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The St. Thomas Meeting Room is considered one of four of the oldest, continuously meeting, Darbyite assemblies in all of Ontario, Canada, alongside the [[Ottawa Meeting Room, ON]], the [[London Meeting Room, ON]] and the [[Smiths Falls Meeting Room, ON]]. Each is known to have existed in 1878, if not earlier. =Locations=* @ Masonic Hall, Talbot St. +1880+* @ Room over store, entrance 645 E. Talbot St. +1911+** same? =Meeting Times=* Su B 11am, R 7pm +1911+
=Leadership=
* J.W. Fortune +1878
* Samuel Butler 1879-1880+ there was a Samuel Butler living in Norfolk County in 1871 that identified as "closed communion Baptist" while his family identified as Methodist. Possible.** worked at "Can. S'th'n R"
* Andrew Stevens +1889+ (b. 1827); Occupation in 1891: Carpenter. Wife Elizabeth (b. 1831); Both born in England; Niece: Alice Reesor (b. 1873 Quebec) was a dressmaker living with this family in 1891.
* [[Samuel Blount Hall, Jr.]] +1889-1923+ (b. 1858 England)
** 87 Kains St. +1911+
* David Moore/More (sic?) +1894-1896+
* Elijah Bunker Watson '''+1901+''' (b. 1854 Peel Twp., Wellington, ON - d. 1944 Edmonton, AB)
** founder +1903+ @ [[Innisfail Meeting Room, AB]] +1903-1966+
* John P. Watson +1903-1923+
** 6 Barwick St. +1911+
* W.H. Lucas +1911-1933+
** 178 Wellington St.
* [[Leonard Charles Owen Jr.]] +1927-1936 (1874-1936)
* Lawrence C. Jones +1949-1973+
