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Zion Evangelical United Brethren Church in Rostock was established as early as 1864 as part of the Evangelical Association. Rostock was home to German immigrants. The congregation was a preaching place on the Milverton Mission. Zion Evangelical Church was first constructed in and later rebuilt in 1902 and remained in the Milverton Charge until 1968.

Preaching commenced to German-speaking Canadians in the Elmwood area in 1866, in Bentinck Township. Zion church was erected at Elmwood in 1879, and was one charge on a circuit that consisted of six points (Bentinck, Elmwood, Chesley, Hanover, Brant and Walkerton). In 1968 Zion became part of the United Church of Canada.

Zion Evangelical United Brethren Church was organized in 1949 as an EUB congregation.The first class at Arnprior was organized by German-speaking Canadians in 1880, and a church building was acquired in 1882. The Brethren built the Arnprior church in 1907. The work was abandoned in 1962 and the properties sold to the Wesleyan Methodists.

Zion Eveangelical Lutheran Church holds the distinction of being Vaughan's oldest church congregation, having its origins with the families of Jacob and Michael Keffer, Jacob Fischer (Fisher) and several others from Berlin, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The congregation was without a pastor and a church building until 1819, when Rev. Johann Dietrich Petersen arrived from Pennsylvania, and a building was erected on the third concession near Sherwood (today encompassed by Concord). The land on which the subject church was erected was deeded to the Trustees of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Jacob Keffer. At the time of copying of the subject fonds, the congregation remained in existence. The place-name ultimately associated with the church was Concord, which came to encompass and supplant Sherwood in the late 19th-century.

Committee established to compile parish history and to organize events associated with the celebration of the 175th anniversary.

Zion Congregational Church began meeting at the Masonic Temple in Toronto in 1834, and later moved to an abandoned Methodist Church on George Street. In 1840 a chapel was erected at Bay and Adelaide Streets in the city, with the congregation later moving to 88 College Street at Elizabeth Street in Toronto. The congregation disbanded in 1910 and in 1948 the University of Toronto acquired the building.

The Zion and Wolseley branch of the Women’s Institute was organized in the spring of 1954 at the home of Alice McGregor. It originally had twenty-nine members. The Institute was actively involved with fundraising and relief efforts organized in conjunction with the Red Cross. The Branch disbanded in 1993.

Selma Zimmerman, scientist and professor, was born in 1930 in New York City. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College and completed graduate school at New York University. She married Arthur M. Zimmerman, a zoologist. The couple and their children moved to Toronto in 1964 and in 1965, Selma Zimmerman joined the Division of Natural Science at Glendon College. In addition to assisting her husband with his research, Zimmerman's research interests include: influence of cannabinoids on cell function and fertilization; influence of hydrostatic pressure on cell strucure and cell function. Zimmerman remained at Glendon College until her retirement from teaching in 1996. Selma Zimmerman has held additional positions, including: Advisor to the University on the Status of Women from 1991-1994, Coordinator of Natural Science (Glendon College), Coordinator of Women's Studies (Glendon College), President of the Canadian Association for Women in Science, and Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.

Professor Ernest R. Zimmermann, Ph.D, was born June 18, 1931 in Cologne, Germany to Josef and Katharina Zimmermann. Zimmermann grew up in war-time Nazi Germany, and eventually was sent first to the Baltic Sea, then to the Eifel region, and finally to Delitzsch, Saxony. He was liberated by the U.S. Army's Timber Wolf Division at the end of April 1945. In June 1945 he journeyed back home to Cologne with his sister and later removed from school in 1947 to aid in reconstructing the family's home and business while become a butcher's apprentice. He worked as a journeyman for various employers before emigrating to Canada in Oct. 1953. He completed his high school diploma, and then attended McMaster University and attained an Honours B.A. in History in 1961. Through a Commonwealth Scholarship Zimmermann attended the University of London, Englad where he received his doctorate in Russian History in 1968. While in Canada, he met and married Betty Davidson in Stratford, Ontario in 1959 with whom he had two children/ He was remarried in 1992 to Beverley Leaman. Zimmermann returned to Canada and first taught at the University of Saskatchewan before he began his lengthy career at Lakehead University in 1967. At the university he was elected to various offices by his colleagues including: President of the L.U. Faculty Association (1973-1974, 1988-1989), the Canadian Association of University Teachers' Collective Bargaining Co-operative executive (1988-1991), the L.U. Senate and Board of Governors (1991-1994), Chair of the Department of History (1977-1978), and as Dean of the Arts (1978-1983). In the Thunder Bay community he served as a canvasser for the NDP in many provincial and federal elections. He also served on the City's Local Architectural Conservation Authority Committee, was an executive of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, and the National Exhibition Centre for Indian Art. From 1974 to 1982 he produced and moderated a local phone-in television show called Forum. Zimmermann passed away on Aug. 24 2008 in Thunder Bay at the age of 77.

Member of the Canadian Antique Phonograph Society and has published a number of articles. He is an avid historian and genealogist.

Zimmerman United Church was established in 1925, formerly Methodist; it closed ca. 1970

The Ziegler family lived in Wellesley Township and elsewhere in Waterloo County, Ontario during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Jacob Ziegler (1824-1904) and Elizabeth Steiss (ca. 1827-1896) were German immigrants to Ontario, Ziegler arriving in 1844 and Steiss coming from the Grand Duchy of Baden. They were married, likely in Ontario, and by 1881 they lived on a farm in Wellesley Township, Waterloo County with a large family, which included children Henry, Barbara, Lydia, and Louisa. The Zieglers were Lutheran.

Henry A. Ziegler was born on 13 October 1866. He married a woman named Anna, and they had two sons, Gordon H. and Harvey William. By 1901, they lived in Waterloo.

Barbara Ziegler was born about 1858 and married Henry Scheifele [also spelled Schaufele] in 1880. She may have died in 1892.

Lydia Ziegler was born on 21 September 1867. She may have married a man named Huehnergard.

Louisa Ziegler was born on 24 February 1871 and married William H. Schaefer. They had several children, including Lizzie Ann, Delphina, and Edna.