[3] Services were regularly held in a hall across the street (now Britannia Road) from the original church.

A dispute over ownership of the property resulted in the Anglican residents resolving to build a church of their own.

The first board of trustees of the building were Judge William Mosgrove, Messrs. A. N. McNeill, S. Maynard Rogers.

[6] In 1893, the church was completed; The interior wails and ceiling were finished in polished ash.

On Dominion Day, 1894 the first excursion to be held over the new Gatineau Railway Company's lines was one in aid of the funds of the St. Stephen's Anglican church.

A. H. Coleman was unable to conduct the services regularly owing to pressure of work in his other churches, they were taken by clergy from Ottawa.

Dr. Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, the author of several scientific, educational and religious works served as Rector's warden in 1901–1902.

R H. Steacy presided at the spring vestry meeting in 1909, at which a motion to have "a good plain Church of England service" was carried.

E. L. Britain attended the synod and announced that St. Stephen's would subscribe $100 per annum towards the stipend of the rector of the new parish.

N. H. Snow presided over the vestry meeting since Col. the Rev, R. H. Steacy had gone overseas as director of chaplain services of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces.

On December 6, 1926, a resolution at a special vestry meeting called for the establishment of a new parish of St. Martin's, Woodroffe, and St. Stephen's, Britannia.

[15] To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the church in June 1936, the preacher at the morning service was Ven.

Archdeacon Snowdon, who, as a young Curate, was one of the first to hold these services which took place in the open or under the shelter of a verandah according to the weather.

A parochial evening reception was held for invitees who were identified with the activities and interests of the church during the fifty years.

[16] An honour roll was unveiled and dedicated at a service in June 1943, lists names of parishioners in the armed forces during World War II including Dennis Foy, who was killed in action.

K. R, Cowan, then rector of the parish, announced that the transfer had been completed and the deed received for the new church property recently acquired for the site of the new St Stephen's Church, situated on the southwest corner of Main street (now Britannia) and Cameron avenue in Britannia, one block south of the train tracks.

Pesker Dee a Clark of Christ Church Cathedral, was introduced by G. Orval Skuce and gave a short address on "People".

[19] Mayor Charlotte Whitton was St Stephen's Honoured Guest at the fall tea and bazaar on November 22, 1952.

She gave a short address on the need for church work in all spheres of life.

The Ottawa architecture firm of Burgess, McLean & MacPhadyen designed St. Stephen's Church in 1953, which is representative of church architecture in the 1950s with its daring lines, sleek mass, contrasting surfaces of brick walls, metal uprights, shingle roof, glass window walls, and laminated support beams inside.

William Robinson, rector of St. John's Anglican Church, spoke at evensong.

K. R. Cowan, rector of St. Martin's Church, was the speaker, and on Sunday the preachers were Ven.

The success of the church school was such that the lower hall was found to be inadequate to hold the enrolment of 244 students.

A bequest from Miss Mary Lark was used to provide the hall adjacent to the main church building in 1964.

Eldon Davis, St Stephen's rector and Britannia United Church minister Rev.

St. Stephen's Church in Ottawa's extreme West End served as house of worship for both Anglican and United churchgoers in the area for a one-year trial beginning September 1968.

St. Stephen's, in return, made use of Britannia United building for Sunday school classes.

With a target date of 1974 set for union between the two denominations, church officials thought the arrangement was ideal.

All mortgages were retired in late 1989 with the formal consecration of the parish taking place in February 1990.

In 2006 the washrooms for the main hall were gutted and renovated resulting in a much needed increased capacity and handicapped availability.