In the 1850s, a little church in the little city of St. Catharines, Ontario, became a community hub for African American slaves who had escaped to Canada. Among the worshippers who gathered in the ...

Edward Roy Cassell Smith sometimes imagines his ancestors rejoicing in the balcony of the Salem Chapel, where freed slaves first came to worship nearly 170 years ago. The small church in St.

No one said it was going to be easy. But leaders at New Hope Church received the answer they wanted to expand their church after Thursday’s exhaustive Niagara Region’s council meeting. Bill Sawchuk is ...

New Hope Church is now two for two in convincing municipal councillors to ignore staff advice and allow it to more than double of its capacity despite being in the the Greenbelt. Representatives of ...