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Gladys Gardiner (1900-1995) was the wife of a minister and active in the United Church. She was born Gladys Cale in 1900 or 1901. In 1924, she married Rev. Frederick John Gardiner. Reverend Gardiner served various charges in Saskatchewan and Ontario, retiring in 1958. He died in 1972. Gladys Gardiner was active in the Church and was representative to York Presbytery from St. Paul's Church.

Freeborn Garrettson (1752-1827) was a Methodist Episcopal minister. Born in Maryland, he preached in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia from 1776 to 1782. He was ordained at the Christmas Conference of 1784 at Baltimore for service in Nova Scotia. He ministered there from 1785 until 1787 when he was made Presiding Elder of mainland America for the Methodist Episcopal Church. Garretson married Catherine Livingston in 1793. Her father, Robert Livingston was one of the wealthiest men in New York, and her elder brother signed the Declaration of Independence and administered the oath of office to President George Washington. Her younger brother Edward was Mayor of New York and Secretary of State for Andrew Jackson. From 1799 onward, the Garretsons resided in Rhinebeck, Yew York and carried on active roles in Methodism. Declared a supernumerary in 1817 by the New York Conference, he continued to preach as “conference missionary” while health permitted. He died September 26, 1827 and was buried at Rhinebeck.

John Garrioch (d. 1916) was a Presbyterian minister in Northern Ontario. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1890, he served the following charges: Powassan, 1891; Airlie, 1892-1893; Burk's Falls, 1894-1895; Day Mills, 1896-1897; Spanish River, 1900-1901; Mattawa, 1902; Warren-Markstay, 1903-1904; Loring, 1905; Ophir, 1906-1909. Rev. Garrioch retired to Thessalon in 1910.

Joseph Gatchell (1783-1862) was a Methodist Episcopal minister. He was born in Maryland and raised a Quaker, converting to Methodism in 1800. He was stationed in Upper Canada from 1809 to 1812, and was ordained in 1811. He both travelled and was stationed in a number of charges in Upper Canada between 1812 and 1838, and after the union of Wesleyan Methodists in 1834 he helped organize the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada. He retired to Lockport, New York, and remained involved in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

John Ferguson German (1842-1918) was a Methodist minister and administrator. He was born in South Dumfries, Ontario and studied at Victoria University, and was ordained into the Methodist Church in 1866. He ministered in Ontario for most of his career, and in Winnipeg from 1876-1880. While in Winnipeg he served as Chairman of District, which included responsibility for missions to the Aboriginal Peoples. He also served as President of Toronto Conference and as a member of General Conference. He retired in 1917.

John Henry Getz (1913-1993) was a minister of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and a journalist. He was born in Killaloe, Ontario, was educated at the Normal School, North Bay and between 1930 and 1943 he taught school. He was ordained as a Evangelical United Brethren Church minister in 1951. He served various charges in Ontario. Getz also served as the EUB Canada Conference Historian and was editor-publisher of the denominational paper, The Canadian Evangel.

William Sidney Gilchrist (1901-1970) was a United Church medical missionary to Angola. He was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia and studied at Pictou Academy and Dalhousie University. He specialized in public health and preventative medicine and eventually earned the honours and degrees of M.D., M.B.E., C.M., D.P.H., D.T.M., LL.D., and D.D. He worked in the County Health Unit in Alabama for a year, and was appointed medical missionary to Angola by the United Church in 1928. He studied Portuguese, and went to West Africa in 1930, ultimately working among the Ovimbundo people for 37 years. During World War II, he was a member of the Canadian Medical Corps in Europe. He was barred from Angola in 1966, thus worked in the Congo. Sydney Gilchrist died in a car accident in Canada.

David William Giuliano (1960-) was born in Jerseyville, Ontario and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He married his wife, Pearl E. Ryall in 1979. He earned a B.A. from the University of Guelph in 1982, and following that, worked at the University as a Human Rights Commissioner, Conference Co-Ordinator and Residence Manager. He earned a Master of Divinity in 1986, and a Master of Theology in 1987 from Queen’s University. He was ordained by London Conference in 1987 and began work as a minister at St. John’s United Church in Marathon, where he remained until he was elected to serve as Moderator of the United Church from 2006-2009. Aside from pastoral duties, Giuliano served the church as Chairperson of the Pastoral Relations Committee and Outreach and Social Action Committee for Cambrian Presbytery, and a member of the Presbytery Planning Committee and Youth Event Planning Committee for Cambrian Presbytery, the Local Justice Concerns and Ordination Interview Committees for MNO Conference, and the National Learning on the Way.

