Carl Wesley Zurbrigg (1919-2002) was a minister with the United Church of Canada for 56 years. He was born in Listowel, Ontario. From 1937-1940 he worked at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Listowel and Auburn-Dungannon. He received a B.A. from Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1943, and a B.D. from Emmanuel College in 1946. He was ordained by London Conference on May 28, 1946. He was a summer Student in Tribune, Saskatchewan (1941-1942), Madawaska (1943), Ker (1943-1946). He worked as an ordained minister at Jarvie, Alberta (1946-1949), Peace River (1949-1952), Drumheller (1952-1956), Olivet United Church in Hamilton (1956-1968), Dominion-Chalmers, Ottawa (1968-1975), St. James-Simcoe in Erie Presbytery (1975-1984). In administrative capacities, he was Presbytery Chair of Peace River in 1951, Hamilton in 1960 and Erie in 1980. He was the Hamilton Conference Pension Convenor from 1984-1988. He was on the Executive of the Board of World Mission/Division of World Outreach from 1960-1966. Zurbrigg died in 2002.
Zion United Church was established in 1925 as Sundridge United Church; formerly a union church
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.
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.
William Robert Young (1854-1933) was a Methodist and United Church minister and administrator. Born near Kingston, Ontario, he studied at Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, 1879-1881, and received a B.A. from Victoria College, Toronto, in 1890. He was ordained in 1881, and served numerous charges in Ontario and Quebec, including St. James Church, Montreal, 1905-1913. He served various offices in Church courts, and was a longtime Secretary of the General Board of Missions. He was involved in the final negotiations for Church Union in 1925, and planned the inaugural service of 1925 June 10. He retired in 1928, but served on the United Church General Council Executive until 1932. He also served on several non- church boards.
William Harold Young (1892-1958) was a Methodist/United Church minister and administrator. He was born at Millbrook, Ontario, was educated at McGill and Columbia Universities, and at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He was ordained into the Methodist Church in 1916 and served charges in Montreal, Peterborough, and Toronto. He served as Secretary of the United Church Board of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1947-1958. He also chaired numerous national committees of the Church.
Joseph Young (1843-1926) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. He was born in August Township, Canada West (Ontario), and studied at Albert College (Belleville). He was first received on trial as an exhorter and local preacher by the Cannington official board in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was ordained in 1869. His active ministry was divided between Bay of Quinte and Toronto Conferences (Aultsville (1869-1871), Lyn, Brockville (1872), Ottawa District (1873-1876), Picton & Hallowell (1877), W.C. Hallowell (1878), Kingston District (1879-1881), W.C. Cobourg (1882-1884), Thornbury (1905-1909), Marksdale (1909-1912). He retired in 1912 but continued to serve mission churches for many more years, such as Hobbs Memorial and Glenmount Churches in Toronto. He died July 30th, 1926.
Egerton Ryerson Young, a Methodist minister, was born in 1840 in Crosby, Upper Canada, the son of Rev. William Young. He attended the Provincial Normal School in Toronto and then taught at Madoc in 1862. In the summer of 1863 he started in the service of the Wesleyan Methodist Church at Tweed. He was ordained in 1867 and served at First Methodist Church in Hamilton until 1868 when he undertook mission work with Aboriginal People in Norway House, Manitoba. He had served for eight years when ill-health forced him to return to Ontario. He then ministered to pastorates in Port Perry, Colborne, Bowmanville, Meaford and Brampton until his retirement in 1888. Thereafter, he became a lecturer and embarked on extensive speaking tours in the United States, Europe and Australia. He wrote about his missionary work and the history of missions in North America and how the work to christianize Aboriginal People was undertaken.
He was married to Elizabeth Bingham. He died in Bradford, Ontario in 1909.
Egerton Ryerson Young (Jr.) (1869-1962) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario and assistant editor of the Christian Guardian. He was born in Norway House, Manitoba, where his father was a missionary to the Cree Indians. He attended Victoria College and was ordained in 1896. He served at Zion Church, Toronto, 1896-1897, and was Assistant Editor of the Christian Guardian, 1898-1900. He was then at Copper Cliff, 1901-1902; Port Carling, 1902-1905; Malton, 1906-1908; Chatsworth, 1909-1911; Bracebridge, 1912-1915; Orangeville, 1916-1919; Islington, 1920-1924; Newtonbrook, 1925-1929; Barrie, 1930-1931; and was then superannuated at Toronto, 1932-1961. He was married to Edith Ella Allen.
Edith Ella Young ([1871 or 1872]-1961) was married to Egerton Ryerson Young Jr., and active in the Woman's Missionary Society of the United Church.
Yorkminster United Church was located in Willowdale, Ontario at 395 Old Yonge Street, where it intersects with Highway 401. It began in 1953, and by 1957 a modern church structure was opened. In the 1960s there was talk of amalgamating the congregation with Oriole-York Mills United Church, but the attempt was defeated. Yorkminster ceased to be a congregation in 1983, and the building was sold in the following year to the Salvation Army.
Yonge Street United Church, located at the corners of Yonge and Summerhill streets in Toronto, was established in 1925. It began as a Methodist Church in 1873 at the corner of Yonge and Marlborough streets in the city. That church was torn down in 1911, and the new building had its first service in the same year. In 1971 a fire destroyed the church, and the congregation met at a local banquet hall for much of the next two years, before it decided to amalgamate with St. Andrew's United Church in 1973.
The Yonge Street (South) Methodist Circuit in Toronto, originally a Wesleyan Methodist Circuit, included the Eglinton Church, popularly known as the 'Brick' Church in the 1850s.
Alfred Yeoman (1876-1959) was a Methodist minister in the U.S. and Ontario. He was born in Devonshire, England. After his marriage to Jane May Adams he moved to the United States in 1906. He was ordained in the Methodist Episcopalian Church in New Jersey in 1908. He came to Canada in 1913 and served at Lynedoch, Clifford, Stevensville, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Aberfoyle, Teeterville and Courtland. He was retired at Tillsonburg, 1948-1952; Ingersoll, 1953-1956; and again at Tillsonburg, 1957 until his death.
Yelverton United Church was established in 1925; formerly Methodist.