St Johns Weston
College in York

St. John's Anglican Church turned 155 years old in 2011. The pews are the original pews designed to seat the children of the boy's school.Through the years, St. John's, has responded to the developing and changing community of Weston. Later, pulled by ox cart to its present site, the Chapel of Ease, formed the wooden structure of the present day St. John's Church. Trinity College School, traces it's origins to this chapel, Port Hope, developing from Father Johnston's dream of creating a center of education in the northern reaches of Toronto. The Rev. William Arthur Johnston began this ministry in 1856 when he gathered together an Anglican Church fellowship for worship and prayer in a local home in Weston.The Rev. W. A. Johnston eventually built the 'Chapel of Ease' which served a dual purpose, a gathering place for Anglican worship and the beginnings of a private boy's school. In the 1960's and 1970's the church served Weston with several services on a Sunday; offering Worship, Sunday School and Christian Education for the many families, children and teens who worshipped at St.