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W Philip Harding woo born in England on August 20th 1819. and landed in Gould: 15 1859. He settled in haliburton County where he howeetelded. worked at logging. clearing and cultivating the land struggling against the privatione and hardships of the early pioneering dlye. His first visit to Apeley was in LE7; when he learned that a Charles Vlzard who had settled in the ne:-et four years before gave land for an English Church. churciyard a': censtery. The only place of worship at that time was a non-cc<f:r:::t chapel two miles away near Scott's turn on Chandos Road SC:1: . when Ben Hales. the first reeve of Chandos. held service a:: preached. In Apsley itself. before 1871 there was a: unf::;s:e: Anglican Church on the present site and also a Presbyterian ;;a:: of worship was served by itinerant students at times. with regerd to the Anglican Church. Ir. Harding writes it his diary that the original church was built by funds sent frcr England by Captain Hall of the RoyalNavy to his sen a: A;s;ey, i but due to unforseen circumstances only a part of the an: n was expended for the purpose. with the result that the :h;::: 9. if. tn got no farther than being s mere shell and was not in 2 October 18?“ it cans to the ears of Ir. Herding that a certai: man was trying to sell the church to the Presbyterians. He wrote to 3 Ir. Golborne who operated a sawmill in Apsley. a good churchmen. on the matter. He in turn took up the matter Fifi the Rev. Dr. Snithett of Lindsay and the Rev. F. Burt of linden, u;tr of whom evidently conferred with the Bishop on the situation.