Trinity Anglican Church (Ottawa)

Trinity Ottawa
Trinity Anglican Church (Ottawa)
Mural at Trinity Anglican Church, 2014
Location	1230 Bank Street Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Denomination	Anglican Church of Canada
Churchmanship	Broad church
Website	www.trinityottawa.ca
History
Dedication	Holy Trinity
Administration
Diocese	Ottawa
Province	Ontario
Clergy
Priest(s)	Arran Thorpe
Laity
Director of music	Fabien Tousignant

Trinity Anglican Church is an Anglican church found in central Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the corner of Cameron Avenue and 1230 Bank Street. The church welcomes everyone warmly -- young, old, singles, families, and everyone in between. Members of the church are active volunteers in the community, serving Cornerstone, the Well, and the Centretown Churches Social Action Committee.

In recent years, solar panels were added to the roof in order to help reduce air pollution (including greenhouse gases); de-centralize electricity generation; take responsibility for producing some of the electricity consumed by the organization, and generate a modest financial income.

In January 1876, John Lewis, the Bishop of Ontario, asked T. W. Barry to call a special meeting of an ad hoc vestry. At four o'clock on the 15th of that month, the vestry met in the Billings Bridge Temperance Hall, on the South bank of the Rideau River, just south of Ottawa. Gathered at the meeting were Harry O. Wood, John J. Smyth, W. J. Parry, and T. Garrett. Harry Wood moved, seconded by John Smyth, to establish a new Church of England mission on the North bank of the river, to be called Trinity Church Mission. The motion passed unanimously, and the meeting ended with the appointment of W. J. Parry as the first Warden. William Fleming held the first services of Trinity Church Mission at the Temperance Hall while the new church was being built.

On 24 August 1879, H. B. Patton conducted the first service in a new log building on the North side of the Rideau. Patton served Trinity until October 1882.

The Trinity Parish Guild began operating an annual food tent in August 1904, at the Central Canada Exhibition in Lansdowne Park. A Ladies' Guild was formed on May 16, 1916, then organized a cooking sale on June 3 of that year.

Robert Turley came to Trinity in 1923, and stayed until 1944. Turley was the longest-serving incumbent at Trinity.

A new Trinity Church was opened on Easter Day (4 April) 1926 with Bishop John Charles Roper as celebrant. The original log building was dismantled and reassembled as the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle on Churchill Avenue in the village of Sawmill Creek (now Alta Vista Drive). The original Trinity cornerstone was reversed and re-laid at St. Thomas by the Bishop on July 31, 1928 with a new inscription, "St. Thomas 1927" facing outwards.