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Zion United Church was established in 1925 with the union of Zion Presbyterian Church (founded 1892) and Ashcroft Methodist Church (founded 1897). From 1954 to 1958, the Charge included St. Andrew's United Church (Lillooet, B.C.) and was known as the Ashcroft-Lillooet Pastoral Charge. Congregations which are now closed, but which formerly were part of the Charge, are St. John's (Clinton, B.C., 1925-2011); Spences Bridge (1926-1977); Walhachin (1929-1959); and Cache Creek (1958-1973). Keefers, Savona, and North Bend were also points of the original Ashcroft Pastoral Charge. In 2011, Ashcroft became a single point charge. It had been part of the Kamloops-Okanagan Presbytery until presbyteries were disbanded when church restructured in 2019. Zion United Church disbanded on December 31, 2022.

Winfield United Church was begun ca. 1907 under the name Wood's Lake Presbyterian Church as part of the Okanagan Centre Mission Field of the Presbyterian Church. With church union in 1925, the name was changed to Winfield United Church. At that time, the congregation became part of Oyama Pastoral Charge. In 1940, Winfield became part of the combined Rutland-Oyama Pastoral Charge, and from 1960 to 1971, it was part of Wood Lake Pastoral Charge, along with St. Paul's United in Okanagan Centre and Oyama United. In 1963, St. Paul's amalgamated with Winfield, followed by Oyama in 1971, making Winfield a single-point charge. The official name "Wood Lake Pastoral Charge" persisted until about 2010, when Kamloops-Okanagan Presbytery approved the name change to Winfield United Church.

Wilson Heights United Church was founded as Wilson Road Methodist Church. The church was built in 1910. The membership grew quickly, and a new church was built and dedicated in March 1912. This church was named Wilson Heights Methodist Church. In 1925 the congregation came into church union, and was renamed Wilson Heights United Church. A new church was built and opened in 1958. In 1995 Vancouver-South Presbytery established a three point Collingwood - Fraserview - Wilson Heights United Pastoral Charge, but all three met and worshipped at the Wilson Heights church building. In 1998 the Pastoral Charge name was changed back to Wilson Heights, and it was recognized as a one point Charge. The congregation amalgamated with Oakridge United Church on January 1, 2023.

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The Japanese Methodist Mission was established in Vancouver in 1896. It fell within the purview of the Home Missions Board until well after WW II, even though the congregation had become self-supporting by 1936. The congregation's first building was constructed in 1907 or 1908 at the corner of Jackson and Powell Streets. It became known as the Powell Street Church. A gymnasium and social hall were added in the 1920s, for which the congregation raised $12,000. The Woman's Missionary Society (WMS) was involved with the Japanese Mission from very early on. They taught kindergarten and home economics at the Mission, held prayer meetings, and raised funds to add to the voluntary contributions of the congregation and Home Missions. The congregation boasted an excellent Sunday school, Tuxis and Explorers groups, Mission Band, and CGIT. The Rev. Dr. Kosaburo Shimizu served the congregation from 1926 to 1942. He introduced many Christian education opportunities within the congregation, established the Young People's Union, introduced monthly English-speaking worship services, and started a relief department providing food and clothing during the Depression of the 1930s. He also helped the congregation achieve self-supporting status.

Members living in Vancouver's Fairview neighbourhood raised enough money, along with a Home Missions grant, to build a second Japanese Church in 1928 (by then part of The United Church of Canada).The Fairview Mission later became known as the Columbia Street Mission (from 1949 on), which was sold in 1977. From 1942 to 1949, the two buildings were used by First United Church, St. Giles, and the WMS while Japanese Canadian citizens were interned in internment camps. The Powell Street and Columbia Street buildings were held in trust by the Board of Home Missions during the war. In 1953, the Powell St. property was sold. From then on, the Japanese- and English-speaking congregations met in a number of different venues, none of which they owned, beginning with First United Church. In 1958 both Nisei and Issei (Japanese speaking) church members were worshipping in Fairview Church on Columbia. In 1962, they moved to Renfrew United Church. In 1978, the congregation purchased St. Luke's United Church building.

At its general meeting in May 2009, BC Conference made a statement of Recognition and Apology to the Japanese United Church for the sale of the Powell Street church building 56 years earlier. In June of that year, a Service of Reconciliation took place at the Vancouver Japanese United Church. Early in 2017, the English-speaking congregation disbanded.

