c1860  Born in 1823 in Glasgow, Scotland. Minister of the united congregations of Knox Presbyterian Church, Oakville and Sixteen Mile Creek, 1850-1862. In 1866, he led a party of pioneers that included his wife Mary (MacBeth) Nisbet, to the Prince Albert, Saskatchewan area to found a mission to bring...

  ca. 1880  Andrew Robertson. Born in 1832 and died in 1898, he is remembered in Knox Presbyterian Church, Oakville, through a communion service set that is now treasured as an historical artifact. The set was presented by his daughter Annie who presented it to Knox in 1907 in memory of her father. ...

  ca 1880  Andrew Robertson. Born in 1832 and died in 1898. He is remembered in Knox Presbyterian Church, Oakville, through a communion service set that is now treasured as an historical artifact. The set was presented by his daughter Annie who presented it to Knox in 1907 in memory of her father. Co-owned...

  1920-1939  Annie, daughter of Andrew Robertson, was married to William Lees. She presented Knox Presbyterian Church, Oakville, with a communion service in 1907 in memory of her father. The communion set was given in the 1940s to a new congregation established in Leaside. In 1978 the set was returned...

  ca. 1980 

  1920 

   

  c1933 

  1900 

    Son of Oakville's founder, William Chisholm. He built the new customs house and adjoining residence that became known as Erchless. R.K. Chisholm, an elder at the church, and his nephew, are represented on the promissory note signed 1887 for the building of the present church.

    Wife of Robert Kerr Chisholm.

  ca. 1910?  Located east side of Thomas n. Lakeshore, Sandy MacDonald is in the centre.

    This is a photo of a home at 271 Trafalgar Road that for more than 50 years was the manse for the minister of Knox Presbyterian Church. In 1927 it was purchased by the family of Walter Adamson who later became the Clerk of Session for Knox. Mr. Adamson was 14 when his father, Robert and mother...

   

   

    Left in 1925 in the year of the formation of the United Church of Canada, a union of Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Members who favoured union, moved to the Methodist church now St. John's United Church, Oakville.

    First Canadian born minister at Knox.

    Arrived in year Knox installed its first stained glass window.

    During Meikle's years, Oakville went through its economic dog days. His era encompassed the years of controversy over the introduction of musical instruments into church services and he guided the congregation during the construction of the present church building.

   

  1984  The 1850 white church on William Street as seen in its altered form in 1984. The ivy-covered portion at the right had been cut from the main structure to form a single separate dwelling.

   

   

   

  c1888 

   

  1888 

  1966  The Adamson family honoured Mr. William Robert Adamson and his wife, Ethel May Adamson, in 1966 with the dedication of a stained glass window in Knox. The window is a reproduction of Holman Hunt's "The Light of the World".

    The St. Cecilia stained glass window, one of the most visually striking in Knox Presbyterian Church, Oakville, was installed by Stafford D. Marlatt in memory of his wife and daughter. Ina was killed at age 19, in 1890, when she was thrown from a buggy when a horse bolted. His wife, Mandana...

  1965 

  c1940 

  1890-1920? 

  1969 

    The 1850 white church on William Street as seen in its altered form. The house on the right had been severed from the original church and moved to a separate lot to create a single home and a duplex. See link labelled "Other house on William St." for view of other building.

  1973 

   

  1969 

   

  1975 

  1975