(1844-6 or 16 Dec. 1907), clergyman. (C.E. Gordon-Smith) He was a native of Scotland, a graduate of Edinburgh University, had sons born in Essex and in Coventry, England, and was at some stage a Congregationalist minister. In 1884 he came to Canada. He was inducted in 1888 as the minister of the Presbyterian congregation of St. Andrew’s at Lancaster and of the Presbyterian congregation of the 2nd Concession of Lancaster Township. These were Old Kirk congregations which continued their association with the Church of Scotland, having refused to follow other Presbyterians into the Presbyterian Church in Canada in the union of 1875. However, in 1898 the Rev. Gordon-Smith and his congregations were received into the Presbyterian Church in Canada. In 1899 he resigned to allow a restructuring of the Presbyterian congregations in the Lancaster area. Thereafter his ministerial career was outside GC. He held the Presbyterian charges of L’Amable-Bancroft in 1904 and Demorestville from 1905 to 1907. (These charges were in Ontario) Before coming to GC, he had also been a minister at Stratford, Ont. He died at the Manse, Demorestville. He was the father of C.R.W. Gordonsmith (the father and son used different spellings of their surnames).

MacMillan, Kirk, 73, 90, 165-166 (portrait) * obituary summarized in 20 Years Ago column, Cornwall Freeholder 15 Dec. 1927 * An Historical Sketch of St. Andrews Presbyterian Congregation Lancaster, Ontario (1957?) * Ella May Smith, The Story of the Old Stone Church [St. Andrew’s, South Lancaster] (1980?) with same portrait as in MacMillan * Ross, Lancaster, 233 * information from Archives of the Presbyterian Church in Canada