St. James Square Presbyterian Church
Located on Gerrard Street, just east of Yonge, on the present site of Ryerson University's St. James Square Campus, this was the third building of the Second United Presbyterian Church of Toronto. It was built in 1879, replacing a much smaller building on nearby Gould Street that had been built by architect William Hay in 1855.
The United Presbyterian Church's Canadian Synod approved the division of their Toronto, Canada West Bay Street United Presbyterian Church congregation in 1853 to assist in the move of their Divinity Hall from London, Ontario to Toronto. In 1861, the merger of the UPC to the Free Church, saw the Divinity School merge with Knox College, and Gould Street Church grew under the leadership of:
- Professor John Taylor (1853–1861), who returned to Scotland; his son, Sir Thomas Wardlaw Taylor remained in Canada, and was later Chief Justice of Manitoba.
- Rev. Robert Burns (1861–1863), a Knox College professor, formerly of Knox Free Church,
- John Mark King (1863–1883), later the Principal of Manitoba College in Winnipeg,
- S. H. Kellogg (1885–1892), a former missionary to India), who returned there,
- Louis Jordan (1894–1900),
- Alfred Gandier (1901–1908), later Principal of both Knox (1909–1925) and Emmanuel College (1925–1932).
- Andrew Robertson(1910–1916),
- D. N. Morden (1917–1926).
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