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CA : RPA · Person · 1850 - 1938

John Wycliffe Lowes (1850-1938) was an artist. Born in Norval, Ontario, he was a Methodist/United layman active in church affairs. As an artist, he was known principally as a portrait painter. He travelled and painted in Europe, did portraits of several Canadian Prime Ministers and Governors-General, leaders of the Methodist Church in Canada and England, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and many other Canadian leaders.

CAN · Person · 1915-

George Milledge Tuttle (1915-) was a United Church minister, administrator and Moderator. He was born at Medicine Hat, Alberta, the son of Methodist minister Aubrey Stephen Tuttle. He obtained a doctorate in theology from Victoria University. He had several mission fields, a pastorate in Sangudo, Alberta and a term as assistant minister in Toronto. As well, he served as National Director of Youth Work, Professor at Union College, Vancouver, 1951-1966, and Principal of St. Stephen's College, Edmonton, 1966-1979. He was President of British Columbia Conference in 1963, on the Executive of General Council in 1974 and served as Moderator from 1977 to his retirement in 1980.

CAN · Person

James Clarke MacDonald (1888-1966) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister and missionary to Trinidad. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia; he graduated from Dalhousie University in 1911 and the Presbyterian College in 1914, at which point he began a thirty-three year ministry in Trinidad. He spent his retirement years in Trinidad.

Bott, Richard, 1968-
CAN · Person · 1968-

Moderator of the United Church of Canada, 2018 to 2022.

CAN · Person · 1880-1941

Edward Wilson Wallace (1880-1941) was a missionary to China, and Chancellor and President of Victoria University. The son of Francis Huston Wallace, Edward Wilson Wallace was born in Cobourg, Ontario, 1880, studied at Victoria University and Columbia University, and was appointed by the Methodist Church to the China mission field in 1906. He managed mission schools, taught at West China Union University, and was appointed General Secretary of the West China Educational Union in 1912 and of the China Church Educational Association in 1921. He served as Chancellor and President of Victoria University from 1929 until his death in 1941.

CAN · Person · 1906-1991

Wilfred Cornett Lockard (1906-1991) was born in Dundalk, Ontario. He received a B.A. from Victoria College, at the University of Toronto in 1929, and a M.A. from Emmanuel College in 1932. He was ordained by Toronto Conference in 1933, and also married his wife, Margaret that year. He served as minister in North Leith Parish, Edinburg from 1933-1935 while earning his Ph.D. in Church History. Following that, he was Secretary of The Student Christian Movement and Padre of Hart House at the University of Toronto from 1935-1940, during which time he was also the first Secretary of the Canadian Committee of the World Council of Churches. He was Minister of Sherbourne Street United in Toronto from 1940-1942, and Kingsway Lambton in Toronto from 1942-1955. He was the first Principal of United College, Winnipeg from 1955-1967, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg from 1967-1971. He served as Moderator of the United Church from 1966-1968, and also served the General Council office as Chairman of Toronto West Presbytery, the Board of Schools and Colleges of the United Church (1946-1955), the Department of Ecumenical Affairs for the Canadian Council of Churches (1946-1955), Winnipeg Presbytery (1962-1963). Lockhart died in 1991.

CAN · Person · 1936-

Walter Henry Farquharson (1936-) was born in Rosetown, Saskatchewan. He received a B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan in 1957, and received a B.D. in 1961 and a D.D. in 1975 from St. Andrew’s College in Saskatoon. He married Joan Casswell in Saskatchewan in 1958 and was ordained by Saskatchewan Conference in 1960. From 1960-1961, he was an assistant at Morningside Parish in Edinburgh, and from 1961-1976 as minister at Saltcoats in Bredenbury Pastoral Charge. In 1966 when Saltcoats had a crisis in their school he took up the challenge of teaching. He was appointed Principal of Saltcoats Junior High, completed his diploma in Education and taught at the Yorkton School Unit over seven years. Walter Farquharson served as Moderator from 1990-1992. Farquharson was also involved in many committees, he chaired Yorkton Presbytery, was President of the Saskatchewan Conference, Senate at St. Andrew’s College, Board of Directors at the Prairie Christian Training Centre. He was a prolific writer of hymns, publishing over 60.