Harry Glaves was born in 1908 and graduated from Smithville High School in 1928. He worked for Bell Canada for 35 years, retiring in 1968. Margery Glaves was born Margery Doris Hughes in 1908. She attended St. James Collegiate (Winnipeg), Sarnia Collegiate and Alma College, Sarnia. She worked as a clerk-typist and stenographer. In 1968, Harry and Margery Glaves went to Zambia as missionaries, where Harry Glaves worked as a hospital administrator until 1976.

George Goodson (1810-1874) was a Methodist minister in Ontario and Quebec. He was born in England, was ordained in 1840 and served in a number of circuits throughout Ontario and Quebec including Matilda, Richmond, Owen Sound, Chatham, Sarnia and Bradford. From 1853 to 1859 he had the following charges: St. Catharines, 1853-1854; Dundas, 1854; Mt. Pleasant, 1856-1858; and Milton, 1859.

Annie R. Gordon (fl. 1914-1956) was the daughter of Rev. Andrew and Ann Gordon, and the principal of Riverview Public School in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Nicholas Ludwig Gustonyi was a United Church minister. He was ordained by Saskatchewan Conference in 1948 and served the following charges: Blaine Lake, Shell Lake, St. David’s in Saskatchewan Conference, Thessalon in London Conference, Baldur in Manitoba Conference and was probation office in Hamilton Conference.

Frederick Thomas Grafton (1876-1944) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. He was born in Peel County, was received on trial in 1914 and served at Tarantorus, Singhampton, Toronto, and Nakina.

James Graham (1835-1926) was a local Methodist preacher.

Rev. Angus MacMillan Grant (1878-1968) was a Presbyterian/ United Church minister. Born in Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1908. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, University of British Columbia, McGill University, Hartford Theological Seminary and University of Chicago. He was ordained by the Presbyterian Churh in 1916 and served on the mission fields of Murrayville, B.C., and Maymont, Saskatchewan. Following the formation of the United Church of Canada, he served the following pastoral charges: Grand Bend, Ravenswood, Lyons, Springfield, Belgrave, Wroxeter, Kippen, Bothwell and Camlachie. He retired in 1951, moving to London, Ontario. He died on October 18, 1968.

John Webster Grant was born in Truro, Nova Scotia on June 27, 1919. He graduated with a B.A. in 1938, and an M.A. in 1941 from Dalhousie University, he did graduate work in Politics Princeton University from 1938-1939, and he received a Certificate in Theology at Pine Hill Divinity Hall, and was ordained in 1943. Additionally, he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1941 and received a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University in 1948. Outside of church work, during the Second World War, he was Director to Non-Roman Catholic Churches, and a Chaplain in the Royal Canadian Navy. He was editor in chief at Ryerson Press from 1959-1963. Throughout his career as an educator, Grant taught systematic theology at Pine Hill Divinity Hall (1945-6), church history at Union College in Vancouver (1949-1959), and church history at Emmanuel College from 1963 until his retirement in 1984. From 1957-1958 he taught at United Theological College in Bangalore, India. He was a member of numerous committees and commissions for the United Church, including those on Christian Faith, Worship, Hymn Book, General Commission on Church Union and Archives. Grant also did ministry work, his student mission fields were at Cape George (1938), Vaughan (1939), Mount Uniacke and West Bay (1943), Pictou (1949) in Nova Scotia, Stone, Saskatchewan (1940), and Harrington Harbour, Quebec in 1941. Grant was married to Gwendolen Margaret Irwin in 1944. He died on December 16, 2006.

Throughout his career, Grant wrote extensively on the history of Christianity. He published over nine books, edited others, and was published in numerous articles.

William Harvey Grant (1865-1952) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister and missionary. He graduated from Knox College in 1892 and was sent to the Honan mission in China in the same year. He served two years in India after the missionaries were evacuated from the field during the Boxer rebellion and there married his wife, Dr. Susan McCalla, herself a missionary. In 1902 he returned to China together with her and served in Honan. They came to Toronto upon retirement in 1938. W. Harvey Grant died in 1952.

