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Christie's Methodist Cemetery

Photos by Alan L Brown - October 2007

In the midst of the parking lot on the east side of Bridlewood Mall on Warden Avenue north of Finch Avenue East can be found this small cemetery. A Scarborough Historical Society plaque there has this to say:

Issac Christie and his wife, Isabella Graeme, came to Scarborough from Armagh, Ireland, and in 1836 purchased 40 hectares of Clergy Reserve land in Lot 33, Con. IV. This land had been rented and cleared for farming by Josué L'Amoreaux and his sons, United Empire Loyalists of French Huguenot origin, who settled here in 1808. In 1846 the Wesleyan Methodists of this area, led by Reverend T. Turner, built a small frame church amid the fields of Christie's farm. These settlers and their descendants worshipped here for 80 years. After the congregation was absorbed into the United Church in 1925, the chapel was closed. In 1936, a fire destroyed nearby St. Paul's Church and the Anglicans used Christie's Chapel until their church was rebuilt. The old chapel was closed again in 1938 and later dismantled and reconstructed at Buttonville as a community hall.

Related Toronto plaque page
St. Paul's Church, L'Amoreaux

Plaque Location Co-ordinates: 43.799217 -79.318628

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Posted August 15, 2008
Every time I go to this mall, I go in the cemetary to pay my respects. It appears that the grave stones are marked with names of mostly children! this deeply saddens me. it also appears that these forgotten graves have been moved! how sad to find yourself in a graveyard in the middle of a mall parkinglot

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