Latest revision as of 20:46, 4 February 2025

This is a TW-exclusive assembly that started prior to 1878 in Chatham, Chatham-Kent, southwestern Ontario with the residency of J. Downie who resided there thru 1880. The latter year the assembly met at Scanes Hall. C.E. Pegley joined in 1879, and by 1889 was joined by J.L. Scott and Jacob Sparks, who all served as correspondents. The assembly met in a variety of locations thru the early 2000's when it moved into homes in Leamington in Essex Co., where a number of its correspondents had resided for years.

From as early as 1908-1927, William Burton Dunn and his wife Annie may have been either breaking bread in their home in Leamington, or commuting to Chatham. Others who likely commuted later between 1927-1951 include Charlotte & Loise Simpson, Mrs. Bert Simpson, Bert Simpson, Mrs. L. Sloan and Mrs. G. Sloan.

William Burton Dunn (b. 1870 West Flamborough Twp., Dundas, ON - d. 1969 Windsor, ON), and his wife Annie (d. 1955) were likely introduced to the PB at Brantford Meeting Room in Brantford, Ontario, which is a TW exclusive meeting that dates back to the earliest days of the PB in Canada, a place Darby visited. Dunn started his banking career there, for a private entity. By 1901, he had relocated to Rodney in Elgin County, where he managed the S.B. Morris & Co. bank, until 1903 when he relocated to the London area where he established a branch of the Union Bank of Canada (absorbed in 1925 by the Royal Bank of Canada) in Mt. Brydges. He remained there until moving again to Leamington in 1905 where he started another branch, and remained there as its manager until his retirement in 1936, and moved to Windsor in 1958 to the Riverdale Manor Apartments, and died at the Catherine Wilson Nursing Home, also in Windsor, in 1969.

Dunn was the first known PB to reside in Rodney, Mt. Brydges, or Leamington and established a work in the latter, joined in 1927 by Mrs. Charlotte Simpson, and Loise Simpson, and from 1944-1949, it was just Mrs. Bert Simpson. In 1951, Bert Simpson was in fellowship, along with Mrs. L. Sloan and Mrs. G. Sloan, and there is no more news until 2005 when Eugene and Wally Simpson became correspondents for a fellowship with their families, along with John Chovan, who was promoted to Glory on Nov. 18, 2022. There is a small assembly that continues in the Leamington area.

Early Correspondents

• J. Downie +1878-1880+
• C.E. Pegley 1879+
• J.L. Scott +1889-1903+
• Jacob Sparks +1889-1933+
• Rutherford Block +1903+, +1911+
• W.E. Gardiner +1911-1914+
• William T. Campbell +1911+, +1917+
• Nelson Stringer +1914-1927+
• E.H. Moir +1923+
• S.G. Shaw +1927-1933+
• Albert Oldershaw +1933+
• Wilfred Ward +1933+
• Ronald Weston +1944-1985+
• Armistead M. Barry, Jr. +1944-1973+
• Alexander Stewart +1944+
• Thomas Hanna +1949-1951+
• Eugene Simpson +1962-2019 (1940-2019)

Also See

• Who's Who at Leamington Meeting Room, ON notable alumni

Sources

• EB/TW AB's 1901-2021