Category: History
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A Brief History of St. Margaret’s Church, Oakfield
St. Margaret’s has its roots in the Laurie family, who settled in Oakfield in the 1860s. Colonel John Wimburn Laurie built a family church in 1866 to serve the growing community that formed around Oakfield Estate. Constructed with local lumber and handcrafted details—such as hand-hewn pews, early stained-glass windows, and the surrounding dry-stone wall—the church…
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St Thomas History
In 1916, due the generosity, in the main, of a Mrs Uniacke, a disused church from Bridgeville NS was carted to Windsor Junction. It was named St Stephens. It was replaced in 1933 and again in 1955. The present building was built in the 1980’s