日本メソジスト伝道ミッションが1896年にバンクーバーに設立されました。第二次世界大戦後まで、ホームミッション委員会の管轄下にありましたが、1936年までには自立していました。会衆の最初の建物は1907年か1908年にジャクソン通りとパウエル通りの角に建てられ、パウエル通り教会として知られるようになりました。1920年代には体育館と社交場が増築され、そのために会衆は12,000ドルを集めました。婦人宣教会（WMS）は、非常に早い時期から日系人宣教に関与し、伝道所で幼稚園と家庭科を教え、祈祷会を開き、教会とホームミッションへの自発的な献金に加えて献金を集めました。教会は優れた日曜学校、タキシス、エクスプローラーズグループ、ミッションバンド、CGITを誇っていました。清水小三郎牧師は1926年から1942年まで牧師として仕え、教会内に多くのキリスト教教育の機会を導入し、青年会を設立し、毎月の英語による礼拝を導入し、1930年代の大恐慌の間、食糧と衣類を提供する救済部門をも開始しました。彼はまた、教会が自立した地位を獲得するのを助けました。

バンクーバーのフェアビュー地区に住む会員たちは、ホームミッションの助成金と合わせて、1928年に2つ目の日系人教会（当時はカナダ合同教会の一部）を建てるのに十分な資金を集めました。フェアビュー・ミッションはその後、コロンビア・ストリート・ミッション（1949年以降）として知られるようになりましたが、1977年に売却されました。1942年から1949年まで、日系カナダ人が収容所に収容されている間、この2つの建物はFirst United Church、セントジャイルズ、WMSによって使用されていました。パウエル通りとコロンビア通りの建物は、戦時中、ホームミッション委員会に信託されていましたが、1953年、その教会は売却されてしまいました。それ以来、日本語を話す信徒と英語を話す信徒は、First United Churchを皮切りに、いくつもの異なる場所で集うようになりました。1958年から、二世（英語）と一世（日本語）の教会員が、コロンビアにあるフェアビュー教会で礼拝していましたが1962年は、レンフルー合同教会に移り、1978年にはSaint Luke United Churchの建物を購入しました。

2009年5月、カナダ合同教会のBC　Conferenceでは、56年前にパウエル・ストリートの教会堂を売却したことに対し、日系人合同教会に認識と謝罪の声明を発表し、同年6月、バンクーバー日本人合同教会で和解の礼拝が行われました。2017年初め、英語部の会衆は解散しました。

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The BC Conference Oriental Committee established a separately incorporated United Church Oriental Missions Society in 1930. The primary role of the Society was to hold, manage, maintain, sell and convey property relating to the missions acquired in trust for The United Church of Canada. By 1935, the Oriental Committee perceived its own role as unnecessary, as most of its former work was now being handled by other Conference committees and courts. The Oriental Missions Society continued to hold annual general meetings, but was dissolved in 1947.

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1930年にBC総会オリエンタル布教活動委員会は別組織として合同教会オリエンタル人布教会 (英: United Church Oriental Missions Society) を成立させた。布教会の主な役割はカナダ合同教会が入手した様々な不動産の管理及び購買であった。が、1935年ごろには総会内の他会が各々の不動産を管理し始めたため、役割を失っていき、1947年に解散。また、解散されるまで年次会議を開催していた。

The first of the Thomas Crosby mission boats was launched in 1912, replacing the Homespun, a small gasoline launch that had been in use since the Udal was lost in 1909. The Thomas Crosby I, II, and III served on the mainland for the Port Simpson District of the Methodist Church up to church union in 1925, being known at that time as the Crosby Mission. Under the United Church, the Mission became a pastoral charge, first called the Queen Charlotte (Marine) Pastoral Charge and then renamed Central Mainland Marine Mission in 1929. The Thomas Crosby III, built in 1923, was replaced with the more seaworthy Thomas Crosby IV in 1938, which in turn was replaced by the Thomas Crosby V in 1967, the Sea Island II being chartered for a brief period while the Thomas Crosby V was being built. Missionaries who served on the Crosby include R.C. Scott, Peter Kelley, R.H. McColl, John Towers, Bob Scales, Oliver Howard, Jack Gosse serving as a lay minister, Bob Faris and Gordon Taylor. In the 1970s, the Presbytery created an Oversight Committee to act as board for the Mission, and eventually most of the responsibility for the Mission's funding was transferred from the Presbytery to the Division of Mission (B.C.). Through the 1970s and 1980s, the Mission reported to both the Presbytery and D.M.C. (B.C.) through the Committee; during this period the staff was fairly large as well, with separate positions for the Master and the Missionary, as well as an engineer, deckhands and a nurse. Although the Thomas Crosby V was the only marine mission operating in the region in the 1980s, the cost of operating the Mission was becoming more and more of a concern to those involved, and several studies were conducted into the possibility of finding more cost-effective ways to conduct its work. Late in 1990, Prince Rupert Presbytery voted to recommend that the ship be sold, with a view to finding more cost effective ways of reaching the same constituency, although the 1992 report to Conference describes it as having had a ship in 1991 as well. Since then the Mission has relied on air travel to reach its points of call.

