The United Church of Canada formed Young Peoples Unions (YPUs) across Canada, shortly after church union (1925). In 1932, YPUs in B.C. were organized into a BC Conference. The Conference and its presbyteries had their own executives. At the local level, many congregations had YPUs and Young People’s Societies (until 1935). In 1965, the YPU was reorganized as Kairos and presbytery level executives were disbanded.
Youbou became a regular preaching point in the Cowichan Lake Pastoral Charge in 1933. A community church building was built in 1938, and was used by the Youbou United Church congregation. The United Church congregation closed in 1994.
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Yoshinosuke Yoshioka was born in Sasebo, Japan in 1889. He graduated in 1912 from Kwansei Gakuin University at Shizuoka, Japan, and was baptized within the Christian church in 1914. Yoshioka married Hisa Misaki (1890-1975), then a primary school teacher, in Shizuoka, Japan, where they lived until they left for Canada. In 1921, he was ordained in the Methodist Church. He served the Steveston Methodist Church from 1922 to 1925. This was followed by an appointment at the Japanese Mission on Powell Street in Vancouver (1925-1926). He completed theological studies at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, and earned Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Arts degrees. In 1929, he was called to the mission at the Japanese United Church in Kelowna, British Columbia, where he served until 1952. He went on to serve in Lethbridge, Alberta, where he died May 26, 1956.
The Yoshiokas had two sons, Edward and James. Edward Yoshioka was born in 1923. He attended Victoria University and Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. Having been ordained in 1947, he served as a United Church of Canada minister in several locations across Canada and as a missionary in Trinidad. He died in 1990. James Yoshioka was born in 1925. He earned a medical doctor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1949; thereafter he practiced medicine in Montreal, Quebec, and Oakville and Toronto, Ontario until he retired.
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吉岡芳之助は1889年に佐世保市にて生まれた。1912年に関西学院大学を卒業。1914年に洗礼を受け、キリスト教に改宗。静岡在住時に小学校教員のミサキヒサ (1890年-1975年) と結ばれる。1921年にメソジスト教会より牧師に叙階されると、翌年にカナダに赴任。1925年までスティーブストン (英: Steveston) 日本人メソジスト教会にて仕えた。1925年-1926年パウエルストリートの日本人ミッションに参加した後にトロント大学のエマニュエルカレッジに入学。神学を専攻し、学士号と修士号を習得した。1929年より23年間ケロナ市 (英: Kelowna) 、ブリティッシュコロンビア州の日系人合同教会にて仕える。後にアルバータ州のレスブリッジ市の教会に赴任した。1956年5月26日没。
吉岡家は二人の息子に恵まれた。長男の吉岡エドワード(1923年出)はヴィクトリア大学(英: Victoria University)及びトロント大学のエマニュエルカレッジを卒業し、1947年に牧師として叙階された後、国内のいくつかのカナダ合同教会の牧師として勤めた。また、トリニダードにおいて宣教活動も行った。1990年没。
次男の吉岡ジェームズ(1925出)は1949年に医師の学位を習得。ケベック州のモントリオール、オンタリオ州のオークヴィル市(英:Oakville)とトロント市で引退まで働いた。
The Yorkville Primitive Methodist Church, was also known as St. Paul's Primitive 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, and about 1887 the new church was opened. In 1884, the name of the church was changed from St. Paul's Primitive Methodist to St. Paul's Methodist.
Yorkminster United Church was located in Willowdale, Ontario at 395 Old Yonge Street, where it intersects with Highway 401. It began in 1953, and by 1957 a modern church structure was opened. In the 1960s there was talk of amalgamating the congregation with Oriole-York Mills United Church, but the attempt was defeated. Yorkminster ceased to be a congregation in 1983, and the building was sold in the following year to the Salvation Army.
York Chinese United Church Mission formed in 1998. It closed in June 2004.
Yonge Street United Church, located at the corners of Yonge and Summerhill streets in Toronto, was established in 1925. It began as a Methodist Church in 1873 at the corner of Yonge and Marlborough streets in the city. That church was torn down in 1911, and the new building had its first service in the same year. In 1971 a fire destroyed the church, and the congregation met at a local banquet hall for much of the next two years, before it decided to amalgamate with St. Andrew's United Church in 1973.
The Yonge Street (South) Methodist Circuit in Toronto, originally a Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, included the Eglinton Church, popularly known as the 'Brick' Church in the 1850s.
Yonge Street Methodist was located at the corners of Yonge and Summerhill streets in Toronto. It began in 1873 at the corner of Yonge and Marlborough streets in the city. That church was torn down in 1911, and the new building had its first service in the same year. It joined the United Church in 1925.
Alfred Yeoman (1876-1959) was a Methodist minister in the U.S. and Ontario. He was born in Devonshire, England. After his marriage to Jane May Adams he moved to the United States in 1906. He was ordained in the Methodist Episcopalian Church in New Jersey in 1908. He came to Canada in 1913 and served at Lynedoch, Clifford, Stevensville, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Aberfoyle, Teeterville and Courtland. He was retired at Tillsonburg, 1948-1952; Ingersoll, 1953-1956; and again at Tillsonburg, 1957 until his death.
Yelverton United Church was established in 1925; formerly Methodist.