Posthumous Churches

North Vancouver District, B. C. Canada

Name                      Dates in Use                        Address                Blog Post Date

D-Knox Presbyterian Church/Lynn Valley United Church, 1908-1959, 

                      1343 Lynn Valley Road, 2/2/14.

D-St. Thomas Anglican Church, 1910-1927, Lonsdale Avenue at 

                    Queens Road, 3/30/14.

D-Lynn Valley Methodist Church, 1912-1925, 260 Institute Road, 1/30/11.

I-Bethel Methodist Church/North Lonsdale United Church, 1915-1953, 

                    131 East Kings Road, 3/23/14.

B-Capilano United Church, 1925-2015, 2260 Philip Avenue, 2/24/13.

D-Munro Church, 1928-1942, lower Berkley Road, 8/3/14.

D-Lynnmour United Church, 1933-1962, 700 Mountain Highway, 2/20/11.

B-Deep Cove United Church, 1937-1976, 1890 Deep Cove Road, 4/10/11.

I-St. Simon's Anglican Church/St. Clare-in-the-Cove, 1940-2004/2004-2015,

                  1384 Deep Cove Road, 4/3/11.

D-Capilano Highlands United Church, 1951-1957, 3660 Hillcrest

                   Avenue, 3/16/14.

A-Wallace Memorial Chapel at St. Martin's Anglican Church, 1951-1969, 

                 195 Windsor Road, 4/13/14.

D-Munro Church/Seymour Heights United Church, mid 1950's-1989,

                         971 Berkley Rd., 8/10/14.

B-St. Richard's Anglican Church, 1955-2010. 1398 West 15th St., 1/2/11.

I-The Bridge (Delbrook Baptist) Church, 1955-2015. 515 West Windsor Road,

3/17/13.

D/B/A-Lynn Valley United Church, 1103 Mountain Highway, 2/19/12.

B-St. Pius X Catholic Church Multipurpose Building, 1961-1984, 1150 Mount Seymour Road, 11/30/14.

B-Lynnmour United Church, 1962-1966, 1103 Mountain Highway, 2/20/11.

D demolished
I bought by another church
A altered and used by the original church
B in use other than as a church

17 churches built
7   churches demolished
5   churches used other than as a church
2   churches altered and used for another church purpose

Prayer

God, be with the persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen (SW.)

                                                                                                         11/30/14
 
                                                          

The original 1961 St. Pius X Multipurpose Building    
1150 Mount Seymour Road 
(2014 Photo)

                       (Now used as a gymnasium  of St. Pius X  Elementary School)

                (With living space and music room addition added to the front)

Posthumous 
St. Pius X Catholic Church Multipurpose Building

North Vancouver, B.C.

St. Pius X Catholic church started as a mission of St. Edmund's Catholic Church (See Blog Post  6/26/11) in 1944.  It was started to serve the sizable Catholic population revealed in the census report of Deep Cove, the most western section of the District of North Vancouver.  The first mass was offered in a storage room, then across the street at the Deep Cove Community Hall.

"In 1960 six acres of land were purchased near the intersection of Mount Seymour Parkway and Mount Seymour Rd.," up the mountain and west of the community of Deep Cove.  "In 1961 a multi-purpose facility, including a pastor's residence (at the left end of the building in the photo below) and a hall seating six hundred, was built." (REF.) 

St. Pius X Catholic Church-1984

In 1981 part of the original property was sold and in 1984 a new church was built at 1150 Mt. Seymour Rd.

 St. Pius X Elementary School

North building

In 1997 St. Pius  X Elementary School was built.  The school has two buildings. The northern building contains the school office and classrooms.  The southern building is the original 1961 all purpose building and is now  the school gymnasium. The original all purpose building is seen in the two photos below-the elevated roof. The caretaker's living quarters and the music room were added on to the front of the building. 

West side of south gym wing of school
(Note elevated roof of 1961 Multipurpose Building)

South side of south gym wing of school
(Note elevated roof of 1961 Multipurpose Building)

For more information on St. Pius X Catholic Church see Blog Post 11/6/11.

Note: In this case Posthumous means that although the building is still in use 
          it is not used as a Sanctuary for Sunday Services.  

Photos: Taken in 2011 and May 2014 by SW.