Benjamin Gardiner Greatrix (1850-1929) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. He was born in London, England and came to Canada in 1861 to the township of Thurlow, east of Belleville. In June 1878 he was received as a candidate for the ministry. Following his probation he attended Victoria College, Cobourg. Reverend Greatrix served the following charges: Atherley, South Monaghan, Cavan, Little Britain, Cannington, Trenton, Campbellford, Port Perry, Belleville West, Oshawa and Peterborough. He also served as President of Conference, Chairman of District and Representative to General Conference.

Thomas Green (1879-1951) was a Methodist/United Church minister in British Columbia and Ontario. He was born in Toronto. An outstanding student at Victoria University and Columbia University (New York), he earned the degrees M.A., Th.D., and D.D. Ordained in 1906, he ministered in Methodist and United churches in British Columbia and Ontario. He retired in 1947.

Archibald ("Arch") Greenaway was ordained by BC Conference in 1952 and was settled to Grace United Church in Lax Kw'alaams (or, Port Simpson, as it was then called). He later served in pastoral ministry and as hospital chaplain in Saskatchewan, returning to Vancouver in 1977 as a minister at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church. He died in 1979.

Kristine Greenaway was born at Lax Kw'alaams, B.C.

Robert Grierson (1868-1965) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister and medical missionary. He graduated from Presbyterian College (Halifax) in 1893 and from Dalhousie Medical College in 1897. He was ordained in May 1898. A few months later, he set sail as one of pioneer missionaries to Korea on the same day of his marriage to his first wife, Helena Vienot, who died in 1920. In 1922, he married Mary Fingland, an educational missionary under the Foreign Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church. Robert and Mary Grierson returned to Canada in 1934. He died in 1965 and she in 1989.

Gwyn Griffith is a social worker, educator and lay woman of the United Church of Canada known for her work at the Centre for Christian Studies. Griffith grew up in the United Church, her father was Rev. J.E. Griffith as her mother was Bona Griffith (nee Mills), one of the earliest professional lay workers in the church. In her early life she participated in and took leadership roles at Canadian Girls in Training and the Student Christian Movement. In the 1960s and 1970s she worked as a social worker at the YWCA in Metropolitan Toronto and at the National level. In 1970s she enrolled at the Centre for Christian Studies and post graduation she volunteered on various committees and on the council. In 1980 she completed her Doctor of Education at OISE and returned to the Centre of Christian Studies to teach and later became principal from 1982 to 1991. After her work as principal she continued to volunteer at CCS. Most notably, she researched the history of the school which culminated in a publication. From 1988 to 1994 she served on the Committee of Theology and Faith.

John Chalmers Griffith (1867-1929) was a Presbyterian missionary to Honan. Born near Listowel, Ontario, he studied at the University of Toronto and Knox College. He raised funds and went as a Presbyterian missionary to Honan in 1897. He escaped during the Boxer Rebellion, then returned two years later. He became very proficient in the Chinese language, and promoted a self- supported, indigenous church. He was an effective evangelist and administrator.

James Edward 'Jack' Griffith (1882-1976) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born in Wilfrid, Ontario. At the age of twelve he left school to work in his father's blacksmith shop. At twenty-four he completed his education at Albert College and Victoria University. He served as a lay minister at Norland and Omemee and was ordained in 1916. He was married to Vera Bowles and then Bona Mills. Rev. Griffith served at various churches in central Ontario; 1925-1928 in Cartwright; 1929-1934 in Toronto at Humbercrest, 1935-1940 in Leamington, 1941-1947 at Trinity in Bowmanville, 1948-1957 in Castleton, 1958-1964 retired supply in Dunsford, and 1965-1975 retired in Toronto. He was particularly interested in Christian education. He was President of the Bay of Quinte Conference in 1951 to 1952. He died in March of 1976.

Lydia Emelie Gruchy (1894-1992) was the first woman to be ordained in the United Church of Canada. She was born in France and studied at the University of Saskatchewan, and Presbyterian Theological College (Saskatchewan). Working under the Home Missions Board of the Presbyterian and United Churches from 1923 to 1936, she taught recent immigrants in Saskatchewan. She was ordained in 1936 and served charges in Saskatchewan until her retirement in 1962.

Domenico Roberto Gualtieri (1888-1952) was a Methodist/United Church minister. He was born in Italy and educated at the Theological College of Rome, the Allegheney Theological Seminary and the University of Toronto. He served charges in Rome, Toronto, Welland, and Montreal. He was founder and editor of 'La Favilla' or the The Spark, an Italian monthly periodical of religion and culture.

