Gordon United Church in the village of Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia

Reserve Mines, Nova Scotia

Reserve Mines is a community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.It is located immediately west of Glace Bay and 10 kilometres northeast of Sydney. The J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport is located in the western part of the community...

 was founded as a Presbyterian

Presbyterian Church in Canada

The Presbyterian Church in Canada is the name of a Protestant Christian church, of presbyterian and reformed theology and polity, serving in Canada under this name since 1875, although the United Church of Canada claimed the right to the name from 1925 to 1939...

 church in the 1880s by Rev. James Forbes, as an offshoot of his nearby charge, St. Paul's Presbyterian Church

St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Glace Bay

St. Paul's Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian congregation located in the community of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada.-Early history:Between 1850 and 1866, Presbyterian services were held in Little Glace Bay by Rev. Dr. Hugh MacLeod, Minister of Union Presbyterian Church, Mira Ferry; MacLeod had...

 which was located in Glace Bay.

Gordon became independent and a self-sustaining pastoral charge in its own right in 1897.

When the Presbyterian Church in Canada voted to form the United Church of Canada

United Church of Canada

The United Church of Canada is a Protestant Christian denomination in Canada. It is the largest Protestant church and, after the Roman Catholic Church, the second-largest Christian church in Canada...

in 1925, Gordon affiliated with the new United Church and became known as Gordon United Church.