Reference:Traditions of Faith and Service, Archdiocese of

                      Vancouver 1908-2008.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_X

Link 2: http://saintpiusxparish.ca/

Link 3: http://www.saintpius.ca/

Prayer

God, be with persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen (SW.)

                                                                                                                                8/3/14                                                                                                                        

North Vancouver, B.C. Canada

1.-approximate location of Munro Church

Posthumous

Munro Church

North Vancouver, B.C. Canada

The first United Church to be built on Berkley Road in the eastern section of the District of North Vancouver was Munro Church.  This church, built south of Mount Seymour Parkway in 1928 was named after the retired minister Rev. J. R. Munro that "gave himself with enthusiasm to the erection of a church at Berkley Heights....the name 'Munro Church' had been sanctioned by Presbytery for this building."

"The congregation of  (now named) Seymour Heights (United Church) had its start in the early 1930's.  The first church home of the congregation was a small church with a basement located on Berkley Road, south of the present Mount Seymour Parkway." (Munro Church)  This church had an organ. "In 1942 the original church was sold and services were held in Seymour Heights Hall..."For 15 years, Seymour Heights United has been meeting in Seymour Heights Community Hall while planning a church of its own." (See photo below.) (REF. b.)

Seymour Heights Community Hall

2702 East Keith Road

(North Vancouver Photo Archives #MA146 )

The 1960 City Directory lists the Seymour Heights Hall as being  at 2702 Keith Rd., on the north side of the street.

"By the mid-1950's it was apparent that a church home was required.  Land was purchased on Berkley Road... During this period the church organ was faithfully stored in Stewart's chicken house...The site(of the new church) is west of Berkeley Road, north of Keith, running from the intersection of Dogwood, south 300 feet on Berkeley, with a depth running from 100 feet at the south half, to 200 at the north....There is a fine view down Burrard Inlet, over the city to Vancouver Island. (REF.) 

Note: For more information see Blog Post 8/10/2014 and 8/17/2014.

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Thank you: To Kathryn Clinton, Mount Seymour United Church
                      Administrator for copies of history references.

References: Received from Mount Seymour United Church files:
                                  a. "Seymour Heights United Church-Service of 
                                        Dedication-Sunday, September 13th, 1959."
                                  b. "History of Seymour Heights/Mount Seymour
                                        United Church."
                                   c. "Mount Seymour United Church, North
                                        Vancouver, B.C., 10th Anniversary Sunday,
                                        April 18, 1999."
                                   d."Mount Seymour United Church 25th
                                        Anniversary Celebration May 4, 2014 From 1989
                                        to 2014."
                 
Map References: 1. Munro Church, 1928-1942
                                2. Seymour Heights United Church, 1959-1989
                                3. Mount Seymour United Church, 1989-present
                                4. Deep Cove United Church, 1950-1989

                                                                                                                                4/13/14

Wallace Memorial Chapel                                          (North Vancouver Archives Photo # 6333)

Posthumous
The Wallace Memorial Chapel
St. Martin's Anglican Church
North Vancouver, B.C. Canada

The Wallace Memorial Chapel was part of  St. Martin's Anglican Church in  1951 to 1969.

St. Martin's Anglican Church started as St. Thomas Anglican Church in 1910.  It was located on the corner of Lonsdale Ave. and Queens Road in the Upper Lonsdale area of the District of North Vanocuver.

"...the parish was officially rededicated on Nov. 11, 1919, to St. Martin of Tours "in commemoration of the signing of the Armistice on St. Martins Day in 1918, to perpetuate the memory of those who were killed in the Great War. (REF 1.)

In 1923 the church farther north in the District of North Vancouver at the corner of Windsor Road and St. Georges Avenue.  Here the congregation built a hall that became the church.  It faced St. Georges Avenue.  

In 1927 this building was turned 90 degrees with the church entrance then being  on Windsor Road.  And in 1947 a transept and apse was added to the south side of the church.  A bell tower with a church entrance was added on the north side. The entrance has since been moved to the east side of the church. (See photo below.)

St. Martin's Anglican Church

Sanctuary

In 1951 the Wallace Memorial Chapel was dedicated by the Wallace family to the son, Blake Wallace.  Access to to chapel was through the arch on the east wall of the chancel (now framing the organ pipes). 

