We first find a reference to missions in October 1857 and there is reference often to taking a special collection for missions.

In 1860 the congregation pledged support to the Pointe Aux Tremble Institute. These and similar notations appear all the way down the years.

There are entries in 1874 showing that union between the two Presbyterian churches in Canada was under consideration. It took place in 1875, and Divine service is now held in the Auld Kirk - the stone church. John Gamble and Patrick McLaughlin were ordained elders in June 1875.

There are no entries in the records from then until September 1878. The stone church at the river had been destroyed by fire which swept a neighbouring lumber mill, and the congregation now met in the late Free Church - the frame church. Buckingham is now a separate charge with a minister of their own. Navan has a church of their own and Cumberland, Clarence and Navan are one charge. Rev. McFadyen is the minister. The management committee is busy trying to straighten out what former church properties belong to this church and plan that subscription lists be opened for the support of public worship. Rev. Robert Hughes was inducted in January 1879. His salary was to be $800 per annum if the congregation could make it up - if not he would take $100 less. Needless to say he took $100 less. The insurance on the church was $3 per year.

There is no record of any plans for the building of a new church in the centre of the village. Evidently the old Free Church was much too small for the congregation and a new church was imperative. Mr. William Wilson was the chairman of the building committee and Mr. John Gamble Sr. was in charge of the actual work of building the new brick church. The corner stone was laid Monday, October 6, 1879, by Mrs. William Wilson. The sermon on that occasion was preached by Rev. William Moore, D.D., of Bank Street Church, Ottawa. This occasion was a milestone in the history of the village and the school was closed for the day so that the pupils might attend the ceremony. The first church services in the building were held while the scaffold was still up around the outside walls and the congregation sat on planks arranged on nail kegs. However, the summer of 1880 saw the church dedicated in services, morning, afternoon and evening, conducted by Rev. D. H. McVicar, C.C. of Montreal Presbyterian College.

It is recorded that in the year 1881 there was "a special appeal to pay any indebtedness that may exist on the church building." Evidently it was all then paid for - there is no further reference to a debt. That summer the ground around the church was levelled and the sheds built.

The record would not be complete without telling of the disposal of the Auld Kirk and the Free Church properties and the building of the present manse.

In November 1883 the old free church building - not the land - and not the benches and pulpit - was sold to Thomas Gordon for $150, and "the proceeds were to be invested for the benefit of the congregation." However they were canny Scots - possession was not to be given until paid for and Mr. Gordon had until spring to move the building.

The manse all these years was down on the river bank for it had been built beside the old stone church - the house is still there.