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In a copy of The Biickingham Post and Labelle County
Echo ùated Friday, Novernber 20, 1925, Volume 29, No. 29, uncler
the title "History of Buckingham" we find the following:

"Republished from the Post of January 5, 1899. The
authorehfp ia tvithheld by request.

The Episcopalinn Church was built in 1852, land being.given
by Baxter 3owman for the purpose. The land for the parsonage
and burying grounil vms given by Geo. Eaton, agent for the
proprietors. The first settled clergyman i,ras Rev. H. L. Steven-
son .

The 75th tinniversary Souvenir progrnm of the Town of
Buckingham, Quebec, June 26-July 4, 1965, page 27, states:

"St. Stephen's Church-accordinp to the existing parish
records, St Stephen's ,,nglican Church iiates back to 1845. The
early settlers of Buckingham viere the most part United Empire
Loyalists or their descendants an6 the majority of them pro-
fzsse~l the '~nglicari faith.

Religious services for ,inglicans were held prior to
this date by travelling missionaries who visited the comnunity
an? helcl services in the mil1 cookhouses.

The first official act recorr'.erl was the ba~tism of
Henry Osgood, son of John Osgood and Sarah 11r.n ~mith-on ,,ugust
29, 3.845. "