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Andrew Baird Browning, (1855-1940) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister and educator. He was born near Motherwell, Ontario in 1855. He was educated at the University of Toronto, Knox College and in Europe. After a pastorate in Edmonton, he was made professor at Manitoba College in 1871. He taught for over fifty years at this Presbyterian/United Church college.

Edward Norcliffe Baker (1852-1929) was a Methodist/United Church minister and educator. He was born in Oakville, Ont. He was twice married, first to R. Meek in 1881, and then to Sarah Jane Axford in 1904. He was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1875 and served in the Toronto, Huron and Colborne Districts, serving at Sault Ste. Marie from 1911-1913. From 1913-1927 he was Principal of Albert College.

Edward Baker (1870-1952) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born in Birmingham, England and came to Canada at age sixteen. He graduated from Victoria College and was ordained into the Methodist Church in 1903. He served charges at Sundridge, Huttonville, Little Current, Markham, Cochrane, Newtonbrook, Meaford and Dundalk. He retired in 1936, whereupon he was made Minister Emeritus at Meaford.

Bala - Port Carling Pastoral Charge was formed in ca. 1968 when the Bala and Port Carling pastoral charges joined Bala United Church was established in 1925, formerly the Bala Union Church and Presbyterian Port Carling United Church was established in 1925, formerly Methodist

Bala United Church, formerly Presbyterian, established in 1925. The congregation is still active.

Balderson United Church was formed in 1925; formerly Presbyterian.

The Rev. Charles Dod Baldwin, D.D., was a Methodist Church minister. He was born on July 31, 1855 in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland to Robert and Mary Baldwin. He attended school at Lismore College in County Waterford before moving to Dublin. There, while working for a hardware company, he preached and taught Sunday school at the Charleston Road Methodist Church and was involved with the Y.M.C.A.

He moved to Canada in August 1882 and enrolled in the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, where he won prizes in theology and the natural sciences. He was ordained in 1887. His time in the ministry was split between the Montreal and Ontario Conferences: Dunham (1882, 1895-1896), Levis and Bourg Louis (1883), Island Brook (1884), Montreal (1885-1886), Hendersonville (1887-1888), Lawrenceville (1889-1891), Cookshire (1893-1894), Lacolle (1897-1899), North Augusta (1901-1902), Mallorytown (1902-1095), Metcalfe (1905-1907), Westmeath (1907-1909), Ashton (1909-1911), St. Paul, Montreal (1911-1913), Westport (1913-1916), Addison (1916-1918), Aultsville (1918-1921), and Sharbot Lake (1921-1922). He retired from the ministry to Kingston in 1922, where he became connected to Sydenham Street United Church. Baldwin was also involved in the governance of the Montreal Conference. He held numerous positions, including: journal secretary (1892-1903, 1919-1921), assistant secretary (1905), secretary (1906, 1920-1921), General Conference statistician (1913-1918), and was elected President of the Montreal Conference in 1922.

Baldwin was known to be proficient in pen and ink illuminations. He married Catherine Elizabeth Teskey in 1889; she predeceased him in February 1947. Baldwin died on January 29, 1949 at the age of 94.

Balfour Street United Church was established in 1925, formerly Methodist and Presbyterian

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

Ballinafad Pastoral Charge was established in 1925, formerly Presbyterian; it included Churchill and Melville Church in Caledon Township, and was discontinued ca. 1967 when St. Andrew's and Ballinafad Pastoral Charge (Georgetown) was formed. Glen Williams Pastoral Charge was formed in 1926 as Limehouse Pastoral Charge; it included Limehouse and Churchill. Melville United Church was established in 1925, formerly Presbyterian, established as the Presbyterian congregation of West Caledon in 1831, and became Melville Presbyterian Church when the church building was built in 1837; it closed ca. 1964. Ballinafad United Church was established in 1925, formerly Presbyterian, established. ca. 1877

Ballinafad United Church was established in 1925, formerly Presbyterian, established. ca. 1877

Baltimore Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925; formerly Methodist and Presbyterian; it included Baltimore and Bethesda (now Bethesda South) in Hamilton Township.

Bancroft-Carlow Pastoral Charge was formed ca.1969 upon the union of Bancroft Pastoral Charge and Carlow Pastoral Charge; it included Bancroft (St. Paul's), Baptiste (St. Matthew's); L'Amable (St. Andrew's), Boulter (Carlow), and (New) Hermon (Mayo). Bancroft Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925; formerly Methodist and Presbyterian; it included Bancroft (St. Paul's), Monk (now Monck) Road (until the 1930s only), Baptiste (St. Matthew's), Paudash (until ca. 1958 only), Detlor (Grace, from 1931 to ca.1968), and L'Amable (St. Andrew's); it was discontinued ca.1969 when it merged with Carlow Pastoral Charge to form Bancroft- Carlow Pastoral Charge.

