B14 Friday, April 5, 2013, Tri-City News
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The 1935 confirmation class at St. Joseph’s Church in Port Moody.
PORT MOODY’S FIRST CHURCH
The Presbyterians were the first to hold services in Port Moody, in various locations throughout the city in the 1880s. The first church to be built was St. John’s Anglican on St. Johns Street, sometime in the 1890s. The Presbyterians followed suit with St. Andrew’s Presbyterian in 1900. Both properties had been donated by Capt. Clarke. really hard, you will be able to picture the charming wooden church. Those first parishioners must have had a spectacular view of the inlet from the porch of the church.
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Having a church became a priority for this fledgling Catholic community and the families persuaded Archbishop Neil McNeil to build them a church there. The other factor came by way of John Murray Jr., who generously donated lots in Port Moody to the Church of England, the Presbyterians and to the Catholic church. Murray Jr.’s gift of land to the Catholics proved inadequate for the architects’ designs, so the original lot was traded by the archbishop for three lots on the corner of Grant and Jane streets. Once the site was purchased, parishioners began working to prepare the site for building. Archbishop McNeil contributed $1,700 toward the cost of construction and throughout 1911, parishioners contributed what they could afford; a raffle in October 1911 raised $75. The church members most notable for their support in building St. Joseph’s were the families of William Carr, Thomas Reilly, Theodore Chevalier, Daniel Carr, S. McCann and John Connick. In 1912, St. Joseph’s Church opened its doors with room for 400 people. It was a fine wooden structure, charming in its simplicity, with 24 steps leading up to the porch. Today, one can walk up Grant Street from St. Johns Street and, when you get up to Jane Street and face the Inlet View townhouses, just to the left of them is a wooden house with at least 24 steps leading up to it. If you look up at those steps and squint
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