[2] In 2003, Dean Peter Wall performed a wedding for a lesbian couple, whilst the national church was still in the process of debating the blessing of same-sex unions.

The Diocesan Synod also had yet to reach any conclusion on the matter, with Bishop Ralph Spence expressing disapproval of the Dean's decision to officiate the wedding.

Originally a stuccoed wooden Palladian-Baroque structure designed by Robert Charles Wetherall,[6] it was incrementally transformed into stone Decorated Gothic, initially to an 1848 design by William Thomas, with Thomas's chancel and the first two bays of his nave being added to Wetherall's existing wooden church, the resulting hybrid being dubbed "the humpback church.

"[7] The stone gothic nave was completed to a further design by Henry Langley (the architect of some 70 Ontario churches)[8] in 1876,[9] the original wooden portion having been demolished in 1872 to clear room for it[10] and, inter alia, the chancel extended in 1924–25.

Since 2008, the New Harbours Music Series has organized free public concerts which coincide with the monthly art crawl on James street, including performances from Polmo Polpo, Orphx, Michael Snow, Slither, Steve Hauschildt, Dirty Beaches, Slim Twig, Gasoline Gathers Hands Gathers Friends, Sun Circle, and Jeremy Greenspan.