St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stirling, ON

In 1851 the Rev. Robert Neill came over from Campbellford and ‘opened up the cause of Presbyterianism in the Stirling area by giving the first services.’

Following Rev. Neill’s initiative, there were occasional services through 1852 and 1853. These were held in the schoolhouse and were conducted by the Lindsay brothers, who were theology students at Queen’s College in Kingston.

Although a congregation was officially formed in 1854, it was March, 1856, when they welcomed their first full-time minister, Rev. Alexander Buchan. He had been sent from Scotland by the Glasgow Colonial Society.