Freedom, Opportunity and Family: Oakville’s Black History Exhibit at Oakville Museum
Poster reads: “The Turner African Methodist Episcopal Church. In about 1860, Samuel Adams and his brother-in-law Reverend William Butler started to organize a church in Bronte. At that time, there were between 150 and 200 African-American families in the area. The British Methodist Episcopal Church was eventually formed in 1875.
Their work eventually led to the building of the Turner African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakville which opened under Reverend William Roberts in 1892. The new church united the congregations of the British Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal churches in Oakville and Bronte.
The Church was named after Bishop Henry Turner, a well-known preacher and community worked, whom President Lincoln had named as the first AFrican American Chaplain in the United States Armed Forces.
The congregation remained very active for nearly 100 years. The building still stands at 37 Lakeshore Road West.”
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