Église Unie St-Marc is a small but historic church in Ottawa

Ottawa

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, Canada

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. It is the main church for francophone Protestants in the Ottawa Gatineau region. French speaking Protestants are a very small minority in Canada, but one with a history dating back to early Huguenot

Huguenot

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 settlers. The Ottawa church was founded as a Presbyterian congregation in 1874, and its first building was located on the Lebreton Flats

Lebreton Flats

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. It joined the United Church of Canada

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 upon its creation in 1925. In the 1960s its original home was expropriated by the federal government, along with the other buildings on the flats. The church then moved to its current building in Centretown

Centretown

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 at the corner of Elgin and Lewis streets, next to Minto Park. This small building had been built in 1900 to house the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, but seeking larger premises they moved to the western part of the city and sold the building to St-Marc in 1965.

Jacques de Réland has served as pastor since 1982.