Baptiste Methodist Church, established in 1897. The first church building was built in 1920 and in 1925 the church became St. Matthew's United Church (Baptiste, Ont.).

Lynden Harold Winter Barclay (1912-1953) was a minister in the United Church of Canada. He attended high school at Glebe Collegiate in Ottawa. After graduation he attended McGill University, receiving a B.A. in 1932. He then earned an M.A. in Education at Queen’s University in 1934. He graduated from Emmanuel College in 1941 and was soon ordained into the United Church. He took some further post-graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in 1942. He was a minister at Radville, Saskatchewan 1942-1944; Kenogami, Quebec 1944-1948 and Woodroffe in Ottawa from 1949-1951. He took a study leave in 1942 and was studying for his doctorate of theology at Emmanuel when he was killed in a car accident in 1953. His parents were Dr. and Mrs. G.O. Barclay who served at Bell Street in Ottawa for over 40 years.

Enoch Barker (d.1921) was a Congregationalist minister in Ontario and Nova Scotia. He served the following charges: Speedside, Newmarket, Pictou, Fergus, Milton (Nova Scotia), Cornwallis, and Toronto.

Rev. George Wesley Barker (1872-1953) was a Methodist and then a United Church minister in Ontario in the first half of the twentieth century.

Herbert Whitehead Barker (1867-1951) was a banker who was active in the Congregational Union and then the United Church. He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. His father, Rev. Enoch Barker, was a Congregationalist minister. Herbert Whitehead Barker settled in Toronto in the 1880s, working in banking. He was Treasurer of the Congregational Union from 1920 to 1925 as well as Treasurer of the Inter-Church Forward Movement. From 1925 to 1940, Mr. Barker served as Deputy Treasurer of the United Church.

Rev. Joseph Barnes (1863-1943) was a Methodist and then United Church minister in Ontario at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he came to Canada at the age of sixteen and settled in Belleville. He was educated at Victoria University and was ordained in 1896. Rev. Barnes served at Kinmount, Mountain Grove, North Port, Ameliasburg, Courtice, Tamworth, Odessa, Atherley, Wooler, Scugog Island, Milford and Greenwood. He was first married to Charlotte E. Lousley, and upon her death, he married Emma Quinn. Rev. Joseph Barnes died in 1943.

George Barnley (1816-1904) was a Methodist missionary to Hudson Bay. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1839. Between 1840 and 1848, he served as a missionary to Hudson Bay. He subsequently returned to England and worked there for another forty years.

Rev. Edward Barrass (1821-1898) was born in Durham, England. He worked in mines as a child, and was called to ministry of the Primitive Methodist Church in 1841. In 1853 he emigrated to Canada where he worked throughout the country until he was superannuated in 1891. He was an avid author, and published many volumes on church history and general life. He contributed to such publications as the Christian Guardian, and Canadian Methodist Magazine and was also very involved in the Temperance Movement.

Barrie Congregational Church was active from at least 1899 to 1925, when it joined the United Church at union

Barrie Primitive Methodist Church, was build on the corner of Toronto and Elizabeth (now Dunlop) streets in 1872. In 1884, with the Methodist church Union, the Barrie Congregation took the name Elizabeth Street Methodist.

Barrie Primitive Methodist Mission included Barrie and Utopia; it was active from at least 1874 until 1884, when the Methodist Church, Canada was formed.

Samuel T. Bartlett was a United Church minister, formerly Methodist. He was born in the island of Jersey on March 11, 1863 and moved to Canada at the age of nine years. At 17, he entered Methodist ministry and served pastorates in Ontario until he was appointed Associate Secretary of Sunday School and Epworth League Board in 1906, becoming General Secretary in 1909. In 1921 he started work with the Department of Art Photography at the Methodist Book and Publishing House. Rev. Bartlett was superannuated in 1925 and died on December 17, 1937.

Barton Stone United Church was established 1925, formerly Presbyterian. Barton Stone Presbyterian Church was established circa 1831; it joined the United Church of Canada in 1925. Barton Methodist Circuit was active 1877-1886.

Bartonville United Church was established in 1925, formerly Methodist. Bartonville Methodist Church was established in 1869 as a Methodist New Connexion church; it joined the United Church of Canada in 1925.

Cornelius John L. Bates (1877-1964), was a missionary and educator in Japan. He was born at L'Orignal, Ontario in 1877. He was educated at Queen's University, McGill University and at the Wesleyan Theological College in Montreal. After a brief pastorate at Blind River, Ontario, Rev. Bates went to Japan as a missionary in 1902 and did evangelistic work. In 1910 he was appointed Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University. In 1920 he was made President, and presided over its great expansion. In 1941, Rev. Bates returned to Canada, supplying at Knox- Metropolitan United Church in Regina and assisting at Royal York United Church in Toronto. He retired in 1946. In 1959, he visited Japan and had an audience with Emperor Hirohito. He died in 1964.

