The men who founded Cornwall and settled the United Counties were of religious mould, and the records tell us that churches were among the first buildings erected. To-day the graceful spires form a notable feature of the landscape and many beautiful ecclesiastical edifices adorn the streets of the County Town.
      The Anglicans and the Presbyterians were earliest in the field in Cornwall and saintly men ministered to their needs, first in small rooms, or in the open air. The archives of Trinity Church contain a prayer book dated 1785, and one of the beautiful memorial windows hallows the memory of John Smith and John Pescod, wardens of the parish two years later. A church was erected in 1805, and in 1868 the present church, a rare gem of architecture, was begun as a memorial to the late Bishop Strachan, pioneer of religion and education in the new country and particularly in Cornwall. Memorial windows, tablets, altar, reredos and choir stalls, bear testimony to departed worth. The beautiful chime was the gift of Canon Mountain, who also built the Church of the Good Shepherd in Cornwall East at his sole expense.
      The congregation of St. Johns is housed in a stone church of striking design and generous proportions. This beautiful edifice replaced the old frame church on the site now occupied by the Rossmore Hotel, and dating back to 1823. Before this there was a little kirk in which, until 1815, ministered the late Rev. John Bethune, of saintly memory.
      Knox Church was established in 1846 at the time of the Disruption, its first church giving place in 1884 to the handsome building now in use.