CAN · Person · 1920-1993

W. Clarke MacDonald (1920-1993) was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. MacDonald graduated from Dalhousie University in 1941. Afterwards, he took his theological training at Pine Hill Divinity Hall in Halifax, was ordained by the Maritime Conference in 1943. In 1944, he received his Bachelor of Divinity from Pine Hill, and married Muriel MacDonald. From 1944-1962, he served pastorates including West Bay (Cape Breton), Black River Ridge (New Brunswick), Port Hawkesbury and Trinity Church (Cape Breton) and also served as Secretary of the Maritime Conference from 1961-1962. From 1962-1971 he was minister at St. Luke’s in Toronto, then, was appointed Secretary of the Board of Evangelism and Social Service in 1971. He served as Moderator of the United Church from 1982-1984. After serving as Moderator, he returned to his position of Deputy Secretary of the Division of Mission in Canada, with the responsibility for the Office of Church in Society and also, was chairman of the ecumenical Project Ploughshares. He retired in 1986 and died in 1993.

CAN · Person · 1888-1972

Frederick John Gardiner was born in April, 1888 in Oreston, Devon, England and while initially a stonecutter, qualified as a local preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in that area. He emigrated to Canada in 1913 and was accepted as a student missionary by the Canadian Methodist Church and assigned to Southey, Saskatchewan. In Spring of 1914 he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry serving his two year probation at Southey, while also completing Arts studies at Regina College. During World War One, he served in the First Battalion C.M.R’s. Post-war, he moved to Toronto, receiving theological education at Victoria College and graduating in 1923. He was ordained by Saskatchewan Conference in 1923 and served many places in that conference (Rock Haven, Cutknife, Kipling, Griffin, Piapot, Eastend, Rouleau, Young pastoral charges) until he moved to Hamilton in 1948. He served in Hamilton Conference (Armou, Lyndoch pastoral charges) from 1948 until his retirement in 1958. After retirement, he continued as a chaplain at Green Acres Home for the Aged in Newmarket. He died November 7, 1972.

Gardiner’s wife Gladys was also active in the Church, and was a representative to York Presbytery from St. Paul’s Church.

McCullum, Hugh, 1931-2008
Hugh McCullum, 1931-2008 · Person · 1931-2008

Hugh McCullum (1931 – 2008) was the son of an Anglican priest and born and raised in the Yukon.

A graduate of McGill University, he began his career with the Montreal Herald, then moved on to the Kingston Whig-Standard, the Regina Leader-Post, and the former Toronto Telegram.

Mr. McCullum was named editor/publisher of The United Church Observer in 1980. He was not only the first layperson appointed as editor, he was also the first editor who came from outside The United Church. McCullum had also been editor of the national newspaper Canadian Churchman (predecessor to the Anglican Journal) for the Anglican Church of Canada from 1968-75.

As editor of The Observer, McCullum presided over the magazine’s transition from an arm of the General Council to an independently incorporated publication with full editorial autonomy. While editor of the Observer he travelled extensively, reporting on church-backed struggles for justice in Canada’s North, in Central America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. McCullum won dozens of church press awards and was a three-time National Magazine Awards winner. During his time at The Observer, he also hosted CBC TV’s Meeting Place, from 1984 to 1989.

McCullum’s books and publications reflected his belief that the church needs to be a voice of the marginalized: Africa’s Broken Heart (2007), The Angels Have Left Us (2005) and Radical Compassion (2004), a biography of Archbishop Ted Scott, former primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.

McCullum moved to Zimbabwe in 1990 and worked on numerous ecumenical projects including training programs for African journalists.

McCullum returned to his family in Canada in 2002. At the time of his death, he was working with Aboriginal groups on issues relating to northern resource development.

