Two individuals, dedicated to one historic cause…
Both gentlemen founded the restoration committee for Christ Church in Lakefield. Their efforts saved the church as a viable heritage building in Lakefield village. Christ Church is the product of Colonel Sam Strickland (brother of Catharine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie) and his fundraising in England. Christ Church, as the first church in the County (excluding the Town of Peterborough) is believed to have been built without a mortgage. In any event, Bill Twist and Garnet Graham saw preserving the church a a priority of utmost importance, not just to the village but to the entire county – and they took up the challenge to make it so. The foresight and endeavour to, not only, save Christ Church, but to see it morph into a genuine Village Museum remains an ongoing gift to the country in which we live.