp) cast by John Taylor & Co. of Loughborough,<\/a> England. It arrived on the S.S. Para of the Cunard line and was used for the first time on Sunday May 31rst, 1964.<\/p>\n

The bell was presented to the church by Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Straessle of Boyd Lake.<\/p>\n

It had been ordered through Les \u00c9tablissements Cogn\u00e9 of Montreal and the invoice, as sent to Leonard F. Gain, builder of the house France and I own now and church warden at the time, was for $384.00<\/p>\n

And finally this from The Watchman of August 8 1988 (Remembering 100 Years Ago).<\/p>\n

August 9, 1878<\/p>\n

” The Gore – The beautiful little new church in West Gore (St. Paul’s of Dunany) is approaching completion and reflects great credit upon it’s Architect, F.C. Gamble esq. of Lachute. Built at a very low cost it is a model of good taste”.<\/p>\n

And now, make that bell ring.<\/a><\/p>\n

* Special thanks to June Parker for providing me these documents from the church’s archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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