Christina Jessie McLimont

Christina Jessie McLimont was the earliest known correspondent of the exclusive Quebec City Meeting Room, in 1873 & 1874, which existed until the Lowe split of 1908, and unknown fate after that. She was listed in the address book as the primary correspondent for Brethren throughout Quebec. She was born in Montcalm, Quebec, the daughter of William McLimont, a dry goods merchant (in Quebec City in 1873), and Sarah Eliza Clapham McLimont.She was baptized as a child in 1860 at Saint Andrew's Presbyterian in 1860 by Dr. John Cook, a Scottish vicar with a postage stamp in his honor to celebrate the centenary of the PCC in 1975. Never married, she had several siblings, including:

  • Miss Sarah McLimont
  • Ronald Miller McLimont (b. 1874 Quebec City, QC - d. 1957 Vancouver, B.C.

By 1901, she was registered with the Church of England, along with her mother and surviving siblings. Christina died in 1950 in Vancouver, B.C., and was buried in a family plot at Ross Bay Cemetery, in Victoria.

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