Arch to Wallace Chapel

"CLARENCE WALLACE (1894 – 1982) SERVED WITH  THE 5TH CANADIAN INFANTRY BATTALION IN WW I AND WAS WOUNDED IN 1915 DURING THE 2ND BATTLE OF YPRES.  POSTWAR, HE CONTINUED THE FAMILY TRADITION AS A MAJOR VANCOUVER SHIP BUILDER AND PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN CANADA'S WAR EFFORT IN WWII, FOR WHICH HE WAS MADE A “COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE”.  HE WAS APPOINTED LT. GOVERNOR OF BC FROM 1950 TO 1955 AND IS INCLUDED IN VANCOUVER’S “HALL OF FAME”. 

"HIS ELDEST SON, FLYING OFFICER BLAKE WALLACE (1917 – 1941), ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE IN 1939 AND FLEW HURRICANES DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN IN 1940.  HE WAS CREDITED WITH TWO ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED IN 1941 BUT WAS SHOT DOWN AND KILLED DURING A MAJOR AIR BATTLE OVER NORTHERN FRANCE IN OCTOBER THE SAME YEAR." (Link 2.) 

Church with Transept on Left             (North Vancouver Archives Photo #6327)        The front wall of this small memorial chapel was dominated by three stained glass memorial windows.  (See top NV Archives photos #'s 6333 and 6327.)  In 1969 there was a need for space for new organ pipes.  The chapel served that need and was closed.  The three stained glass memorial windows were moved to the west side of the chancel opposite the organ pipes and the original entrance to the chapel. Wallace Memorial Windows now on west wall of chancel

For more information about St. Martin's Anglican Church see Blog Posts 3/30/14 and 4/6/14.

Photos: Colored photos taken in 2014 by SW.Reference 1: North Vancouver Heritage Inventory, 1984, available at the North 

                          Vancouver Archives.
Reference 2: A Short History of St. Martins, 1910-1956, North Vancouver, 

                           B.C., Roy Pallant.

Link 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Dry_Dock
Link 2: http://www.jsca.bc.ca/itw/JerichoBrochure1206.pdf

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Prayer

God, be with the persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen

                                                                                 3/30/14                                                                

St. Martin's Hall, on Lonsdale Ave. at corner with Queens Rd.

(1930 Fire Insurance Map.)

Posthumous
St. Thomas Anglican Church
North Vancouver, B.C. Canada

The first worship service of this church was held in October 1910.  The service was held in a small rented hall on the north-west corner of Lonsdale Avenue and Queens Road in North Vancouver District.  This small building was built by Thomas S. Nye as a warehouse to store building materials.  In 1918  this hall was purchased by the church congregation for $800, and enlarged.  St. Thomas Anglican Church continued to meet in the Thomas Nye warehouse for 13 years.  "The last service was held at this location on the 1st Sunday in September, 1923." (REF 3.) In 1927 it was sold for $300 and  became a builder' supply store. (REF 3.) The building also served as the church hall.  "It is the current location of a gas station at the corner of Lonsdale and Queens." (REF 2.)

In early November, 1910 the church became a mission of St. John's Anglican Church, North Vancouver (See Blog Post 9/30/12.).  And later in November 1910 the name of the church was officially St. Thomas Anglican Church.  

"...the parish was officially rededicated on Nov. 11, 1919, to St. Martin of Tours "in commemoration of the signing of the Armistice on St. Martins Day in 1918, to perpetuate the memory of those who were killed in the Great War. (See Link 1.)

(REF 4.)

In 1913 the ship's bell (15" by 15") of the SS Zafiro of Battle of Manila Bay fame (The flag ship of Commodore Dewey in the Spanish-American War of 1898.-REF 1.) was donated to the church and hung in a rustic, ground-standing belfry.  In 1920 the bell was built into a turret and placed on the roof of the hall (on Queens and Lonsdale), now named St. Martin's Church. This same turret was later moved and placed on the roof of the church, built at Windsor and St. Georges in both the east-west position of 1923, and the north-south position of 1927..."(REF 3.)  

Church Bell

(REF. 3)

For more information on St. Martin Anglican Church see Blog Posts 4/6/14 and 4/13/14.

