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• Asa Turner
  One of the first Baptist missionaries to serve the scattered communities along the north shore of Lake Ontario, Turner came to Upper Canada from New York State and settled in this vicinity by 1798. With great dedication, he ministered to the residents of Thurlow and Sidney Townships, conducting services in pioneer homes and organizing several congregations, including the forerunner of this parish. In 1802, Turner and two other American missionaries, Reuben Crandall and Joseph Winn...

• Stone Church Hastings
  Stone Church, one of three known cobblestone churches in Ontario, is part of a small group of cobblestone buildings in this area. It was built in 1853-6 on land belonging to John Fretz to house the local Wesleyan Methodist congregation. Although the church's interior was remodelled in 1893 in the then popular Italianate style and altered again in 1927, its exterior remains largely intact. This simple design, characteristic of the denomination's architecture in the mid-nineteenth...