1826 in Port Credit: Rumours that an Anglican church was to be built in the community [Credit village] and the religion changed from Methodist to Anglican, stimulated Peter Jones and Rev. Egerton Ryerson, to erect the first Methodist church on the Credit River [the “Bark Chapel”]. Peter Jones helped lash the timbers into rafts and ride them down to the church site from Racey’s saw mill at Erindale. The Methodist church was used as a school as well as a church. Peter Jones, being bilingual (Ojibwa and English) translated the moving hymns of Charles Wesley and the word of God as revealed in the Bible into the Ojibwa language.
Source: “Seasoned Just Right,” 1987, Skeoch