In 1845 Charles Fish was "sent" as the assistant of the Rev. John Bredin in the Guelph Circuit. He was then twenty-six years old, but fair and fresh-looking, compact and heavy.

He was converted at fourteen, and began to preach only a year later, thus giving him ten or eleven years' experience as a public speaker when he entered on circuit work. He was an easy, commanding speaker, and a born homilist. He had studied much that related to the ministry then, and this species of study he has vastly extended from that time to this, by which he has greatly compensated for any lack of academic training he may have had to mourn.

He entered on his work under the pecuniary disadvantage of having only a single mans' claim; but he found a Yorkshire friend in the Guelph Circuit who gave him house and home free of charge. The name of Mr. John Jackson, on this account and many others, deserves to go down favorably to posterity.

Conversions and revivals were the fruits of Mr. Fish's labors in that circuit, as also in all the other to which he has been appointed.

...from the minutes of the 1847 Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Toronto C.W.

Rev. Charles Fish, Yoronto, Ontario, was born on the 11th of September, 1820, in Selby, Yorkshire, Eng. He received his education at the schools there, and, at the age of fifteen, commenced to preach.

He came to Canada in 1848, and entered the Methodist Conference the same year. Guelph was his first circuit. He was afterwards stationed in Peterboro, Lindsay, Cobourg, Owen Sound, Toronto and many other principal towns and cities of Canada.

He served in the active work of the ministry thirty-eight years and during that time was chairman of several important districts, and was a delegate to the first General Conference, and to each subsequent Conference until he was superannuated in 1886.

He was agent for Victoria College twenty years, and since superannuation has been collector for the Federation Fund, and has held evangelistic services in many of the leading towns and cities of Ontario.

The prominent aim of his life has been the building of churches and the saving of souls, in which he has been most successful.

Mr. Fish, has been twice married - first in 1842 to Mary Wilkinson, and again in 1860 to Catherine Johnson.

....from Men of Canada 1891

Charges:
1849 Norfolk Street Guelph (Wellington Co.), 1851 Census living in Nelson Township, 1852 Ordained, 1852 Bowmanville, 1854 Newburg (Kingston), 1855 Arthur Methodist (Wellington Co.), 1866 Streetsville (Peel Co.), 1867 Toronto Twp., 1868-1869 Yonge Street North (Richmond Hill), 1869-1871 Markham (York Co.), 1871 Toronto Tp., 1873-1875 Peterorough, 1875 Chairman of the Lindsay District, 1891 Toronto.