In the early 1950s with two United Churches in Nelson situated only two blocks apart, it was determined that Trinity United and St. Paul's United Churches should amalgamate. Fairview United joined with St-Paul's Trinity United on July 1, 1995 to become the new Nelson United Church.

The Sunnyside United Church congregation was established in 1949; a church was built in 1951. The congregation was part of Strawberry Hill Pastoral Charge from 1951 to 1956, then formed a pastoral charge with Sullivan United until 1958 when it became a separate charge. From 1969 until 1989 it was part of the White Rock Pastoral Charge. In 1989 it became a single-point pastoral charge once more, until July 1, 2017, when it amalgamated with Crescent United Church (Surrey, B.C.) and First United Church (White Rock, B.C.) to form Peninsula United Church.

In 1921, the SCM of Canada was created. It was formed through student departments in the YMCA and YWCA as well as local Student Christian Associations. In 1926, The Student Christian Movement of Canada, University of British Columbia Branch (SCM, UBC) officially became a member of the Student Christian Movement of Canada. In 1974, the Anglican-United Campus Ministry and SCM, UBC amalgamated to form the Cooperative Christian Campus Ministry (CCCM) at UBC. In 1979, the SCM, UBC left the CCCM; campus ministry continued at UBC through the CCCM and later, United Church Campus Ministry.

In the early 1860s, Methodist and Presbyterian ministers who were stationed in New Westminster considered the Richmond area to be part of their parish. Methodist missionaries were instrumental in having a small church built on the mainland side of the North Arm of the Fraser River around 1870. This little church became the preaching centre for several Christian denominations. By mid-1887, a small church was built at London's Landing and, like the original church on the North Arm, it became a Union Church, used by all Christian denominations. Methodist services continued in the London's Landing Church until the Steveston Methodist Church was built in 1894. The Presbyterians used the London's Landing Church until 1906 when the South Arm Presbyterian Church was built. The Presbyterians also held services in the Steveston area, beginning around 1890. These services were discontinued around 1912, and some families from Steveston attended the South Arm Church. In 1917 the Presbyterians decided to resume their work at Steveston and acquired an old school building.

At the time of church union in 1925, the Presbyterian and Methodist churches united to form Steveston United Church, using the former Methodist building for all services, including Sunday school. From 1925 until 1962, Steveston United Church was part of the South Arm-Steveston Pastoral Charge, after which they became separate single-point charges. Steveston United amalgamated with the neighbouring Japanese United Church in 1953, and the combined congregation assumed the name Steveston United Church. The combined congregation rehabilitated the former Japanese United property in 1954; it was used for kindergarten, Sunday school and mid-week activities. When the Steveston Community Centre was built two years later, community demand for use of the church hall greatly diminished, and the old mission church was demolished. That property was leased as a parking lot and finally sold in 1971. In 1978, the congregation built and dedicated a new church building to replace its 1894 structure.

In the early 1950s with two United Churches in Nelson situated only two blocks apart, it was determined that Trinity United and St. Paul's United Churches should amalgamate. Fairview United joined with St-Paul's Trinity United on July 1, 1995 to become the new Nelson United Church.

In the early 1950s with two United Churches in Nelson situated only two blocks apart, it was determined that Trinity United and St. Paul's United Churches should amalgamate. Fairview United joined with St-Paul's Trinity United on July 1, 1995 to become the new Nelson United Church.

St. Paul's United Church was located in Kelowna and part of Kamloops-Okanagan Presbytery. It begun by First United Church in 1947 under the name Mission Road United Church. On the occasion of building and dedicating a new church in 1958, the congregation was renamed St. Paul's. In 1961, the congregation became a separate pastoral charge from First United Church. On July 1, 2021, the congregation amalgamated with Rutland United and First United to form Central Okanagan United Church.

St. Giles United Church began its life as Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church. A Union Sunday School had been meeting at 7th Avenue and Westminister Road (now Kingsway) as early as 1890. In 1891, a Presbyterian Mission was established at the Temperance Hall on 10th Avenue near Westminister Avenue (now Main Street). The Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Mission was formally organized in February 1892, and their first church was built on property between 7th and 8th Avenues on Westminster Road (Kingsway). Due to the rapid growth of the congregation, a new church was built and dedicated in January of 1910. The congregation voted to enter church union in 1925 and changed their name to St. Giles United Church. In the years following World War II, the southern area of Vancouver grew rapidly and St. Giles United moved to a new neighborhood on 41st Avenue, east of Cambie Street. The new church was dedicated in November 1949. In 1996, St. Giles and South Hill United Churches amalgamated to form St. Giles-South Hill United Church. In 1999, the name of this congregation was changed to Oakridge United Church.