Reference 1: North Vancouver Heritage Inventory, 1984, available at the North 
                          Vancouver Archives.
Reference 2: North Shore News, "Home and Garden", 'St. Martins Church' by                                  Dorothy Foster, Dec. 4, 1992.                      
Reference 3:  The History of Saint Martin's Church North 
                            Vancouver, Chronological History,St. Martin's Anglican Church, 
                             1985.
Reference 4: 1930 Fire Insurance Map, available at North Vancouver Archives. 
Link 1: http://en.wikipedia

Prayer

God, be with the persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen (SW.)

                                                                                 3/23/14

North Lonsdale United Church, 1915 
131 East Kings Rd.
(REF 1.)

Posthumous
Bethel Methodist Church/North Lonsdale United Church
North Vancouver, B.C. Canada

The 1993 District Heritage Inventory, page 117 (REF 3.)-"1915-Secondary List-This plain and modest church is simply detailed in the Craftsman tradition, with triangular eave brackets, exposed rafter end, and pointed verge-boards. Originally the Bethel Methodist Church, which became part of the United Church of Canada, (1925), it has served Baptist congregations since 1953." 

"By 1915 a small church was built on East King Road, first called Bethel Methodist Church but the name was soon changed to North Lonsdale Methodist.

" A Sunday School was with Mr. E.T. Bailey as superintendent. At the time of organic union of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches in 1925, this church became North Lonsdale United, its congregation augmented by those who transferred from St. Stephens Presbyterian. From 1914 to 1919, North Lonsdale was a joint pastoral charge with West Vancouver, from 1919 to 1934, with Lynn Valley, and from 1934 to 1957 with Capilano.

1930 Fire Insurance Map

131 East Kings Road (on south side of street)

"The King’s Road church was bare, with plain wooded chairs for the congregation and a little pump organ. There was a small kitchen at the rear with a stove on which the ladies prepared hearty congregational dinners. This room was used also for meetings, as a Sunday School classroom, and as a dressing-room at Christmas concert time. Until 1948 North Lonsdale Church, received financial assistance from the Board of Home Missions, but from that time it was self-supporting, the minister’s salary and expenses of the manse being shared with Capilano.

"By 1948 it became evident that the little church was no longer adequate, and in 1950 two lots were purchased at the corner of Lonsdale Ave. and Osborne Rd. A building which was to serve eventually as a Christian Education Centre, but was to be used as the church in the meantime, was erected largely by volunteer labour and was dedicated on December 13, 1953." (Link 1.)

1964-131 Kings Rd. became Kingscrest (Kings Road-REF 2.) Baptist Church with renters from First Baptist and One Spirit Mission Church-serving a Korean congregation. (REF.2) and since 2008, the WestCoast Baptist Association.  In 2014 the building was still owned by Kings Road Church.

For more information on WestCoast Baptist Association see Blog Post 5/18/14.
For more information on North Lonsdale United Church see Blog Post 1/23/11.
Link 1: Link 1:http://nluc.org/about-us/history-of-the-church/
Reference 1: The Story of North Lonsdale 1913 to 1990-The Church on the 
                           Hill  is available at the North Vancouver Archives.
Reference 2: 2014 e mail from Janet Campbell, Office Administrator,  
                          WestCoast Baptist Association.
Reference 3: 1993 District Heritage Inventory, North Vancouver.
Reference 4: 1930 Fire Insurance Map available at North Vancouver Archives.

Prayer

God, be with the persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen (SW.)

                                                                                                                    3/16/14

3660 Hillcrest Avenue

(Watercolor by Elwood Hewgill, 1989.)

Posthumous
Capilano Highlands United Church
North Vancouver, B.C. Canada

3660 Hillcrest Avenue

(Link 2.)

Capilano Highlands United Church was built at 3660 Hillcrest Ave. in the Capilano Highlands area of the District of North Vancouver.  This area is on the side of Grouse Mountain and just north of Edgemont Blvd where the later Highlands United Church was located at 3255 Edgemont Blvd. 

"Activity leading to the establishment of the former Capilano Highlands United Church began in July 1946, but it was not constituted as a Pastoral Charge by Vancouver Burrard Presbytery until September 25, 1950.  The budding congregation erected a cement block building at 3660 Hillcrest Avenue in 1951." (REF.)

The Building Permit book at the North Vancouver Archives also lists the church being built at 3660 Hillcrest in 1951 at a cost was $10,000.  A permit for a $2500 addition was applied for in 1951 as well.  "A neighboring and well established church, Capilano United Church (See Blog Post 2/24/13.) in Pemberton Heights, and its minister, offered considerable assistance to the new congregation in their formative years." (REF.)

