St. Saviour's Anglican Church Memorial Hall, Nelson, B.C.
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N 49° 29.390 W 117° 17.509
11U E 478865 N 5481951
This parish hall is behind the church on the corner of Ward and Carbonate Streets.
Waymark Code: WMHK95
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 07/18/2013
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Opened in 1898, the church served as the Cathedral of the Diocese of Kootenay from 1900 until the 1960s. Since that time it has been known as a pro-cathedral.
Just prior to World War I the Mother’s Club began to raise funds for a new parish hall and school. By this time the school had an enrollment of 200 students and the congregation stood at 600. Present facilities were proving inadequate.
World War I intervened, but on June 28th, 1922 the cornerstone was laid, as it had been in 1898 for the church, by the Masons of Nelson. It was named Memorial Hall to honour those who had lost their lives in the war. Around 1945 the hall was expanded to the north. The more recent section of the hall can be noted by the difference in the granite blocks between the old and the new.
In 2011 the Memorial Hall was sold and is now used for commercial purposes, one of which is an animal clinic.
The translation of the Latin on the cornerstone is as follows:
D.O.M.(Deo Optimo Maximo) - To God, most good, most great
In Memoriam Virtutis Nostrum - In Memory of the Valour of Our Men