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Trinity-St.Paul's United Church was established in 1980 when St. Paul's-Avenue Road United Church and Trinity United Church joined together in the Trinity building, located at 427 Bloor Street West (corner of Bloor and Robert streets, just west of Spadina Avenue). It is still an active congregation of the United Church of Canada.

Trinity United Church was established in 1925; formerly Methodist. Trinity Methodist Church was established in 1887; originally known as Western Methodist Church. The church joined the United Church of Canada in 1925. It joined with St. Paul's-Avenue Road United Church to form Trinity-St.Paul's United Church in 1980.

St. Paul's - Avenue United Church was located on Avenue Road at Webster Avenue, just south of Davenport Road in Toronto, and combined former Methodist and Presbyterian congregations when establihsed in 1930. It joined with Trinity United Church to form Trinity-St. Paul's United Church in 1980.

St. Paul's Methodist Church, located at 121 Avenue Road, began as a Primitive Methodist mission in Yorkville in 1844 on Cumberland Street. In 1867 a new church was built at Yonge and Davenport (St. Paul's Primitive Methodist), and about 1887 the new church was opened at 121 Avenue Road.

Avenue Road Presbyterian, began as a Sabbath School in 1868, locating the following year at Bedford and Davenport roads. In 1898 the Church of the Covenant (so-named in 1893) was built at Avenue Road and Roxborough Street, changing its name in 1906 to Avenue Road Presbyterian.

Both Avenue Road and St. Paul's joined the United Church in 1925, and in 1930 the two were combined as St. Paul's - Avenue Road, and made use of the St. Paul's building. The old Avenue Road church was first taken up by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and later became the temple of the Hare Krishna movement. St. Paul's - Avenue Road joined with Trinity United to form Trinity - St. Paul's United in 1980.

St. Paul's Centre at Trinity was established in 1974 as St. Paul's Centre at Avenue Road United Church; in 1980 it became part of Trinity-St. Paul's United Church

Ballantrae - Lemonville Pastoral Charge was established in 1925, formerly Methodist

Lemonville Methodist Circuit included Ballantrae and Bethesda; it joined the United Church of Canada in 1925

Ballantrae United Church was established in 1925, formerly Methodist

Lemonville United Church was establisheded in 1925, formerly Methodist

Lemonville Methodist Church was established in the nineteenth century; it joined the United Church of Canada in 1925

St. James in the Valley United Church was established in 1959 as part of the Blezard Pastoral Charge with Larchwood Memorial, Dowling and Chelmsford. The congregation held its first service in Val Caron public school on November 22, 1959 and then held services at Hanmer Public Schools No. 1 &2. In 1960, the congregation purchased a building and a manse in the Val Therese community. It is located at 4510 Tate Boulevard. It became a single point charge in 1963.It is still an active congregation of the United Church of Canada.

The Milverton Pastoral Charge includes St. Paul's Church in Milverton and a preaching appointment at Carthage, Ontario. It is a United Church which has a Methodist Church of Canada heritage, and it welcomed members from Burns Presbyterian Church in Canada into its fold at the time of Union (1925).

St. Mark's Evangelical United Brethren Church, also of Milverton, was a successor to the original Evangelical Association in the area, which began a mission to the German-speakers of Milverton as early as 1858. It joined with the United Church in 1968.

Calvary United Church was created in 1968 through the union of Calvary Memorial Evangelical United Brethren Church in Rodney and Rodney United Church. It formed part of a single-point pastoral charge from 1968 to ca. 1980 when it joined Knox Church in West Lorne to form West Elgin Pastoral Charge. West Elgin Pastoral Charge closed June 15, 2004 and the two churches formed separate single-point charges. Calvary United Church is still an active congregation of the United Church of Canada.

Calvary Memorial Evangelical United Brethren Church was created in 1949 through the amalgamation of two Evangelical United Brethren congregations, Immanuel Church in Churchville [Aldborough], Ontario and Zion Church in Rodney.Rodney Evangelical United Brethren Circuit was named in 1923 as a successor to the Aldborough Evangelical Church Circuit. The Circuit took in preaching places in Aldborough Township, Ontario at Rodney and Middle Street, Aldborough [Churchville]. Initially a part of the Elgin Mission (1861), the Aldborough area was home to German-speaking farmers. A separate Aldborough Mission was established by the Evangelical Association in 1885, and it later was promoted to the status of a Circuit.The EUB Church in Rodney was built in 1898 to house a congregation of German-Canadians, which had been established in the village in 1890.

