All Saints Church, Hamilton, Ontario
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Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
, on Queen Street South
Queen Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
Queen Street, is a Lower City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at Beckett Drive, a mountain-access road in the city and is a two-way street up to Herkimer Street and a one-way street the rest of the way north up to the Canadian National Railway Yard where the road turns...
at King Street West.
History
The establishment of the church parish dates to 1855, while the construction of the present building began in 1872.This building originally had a large tower. On September 24th, 1998, a 5.4 earthquake hit Hamilton at 3:52 p.m. The support stones for the tower were damaged, and forced the removal of the stone spire.
In the summer of 2009, the parish hall attached to the church became home to a group of local Hamilton musicians known as "Techno Champions". Several momentous collaborations took place at the "Champatorium", including the conglomeration of "The Subterraneans Collective", and the first performance of Klass and Hachey (although the group did not form until May 2010). Notable acts such as Nilla, Sara Green, Matt Jelly, Peak Soil, Tom Duesome, Crazedom, and Marc Perri also performed at this outlet during that time. In the fall of 2009 the church was declared unsafe and was closed due to further instability of the structure - pieces of the roof were falling into the nave. This obliged the musicians to leave, and the congregation to worship in a nearby senior's facility.