As far back as the 1870s, ministers of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches travelled through Williams Lake and preached. Regular work was not established until 1920, initially under the leadership of Rev. J.H. White. The Rev. Dr. A.D. MacKinnon arrived in the fall of 1921 for a long-term ministry for the Presbyterian Church, serving the people of Williams Lake and the vast surrounding area until 1941. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and manse were built on Oliver Street, Williams Lake, and was officially dedicated in 1922. During church union in 1925, the congregation joined The United Church of Canada and its name changed to St. Andrew’s United Church.

In 1953, St. Andrew’s sold its original buildings and moved to the corner of Cameron Street and Third Avenue. A hall, later to be named MacKinnon Memorial Hall, was built. The congregation intended that a sanctuary would also be erected, but this did not materialize, so the hall served as a sanctuary and Christian Education centre. A manse was built beside the hall, and served the ministry staff until it was sold in 1974 to give the minister opportunity to choose suitable housing.

On April 9, 1980, a fire destroyed MacKinnon Memorial Hall. St. Andrew’s worshiped in the Anglican church and then in local school gyms. St. Andrew’s sold the Cameron Street lot in 1981 and purchased a new site in the 600 block of Midnight Drive from B.C. Rail. A new structure, 1000 Huckvale Place, was completed in July 1982.

St. Andrew's United Church was founded in 1895 with the purpose of bringing the Presbyterian faith to the small mining town of Rossland, British Columbia. The first religious services were held on the last Sunday in May 1895, in a partially constructed butcher's shop. The first church was erected in Nickel Plate Flat and opening services were conducted on August 28, 1895. Although originally a Presbyterian church, St. Andrew's would, in 1917, vote to unite with the Rossland Methodist Church (founded 1897). The name and church of St. Andrew's were retained for the new church, however, Methodist ministers continued to lead "union" services from 1918-1925. After this time the church was referred to exclusively as St. Andrew's United Church and United Church services and ministers were used. By the late 1960s, there was a spirit of growing cooperation with the local Anglican congregation, St. George's. Negotiations with St. George's Anglican Church regarding the sharing of services and buildings through a lease ended with a five-year lease being approved by both congregations in 1969. Shared services were held between St. George's and St. Andrew's until 1982, when St. George's terminated the arrangement. Major renovations to the church building were completed by 1985. The church continued to grow into the 1980s, recording a membership growth and budget surplus by 1987. In 2003, St. Andrew's joined with the congregations at Trail, Salmo, and Fruitvale to form the four-point Communities in Faith Pastoral Charge. Salmo United Church disbanded 2016 and the new Beaver Valley Pastoral Charge (based at Fruitvale) left Trail and Rossland congregations in a two-point pastoral charge. The congregation was part of Kootenay Presbytery. In 2018, the congregations amalgamated to form a single congregation, Communities in Faith, overseeing two properties.

It is unclear when exactly the church began holding services in Ioco, but the earliest date is an 1899 baptism. The present church was started as a Presbyterian church in the summer of 1900, with the first services being held on on the south side of St. John's Street. Around 1912 the church moved to its across the street, and in 1923 the present building was erected. St. Andrew's United Church was part of the Westminster Presbytery.

St. Andrew's United Church in Fort Langley (in Langley District Municipality) which came into being with church union in 1925 was formerly, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Regular Presbyterian services were first held at Fort Langley in a school house from 1872 until 1885 when St. Andrew's church was built. St. Andrew's was part of the larger Langley field which included Langley Prairie, Murrayville, Glen Valley and other points. In 1921 the field was divided into two fields centred at Fort Langley and Murrayville. The new Fort Langley charge included West Langley. After church union in 1925 St. Andrew's United was the centre of or associated with a number of pastoral charges: Fort Langley Pastoral Charge, which included Sperling, Glen Valley and County Line, from 1925 to 1953; Fort Langley-Milner Pastoral Charge, which included Milner, Sperling and Willoughby, from 1953 to 1962; Fort Langley Pastoral Charge, which included Sperling United and West Langley Memorial United, from 1962 to 1969; Fort Langley-Port Kells Pastoral Charge from 1969 to 1971; Fort Langley-Murrayville Pastoral Charge from 1971 to 1980, which included Sharon United Church in Murrayville and Milner United Church; and the Fort Langley-Milner Pastoral Charge since 1980 when Sharon became a separate charge. On July 1, 1991, the Milner United Church congregation was amalgamated with the St. Andrew's United Church congregation. The Milner property was sold, and the new one-point Pastoral Charge was named St Andrew's -Fort Langley Pastoral Charge, part of Fraser Presbytery. In 2012 St. Andrew's United Church amalgamated with Jubilee United, Langley United, and Sharon United to form the United Churches of Langley.

