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\ViJJ oug hby E.U.B. church has suffered the same as all rural churches
from a continual loss of members as. they move tO take employment in
the urban areas. However, most gGnerous supportJorsome of the expan�
sion projects has come frorri these former member$-.who m.Oved away or
from their children who have given in their parenfs mem0ry�
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Pastor of the church· for 22 years ,Prior to his retirement on J u.ne 30
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1966 was Rev. G T. Houck of Niagar, a Falls, a fu.tip brother of the late
.William L. (Bill) Houck, M.L.A. and M.P. for many years Rev:'. Houck
also served as Sunday Scho'ol S11periritendent for 35 years prior to 195L
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The present pastor is Rev Ge.OJ;ge .Wilkinson· of Waterloo; 'Who is
taking further studies at :Watexioq tJ'niversity while $erving as pl:lstor. He
is married and has two children.
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Ross Somervnle is in charge of the. senior Sunday,School and Mrs.
Carman Sauer head> th� Junior Sunday School. The Jti.nior Sunday Sch6ol.
carries on a vi.er; worthwhile training program among the chiJdten of the
community.
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St. Joseph's Church; Snyder (New Germany), celebratt)d its. centenary
in 1949. Thus St. Joseph's Church pre-dates Canada's Confederation by
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seventeen years.
\Vfole the church at1dparish hav(i alw:;iys been known as St. Joseph�s.
the names thnt h�nc been used in refei:ence to the area around the Church
have not always b�en one arid the. same, arid indeed are.> not ,even 'as of
the present.
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In the beginning, the Church was known as St/Joseph!s Blac1c Qte�k.
But because the settlers who came to this area all. spoke Ge;rrnan, it"()am�
to be known ·il:s St Joseph's New Gi:mnany The post office w�s i+t Stevl'!ns:.
ville. Ultimately a post office was estahiisl:red in the vill age �nd given th�.
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name Snvder after a Lutheran miriister who resided h,ere at the time.
1920, th: post office was discontinued and. the rura,I mail·�oute kno\vn. a�
RR. No. 2, Stevensville, \Vas inaugurated. '
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Today the parish is offi�fallr desi�1ated St. Joseph's
the people Nev,r Germany 'seems a more popular name.
S�j,der;but among
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From the parish recorgs, the first.settlers of Germari 'naHonal� ty were.
Jacob Schihl and his wife Catherine, and the)� were soon follow�d by others
In 1837 Father John vViriath of Berlin
from Germany and Alsace.
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�At this time?>�e Dioce$e ofKingston embraced all of Ontario, but in
1842 the DiocEise of J'orontb was established under Bishon Power and St.
Jos�ph.'s becattre a part of the Diocese of Toronto. The n�mber of priests
i,n ihe diocese-�wa.s,:.�rnaIJ andthe teITitory hug�. In German settlements
such. as_St'.Jo$eplfs�fanguaige made thi= problein greater. Thus the people
.• bf St. Jos�ph'�_l3laq� Creek might not see a pi-iestfor months on end. They
.J;>aptised theif ow1�.clri.Idren and .buried· their own dead.
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dfrectioll of.the,Jestrit Fathers. It was blessed on June :2·4, 18,19, the feast
uLSt. John the 13aptist and dedicated to St. Joseph. The first :baptism
)·�gistered in· fue new church was Catherine Critz, baptised at home an<,l
:f)nJnne 3, three. baptisms took place in the Church itself, Frances Blonde,
�va Ko�mg at1a Frederick Stephan. The priest, who administered ,tl1e
S�c:rfl.me11t�· in these fustances, was Rev. Lucas Caveng, S.J., who )ater
fou:tl.Cled St'. .Michaers parisll,in Buffalo and built St Michael's Qhurch
tliere. The :first marriage recci'ded was that of Felix Waibl and.Eleanor
Hein on June 2, l849. In 1853 Bishop de Charbonnel conferred the
'Sacr�ent of Confitmation in tlie church for the first time, 6onfirrning a
¢lass of fifty seven.
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number of priests,
from Buffalo took
6ver.'.:'the paxisli and served it until 1880. ln a report to Bishop Lynch of
1<�11to fn 1864,. father Kottnian ·wrote of :;St. Joseph's "there are 50.
farntJies. here and tl1ey are scattered in the woclds." In 1880 the Carmelite
, : Fathers,. tg9kover the parish and had care of it until the coming of Rev.
Wilfred 'Gavilrd, Too much could not be said to the :zeal at1d devotion
()f,. the Carmelite Fathers� }l�u·iJ%/these 66 years. Ther \\1ill long be
.reiliei:q.bered. by:tl1e people of'New Gi=rmany.
1849.to 1860 the parish
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:�oinl;religiqus sorne secular. In 1860 the Jesuit Fathers
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1,i'. 1946 Father Wilfred Gavan] becam� pastor and took up his duties
onJaj}e26 ofthaty�ar. In 1951 Hev. Alph?�� _McNicholl became pastor.
During Father McNiCholl's tenure of office':twb very important additions
were made to the. parish, through the building of St, ] oscph's and St. Pius
Scho<:>a: Then fo S<:�ptcmber 1957 Cardinal McGuigan gave St. Joseph's
its fir�t resident pastor, R,ev. John :Nfa/vyn, who is pastor at the present
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