St. Margaret’s Chapel

Located at Cape Chin, north of Lion’s Head on the East Road, is a little church of interesting architecture. St. Margaret’s Anglican services are held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday evenings in July and August.

Years of hard workmanship produced the beautiful building in 1932. Rev. R.W. James was the driving force behind the project. He collected donations and got down to the dirty work, once using the wheels from his Model-T Ford to power a saw for cutting planks of wood.

The church’s distinctive design consists of striking dolomite limestone from the local quarry, outward sloping buttresses, and a bell tower which doubles as an entrance. St. Margaret’s is a small-scale replica of a traditional Anglican cathe-dral in Zaire, Africa (formerly Southern Rhodesia), with the same name.

Today locals and visitors gather at dusk in the holy building, seemingly untouched by time. Newer stain glass windows display the beauty of wild-flowers found in the area such as trillium, lady’s slipper, wild columbine, trout lily and dog violet. St. Margaret’s unique beauty and history make it a Bruce Peninsula treasure.