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We are located in the historic village of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, just north of Toronto.
You would be most welcome to attend any of our services (see Location Map). Please
feel free to contact our staff through the church office. We hope that our web site is
both informative and helpful.

       THE FIRST DEDICATION OF HOLY TRINITY.

Before our church was constructed on the West side of Yonge St at Royal
Orchard, services were held in the Cober schoolhouse which used to be
where the former Langstaff Public School is situated, on Yonge Street at Uplands Ave.

Dr. John Strachan, Archdeacon of York (later the first Bishop of Toronto),
used to send theology professors and divinity students out to preach
 in Thornhill.  When Holy Trinity Church was almost completed,

Archdeacon Strachan himself came north for the dedication.The
dedication took place in February of 1830.This is what Mary O'Brien wrote in her journal

(The Journals of Mary O'Brien 1828-1838, edited by A.S. Miller):
"We had service in the morning in our new church. Dr. Strachan came out
expressly to officiate. and read for the First Lesson the Dedication of the
Temple. He preached for an hour and a half a sermon which, if not perfect
 as a composition, was so good in matter and feeling that most of the party
 left the church with the most charitable feelings towards the preacher." It chanced

 that the Methodist preacher who was expected at  a neighbouring place of meeting came late,
and his congregation had agreed to adjourn to our church.  On arriving, he determined to follow them,
and thus we had a very numerous assembly." A most auspicious beginning for Holy Trinity Church!