St. Andrew's Hospital was located in Atlin, British Columbia. In March, 1898 St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Toronto formed a committee to send trained Christian nurses to the Klondike. The following year, Elizabeth Mitchell and Helen Bone of the Women's Home Missionary Society (WHMS) of the Presbyterian Church in Canada were the first missionaries/nurses sent. Medical work was first performed in a primitive cabin and tent. In 1900 a hospital was erected, named St. Andrew's Hospital. The original committee, known as the Atlin Nurses Committee became of the nucleus of the WHMS in 1903. In 1904 an arrangement was made for joint support of the hospital by the WHMS and community. The hospital continued under the Presbyterian Church and after 1925 The United Church of Canada until the year 1929 when it became self-supporting and was taken over entirely by the community. In 1969 the building was bought by the University of Michigan State for a Field Station.

Skidegate Day School was located at Skidegate, British Columbia on Graham Island. It was operated by The Methodist Church of Canada, and after 1925, The United Church of Canada . The Department of Indian Affairs ‘Statement of Day Schools’ first mentions a day school at Skidegate in 1896. An 1897 report indicates that the school was open for at least half the year, and then closed during the canning season, although it is suggested then and in 1916 that the teachers may have followed the Indigenous to the canneries to continue education. By 1909, the schoolhouse at Skidegate was in a state of disrepair and the inspector warned that a new building was badly needed. Records from 1911 indicate that the former Methodist church building was being used as the new school building. For much of its history, it appears that Grades 1-7 were taught there, with an average daily attendance of 10-40 children. Little is known about the school during the 1920s and 30s, but it appears it was open during this period with an average daily attendance of 20-40 children. Church records indicate an “Indian School” was operating at Skidegate during at least May of 1941. By the late 1950s, enrolment at the day school had grown to a point where two teachers were needed. One of the teachers was a Woman’s Missionary Society deaconess. Both teachers lived in a residence next to the school. Government records suggest the school closed in 1965. More research is required to learn about the school's general history and operations.

Michael John Victor Shaver (Jack) was born in Fort William, Ontario, in 1918 to the Rev. and Mrs. James M. Shaver. He grew up in the manse next door to All Peoples' Mission in Winnipeg's North End. He attended United College in Winnipeg and, following ordination in 1942, served charges in rural Ontario and Manitoba, then Fort Gary United Church in Winnipeg (1952-1959). In 1959, he moved with his wife, Dorothy, and their children to Vancouver, where he served as the very first university chaplain for the United Church (UBC, 1959-1969). Shaver worked for the Metropolitan Council of the Lower Mainland in the early 1970s, then on the staff of First United Church, where he spent the final ten years of his ministry, retiring in 1982. Shaver received two honorary doctorates; from the University of Winnipeg (1980) and the Vancouver School of Theology (1982).

Sharon United Church, located in Murrayville, in Langley District Municipality, originally was known as Sharon Presbyterian Church or Langley Prairie Presbyterian Church. The congregation formally began in 1876 as part of the larger Langley field or mission of the Church of Scotland, which also included Fort Langley. In 1886 the Langley field became part of the Presbyterian Church in Canada and a church building was first erected at Murray's Corners (later Murrayville) in 1890. The congregation continued as part of the Langley field until 1921 when the field was divided between the two central points of St. Andrew's in Fort Langley and Sharon Church in Murrayville. The latter included smaller congregations at Langley Prairie (today, city of Langley) and Lochiel. In 1925 the congregation entered into union, although some members were non-concurring and formed a continuing Presbyterian congregation. Sharon United Church has been a separate charge in Fraser Presbytery since 1980. Prior to 1980 the congregation has been a part of various pastoral charge arrangements: Langley Prairie or Langley United Church remained connected to Murrayville until 1950; Aldergrove United was a part of the charge from 1932 to 1961; Sharon Church was a separate charge from 1961 to 1965 when Milner was joined with the congregation, forming the Murrayville-Milner Pastoral Charge; in 1971 St. Andrew's in Fort Langley was added creating the Fort Langley-Murrayville Pastoral Charge; and in 1980 Sharon became a separate charge. In 2012 Sharon United Church amalgamated with Jubilee United, St Andrew's United, and Langley United to form the United Churches of Langley, part of Fraser Presbytery.