"In February, 1951, Vancouver Burrard Presbytery changed the name Capilano Highlands Untied Church to Highlands United Church.  The growing congregation erected a new church building at 3255 Edgemont Boulevard in 1957." (REF.)   The North Vancouver Archives Building Permit book lists the new church  cost of construction  as $100,000.

" The original cement block building on Hillcrest Ave. was re-named Hillcrest Hall, and the  building remained in use for Sunday School and other purposes and was eventually demolished." (REF.)

Photo: Taken by SW in January 2014 of Capilano Highland United Church
               watercolor that now hangs in the Edgemont Avenue church office.
Reference:  Congregation member.  
                        Link 1: http://www.memorybc.ca/highlands-united-church-north-vancouver-b-c-fonds;rad
Link 2: (map) https://www.google.ca/search?q=Hillcrest%2C+North+Vancouver+B.C.&oq=Hillcrest%2C+North+Vancouver+B.C

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Prayer

God, be with the persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen (SW.)

                                                                                                                     February 23, 2014

Posthumous Churches of the City of North Vancouver
(North Vancouver Neighborhood Map)

Posthumous Churches  

City of North Vancouver, B.C. Canada

(Listed by date built or in use.)

Name                                    Dates in Use               Address                  Blog Post Date

F* Moodyville Methodist, circa 1865-1901, Moodyville, 12/16/12.

D* Dorman's Shack, church use-late 1890's to 1900 Anglican/1903 

      Presbyterian, East 13th Street at Lonsdale Ave., 9/2/12.

*** St. John's Anglican, 1900-1909, West 13th Street (moved to West 3rd and
       Chesterfield Avenue), 9/9/12.

D St. Andrew's Presbyterian, 1904-1933, 100 Block East Keith Rd.,  11/18/12.

D Baptist Church, 1909- circa 1912, corner of east 5th Street and St. Georges, 
                                                                        11/25/12.

F St. John's Anglican, 19o9-1985, West 13th Street, 9/16/12.

D Methodist Church, 1910-1915, 425 St. Georges Avenue, 10/6/13.

 Sixth Street Methodist, 1910-1926, 167 East 6th Street, 3/25/12.

D North Lonsdale Presbyterian Church/St Stephen's Presbyterian Church/St. 
    Andrew's and St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, 1910-1961, 
    2641 Chesterfield Avenue/north side of lot, 3/3/13.

D First Baptist Church, 1912-1967, 161 East 12th Street,  10/28/12.

*** First Church of Christ Scientist, 1925-2008, 185 East Keith Road, 1/27/13.

** Sixth Street United Church/St. Andrew's Church Hall,
     1926-1940's, 167 East 6th Street, 3/25/2012.
              

             

D * Foursquare Gospel Tabernacle, 1930-1934, 132 East 12th Street, 1/20/13.

*** Sisters of the Child Jesus-Convent Chapel, 1932-2000, 524 West 6th Street, 
       6/02/13.

St. Andrew's Presbyterian, 1933-1955, 121 East 12th Street, 3/25/12.

D** North Shore Lutheran, 1940's-1954, 167 East 6th Street, 3/25/12.

D Elim Pentacostal Chapel, 1942-1973, 124 West 8th Street,  7/1/12.

D Hillside Baptist Church, 1950-1973, 139 East Lower Keith Rd., 2/9/14.

** *** Evangelical Free Church, 1952-1984, 1400 Sutherland Avenue, 2/17/13.

D St. Mark's Lutheran,  1955-1969, 137 West 6th Street, 3/18/12.

D ** Jehovah Witness Hall, 1955-1976, 121 East 12th Street, 2/13/11.

D Sutherland Bible Chapel, 1970-1995, 630 East 19th Street, 1/19/14.

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* Church met in existing building.
** Church bought existing church building.
*** Church buildings that continue to be in use.
F Destroyed by Fire
D Demolished

22 church congregations
17 church buildings originally built

13 church buildings demolished
5 church building used by other church congregations
2 buildings destroyed by fire
4 church buildings still in use

1 church building still used, but not a church

Note: For more information on the City of North Vancouver, B. C. Canada see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vancouver_(City)

Prayer

God, be with the persecuted Christians through out the world. Amen (SW.)