Constructed in 1883, the former St. Luke’s Anglican Church is one of the oldest churches in western Manitoba. Only two years after initial settlement of the area, and a full three years before the railway reached it, the fledgling community of Souris, largely Anglican at the time, engaged an architect to design its church. It was a wood frame structure, of modest size and designed in the popular Gothic Revival style of the period.
As the community and the congregation grew, additions were made to the church, in 1894 and again in 1911. The latter additions were demolished in December 1989. However, the original 1883 section was saved and acquired by the Souris and District Heritage Club, which relocated the structure to its present site at 142 First Street South, and renamed it The Plum Museum and Tea Room. The building is a municipally designated historic site as of 1992.
Period
Rector
1884-1887
Rev. T. C. Coggs
1889
Rev. H. W. Pughe
1890-1894
Rev. Charles Wood
1894-1900
John William Matheson (1864-1947)
1900-1910
Rev. Hewitt
1910-1912
Rev. J. M. Comyn-Ching
1912-1914
Rev. H. Cawley
1915-1918
Rev. F. B. Lys
1919-1922
Rev. J. McKinney
1922-1926
Rev. H. McCartney
1926-1929
Rev. J. Poyntz
1929-1932
Rev. P. V. Boyes
1932-1934
Rev. Wallace Eldridge
1934-1936
Rev. W. H. Gregory
1936-1940
Rev. R. R. Strachan
1940-1943
Rev. W. J. Hunter
1943-1944
Rev. F. G. Ongley
1944-1948
Rev. E. A. Syms
1948-1952
Rev. George G. Morrison
1952-1955
Rev. D. S. H. Minton
1955-1960
Rev. C. I. Rothery
1960-1964
Rev. David Brooke
1964-1969
Colin Clifford Chapman (1932-2024)
1970-1974
Rev. W. D. Smith
1974-1976
Rev. James Merry
1976-1979
Rev. Daniel Noonan
1979-1980
Rev. Robert Reed
1980-?
Rev. Fred Carson
The Plum Museum, formerly the St. Luke’s Anglican Church (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The Plum Museum, formerly the St. Luke’s Anglican Church (July 2018)
Source: George Penner
Interior of the Plum Museum (July 2018)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.61604, W100.25774
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites
Memorable Manitobans: Averill May Whitfield (1938-2022)
The Story of a Century: St. Luke's Anglican Church, Souris, Manitoba by the Vestry of St. Luke's Anglican Church, 1983, pages 3, 28-35.
St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 140 - 1st Street S, Souris, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Tim Worth, and George Penner.
Page revised: 13 July 2024
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