In 1925, The Presbyterian Church in Canada voted to merge with the Methodist Church of Canada and the Congregationalist Union to form the United Church of Canada. St. Paul's congregation, and about 30% of other Presbyterian congregations in Canada, voted not to participate in the merger and remained independent of the newly formed church. The terms "Continuing Presbyterians" and "Non-Concurring Presbyterians" were then used by those who did not participate in the merger. St. Paul's and those other congregations regained the legal right to use the name "Presbyterian Church in Canada" in 1939 when the Supreme Court of Canada found that the United Church, while initially holding the rights as the successor to the original Presbyterian Church in Canada, had effectively vacated the name through non use, and it was available to the non-concurring Presbyterians.