ON00340 · Person · 1888-1950

Elizabeth Mackenzie was born in England on May 9, 1888. She was appointed to Angola by the Congregational Woman’s Missionary Society in 1919, and arrived there in 1920. Once there, she became fluent in Portuguese and Umbundu and began to train other new missionaries. Her first appointment was to Means School, Dondi but she was soon transferred to Camundongo for evangelistic work. Her first furlough was in 1925 and when she returned to Angola in 1926 she was stationed again at Camundongo where she remained until 1931. Her next term was at Lutamo, 1932-1937. There, she taught Scripture at the Currie Institute, and was the W.M.S. corresponding secretary for the Angola Mission. After her second furlough she was again appointed to Lutamo, and spent the rest of her time in Africa there, except one year at Galengue in literature production, and the last few years at Chissamba in literature work and teaching language to new missionaries. She became seriously ill in Angola in 1949, and passed away there on March 3, 1950.

ON00340 · Person · 1917-2007

Helen Elizabeth Mack, B.A., D.D. (1917-2007) was a diaconal minister in the United Church of Canada who spent several years as a United Church Chaplain/visitor at hospitals in Edmonton. She was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan and attended Elmwood Public School and Swift Current Collegiate Institute, graduating in 1934. She attended Reliance Business College in Regina from 1935-1936, and trained as a teacher at Moose Jaw Normal School from 1941-1942. Afterwards, she taught in Swift Current public schools from 1942-1948. Mack took Deaconess training at United Church Training School in Toronto from 1948-1950. She was appointed by the Woman’s Missionary Society to serve in Sudbury, from 1950-1952 as an Association Worker. Whilst there, she served at All People’s United and did Church Extension work with New Sudbury United Church and St. Peter’s United Church. In 1952 she was commissioned as a Missionary by Hamilton Conference. From 1957-1958 she attended Teacher’s College at Columbia University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. Afterwards, she was sent by the W.M.S. to work at St. Columba, an inner city ministry in Montreal from 1958-1964. After some time traveling, she studied Church and Society at McCormick Theological College in Chicago until 1965. She then served on staff at Fred Victor Mission in Toronto from 1965-1971. She was appointed to Edmonton in 1972 as a hospital visitor to out of town United Church patients. She served over four hospitals in Edmonton until her retirement in 1985. On April 29, 1982 she received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from St. Stephen’s College, Edmonton. In her retirement years, she organized an Albino Support Group in Edmonton, and was active at Robertson-Wesley United Church, and Garneau United Place. Mack was an ardent volunteer and was active in many professional associations including the World Federation of Diaconal Associations and Sisters, and the Association of Professional Church Workers of the Anglican and United Churches of Canada. She passed away in 2007.

Hart, Elizabeth, 1936-1993
Priv 80 · Person · 1936-1993

Mildred Elizabeth Hart was born in England in 1936 to Rev. H. Maurice Hart, a Methodist minister. She grew up in Cornwall, attending Methodist services as a child, and eventually emigrated to Canada. Hart was a scholar of Charles Wesley, and she wrote a thesis on the influence of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' on Wesley's hymns. She was an avid researcher and scholar, a founding member of the Charles Wesley Society, and before her death she was working on a book of daily meditations using the hymns of Charles Wesley. Hart became the Head Librarian at the Vancouver School of Theology in 1983, a position she held until her sudden death in 1993.

Person · 1894-1963

Neil David Patterson (1894-1963) was a United Church minister. He was born in Cape Breton. He studied at Westminster Hall, Queen's University (B.A., B.D., 1921). He was ordained in 1921 in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, subsequently he attended the University of Chicago, receiving an M.A. in Church History. He served pastorates in several provinces, but particularly in Ontario. His interest in education led him to serve on the first Board of Directors of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. In 1954 Patterson received an honorary degree of D.D. from Queen’s University.

Person · 1882-1935

Edmund Henry Oliver (1882-1935) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister and educator and Moderator of the United Church. He was born in Eberts, Ontario, and studied (M.A., Ph.D., D.D., LL.D.) at the Universities of Toronto, Columbia, Berlin, and Halle, and at Knox College. He held teaching and administrative positions at Canadian universities; this included being appointed the first Principal of St. Andrew's College, Saskatoon, in 1913. He was an overseas chaplain during World War I and was a founder of the University of Vimy Ridge (or the Khaki University) for Canadians in France. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he published a number of studies pertaining to classical history as well as Canadian concerns, and served on two Royal Commissions. He was the first President of Saskatchewan Conference of the United Church, and served as Moderator from 1930 to 1932.

