Montreal - 1803-1918
 St.
Andrew's Presbyterian Church was established in 1803 by a dissident minority
of the St. Gabriel Street Presbyterian Church
which seceded to form a separate congregation. Inititially this new
congregation had connections with the Presbyterian Churches in the United
States but in 1824 the congregation called a Church of Scotland minister
and became connected with the Church of Scotland while a minority of Americans
withdrew to form the American
Presbyterian Church of Montreal.
In 1875 when the Presbyterian Church in Canada was formed, a majority of the St. Andrew's congregation, with their minister, the Rev. Gavin Lang, opposed the union and did not enter the Presbyterian church in Canada, remaining connected with the Church of Scotland. The minority who favoured union amalgamated with St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Montreal, after attempting to maintain a separate congregation. In 1918, after the membership
had dwindled, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church amalgamated with St. Paul's
Presbyterian Church as the Church of St. Andrew's
and St. Paul, thereby entering The Presbyterian
Church in Canada.
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