Buildings - Perth Remembered
William Bell held his first services in the attic of this house and Rev Michael Harris use the same quarters for his Anglican serves for three years, 1819-1822. A mid-19th-Century fire partly damaged the house and the Duke of Richmond, during his visit in 1819 who recommended that it …
Reverend William Bell - The Historical Marker Database
2023年9月29日 · One of the most influential Presbyterian clergymen in Upper Canada, Bell was born in Airdrie, Scotland. (A historical marker located in Perth in Lanark County, Ontario.) HMdb.org
developments at the Perth Military Settlement in 1823, preacher and diarist Reverend William Bell (1780-1857) wrote that, The houses are all built of wood, except the jail and courthouse2 and one merchant’s store, which are built of brick. There is also a stone house erecting this summer, by one of our merchants.3
The St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church – Perth Ontario
2018年2月3日 · First Presbyterian Church, was built on the corner of Drummond and Halton Streets, Perth Ontario. Rev William Bell, Pastor. In the fall of 1818, a log house was built on the manse lot.
House of Industry of Lanark County Burial Site - The Historical …
2023年9月28日 · More than 400 people who are believed to have worked, and died, during their time at the old Perth House of Industry, from 1903 to 1965, and were buried in what was essentially a "pauper’s" section of the Elmwood Cemetery, now finally have their own headstone.
History - perthremembered.com
The first minister here in Perth was REV. WILLIAM BELL, who was pastor of the Perth Presbyterian Church in 1817 to 1857. His book “Hints to Emigrants” was published in 1824 and is a seminal work regarding the first settlers of Lanark County. The settement at Richmond was founded in 1818, named after the Duke of Richmond.
OUR HISTORY – St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Perth ON
Rev. William Bell arrived in 1817 and held his first service above Adamson’s Red Inn on Craig Street. In 1818 he began the construction of a church on the corner of Drummond and Halton Streets. It was completed in 1819, but was destroyed by fire in 1867.
William Bell (clergyman) - Wikipedia
William Bell (May 28, 1780 – August 16, 1857) was a Presbyterian minister, born in Scotland and an immigrant to Upper Canada. Bell and his family settled in Perth, Upper Canada, in 1817. He was a significant figure in promoting and expanding …
Rev William Bell (1780-1857) - Find a Grave Memorial
At Perth on Sabbath morning, the 16th instant, the Rev. William Bell, A. M., the Minister of the First Presbyterian Church, in the seventy-eigth year of his age, and the fourty-first of his ministry. He was born at Airdrie, Scotland on the 20th May, 1780, educated for …
In September 1834, the village of Perth narrowly escaped destruction by a forest fire. As recalled in the diary of eyewitness Reverend William Bell, the inferno was so intense that it burned parts of the road connecting Perth with the village of Franktown.