Person · 1882-1957

Isaac Bramwell Naylor (1882-1957) was a Methodist/United Church minister and military chaplain. He was born in England, and came to Canada in 1905 to accept service with the Methodist Church in Saskatchewan. During World War I he served as a chaplain, and after the war he was active in veterans' affairs while holding pastorates in Saskatchewan and Ontario.

Person · 1894-1975

Florence Jessie Murray (1894-1975) was a medical missionary to Korea. She was born in Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia, and studied in Prince Edward Island and Dalhousie University. A medical doctor, she spent most of her career as a medical missionary in Korea, receiving honours in both Canada and Korea for her contributions.

Person · fl. 1957-1982

Robert Williams Mumford (fl. 1957-1982) was a United Church minister and theologian. He was ordained in 1951; he went on to serve pastorates in the Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario, as well as teaching at Queen's University.

Person · 1860-1940

Thomas Albert Moore (1860-1940) was a Methodist/United Church minister and administrator and Moderator of the United Church of Canada. He was born in Acton, Ontario. He studied at McGill University and Wesleyan College, Montreal, was ordained in 1884, and served Methodist circuits in Ontario. He was Secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance of Ontario, 1903-1906; Secretary of the Methodist General Conference, 1906-1925; Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance and Moral Reform/Evangelism and Social Service, 1910-1925; Secretary of the General Council of the United Church, 1925-1936; and Moderator of the United Church, 1932-1934. He also served in several other positions, including committees relating to church union (1925).

Person · 1875-1948

Alfred Dennis Miller (1875-1948) was a Methodist/United Church minister and educator. He was born in Newmarket, became a Methodist probationer in 1898, and was ordained in 1900. He studied at Victoria College (B.A.; M.A. in Semitic languages, 1906). He served charges in Alberta, but spent most of his career teaching in arts and theological colleges including Victoria College, Mount Allison University, St. Stephen's College (where he also served as Principal), and Emmanuel College.

Fowkes, John, 1840-1924
Person · 1840-1924

John Fowkes (1840-1924) was a Methodist minister in Quebec and Ontario. Born in England, he was married to Emma Gray Odell and ordained in 1875. He served at Hamilton, 1871-1873; St. Catharines, 1873; Brome, 1873; East Farnham, 1874; East Farnham, 1874; Shawbridge, 1875; Farnham, 1876; Lombardy, 1877; Glentay and Maberly, 1878-1879; Bearbrook, 1880-1882; Metcalf, 1883-1884; Avonmore, 1885; Winchester Springs, 1886-1887; Harrowsmith, 1888; North Wakefield, 1889-1891; Odelltown, 1892-1894; South Stukely, 1895-1898; Playfair, 1899; Maberly, 1900-1901; and Calumet & Grenville, 1902-1905; Odelltown, 1906-1907; and Georgeville, 1908-1910.

Person · 1891-1966

Robert Stanley MacMillan (1891-1966) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister. Born in Saintville, Ontario he joined the Army Medical Corps in 1915, returned to college in 1918 and was finally ordained in the Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1923. As a student minister he served at Bladworth, Saskatchewan, and after ordination served at Kelfield, 1923-1924; Elrose, 1925-1930; Davidson, 1931-1933; Kerrobert, 1934-1935; Schomberg, 1936-1937; Kindersley, 1938-1942; Hamilton, 1943-1962. He was married to Emma I. Black.

Person · 1880-1956

Alexander Rintoul (1880-1956) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born in Ontario, ordained in 1910 and married the same year to Louise Vance. His charges included Elmsley, 1910-1917; Nairn, 1918-1921; Angus, 1922-1924; and then charges in the Presbyteries of North Bay, Grey, Simcoe, and Toronto East. He retired in Scarborough in 1947 and then was at Balderson, 1955-1956.

