when did the united church of canada form
United Church of Canada The United Church of Canada (French: Ã‰glise unie du Canada) is a mainline Reformed denomination[4] and the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada, and the largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Catholic Church.[5] In 2011, Statistics Canada reported approximately 2 million people identifying as adherents.[3] The United Church was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Protestant denominations with a total combined membership of about 600,000 members:[6] the Methodist Church, Canada, the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, two-thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Association of Local Union Churches, a movement predominantly of the Canadian Prairie provinces. The Canadian Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church of Canada on January 1, 1968.[7]