The Seniors Working Group (SWG) originated in 2011 with representatives from the pastoral committees of five United Church congregations on the west side of Vancouver: Dunbar Heights, Knox, Trinity, West Point Grey, University Hill. The working group formed partly in response to a growing gap in community services for seniors west of Granville Street. Within a few years, it grew to encompass further westside congregations, including Anglican parishes.

The SWG's main purpose and vision was to help seniors/elders age with vitality and expanded options, working within church congregations and the wider community. It sponsored pastoral care training events; held public forums on a variety of topics; and undertook networking and collaboration with other community groups with similar aims. Congregational pastoral care committees within the SWG membership supported an array of activities, including prayer groups, transportation, education/communications, food support and programs, visitation, and card and flower ministries.

Collaborative work with the nascent Westside Seniors Hub – which operated out of Kitsilano Neighbourhood House – began in 2015. The Westside Seniors Hub gradually assumed the community-wide programming of the SWG, and the SWG dissolved after transferring its funds to that organization on May 27, 2022.

The first worship service for what became Sea Island United Church was held in December of 1952 when a theological student held a service in the community hall on Sea Island. The following year, the congregation was formally constituted by Vancouver Presbytery. In September of 1958, Sea Island United Church dedicated its church building. From 1958 to 1970, Sea Island United Church was part of the two-point Richmond-Sea Island Pastoral Charge. The congregation disbanded in 1970 and members joined the Richmond congregation.

As early as 1910, a small group of Methodists and Presbyterians gathered for worship at the Wilson Road (Kerrisdale) School prior to the establishment of Kerrisdale Methodist Church. Kerrisdale Methodist Church opened on November 26, 1911 in a small building on the north-east corner of 45th Avenue and Yew Street, Vancouver. In 1925, Kerrisdale Methodist Church came into union, and changed its name to Ryerson United Church. Ryerson United required a larger church building, and the present building was dedicated on March 25th, 1928. A Christian Education Centre in the Ryerson Memorial Centre was built and dedicated in March of 1950. The Ryerson congregation amalgamated with Dunbar Heights United Church to form Dunbar Ryerson United Church on January 1, 2017 and changed its name to Pacific Spirit United Church the following year.

R.W. Large Memorial Hospital, originally known as Bella Bella Hospital, is located in Bella Bella, British Columbia. The town of Bella Bella is located on Campbell Island, along the central coast of the province. The hospital serves residents of the town and the surrounding area, including the Heiltsuk Nation.

Medical missionary work first began in Bella Bella in the late 1890s when Dr. Albert Edward Bolton, alongside the Rev. Thomas Crosby, traveled along the coast providing medical services as part of the Methodist Church of Canada's missionary efforts. They often traveled on the mission ship Glad Tidings. During this time, Dr. Bolton established a medical mission in Bella Bella and a summer hospital at Rivers Inlet, to the southeast. Many medical staff would work both in Bella Bella and spend summers at the River Inlet Hospital in the coming years. In 1897, Dr. J.A. Jackson was sent by the Methodist Church to run the summer hospital at Rivers Inlet and the medical Mission at Bella Bella. Jackson died a year later and was replaced by Dr. Richard Whitfield Large. Dr. Large was given permanent charge of the Bella Bella medical mission in December of 1898. A full hospital was built by the end of 1902. A training school for nurses was opened in 1903 and remained open until 1935.

The original hospital burned down in the summer of 1904. A larger hospital was built and opened in 1906 to replace it. In 1910, Dr. Large was transferred to the missionary hospital at Port Simpson. The next permanent medical missionary doctor was George Darby, who arrived with his wife, Edna Darby, in 1914 and would serve in Bella Bella until 1959.
Responding to local needs, a new hospital was opened in 1918. It was renamed R.W. Large Memorial Hospital following Dr. Large's death in 1920. During this time, a hospital boat was also based out of Bella Bella. The hospital boat provided for quick access to remote sites and until the 1940s had a permanently assigned doctor working aboard for most of the year. The hospital boat remained in use well into the 1960s.

After the creation of The United Church of Canada in 1925, the Methodist missionary hospitals in Bella Bella and Rivers Inlet came under its authority. In 1929, the United Church officially decided to continue to operate the medical missions in places where it was difficult to establish municipal hospitals.

During the 1940s and 1950s, medical students worked for short periods of time in Bella Bella with Dr. Darby. In 1952, a second full-time physician joined the staff at R.W. Large Memorial Hospital. After Dr. Darby, several physicians worked at R.W. Large Memorial Hospital for long periods of time but recruitment became a challenge. To help with staffing, short-term physicians and locums were used. This also allowed specialists to come to Bella Bella to provide specialized medical care. A new hospital building was completed and opened 1973.

The United Church of Canada shifted control of health services over to the United Church Health Services Society in 2008. The Society continued to operate R.W. Large Memorial Hospital until 2014, when Vancouver Coastal Health took over full operation of the Hospital.

