Page 2 mentioned in records of this church and it is stated that on February 25, 1889, ”it was unanimously agreed to lower the rents to $2.00 per pew per year. Pew rents were continued until 1916.
Church attendance was "a must" for Methodists——regardless of age, health or other circumstances and Pownal was no exception. We find references to a person or family not attending and how the church dealt with this, scattered throughout the records.
Pownal Methodist Church was originally a Wesleyan Methodist Congregation and later, after the union of 1873, and 1884, it became a Methodist Congregation. In 1925, the Methodist Church went into a third major union: this time with the Congregational Church, the Presbyterian Church, as well as the General Council of the Local Union of Churches to form the United Church of Canada, and Pownal Methodist Church became Pownal United Church. The Pownal Charge consisted of Clifton (Bunbury), Mt. Herbert, Millview and Pownal, until the boundary lines were adjusted in 1962, and the charge became the Vernon—Pownal Pastoral Charge, with Clifton and Mt. Herbert having joined with Trinity in Charlottetown.
In 1969, Pownal was one of the six founding congregations of St. Andrew's United Church and the last service in the Pownal Church was held on Sunday, March 23, 1969—walmost exactly one hundred years after the building of the new chapel. Pownal Church was dismantled in 1970. On October 18, 1981, a native sandstone cairn, bearing a bronze plaque and standing on the site of the 1870
church was dedicated ”to commemorate the faith and dedication of