CHURCH HISTORY & LIST OF CLERGY SERVING CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH AND CHURCHES THAT PRECEEDED IT
PRESBYTERIAN
1873 Rev. D. McIntosh
1893 Rev. F. Nichol
1897 Rev. G.P. Duncan
1906 – 1925 Rev. Frank Rae
1925 – Congregation moves down to Presbyterian Church
CONGREGATONAL CHURCH with formation of the United Church of Canada
1844 – meeting in Frisby House
1880 – built a church @ N.W. corner of Main St. & Fred Varley having sold first church (Frisby House) to Presbyterians
1894 – Congregationalists sold their church building to the METHODIST Presbyterians
1841 – Wesleyan Methodist in Unionville
1846 – 1847 – Unionville part of Markham (Reesorville) Circuit
1850 – Wesleyan Methodist Church in Unionville reopened
1850 – Primitive Methodists establish preaching post in private home, then at Brook’s Wagon Shop
1852 – a frame church erected on Harding farm at Milliken’s Corners
1858 – 1859 – Unionville Primitive Methodists ‘Scarborough Station’ – included Unionville, Parsonage, Bethel, Zion, Bethesda
1873 – Congregationalists called their first regular minister to Unionville
1879 – Primitive Methodist Church head shifted to Unionville & included Markham, Malvern, Zion & Ebenezer
1879 – present church (Central United) built by Josiah Hall, contractor.
1880 – Wesleyan Methodists purchased the church from Primitive Methodists
1884 – Primitive & Wesleyan Methodists unite; Ebenezer now associated with Unionville
1884 Rev. Dunlop
1886 Rev. Chapman
1886 Rev. Hill
1889 Rev. Fallis
1891 – Peaches & Christie added to Unionville Circuit
1896 Rev. Stevenson
1899 Rev. Walker
1902 Rev. Lee
1906 Rev. Power
1909 Rev. Totten
1910 Rev. Waugh
1912 – Unionville Circuit reduced to Unionville & Ebenezer
1914 Rev. Ferguson
1918 Rev. Humphries
1921 Rev. Wilkinson
1925 – Methodist, Presbyterian & Congregational Churches become United Church of Canada
UNITED CHURCH
1925 Rev. H.H. Eaton
1930 Rev. D. MacKeracher
1933 Rev. A.E. Owen
1943 Rev. H.D. MacCormack
1946 Rev. W.S. Butt
1952 – a chancel added & church interior remodeled; 2 manual Casavant organ installed
1955 – Bell from former Presbyterian Church moved into tower
1959 Rev. A. A. Lavis
1965 – 2 houses south of Central purchased, one for manse, other for meetings
1966 Rev. R.O. Ball
1967 – chimes added to organ
1968 – chimes extended to sound from tower
1975 Rev. Allan Saunders – Assistant
1979 Cheryl Kirk – Pastoral Associate
1980 Rev. David McKane
1983 Rev. Darryl Doyle
1983 Wynn Frost, Pastoral Associate
1985 – 1993 Rev. David Reeve
1985 Debra Savage, Associate Minister
1985 – 1986 – Miracle on Main Street – Sanctuary interior reversed & doubled in size, plus wing added
June 1992 – March 1996 Dianne Astle
May 1994 – April 2003 Rev. Ralph Garbe
May 1996 – November 1998 Rev. Chris Donnelly, Associate Minister
September 2000 – June 2002 Rev. Glen Wells, Associate Minister
2002 Rev. K. N. Burden – Minister of Education & Service
November 2003 – Present Rev. Dr. James R. Clubine
January 2004 – Dec. 2006 Rev. Vivian Carter, co Minister of Ed & Service