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ST. PETER'S QUAMICHAN, ANGLICAN CHURCH & CEMETERY
St. Peter's Quamichan Anglican Church is located at 5800 Church Road, North Cowichan between Maple Bay Road and Tzouhalem Road. The church office phone is (250)746-6262.
An Anglican Church has stood on this site since 1866. The present church was consecrated in June 1877. Additions to the church building were made in 1893 and in the 1930s.
The churchyard contains a picturesque cemetery with interments dating back to 1866.
We are currently aware of 54 Freemasons interred in St. Peter's Quamichan, including three former Mayors of Duncan, some prominent local businessmen, farmers, lawyers and a RCMP Superintendent. The names are in the list below.
Here is a list of the Freemasons whom we currently know to be interred in St. Peter's Quamichan Anglican Cemetery:
- Adam, Robert John - died 1991
- Alexander, David - died 1928 (note: his former farm gives its name to the current Alexander district along Beverley Street and Lakes Road)
- Anderson, Richard Burpee - died 1912
- Bruce, Ronald George Maunsell - died 1991
- Chambers, Robert Earl Stirling - died 2011
- Clague, Herbert Naden - died 1921
- Copeman, John Young - died 1958
- Corfield, Norman Tressidor - died 1983 (Note: associated with the formation and construction of Duncan Garage)
- Dibb, Frank Walton - died 1933
- Dick, John - died 1941
- Dobson, Christopher - died 1937 (note: built the commercial building on the north west corner of Station St. and Craig St. in downtown Duncan. His former home at 220 Beech is still standing. He also built the altars used in Temple Lodge, No.33 and Ashlar Lodge, No.3)
- Dunbar, John - died 1988
- Duncan, Kenneth Forrest - died 1952 (note: first Mayor of Duncan, 1912)
- Dwyer, William Mourdant - died 1948 (note: was the head of the School Board that built Duncan Elementary School in 1913.)
- Findlay, James - died 1975
- Glay, George Adolph - died 1954
- Grieg, James - died 1954 (note: former Mayor of Duncan)
- Hall, John Edward - died 1944
- Hearn, Edward Harry - died 2005 (member of Malahat Lodge, No.107, Past President of Cowichan Valley Shrine Club)
- Holford, John Coupe - died 1946
- Horsfield, Richard Edward - died 1986
- Jaynes, Percy Franklin - died 1920
- Keast, Hubert - died 1911
- Lane, Arthur Edward Cecil - died 1947
- Langley, Arnold Seymer - died 1912
- Lomas, Alfred Hinton - died 1957
- Maitland-Dougall, James St. Leger - died 1940
- Marshall, William Thomas - died 1933
- McGregor, Dr. Robert Campbell - died 1919
- McKenzie, Alexander Grant - died 2011
- Mellin, Richard Guy - died 1931
- Nelson, Richard - died 1921
- Norie, Francis James - died 1946
- Peterson, John Henry - died 1917
- Phillips-Wolley, Sir Clive - died 1918 (note: played a leading role in the creation of Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island)
- Piers, Sir Charles Robert Fitzmaurice -died 1996 (Worshipful Master of Temple Lodge, No.33 in 1957)
- Prevost, Harold Fairfax - died 1941 (note: former Mayor of Duncan. His business building is still standing at 45 Craig St., Duncan)
- Price, Ernest Alfred - died 1920
- Price, Frank - died 1943
- Price, Joseph - died 1955
- Pruessing, Emil Julius - died 1945
- Sandys-Wunsch, Theodore - died 1966 (note: former RCMP Superintendant. Involved in the Mad Trapper case)
- Scholey, Sidney Laing - died 1972
- Sheppard, Llewellyn Donald - died 1998
- Stilwell, John Ernest - died 1957
- Tautz, George Franklin - died 1925
- Tipton, Robert - died 1969
- Tombs, Stanley Josiah - died 1942
- Tombs, Thomas Ethelbert - died 1916
- Vidal, Hugh Francis - died 1941
- Waldon, William - died 1946
- Wellburn, Harry Osborn - died 1910
- Whittome, James Henry - died 1936 (note: owned the Whittome Building in downtown Duncan.)
- Wood, Thomas Anthony - died 1945 (note: former Reeve of North Cowichan)
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