# St. James Anglican Church

Anglican church in Hamilton, Ontario.

Source: https://hamiltons.church/churches/st-james-anglican/
Last verified: 2026-10-18

## Service times
- Sunday 10:00 a.m. (Choral Eucharist)

The Sunday service is also livestreamed; the link and the month's order of service are posted on the parish's home page and Facebook page. Compline, a short service of night prayer, is offered on Facebook on Wednesdays at 9:15 p.m. The church office is open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

## Address
137 Melville Street, Dundas, ON L9H 2A6

## Contact
- Phone: 905-627-1424
- Website: https://www.stjamesdundas.ca
- Email: stjamesdundas@outlook.com
- Affiliation: Anglican Diocese of Niagara

## What they believe
St. James is an Anglican parish in Dundas whose mission is 'to know Jesus and share Love through prayer, story, and service'. It describes itself as an inclusive, creative and active church community with a rich history of serving others, embracing the arts and welcoming all, and aims to be an inclusive and affirming church and a safe space for LGBTQ2IA+ people. Its Diocese of Niagara describes Anglicans as rooted in Scripture, which contains all things necessary for salvation, shaped by tradition and engaged with reason, and as believing in one God in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

## About this congregation
St. James Anglican Church is on Melville Street in Dundas. The city's heritage inventory records that the congregation was organized at a meeting on 2 April 1839 called by the Rev. William McMurray, who served Ancaster and Dundas together, and that its original church, on Hatt Street on land given by the mill owner James Bell Ewart, opened on 31 December 1843. Dundas became a charge of its own in 1870 and a separate parish in 1895.

A munitions factory beside the Hatt Street church during the First World War led the congregation to look for a new site, and the present Gothic church of stone on Melville Street was completed in 1926, followed by a parish hall in 1951 and a tower in 1959. Fire destroyed the roof, the stained glass and the interior on 18 January 1978; the church was rebuilt by 1980 under the local architect Trevor Garwood-Jones, with a new narthex, clear glass in the windows and moveable seating, and the 1847 bell from the Hatt Street church is still in use. The parish is marking the church's hundredth anniversary with a dinner on 20 November 2026 and an anniversary service on 22 November.

Sunday worship is at ten in the morning, in the church and livestreamed. The rector is the Reverend Canon Leslie Gerlofs, and the Reverend Deacon Ann Vander Berg is the parish deacon.

## About this listing
Part of Hamiltons.church. These listings cover a growing selection of congregations in Hamilton; they are not yet exhaustive.
Checked against: stjamesdundas.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18); niagaraanglican.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18); hamilton.ca (retrieved 2026-10-18).
What Anglican churches believe: https://hamiltons.church/denominations/anglican/