George Frederick Bates was a United Church minister in Ontario. He was ordained in London Conference in 1967. He served charges in Shallow Lake, Schomberg, Mattawa and North Bay.

Bath - Morven Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925 as Bath Pastoral Charge, formerly Methodist. The charge originally included Bath, Beulah Church in Ernestown Township, Hawley (until ca. 1966) and Union Church in Ernestown Station (until ca. 1958). From ca. 1967-1981, United Empire Loyalist Memorial Church in Adolphustown Township and Conway joined the charge from Adolphustown Pastoral Charge. Morven United Church, previously from Deseronto Pastoral Charge, also joined the charge ca. 1967. From 1981 it was a three-point charge until Beulah Church closed on June 30, 2002. The charge was then renamed Bath-Morven Pastoral Charge; it is still an active pastoral charge of the United Church of Canada.

Bathurst Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925; formerly Presbyterian and Methodist; included Bathurst (Calvin) and Althorpe; from the years 1930 to ca.1942 the charge joined with Maberly Pastoral Charge to form the Bathurst-Maberly Pastoral Charge and included Bolingbroke; when Maberly left, Bathurst resumed its name the charge consisted of three points: Bathurst, Althorpe, and Bolingbroke.

Bathurst United Church, also known as Calvin United Church, formed in 1925; formerly Presbyterian; in 1873 the Bathurst Mission provided a minister serving Bathurst and Maberly, first at the school house and later at Union Church which opened in 1874; in the late 1870s services were held at Bathurst, Althorpe, Scotch Line, Sixth Line; in 1895 meetings were held to secure year round services for Bathurst and South Sherbrooke; the Bathurst/Calvin Presbyterian Church was built in 1896

Bathurst Street United Church in Toronto was established in 1925; formerly Bathurst Street Methodist Church. It was located at 736 Bathurst Street, at the corner of Lennox Street, just south of Bloor Street West. Since ca.1985, the congregation no longer uses the Bathurst Street building but rather holds its services in the Trinity-St. Paul's United Church building at 427 Bloor Street West.

Bathurst Street Methodist Church was established in 1884 upon the union of Bathurst Street Primitive Methodist Church and Seaton Village Methodist (formerly Wesleyan Methodist) Church (the area north and west of the intersection of Bathurst Street and Bloor Street West was known as Seaton Village at that time). The Primitive Methodist Church was located at the intersection of Bathurst and Lennox Street, just south of Bloor; the Seaton Village Church was located at what is now 643 Markham Street, just north and west of Bathurst and Bloor. After Methodist union in 1884, the Seaton Village building was moved to the site of the Primitive Methodist building at Bathurst and Lennox, and the two buildings were attached. A new church building was dedicated in 1888, with the original building used as a Sunday School until 1910, at which time it was demolished and replaced by another Sunday School building.

Battersea United Church was established in 1925, formerly Methodist.

Bay Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925; formerly Methodist; it included the following points in North Fredericksburg Township: Anderson, Bethany, Gretna, and Hay Bay; until 1949, the charge also included Sand Hill; Bay Pastoral Charge was discontinued in 1967.

Emma Baylis was a Congregationalist missionary. She worked among Labrador fishermen ca. 1869 and among the Aboriginal People at Spanish River, Ontario ( near the present-day community of Espanola) during the summers from at least 1872 to 1885. At Spanish River, she taught a day school for children, organized reading classes for women, led Sunday meetings and taught Sunday School and Bible classes.

Bayside Pastoral Charge was established in 1925, formerly Methodist; it included White's Church in Bayside, Case's Church in Sidney Township, Centenary Church in Sidney Township, Wesley Church in Sidney Township, and was discontinued ca. 1967 when White's Church in Bayside and Centenary Church in Sidney Township from Bayside Pastoral Charge joined Sidney Pastoral Charge. Wesley United Church in Sidney Township was established in 1925, formerly Methodist; it closed ca. 1967.

Bayview United Church in Sault Ste. Marie was established in 1925; formerly Presbyterian. It formed part of the All People's Pastoral Charge from 1926-1961. It closed ca. 1961 with its property being transferred to All People's Mission, Sault Ste. Marie .

Beach United Church was established in July 2007 with the amalgamation of Bellefair United Church and Kew Beach United Church. It is located at 140 Wineva Avenue. It is still an active congregation of the United Church of Canada.

Bellefair United Church was established in 1925; formerly Bellefair Methodist Church. It was located at 2 Bellefair Avenue, on the corner of Bellefair and Queen Street East, in the Beach area of Toronto, just north of Kew Gardens. It closed in 2007.

Kew Beach United Church was established in 1925; formerly Presbyterian. The church changed its name to Beach United Church in 2007 when it amalgamated with Bellefair United Church.

Samuel Milton Beach (1880-1953) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born at Kemptville, Ontario, was married to Mildred May Foster, and farmed for several years, before being ordained in 1914. He served charges in northern Ontario, Port Carling, Barrie and Toronto.