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.
Both the Methodists and Presbyterians were active in Barkerville from the 1860's. United Church activity was renewed in the 1930's by a new phase of gold mining activity centred at the new town of Wells in the Barkerville area. The Barkerville United Church was part of the Barkerville-Wells Pastoral Charge from its formation in 1934. Last mention of the Barkerville congregation is made in the 1961 yearbook statistics. The Barkerville Woman's Association of Barkerville United Church was formed in 1938. Meetings were discontinued in 1943.
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.