Very little is known about the Church of Heavenly Rest, which was a former Anglican church located in Bocabec. The deed (1), from Araminta Jane Turner of Bocabec to the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry of St. Patrick, was dated May 22, 1906 and transferred a piece of land "For the site of a building to be used as [a] Church. The services to be those in use in the Church of England in Canada and none other." The land was located at the head of Wheaton Lake on the north side of what is now Highway 127, east of Holts Point Road as follows:
Beginning at a stone on the highway from St Andrews to St. George about five hundred yards from the point of intersection with a road known as the Holt's Point road. And running North one hundred feet to a fir tree, thence East one hundred and twenty feet, thence South to a spruce tree on the St. Andrews Road, thence one hundred and twenty feet along said road to [the] place of beginning.There is a brief reference to this church in the Memoirs of Annie M. Holt (p. 13):
On the Saint John highway, below Jack McCullough’s new home, almost at top of Wheaton Hill, was built a little Anglican church. Promotor [sic] was Mrs. Botterall who donated the land. The Rector was Rev. D. W. Blackall. The meetings were fairly well attended, but there were hardly any regular supporters. So the higher boards of the church said they would take the lumber of the church and build a church-hall for Elmsville Anglican Church. Before this the government had been widening the highway, and really destroyed the entrance and left no parking space. Then this change was accomplished.According to the Elmsville Community Access Site, the church hall in Elmsville was built in 1948.
A Plea for Help
The above information is everything that I know about
the Church of Heavenly Rest, Bocabec. It is not listed in PANB's Charlotte
County Genealogical Guide, nor have I seen any references to it in the
Charlotte County Archives. If anyone has any further information, especially
a picture, please contact me (Craig
Walsh).
1. Charlotte County Registry Book 65, pp. 411-412. Number 10238. Registered May 22, 1906.
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