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St. Mary Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church
(c. 1880) 145 Lakeshore Road W.
Irish Catholics first immigrated to Port Credit after the war of 1812, with many early Irish families settling in the immediate Port Credit area by the 1830s and 1840s. At first, the faithful travelled to mass at St. Paul’s in Toronto or the Fifth Line Church at Elmbank, and later to St. Peter’s in Trafalgar or St. Patrick’s in Dixie. A Catholic church was eventually built on this site in 1880. The church itself remained a part of the St. Patrick’s Parish at Dixie until 1913. The cornerstone for the present church was laid in 1952. Stained glass windows from the 1880 church have been preserved in this building. The small cemetery beside the church is the final resting place for many early Irish Catholic settlers from the area.