The Gundy family was a New Connexion family from Ireland. The father, William Gundy (1795-1870), and four of the sons, James (1831-1897), John, Samuel Bradley (1833-1873) and Joseph R. (1838-1916) became ministers.

Annie Helen Hale (d. 1982) trained for 3 years at the City Hospital in Hamilton. She had post-graduate work at the Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, New York and then set sail for China as a missionary. En route to China, she met fellow missionary Frederick John Reed and they married in November, 1921. They returned home from 1926-1929 due to growing agitations in China. In 1929 they returned and went to Kiating, then were transferred to Tzeliutsing in 1934 where they worked at the Mission Middle Schools and Nurses Training School until 1948. They returned to Canada in 1949 and Anne died in 1982. The children of Frederick and Annie were Dorothy, Newton, Donald, Elinor May and Malcolm. All of the children were born in China, some attending the Canadian School for Missionaries Children in Chengdu, and some Llewellyn Hall (Home for Missionaries Children) in Oshawa, ON.

Levi Halfyard was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born in Newfoundland, was educated at Victoria University, and served in World War I. Ordained in 1919, he served various Methodist, and later United, churches in Ontario.

Thomas Anson Halpenny (1875-1944) was a Methodist/United Church minister and administrator. He was born near Manotick, Ontario, and studied at McGill University and Wesleyan College, Montreal. Ordained in 1905 into the Methodist Church, he ministered at churches in Ontario and Quebec. He served as General Superintendent of the Ontario Religious Education Council, 1919-1923; Principal of Stanstead Wesleyan College (Quebec), 1923-1926; and President of Montreal and Ottawa Conference in 1939.

John Ham (1786-1843) was a Methodist preacher. He was born in New York State, married Esther Bradshaw in 1807 and was ordained as a local preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1828. He later left this church to go over to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Laura Hannah Hambley (1877-1951) was a Methodist and United Church of Canada missionary to West China, 1904-1943. Hambley was born on March 16, 1877 in Port Perry, Ontario. She graduated from the Toronto Normal School in 1896, and later attended the Methodist National Training School from 1903-1904. She had teaching experience in both Ontario and New York City before she was appointed by the Women's Missionary Society to Chengtu, West China in 1904. After Chinese language instruction, she taught at a middle school. Following that assignment she was relocated to a school in Jenshow (1908-1910). While on furlough in 1911, she travelled across Canada on a speaking tour promoting WMS work. Upon her return to China in 1912, she oversaw the planning and construction of the Tzeliutsing Girls' Middle School, where she taught until 1942. Illness caused her to return to Canada in 1943. She retired to Winnipeg, but continued to travel the country for speaking engagements. She died December 4, 1951.

Arthur B. Hames (1849-1931) was a Methodist minister. He was a probationer on missions and circuits in Eastern Ontario from 1870 to 1875. He was ordained in 1875 into the Methodist Church. He served charges in Western Canada from 1875 to 1898, and in Ontario from 1898 to 1919.

Alexander Morton Hamilton (1841-1940) was a Presbyterian minister. He was born in New York State and his family moved to Brantford, Ontario, in 1846. He taught school, then studied at the University of Toronto and Knox College. Ordained in 1877, he ministered for forty years at Chalmers Presbyterian Church in Winterbourne, Ontario, and for twenty-nine years (concurrently) at Gale Presbyterian Church in Elmira, Ontario. He retired in 1917 to Guelph, Ontario.

William Taylor Hamilton (1871-1946) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Born in Tillsonburg, he spent some time teaching school in Ontario and Saskatchewan, then attended the University of Manitoba. He graduated in theology and was ordained in 1906. In 1907 Rev. Hamilton married Mary Aurilla Wright of Toronto.

James Hampson (1895- ) was a United Church minister. He was born in Lancashire, England. He studied at University College and Knox College, Toronto. Ordained in 1927, he ministered in Saskatchewan and Ontario. He retired in 1963. His mother's maiden name was Ellen Lees.

Phoebe L. Haney (1833-1920) was a poet and the wife of Dr. R.A. Haney of Caistorville. She was born Phoebe Lewis Sharp.

William A. Hanna (1849-1929) was a Methodist minister in Ontario and Quebec. He was born in Leeds County, Ontario. He taught school, and was received on trial for the Methodist ministry in 1886. He studied at the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, and was ordained in 1887. He served circuits in eastern Ontario and Quebec, and led lengthy revival meetings. He retired in 1919.