2023-01-18 - The previous instrument belonging to Queen Street Baptist Church, built by Steere & Turner and installed in 1886, was destroyed by fire on March 1, 1891. Upon purchasing a new pipe organ by the Bell Organ Co. of Guelph, the First Baptist Church of Brantford provided their 1866 S. R. Warren organ to the Queen Street Church. From The St. Catharines *Daily Standard*, March 7, 1892: "The pipe organ in the Queen Street Baptist Church so generously presented by the members of the Baptist denomination of Brantford, was opened yesterday by Prof. A. M. Read with special musical services." It is likely that most or all of this instrument's pipework was reused in the new organ provided by the C. Franklin Legge Organ Company in 1925. -Andrew Henderson
2023-07-31 - It is likely that the Warren instrument was moved to the Presbyterian Church in Welland, Ontario, when Queen Street Church obtained an organ from St. Thomas Church. The St. Catharines *Daily Standard* on October 18, 1911 mentions a church in Welland that expressed an interest in the instrument, and the Presbyterian Church in Welland dedicated a pipe organ on March 6, 1912. -Andrew Henderson
Source: The Brantford Expositor November 30, 1866
Great Organ Open Diapason 8, Stop Diapason Treble 8, Stop Diapason Bass 8, Dulciana 8, Principal 4, Harmonic Flute 4, Fifteenth 2, Sesqtra [sic] III, Cremona 8
Swell Organ Melodia 8, Stop Diapason [Bass?] 8, Viol da Gamba 8, Principal 4, Hautboy 8
Pedal Organ Bourdon 16
Mechanical Swell to Great, Great to Pedals, Octave Coupler, Bellows Signal, 2 Composition Pedals
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