On a recent weekday afternoon, the main street in Norwich Township was bustling with people chatting at the local cafe, eating at the deli or browsing through shops.
But residents say all that changes on Sundays, when the community in southwestern Ontario largely closes for the Christian day of rest, clinging to a practice generally abandoned across the province since the early 1990s when the government scrapped Sunday closures.
The move came after the township saw several cases of vandalism last year involving Pride flags and banners in support of the LGBTQ community. Tara King, another Norwich resident, said there is a "big divide" in the town between the church's members and others. "We will be following up with a secondary complaint given that they have followed through with the motion," she added.
Norwich's conservative religious character dates back to the early 19th Century, when the township was settled by Peter Lossing — a Quaker from New York state who arrived in 1810, said Matthew Lloyd, a curatorial assistant with the Norwich and District Museum.
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