Methodist Church In Canada


Can be traced back to 1772, when a party

of Yorkshire Methodists settled in Nova Scotia. The first provincial

Methodist Conference was held at Halifax in 1786. In 1814 the British

Conference appointed missionaries to Quebec and Montreal; and in 1807

the first Methodist Conference was held at Elizabethtown (Brockville).

In 1828 the Canada Conference became independent of the Methodist

Episcopal Church of the United Stat
s; and in 1833 the Canada Methodist

Episcopal Church united with the British Wesleyans. In 1874 the Wesleyan

Methodist Conference of Canada, the Canadian Wesleyan New Connexion

Conference, and the Wesleyan Conference of Eastern British America

became one as the Methodist Church of Canada. The first session of the

General Conference was held the same year. In 1883 the Primitive

Methodist Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church also became part of

the Methodist Church in Canada. =Index=: (Egerton Ryerson era) History of church in

Canada, 38; without civil rights, 40; independent Canadian church

established, 81; English Methodism in Canada, 87; Wesleyan missionaries,

89; Canadian bodies united, 287-288. (John Graves Simcoe era) Bishop Mountain's low opinion

of Methodist preachers in Upper Canada, 159; their earnest labours,

162-164. =Bib.=: Sanderson, The First Century of Methodism in Canada;

Ryerson, Canadian Methodism; Carman, Historical Sketch of Canadian

Methodism in Canada: An Ency., vol. 2.



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