Person · 1853-1947

David Anderson Moir (1853-1947) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and the family emigrated to London, Ontario in 1856. David Moir was ordained in 1875 and served charges at Alma, Drayton, Georgetown, Walkerton, Niagara Falls, Dunnville, Hamilton, Thorold, Simcoe, St. Catharines and Oakville.

Shimizu, Kosaburo, 1893-1962
Person · 1893-1962

Kosaburo Shimizu (1893-1962) was a United Church minister who served the Japanese community in British Columbia and Ontario. Kosaburo Shimizu was born in Shiga, Japan, in 1893 and emigrated to Canada in 1907. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1919, Harvard in 1924 and Union College in 1927, and was ordained in 1927. He served the Vancouver Japanese Church until 1942, when he served the interned community at Kaslo until 1945. After the war, he moved to Toronto, serving the Church of All Nations. Rev. Shimizu was married twice, once to Mizue Abe who predeceased him, and then to Hyde Hyode. He died in Winnipeg in 1962.

Person · 1915-2005

Corinne Clark Van Loon (1915-2005) was a lay person active in the United Church of Canada in the second half of the twentieth century. Born Corinne MacDonald in 1915 in Acton, Ontario, she lived most of her life in Hamilton, Ontario. She worked for London Life Insurance for twenty-five years. She was active in Livingston, Westdale and Bowman United Churches, with the Canadian Girls in Training (Builders Group) and I.O.U. Sunday School Class. Corinne Clark van Loon also served as local and Presbyterial President of the United Church Women, as Chairman of the Board of Wesley Centre, as Chairman of Hamilton Presbytery and as President of the Hamilton Conference of the United Church of Canada. She was married to Otto Clark and John V. Van Loon, both of whom predeceased her. Corrine Clark Van Loon died in 2005.

Ashley, Elmer E., d. 2004
Person · d. 2004

Rev. Elmer E. Ashley was a United Church minister serving in the twentieth century. Elmer Ashley was born in 1909 or 1910. He was ordained in the Maritime Conference of the United Church of Canada. He served various charges in Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Ontario. He retired in 1977 to Fenwick, Ontario. Rev. Ashley died in 2004.

Storey, Margaret, 1939-
Person · 1939-

Margaret Storey (1939-) has been a United Church missionary to Korea in the latter half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. She was born in 1939 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She received a B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba in 1960, a B.Sc.N. from McMaster University in 1966, a M.Sc.N. from Yonsei University in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Nursing from Yonsei University in 1984. Margaret Storey has served in Korea as a United Church missionary from 1960 to the present.

Person · 1883-1934

Andrew Robson McRae was a Presbyterian minister and then United Church minister. He was born near Ayr, Ontario on June 15, 1883. He graduated in theology in 1911 from Knox College, and he was ordained in 1912. He served at Kintyre, Blenheim, East Oxford and Glenmorris. In 1925, he was called to Balfour Street Church in Brantford to facilitate the creation of the Balfour Street United Church. He died on July 8, 1934.

Person · 1923-2008

Rev. James Douglas Ormison (1923-2008) was a United Church minister, missionary to Angola and worked for the Board of World Mission. He was born in 1922 in Tantallon, Saskatchewan, and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1944. He attended St. Andrew's Theological college in Saskatoon 1944-1945 and then received his B.D. degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1948 followed by his Th.M in 1963.

After two years in pastoral work in Hudson Bay, SK Rev. Ormiston was appointed for work in Angola in 1951. Returning to Angola in 1956 following furlough he was responsible for the Dondi Press. Rev. Ormiston was then send to the Congo in the summer of 1961. Upon return to Canada in 1961 he was appointed to the Board of Overseas Missions as Secretary for Personnel. At the 1962 General Council he was named Assistant Secretary of the Board of World Mission.

