1875
Regular Sunday services begin in homes of Island summer residents.

1884
Church of St-Andrew-by-the-Lake is registered (as part of the Parish of St. James) by City of Toronto. The church is built on Centre Island (near the present Filtration Plant).  First service held on 27 July 1884.

1885
Chancel windows are installed by Robert McCausland and Co.

1895
Church is enlarged by moving chancel back and adding transcept, nearly doubling seating capacity to 210.

1919-1923
Three major stained glass windows are dedicated. The Crucifixion window on the East wall of the Transcept (opposite the organ) is a memorial to the 58 Islanders who gave their lives in the Great War of 1914-1918.

1945
Heating is installed in the church. Housing shortage in City increases the winter population of Island.

1949
The first Yachtsman’s Service is held; organist is Isabelle Gamble, our current organist. A choir association is formed.

1950
St. Andrew is declared a Parish of the Diocese of York.

1952-1953
A Parish Hall is built; it was attached to the church off the current Vestry area.

1959
Rectory, Parish Hall and Church buildings are sold to the City Parks Dept for $22,978, and leased back to the Synod until such time as the premises are no longer being used as a church or if the building is required for municipal purposes. [Swadron Report 1981.]

1959-1961
The church building is moved to its present location. St Rita’s (the Island Catholic church) is also moved to a location near St. Andrew from its original location at 27 Iroquois Avenue on Centre Island.

1959
The original Rectory cottage and the Parish Hall are demolished and the Rector moves to the current Rectory (at the Algonquin Island bridge) which is owned by the Parish from 1960-1968.

1965
Father Paul Hopkins builds a winter chapel in the Rectory. In the room now used as a café, artist William Ronald paints a 100’mural as decoration for the chapel.
The altar now in use at the Church is built by Len Barnett.

1967-1974
Under the leadership of Rev Joseph Abbott, Chaplain of the Mission to Seamen. who lives in the City but commutes to the Island on Sundays, the parish endures a difficult period of turmoil and uncertainty. The parish is reduced to about 15 families.

1975
The church celebrates the centennial of the founding of the parish with a new bell.

1979
The church building is condemned by the City; the order is defied by Islanders who continue using the building for services.

1980-1984
Finally the church is abandoned and services are held in John Fowlie’s Island home.

1984
Under a new agreement with the City, the church building is restored and reopened in time for Toronto’s sesquicentennial and the church centennial. St Rita’s Catholic Church on Centre Island is demolished and the restored church building used by both Catholic and Anglican parishes.

1993
The decades-long period of uncertainty over Island homes is ended with the passage of the Toronto Islands Residential Community Stewardship Act by the provincial legislature.

1996
A second renovation project is carried out with volunteer labour. A new furnace is installed.

1999
The church celebrates the 115th anniversary of the building and the 125th anniversary of the congregation.

2003
The parish, with assistance from the Diocese of Toronto, completes a $40,000 renovation of kitchen and bathroom facilities, and adds a wa