Rutland United Church, once part of Kamloops-Okanagan Presbytery, was formed in 1925 from the union of Mount View Methodist Church and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. The beginning date of regular Methodist activity in Rutland is uncertain from available sources, but had begun before 1908 on the Kelowna Circuit. In 1908 Mount View Methodist Church and Whelan's (later Ellison) appointment were separated from Kelowna and formed into the Mount View (later Rutland) Circuit. This arrangement continued until church union. The date of establishment of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Rutland is also uncertain although a separate field was organized, according to yearbook statistics, in 1911, which included Glenmore. In 1912 Benvoulin was added to the field under the name Benvoulin Mission Field. This arrangement continued until church union. From 1925, Rutland United Church, located at 130 Rutland Road in Kelowna, was the main congregation in pastoral charge arrangements, but it included several others until the 1960s. It was a part of Rutland Pastoral Charge, including Benvoulin and Glenmore, 1925-1940; Rutland-Oyama Pastoral Charge, including Benvoulin, Oyama, Okanagan Centre and Winfield, 1940-1960; and Rutland-Benvoulin Pastoral Charge from 1960 until Benvoulin closed in that same decade. From then on, Rutland was a single point charge until July 1, 2021, when it amalgamated with First United and St. Paul's to form Central Okanagan United Church.

The Methodist and Presbyterian Church were both active in the Rosedale, Cheam, and East Chilliwack areas of Chilliwack District by the 1890s. Cheam became the centre of Methodist work with the creation of Cheam Circuit in 1888 (formerly part of Sumas and Chilliwack Circuit). Rosedale became the centre of Presbyterian work with the construction of a church building there in 1908. The Cheam Circuit and Rosedale Presbyterian Church also included congregations at East Chilliwack and Camp Slough. Rosedale was part of Westminster Presbytery (1925-1959) and Fraser Presbytery (1959-2019). In 2020 Rosedale amalgamated with Mount Shannon and Chilliwack United Church to form Cheam View United Church.

In 1917 the Methodist and Presbyterian congregations entered into a local union in association with the Presbyterian Church -- this local body was called the Rosedale Union Church Circuit and the constituent congregations adopted the "Union" name as well. After church union in 1925, Rosedale Union Church Circuit became Rosedale Pastoral Charge. Cheam and East Chilliwack remained part of this charge until they both closed ca. 1958. From 1917 to ca. 1958, the three Rosedale congregations maintained a joint management board, although separate boards and organizations were also maintained in the individual congregations. In 1969, Rosedale United Church joined Agassiz United Church in a two-point charge known as Agassiz-Rosedale Pastoral Charge. This arrangement continued until the two congregations became separate charges in 2013. In 2020, Rosedale amalgamated with Chilliwack United and Mount Shannon to form Cheam View United Church.

Rivers Inlet Hospital was located at Rivers Inlet, British Columbia. It was established in the 1890s by Dr. Albert Edward Bolton, alongside Thomas Crosby who travelled along the coast to provide medical services. Medical staff would spend summers at Rivers Inlet, associated with R.W. Large Memorial Hospital in Bella Bella when it opened in 1902.

On May 9, 1888 the Richmond Mission was constituted by action of the Methodist conference. The congregation met in the municipal hall, then situated at Cambie and River roads, until their first church, Richmond Methodist, was built in 1891. Following church union in 1925, the church became Richmond United Church (essentially a name change). In 1961, the congregation sold the original church building and parsonage to the Municipality of Richmond and moved into a new church building at 8711 Cambie Road. The Municipality moved the original church building to Minoru Park as a centennial project in 1967 and re-dedicated it as a non-denominational church serving the community for weddings and baptisms. It is now known as Minoru Chapel.

From 1958-1970, Richmond United and Sea Island United were part of a two-point pastoral charge. The Sea Island congregation disbanded as of September 1970 and many of the remaining members of that church joined the Richmond congregation. Although the name "Richmond-Sea Island pastoral charge" remained for many years after that, the congregation was a single pastoral charge and reaffirmed its name as Richmond United Church only in 2012. Richmond United Church was part of Vancouver-South Presbytery until the Presbytery was dissolved in 2019.

Methodist services began in the Queensborough (latter New Westminster) area with the arrival of Methodist Ministers in 1859. A new church was built and dedicated on April 8, 1860. In 1862, Presbyterian services were begun in New Westminister in the old Court House, with a new church being built and dedicated on December 30, 1863. In 1898, a disaster hit New Westminster as a fire broke out in the town and destroyed every business place and dwelling below Royal Avenue and as far west as Tenth Street, including the Methodist church. After the destructive fire, the Methodists decided to re-erect the church, and a corner-stone was laid on June 28, 1899, with the new church on Queens Avenue being dedicated on April 22, 1900. With the coming of church union in 1925, Queens Avenue United Church gathered for the inaugural service of the new union congregation on May 13, 1926.