Rodney United Chuch was established in 1925 when a minority of the local Presbyterian Church in Canada congregation decided to join the new United Church. Their place of worship was opened in 1927.

New Glasgow, Ontario is located four miles from Rodney, where Presbyterians began ministering in 1875. The United Church there dates from the Union of 1925.

Sebringville Pastoral Charge was formed in 1968 when the Evangelical United Brethen Church joined the United Church of Canada in 1968; it includes Emmanuel United Church in Sebringville and Zion United Church in Rostock. It is still an active pastoral charge of the United Church of Canada.

Emmanuel United Church joined the United Church in 1968 when the Evangelical United Brethren and the United Church of Canada were united. The first Evangelical services in Sebringville to German immigrants took place in 1840. The church constructed there in the 1840s was part of the Evangelical Association Waterloo Mission and later the Huron Mission. By 1883 it was the Sebringville Circuit with preaching places at Sebringville, Fullarton and Stratford. A new church was constructed in the first decade of the twentieth century. In 1946, Emmanuel Evangelical Church became Emmanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church when the Evangelical Church and the Church of the United Brethren joined. Emmanuel United Church closed in 2018.

Zion United Church in Rostock was established in 1968 when the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church of Canada. Zion Evangelical United Brethren Church in Rostock was established as early as 1864 as part of the Evangelical Association. Rostock was home to German immigrants. The congregation was a preaching place on the Milverton Mission. Zion Evangelical Church was first constructed inand later rebuilt in 1902 and remained in the Milverton Charge until 1968.

Rama United Church was originally an Indian Mission of the Methodist Church of Canada, on the Rama (Ojibwa) Indian Reserve in Ontario. Its status was changed to a Methodist Church in 1920, and it remained a church in the new United Church in 1925.

St. John's United Church was established 1925, formerly Methodist. Tweed Methodist Church was established 1881; it joined the United Church of Canada in 1925

Sulphide United Church established 1906; it was united with Tweed Pastoral Charge in 1937. It closed in 1966.

Caistorville Methodist Circuit was formed in 1874, and subsequently joined the Methodist Church, Canada in 1884; it was discontinued in 1925 when the United Church was formed.

James Binnie (1864-1944) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born in Parry Sound and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1892, serving in the Kingston and North Bay/Parry Sound Presbyteries. He was then a United Church minister in the Carling-Otter Lake District, 1925-1926; Toronto, St. Cuthbert's, 1927-1928; and superannuated in Toronto, 1929-1943. He married Jessie Connell in 1904.

Frederick William Leslie Brailey (1899-1987) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born in England, graduated from Victoria College and was ordained in the Methodist Church in 1926. Rev. Brailey served as a United Church minister in the Hamilton and Toronto Conferences from 1926 to his retirement in 1964. He had a very active career including work on many boards and councils within the church and in the City of Toronto, and was the author of many pamphlets and articles on matters of concern to society. In 1926 he married Laura Pearl Ottmann.

Earl Watson Brearley (1891-1975) was a Methodist/United Church minister. He was born in Brantford, Ontario; in 1914 he married Gladys Clarke. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1921 and he served at Linwood, 1916-1918; Hornby, 1918-1922; Dereham, 1922-1924; Hagersville, 1925-1928; Hamilton, 1929-1939; Simcoe, 1940-1946; St. Thomas, 1947-1951; and Burlington, 1952 until he retired in 1961.

Robert Davey (1844-1923) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. He was born in England, was a local preacher in England and was ordained as a Methodist minister in Canada in 1872. He served in the London and Guelph Conferences, and then in the Hamilton Conference at Chelsey, 1895-1896; Stony Creek, 1897-1899; Waterford, 1900-1903; Port Dover, 1904-1905; superannuated at Beamsville, Ont., 1905-1911.

John B. Silcox (1847-1933) was a Congregational minister in Canada and the U.S.A. He was born at Frome, Ontario, brother of Edwin D. Silcox and grandson of Rev. Joseph Silcox. He attended the Toronto Normal School, and the Congregational College of Canada. He served charges in Winnipeg, Sacramento, Montreal, Chicago, Lansing, Toronto and Kansas City.

