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The origins of St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church begins with the establishment of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches in the Greater Vancouver area.. In the present-day city of Vancouver, on 30 July 1863, the Reverend Ebeneezer Robson, a Methodist minister from New Westminster, held the first preaching service of any kind at Stamp's (Hastings) Mill to a group of six men.
rcdvictoria.org. The Diocese of Victoria ( Latin: Dioecesis Victoriensis in Insula Vancouver) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its episcopal see is in Victoria. The diocese encompasses all of Vancouver Island and several nearby British Columbia islands.
In May 2018 the new building for Redeemer Lutheran church was officially opened. The opening service and dedication of the building included Lutheran Church–Canada's president, Timothy Teuscher, and many pastors and lay people from Vancouver Island parishes. The new building includes an elevator to facilitate access.
St. Ann's Academy, of Vancouver (located by Holy Rosary Cathedral), was open 1888 & closed 1946. St. Ann's Academy, of New Westminster, was open 1865 & closed 1968. St. Peter's School, of New Westminster, was open 1945 & closed in 1968. Holy Ghost School, of Lulu Island, was opened 1947 & closed in 1955.
The Diocese of British Columbia, also known as the Anglican Diocese of Islands and Inlets, [2] is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon of the Anglican Church of Canada . Despite the name, the diocese comprises only the 32,630 square kilometres of Vancouver Island and the adjacent Gulf Islands in the civil ...
St. Andrew's Cathedral (Victoria, British Columbia) / 48.425417; -123.362861. St. Andrew's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral for the diocese of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Built in the High Victorian Gothic style, St. Andrew's was Victoria's third cathedral to be built.
1946 Vancouver Island earthquake. / 49.62; -125.26. The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake struck Vancouver Island on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, on June 23 at 10:15 a.m. [1] with a magnitude estimated at 7.0 Ms [2] and 7.5 Mw. [6] The main shock epicenter occurred in the Forbidden Plateau area northwest of Courtenay.
Vancouver Island reverted from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Crown, and Fort Victoria was demolished. Hills had to choose which of the two churches to make the cathedral. St John's could hold 600. Christ Church had been built with a capacity of 400, but an apse and south aisle were added to it in 1862 and a north aisle in 1865.