The Japanese Methodist Mission was established in Vancouver in 1896. It joined The United Church of Canada in 1925.

Port Simpson Residential School was located in Port Simpson (Lax Kw’alaams), on the north coast of British Columbia, 40 kilometres north of Prince Rupert near the Tsimpshean Reserve. The Girls’ Home was operated by the Crosby family, and later the Woman's Missionary Society of The Methodist Church of Canada from 1879-1925, and by the Board of Home Missions of The United Church of Canada from 1925-1948. The Boys’ Home, located on the southeast side of the village, was operated by the Missionary Society of The Methodist Church of Canada from 1890-1914.

The Port Simpson Medical Clinic was opened by The United Church of Canada in 1976, and staffed with an office nurse and a physician.

The Port Simpson General Hospital was located at Lax Kw'alaams, British Columbia. In 1889 Dr. Albert E. Bolton and his wife Nellie arrived and began treating patients in a tent on the beach through the Mission of the Methodist Church of Canada. By 1891 a hospital management committee had formed, and on November 9 1891 the hospital at Port Simpson (Lax Kw'alaams) officially opened. It was operated by the Woman's Missionary Society of The Methodist Church of Canada, with support from the Department of Indian Affairs and provincial government. A branch of the hospital operated from 1895 in Port Essington in the summer months, to provide medical care for the salmon canning industry there. A branch was also located at Rivers Inlet, later connected to R.W. Large Memorial Hospital. The hospital was incorporated in 1903. After 1925, The United Church of Canada operated the hospital, and took control of the hospital in 1931. In 1946 the hospital was closed with all medical work centered in Prince Rupert.

Port Simpson Day School was located at Port Simpson [Lax Kwa'aalms] approximately 25 miles from Prince Rupert, British Columbia. It was operated by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, then The Methodist Church of Canada and after 1925 The United Church of Canada. In 1874, the Department of Indian Affairs ‘Statement of Day Schools’ noted that a parliamentary grant was provided for a day school at “Fort Simpson,” which was opened on February 1, 1874 by the Wesleyans. Church records for the following year indicate that the missionary, Thomas Crosby, was working on “fixing up an old house for the use of the school,” paid for from his own means. In a report to the Methodist Society, he requested a teacher for the school. In 1879, the existing schoolhouse was described as “a miserable affair” and the Department was asked to help build a new one. Over the course of the next two years a new schoolhouse was built. During this time, the Church was also planning a “Girls’ Home” to board students from outside of Fort Simpson. A “Boys’ Home” to serve a similar purpose was constructed in 1891. By 1900, Department records indicate the day school was “under the supervision of The Methodist Church of Canada,” with the two teachers “paid by the Government through the Church.” The school building belonged to the Church and was equipped by the Department. By 1904 the Crosby Girls' Home and Crosby Boys' Homes had opened in Port Simpson, and the day school was attended by both the village children and children boarding at the schools. In 1907 a report was written on the missionary work at Port Simpson. In it, the day school was described as a “very good” building with two classrooms downstairs and an upstairs area used for church services. Children from the reserve and the boys from the boarding home were taught at the day school. By 1912, the school at Port Simpson was the largest day school under the control of The Methodist Church, with an enrolment of over 125 children. Little is known about it during the 1920s but Department records show it was consistently open with two teachers and an average attendance of 30-50 children. In 1937, Department officials planned to “rebuild” the day school with two classrooms and a room for domestic science. By May of 1938, the senior teacher reported that the new, large school building was completed and painted but had no “sanitary facilities” for the children. By 1940, there were plans to add a third classroom to the Port Simpson Day School. In 1947, it was reported that some children at the “Crosby Girls’ Residential School” attended the Port Simpson Day School. In May of 1951, arrangements were made to sell the Crosby Girls’ Home and it was hoped that the “village day schools [would be] accommodating the children.” By 1957, there were two day schools at Port Simpson – a three-room building with a large residence upstairs and also an older two-room school. As of 1968, it appears that there was still a Day School in operation at Port Simpson, and government records indicate it closed in 1975. Additional research is needed to learn more about it's general history and operations.

The Port Essington Summer Hospital was located in Port Essington, British Columbia. It was opened as a branch of the Port Simpson Hospital in Lax Kw'alaams [formerly Port Simpson] in 1895. Medical work occurred at Port Essington during the summer as it was the centre of the salmon canning business.