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The London Missionary Society was organized by the Congregationalists in 1795 and had missions in various parts of the world, including Canada.

The Union was formed 1839; it was made up predominantly of churches in what is now Quebec, but included a few from what is now Ontario, east of Kingston. It amalgamated with the Congregational Union of Western Canada to form the Congregational Union of Canada, 1853-1867.

The Society was constituted in 1853, and held its first meeting in 1854; it was formed by the merger of the Congregational Union of Canada West Missionary Society and the Congregational Missionary Society for Eastern Canada. Its main responsibility was to give financial aid to churches and ministers in Canada.

The Society was organized in 1881 by the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec and was originally known as the Congregational Foreign Missionary Society of British North America. Its object was to spread knowledge of the Gospel. In 1889 the later name was incorporated; the primary responsibility was to raise money and oversee a mission in Angola.

Founded 1886 in connection with the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, the Board soon directed its attention to the foreign field, sending its first woman missionary to Angola in 1890. Although foreign mission work continued to claim the greater part of the Board's resources, it also supported numerous home mission undertakings (collecting donations for needy Aboriginal People and settlers on the prairies; welcoming immigrants; assisting new Canadians in building churches), and contributed generously to the home mission schemes of the CanadaCongregational Missionary Society. The Board's main activities included fund raising, missionary education, and supplying woman missionaries for work abroad.

The Society was formed 1856 as the Canada Congregational Ministers, Widows and Orphans Fund; it changed its name in 1873. Its objects were to raise and distribute money for pensions for retired ministers and the widows and orphans of deceased clergy in British North America (later Canada). In 1929 the Fund came under the management of The United Church of Canada Board of Pensions, as part of its consolidated pension fund.

Incorporated in 1877 in Toronto, the Company's responsibilities included publishing The Canadian Congregational Year Book and the periodical, The Canadian Independent.

Constituted in 1896 as the Western Association, it later changed its name, but retained its mandate to promote the fellowship of the churches and their efficiency in carrying out the work of Christ. The Association was comprised of churches in Ontario.

The Association was constituted 1890 as the Toronto Congregational Society. Its constitution was revised in 1894, after which it was known as the Toronto District Congregational Association until 1909, when the above name and a new constitution were introduced. The Association's purpose was to promote evangelical religion and cooperation in everything related to the interests of the member churches.

Organized in 1865 at Tuttle's Settlement, Oxford County, by former members and ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, it was absorbed into the Woodstock (Ontario) Congregational Church.

Society was reconstituted in 1952 and held annual meetings until 1955, mostly to deal with issues arising from the Mary Smith Estate. It was decided at its final meeting to transfer the remaining funds to the United Church Board of Overseas Missions, to be used in connection with the work in Angola, the former mission field of the Canadian Congregational Union.

In 1908, the Basis of Union was formulated that would eventually lead to the creation of the United Church of Canada in 1925. Coinciding with this spirit of unity, the first Union church (Presbyterian and Methodist) was set up in Melville, Saskatchewan in 1908, followed a short time later by the church in Frobisher. In 1912, a committee of Union Churches approached the national church courts of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational denominations in order to seek affiliation with the parent churches. This committee formed the nucleus of what would become the General Council of Union Churches of Western Canada. An Advisory Council, with representatives of the Union Churches and the parent churches, was established in 1914 as a means of creating the sought after link between the Union Churches and the parent churches.