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While many early Black churches across Ontario have been lost through population attrition or lack of interest, Stewart Memorial endures. The history of Stewart Memorial Church is really the story of the Black community of Hamilton. Through numerous incarnations, trials and successive waves of immigration to the city, the community, like the church, has slowly grown in strength and numbers.

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Current Church pamphlet.
14 December 2004
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada


Credits:
Photo by Inessa Petersen.
Courtesy of Stewart Memorial Church