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This article first appeared in the "Echoes from the Past" column of the The Low Down to Hull and Back News.
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Union Mission Church at Kirk's Ferry
At Kirk's Ferry a church was built in 1898, then known as the Union Mission Church. It was situated in front of what was to become the Selwyn cottage. It was torn down at the time of the flooding of the river by the Gatineau Power Company about 1925‑1927 when the company constructed its electrical power dam at Chelsea (and a second one at Farmer's Rapids). The razed building was replaced by another on much higher ground, on the west side 'of Highway 105, opposite the Arthur Brown's farm. Mrs. Vivian mentions this church at some length in her history of St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church.
A framed notice in the church itself reads:
Union Mission Church, 1898. This building was erected by Public Subscription as a Union Mission Church and opened for Divine Service on the first day of August, 1898, and is under the control of trustees who are responsible for all matters of maintenance and regulation of the services to be held therein.