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.