In 1966 he resigned from the Board and returned to Pastoral work in Spiritwood (1966-67). He became director of Crossroad Africa 1968-1971, and served in Yellowknife 1972-1981. During 1982-85, he seved South Peace PC and through 1985-88 served at Prince Rupert First PC. Rev. Ormiston retired in Naramata BC in 1988.
Rev. Ormiston died August 14, 2008.

Carey, E. Frank, 1918-
Person · 1918-

Edward Francis Carey served as an ordained United Church missionary and administrator. He was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1918. He received his B.A. from McGill University in 1941 and served in the armed forces during World War II. After returning to Canada in 1945 he entered United Theological College (Montreal) and was ordained and appointed to Japan in 1947. He obtained the Master of Divinity from Acadia College in 1960 and Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) from United Theological College in 1972. He was Associate Secretary of the Board of World Mission which later became the Division of World Outreach, 1964-1978, and Deputy Secretary, 1979-1984.

Ray, Donald G., 1918-2010
Person · 1918-2010

Donald Gordon Ray was a United Church minister and administrator. He was born in 1918 in Toronto, Ontario. He earned his B.A. at Victoria College in 1940 and attended Emmanuel College in 1940-1942. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1942-1945, completed his theological course at Emmanuel College in 1946 and was ordained in Toronto in the same year. He served the following charges: Berwyn-Grimshaw in Alberta, 1946-1949; Kettleby in Ontario, 1949-1951; Dauphin, 1951-1959, and Fort Garry in Manitoba, 1960-1970. He was President of Manitoba Conference in 1961-1962. In 1970 he was appointed Associate Secretary, in 1971 Deputy Secretary and in 1975 Secretary of the General Council until his retirement in 1983. Predeceased by his first wife, the former Mary G. Clark in 2002, he married Joan Dewar in 2003. Rev. Donald G. Ray died in 2010.

Person · 1948-

Kathleen Alice Walton (1948 - ) is a United Church minister. She graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor in Arts in 1971 and earned a Masters in Divinity from Queen's University in 1994. She served in Plevna , Ontario 1994 - 1996, Frankford, Ontario, 1996- 2007, Athens, Ontario 2008-2009, Seeley's Bay, Ontario, 2009-2011. Her husband Thomas A. Walton is also a United Church Minister. Prior to joining the ministry, Kathleen was a librarian in at Yukon College, Whitehorse.

Person · 1865-1952

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.

Grierson, Robert, 1868-1965
Person · 1868-1965

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.

Person · 1912-1994

Lloyd Harold Hylton (1912-1994) was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1912. He earned a B.A and a B.D from McMaster University in 1943, and 1949 respectively. Originally working as a minister in the Baptist church, he served Jerseyville Baptist Church, Haldimond County. In 1957 he was received as Ordained by the United Church of Canada, Seaway Valley Presbytery. He served Two Charges in 19 years, and retired in 1977. During his time working as a minister for the United Church he also worked as a high school teacher from 1955 until 1980. After retirement he worked as a Champlain at Muskoka camp. Throughout his career he was quite involved with youth work including Rallies, Summer Weekend Camp Activities, and summers teaching summer school.

Person · 1869-1951

Elizabeth B. Campbell (1869-1951) was a missionary. She was born in Duntroon, Ontario and trained as a teacher. She started serving in Angola in 1900 under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. After taking a leave of absence for a few years she returned in 1920 under the Canada Congregational Women’s Board of Missions. While under the American Board she worked at Elende and Chilesso and while under the Canadian Board worked at Chissamba (1920-1927) teaching Household Sciences courses; at Camundongo (1930-1933) she taught at the Vocational School for Girls.

She retired in Toronto in 1934 and died in 1951.

Moore, Churchill, 1854-1945
Person · 1854-1945

Churchill Moore was a Congregational Minister. He was born on September 28, 1854 in Economy, Nova Scotia. He graduated in Theology from the Congregational College of Canada in 1890 and served in Ayer’s Cliff, Quebec; Milton, Nova Scotia and Keswick Ridge, New Brunswick. He was married to Mary M. Mac Donald. He died in 1945.

