Thursday Doors – Sept. 21, 2017

…..church doors around Lake Simcoe

Last week D and I did a road trip around the west side of Lake Simcoe to check out some old churches. Our first stop was at the Temple of Sharon. This impressive building was built by an off shoot of the Quakers, called the Children of Peace. On the the grounds were old preserved homes and barns from the 1800s.

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As we continued driving further north up Lake Simcoe we came to two beautiful little churches at Roche’s Point and Sibbald Point.

Thanks to Norm for hosting Thursday Doors.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Tombstones or Cemeteries

….thanks to Cee for this unusual theme for the week Fun Foto Challenge

I saved this challenge until I came across an interesting cemetery. This didn’t happen until last week when my friend D and I took a tour of some old churches on the west side of Lake Simcoe. Two of the churches had cemeteries attached to the church grounds.

In the last cemetery we found the tombstone for Stephen Leacock, the famous writer and humorist. For more information about Leacock’s life look here.