All Saints Anglican Church at Milton Heights
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During the process of surveying and photographing the Rolls of Service of Milton Soldiers of the Great War, an unknown roll was located in the archives of the Halton Region Museum. A photograph of the roll and details of the inscriptions are now noted on the Milton Historical Society web site here:
http://miltonhistoricalsociety.ca/Research/Web%20Sites/Milton%20Soldiers/Honour%20Rolls%20and%20Memorials/
All that was recorded with the collection at the museum was that "it was hung in doorway of church in Milton Heights near railway tracks for many years". Based on the reported religion of the 7 soldiers on the Roll of Honour, it is my belief that the roll was in the "All Saints Anglican Church" which was located in Milton Heights.
Information on that church was found in the on-line archives of McMaster University here:
http://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/anglican/niagara/grace-anglican-church-2
Here is the text of some of that information that tells the history of the church shown in the photograph:
Grace Anglican Church (Milton, Ont.) : All Saints Anglican Church (Milton Heights, Ont.) fonds. -- 1854-1974. -- 55 cm of textual records. The building of Grace Church began around 1851. The first rector was appointed in 1854 and the church was dedicated by Bishop Strachan in 1855. A second church was built in 1895. Beginning in the late 1890s the rector of Grace Church held "cottage services" in Milton Heights and a building fund was begun to erect a mission church. In 1901 construction of a small brick church, All Saints, was begun. The church was dedicated and until it was closed in 1957 it was closely connected to Grace Church, sharing a rector. Records of the two churches are inter-mixed.
In 1844 the newly-formed mission of Grace Church, Milton, was part of the circuit contained in the counties of Hamilton and Wentworth. In 1850 the Church became part of the missionary area surrounding St. John's Church, Elora. A report of the Church Society in 1851 stated that "Milton in Trafalgar always affords a large and devout congregation. It is a thriving settlement and ought to have a church and clergyman to gather the people every Sunday." The building of the first Grace Church, still in use as a Sunday School and Parish Hall, was commenced about 1851. The first rector of the parishes of Milton and Hornby was appointed in 1854 and this first church was dedicated by Bishop Strachan in 1855. The cornerstone of the present church was laid on June 4, 1895, by the then Governor General, the Duke of Aberdeen. From the late 1890s the rector of Grace Church held "cottage services" at Milton Heights and a building fund was begun to erect a mission church. In 1901 the cornerstone of the small brick church known as All Saints, Milton Heights, was laid. The building was dedicated in 1902 and from this date until it was closed in 1957 it was closely connected with Grace Church.