The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church had its beginnings in the Church of Scotland in the 1500's. Due to theological differences and controversy over state control of the church, a pastor by the name of Ebenezer Erskine led a group of Christians in forming a separate Associate Presbytery in 1733 (from thence comes the first part of our name). Ten years later another group, who for years had suffered problems with the established church, organized themselves into the Reformed Presbytery. Both churches spread to Northern Irelend and North America. Formal union talks between the "Associates" and the "Reformed" began in 1777 and, in 1782, the Associate Reformed Synod came to be in Philadelphia. The Canadian Presbytery, of which we are a member, has churches in Ontario, New Brunswick, and  Nova Scotia.
 
Trinity Presbyterian Church is a Congregation of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, the oldest Presbyterian denomination in North America and one of the early components of Presbyterian and Reformed
witness in Canada.