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History
The first Methodist services in Nanaimo were conducted in 1857 and the original Nanaimo Circuit covered an area from Comox to Salt Spring Island. Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church was built in 1860. It was later known as Nanaimo Methodist Church and, after the Haliburton Street congregation became a separate circuit in 1892, as Wallace Street Methodist Church. In 1925, the congregation of Wallace Street Methodist Church and those members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian who were in favour of union joined to form First United Church (Nanaimo, B.C.). A large proportion of the Presbyterians voted against union, and court action ensued regarding the legality of the vote. Finally, it was decided that First United Church would have the Presbyterian church and manse and that the continuing Presbyterians would have the Wallace Street church and parsonage. The former Wallace Street Methodist Church building was subsequently demolished in 1929, to be replaced by a new Presbyterian church. First United changed its name to St. Andrew’s United Church in about 1934.