History

According to sources at the United Church Archives in Toronto, including the Methodist Missionary Society Report, there was a Wesleyan Methodist congregation, called Ebenezer, organized in the Corbetton area of Melancthon township around 1875. Around 1885-6, the congregation's name appears as "Corbetton" in the Missionary Society Report.

For the first ten years the congregation met in an old school, its exact location unknown. On 15 October 1885, the Corbetton congregation purchased part of Lot 260 Con 1 SW of the Toronto and Sydenham Road in the Township of Melancthon. The land was sold by James and Jane Corbett, hotelkeepers, to the Trustees of the Corbetton Congregation of the Methodist Church of Canada for the sum of $70.

The Christian Guardian reports on 30 December 1885 that the church was completed. The Guardian provides an informative account of the dedicatory service and the enthusiasm of the community for the building of the church: An excerpt reads:

For many years the members of the Methodist Church at Corbetton and vicinity have, with considerable inconvenience, worshiped in a small and uncomfortably seated schoolhouse. Since last June there has been a large accession to the membership; and the friends of the cause, feeling more than ever the necessity of better accommodations, decided to erect a church…The building is 26 X 42, a scantling frame, on a stone foundation, veneered with brick, and now complete. A shed has been erected 66 feet long, the upper part of which is fitted up for an eating room on tea-meeting occasions. The building, grounds and shed, have cost, in cash $750. Besides this, there has been donated lumber and a large amount of labour. Some of the Trustees and friends, with a devotion seldom equalled have given their whole time to aiding those who were erecting the building, besides subscribing in money to the very utmost of their ability…

On 10 June, 1925, the union of the Methodist Church of Canada, the Congregational Union of Canada, and the majority of the members of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, created the United Church of Canada. Corbetton Methodist Church became Corbetton United Church.