Charcoal sketch wmm Schuman described to her by her father, Elmer Ramsay.

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CHAPTER THREE

CHURCH PROPERTY: PAST AND PRESENT

' I lhe Presbyterians used, as their first church, a log cabin situated on the farm of Archibald Campbell of Belmont. The cabin, which also served as a school, didn’t have pews for seating; rather, there was a bench that went around the walls, leaving the centre bare. The 1863 Lake Map shows the school on the same side of the road as the cemetery.

When the church leaders made the decision to build the new Presbyterian Church at the Central location, the ceme~ tery was turned over to the Baptist tradition. There’s no indication of what happened to the log cabin church.

No written records revealed why the Presbyterian Church was relocated to Central. Perhaps it was a more cen- tral location as the settlement of Lot 16 continued to grow.

As well, one of the original elders, john Ramsay, was the lessee of Rose Hill Farm and made available the land for the

CHURCH PROPERTY: PAST AND PRESENT