St. Matthew`s Anglican Church

Here are photographs of St. Matthew's Anglican Church that I attended as a child. (Located on Macdonald Avenue, just off Cote St. Luc Road in Montreal.) Everyone seems to have a complaint about something these days, especially religion,  but I have no complaints about St. Matthew's or about the Anglican Church of Canada; I was always treated with kindness and respect. Reverend Canon Stanley Andrews officiated at my father's funeral when I was a child and he gave my mother good advice about financial matters: banking rules at the time would have deprived her of whatever money our family had because bank accounts were in the husband's name. Reverend Andrew's advice was practical and helpful, it was to take whatever money we had out of the bank accounts before the bank froze the accounts.  In those days, the 1950s, Anglican churches in Montreal had dances for young people at the church. The last time I attended a service here, it was Christmas in 2007, the congregation had dwindled to about a dozen people. I didn't know at the time that it was the last service I would attend there. 

Photographs taken around 1957, outside the side door which is also pictured in a later photograph; other photos taken from the late 1990s to around 2017.

This view was lost when a condo building was constructed in the foreground;
the condobuilding is under construction here

                       

Above, around 2005

My mother, recently widowed.

My mother and I. 

Above, around 1957-1958

                                                   

                                                   

17 March 2017

22 July 2015

The Montreal Gazette, 14 May 2011

St. Matthew's Church, then and now

Here are a few, final, photographs of St. Matthew's Church taken two or three years ago. I suggest matching them with previous photographs of St. Matthews for a "that was then and this is now" comparison.

St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Montreal

The side door at St. Matthews.

I am holding the Easter box for donations to the church.

A more recent photograph of St. Matthews, from where a condo was built in the early 2000s.

The front door of St. Matthews.

St. Matthew's Church was the church of my childhood. A wonderful place! Everyone was kind to me here, everyone was very pleasant and I loved going to this church.