THE

HISTORY OF METHODISM

IN CANADA:

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE WORK
OF GOD AMONG THE CANADIAN INDIAN TRIBES,

AND

Occasional Notices of the Civil Affairs of the Province.

BY GEORGE [F. PLAYTER,

OF THE WESLEYAN CONFERENOR.

Toronto:

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR BY ANSON GREEN,

AT THE WESLEYAN PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT,
KING STREET EAST.

1862.

Entered according to the Act of the Provincial Legislature, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-two, in the Office of the Registrar of the Province of Canada.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I

Introduction of Methodism into the North American Colonies

United States people invade Canada......

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Great Emigration into Canada during the Revolutionary War,

Two days of Thanksgiving for Peace in 1783

Upper Canada began to be Surveyed...

First Methodist Preacher.

1784 Great Emigration to the St. Lawrence, the Niagara,

and the Detroit Rivers....................................................................................................

Wesley's Ordination of Preachers for America..........

Christmas Conference, and beginning of M. E. Church.

1786 Second Methodist Preacher in Canada......

1787 Prince William (afterwards King William IV,) came

to Canada.......

1788 Lyon's and McCarty, preach in the Bay of Quinte Set-

tlements........

1789 Name of U. E. Loyalists given to loyalist emigrants...

1790 Petition to New York Conference for Preachers........

William Losee, first regular Methodist Preacher arrives

1791 His return to the Bay of Quinte Settlements......

1792 First Governor of Upper Canada......

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First and second Methodist Meeting-houses.

Account of some first Settlers about Hay Bay....

Darius Dunham appointed to Cataraqui Circuit..........

Oswegotchie Circuit begun by William Losee............

First General Conference of the Methodist E. Church... 37

William Losee leaves the Country....

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1794 Coleman and Woolsey, preachers, come to Canada....... 44

The Niagara Circuit began.

1795 Sylvanus Keeler, the 5th preacher, arrives..........

-1796 Hezekiah Calvin Wooster begins his labours in Canadą. 48