Jean and Alfred Stone were United Church missionaries to Japan. Jean Gillespie was born in Parry Sound in 1900. She attended Normal School and the Methodist National Training School. In 1925, she was appointed to Japan as a missionary and in 1931, resigned to be married to Alfred Stone. After being widowed in 1954, Jean Stone served as Secretary to St. Luke's United Church in Toronto. She died in 1987. Alfred Stone was born in Highgate, Ontario, in 1902. He attended Victoria University and was ordained in 1926. He served as a missionary in Japan. Rev. Stone died in Japan in 1954 as a result of a ferry boat accident

Earl Schweitzer Lautenschlager (1906-1973) was a United Church Minister in Ontario and Principal of Emmanuel College. He was born in Mannheim, Ontario, a fifth generation Canadian descended from German Lutherans who joined the Evangelical United Brethren Church. In his youth, he as appointed premier of the Older Boys' Parliament. Rev. Dr. Lautenschlager served at Magnetawan, Hagersville, St. Andrew's, Sudbury (twice), Elmvale and Howard Park United Church in Toronto, as well as serving as an Royal Canadian Air Force Chaplain overseas during World War II. In 1963, he was appointed Principal of Emmanuel College, a position he held until 1971, when he retired. Dr. Lautenschlager was married to the former Elizabeth Forbes.

Dr. Ralph Collins and Dr. Jean Collins were missionaries to Angola, Africa.

Ralph Collins was born in England, May 8 1892 and died September 30, 1970. He arrived in Canada at age 17 and received his B.A. from McGill in 1923 and his B.D. in 1925 from Congregational College. He would receive an honorary D.D. from the United Theological College in Montreal in 1946.

Dr. Collins was ordained in 1925 and arrived in Angola as a missionary in 1926 to take over from Dr. W.H. Sanders. In 1929 he married Miss Jean Gurd in Montreal and she worked alongside him in Angola. They served in Camundongo until 1947 when they were appointed to organize and direct Emmanuel Seminary in Dondi. Dr. Collins returned from Angola in 1958 and held various short positions as Retired Supply in Ottawa including Wesley, Permbroke, Larder Lake, Cardinal, South Mountain, Vars-Nava, Parkdale and Knox United.
Dr. Jean Collins was born in Montreal 1903 and received her English Degree from McGill University in 1925. She went on to complete her Masters and taught for four years in the English Department. She was an active member of the Church and engaged in the beginnings of the C.G.I.T. movement. After marriage to Dr. Ralph Collins she moved to Angola to work with him. After their retirement from Angola in 1959 she returned to Ottawa to work at Carleton University. Mrs. Collins was a nominee for Moderator in 1974 and in May 1975 she received an honorary D.D. from United Theological College in Montreal. Dr. Jean Collins dired March 29, 1994.

Fairbank United Church in North York was established in 1925; formerly Fairbank Methodist Church, which traces its origins to prayer meetings held at 'Needham's', the local name for the school house in Fairbank at that time. The church is located at 2746 Dufferin Street, between Eglinton Avenue West and Lawrence Avenue West. It is still an active congregation of the United Church of Canada.

Hope United Church in Toronto was established in 1925, formerly Hope Methodist Church. Founded in 1884 as Hope Methodist Tabernacle, it was located on the south side of Danforth Avenue near Main Street. In 1900, the congregation moved to a new building on the northwest corner of Danforth and Main. A replacement building on the same site was dedicated in 1930. The address of Hope United Church is 2550 Danforth Avenue. It is still an active congregation of the United Church of Canada.

Soon after its establishment in 1884, Hope Methodist became part of the Scarborough Circuit. By 1886, however, Hope constituted a separate circuit known as York Circuit. From 1890 to 1911, the circuit was known as East York Circuit and after that date, the name Hope was used consistently.

Metropolitan United Church in Toronto was established in 1925; formerly Methodist. It traces its origins to the first Methodist Church in the town of York (now Toronto); this church was erected in 1818 on King Street near present day Bay Street and was known both as York Methodist Episcopal Chapel and as King Street Methodist Episcopal Chapel. In 1832 the congregation moved to a new location on the southeast corner of Newgate Street (now Adelaide Street) and Toronto Street; this church was known as Newgate Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and later as Adelaide Street Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1868 the congregation acquired the property known as McGill Square on the north side of Queen Street, between Church Street and Bond Street. A temporary structure was immediately built there, and construction of a new building was also started on the same property. In 1872 the new building was dedicated as Metropolitan Wesleyan Methodist Church (the change from Methodist Episcopal to Wesleyan Methodist occurred in 1833). Three years after the union of 1925, Metropolitan United was badly damaged in a fire. It was immediately rebuilt, with some changes to the original 1872 design.It is still an active congregation of the United Church of Canada.