The Little-known Roots of Brampton

By Lynne Golding

July 25, 2016

How many people think of Brampton–the 500,000 person city northwest of Toronto—as being the centre of any religious movement?  In the mid-1800’s, Brampton, a community of less than 600 people, was the heart of the Canadian Primitive Methodist movement. Read here.

Lawson ultimately left Brampton, becoming a Justice of Peace in Hamilton, but before he left, he and Elliott shaped the Primitive Methodist movement in Canada John Elliott was a well-to-do Primitive Methodist born and raised in Brampton, Cumberland, England Finding success, the next year the first conference of the Primitive Methodist Church of Canada was convened in the Brampton Queen Street church The local worship service attended by the experienced Lawson led to the establishment of the Primitive Methodist Church of Canada in Brampton and indeed to the establishment of Brampton itself

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