[1] The Church of St. John the Evangelist was established in 1861 by Father Edmund Wood, to bring the Oxford Movement to Canada.

An initial vote at a Vestry meeting on April 15, 2023, endorsed a motion to authorize the Diocese to sell the church.

The income from the investments after the sale of the church would be used to allow the congregation to maintain its distinctive style of Anglo-Catholic worship in a different place.

At a subsequent Vestry meeting on July 16, 2023, this vote was overturned and a committee was set up to explore other options for continuing in the present church without selling the property.

[citation needed] The building has starred alongside Nick Nolte in the film Affliction, and in the Quebec science-fiction television series Dans une galaxie près de chez vous.