This illustration of a church, was drawn at least 80 years ago by one of Canada’s top illustrators, but the Region of Peel Archives believes that it was never published.

The artwork of the Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Church was created by artist Charles William Jeffreys. His specialties were architecture — he was a professor for the University of Toronto’s Department of Architecture — and historic scenes of life in Canada from the pre-Contact to 1900.

When Wm. Perkins Bull, a Peel lawyer recuperating from a road accident in 1931, began researching Peel, he contacted Jeffreys to create some illustrations. While some were used, this image of a building in the Township of Toronto Gore went into storage. It was later acquired by the Region of Peel Archives as part of a larger donation of items compiled by Perkins Bull’s research team. (This year, Bull is posthumously being inducted into the Brampton Arts Walk of Fame.)

(The building reopened in 2008, after renovations and restorations, as a rental facility called Ebenezer Chapel. It’s located at 8999 The Gore Rd., just south of Ebenezer Road.)