Person · 1930-1992

Barbara Joan Elliott (1930-1992) was a Diaconal Minister. She was born in Kintore, Ontario, the daughter of a United Church minister. She attended the United Church Training School and earned her B.A. in 1965 from the University of Alberta and B.D. in 1968 from St. Stephen’s College. She was designated in Alberta Conference where she first served. She later went to Manitoba Conference and then to Saskatchewan Conference where she worked the longest. She was first involved with Christian education, then in leadership development programs for conference personnel and work with women in the church and feminism.

Person · 1907-1995

Frank Prescott Fidler (1907-1995) was a United Church Minister. He was born in Calgary but was raised in Winnipeg. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1928 from the University of Manitoba and his B.D. from Emmanuel College in 1934. He acted as a Boys’ Parliament Premier in 1924, and represented the Boys’ Parliaments of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba at the World Conference of Y.M.C.A. in Helsingfors, Finland in 1926. After attending Emmanuel, he acted as Boys’ Work Secretary of the British Columbia Conference of the Religious Education Council of Canada (1928-1931). Fidler was ordained in 1934 and called as an Associate Minister to Bloor Street United Church where he had been working as a student assistant to Dr. George Pidgeon. He remained there from 1933-1939. Then, Fidler acted as Minister of Glebe United Church, Ottawa, 1939-1949. For the next 20 years he served at General Council office as Associate Secretary of the Board of Christian Education in the area of family life education, Adult work, Couple’s Clubs and secretary of the National Marriage Guidance Council. He was largely responsible for preparing the New Curriculum, and also helped write two reports to the United Church Commission on Christian Marriage and Divorce: “Toward a Christian Understanding of Sex, Love and Marriage” (1962) and “Marriage Breakdown, Divorce, Remarriage, a Christian Understanding” (1964).

His professional interests extended outside of the church such that he became a founding member of the executive of the board of the Vanier Institute of the Family, first president of the Planned Parenthood Association of Toronto and president of the Family Planning Federation of Canada (1963-1970). He also acted as Executive Director of the Richmond Hill and Thornhill Area Family Services and was a Consultant in Marriage and Family Services to the United Church of Canada after his work at the General Council Office was completed.

Parker, William, 1880-1968
Person · 1880-1968

William Parker, born in 1880 in Yorkshire, England, was a Congregational, Presbyterian and later United Church minister. He was ordained in the Congregational Church in Michigan in 1904 and was received into the Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1920. He served as the minister of Kitchener Congregational Church,1917-1919, Hilton Beach Presbyterian Church, 1919-1921, and Minden Presbyterian Church, and 1921-1925, before church union. As a United Church minister, he served the following pastoral charges: Minden, 1925-1927; Queensborough, 1927-1930; Sebright, 1930-1932, 1946-1949; Stella, 1932-1934; Enniskillen, 1934-1935; Mallorytown, 1935-1940; Inverary, 1940-1943; Smithfield, 1943-1944; Bay, 1945-1946. He died on September 10, 1968.

Faull, James, 1840-1897
Person · 1840-1897

James Faull was born in Crowan, Cornwall County, England on January 6th, 1840. In the mid 1860s he left England for America to minister to copper miners in Upper Michigan but was instead sent to the L’Anse Indian reservation where he served as a missionary and teacher.

In May, 1871 he came to Eastern Ontario upon the invitation of Rev. S.W. LaDu, a presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
James Faull served charges in St. Lawrence District, Inverary and Kingston, Mallorytown, Inkerman, Easton’s Corners, Tamworth, Centreville, Milford, Sidney, Bayside and Shannonville.

He died in December 18, 1897 surrounded by his wife Catherine and their family.

Whitehead, Rhea, 1936-2011
Person · 1936-2011

Rhea Hildegarde Menzel Whitehead (1936-2011) was a missionary in Asia, theological educator and General Secretary of the Division of World Outreach. She was born on January 22, 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her B.A. from Elmhurst College Illinois summa cum laude in 1956 and M.A. in Adult Education from the University of Toronto. In 1961, after undertaking full-time studies of the Cantonese language, she and her husband Raymond Whitehead moved to Hong Kong where she worked in various capacities with the Church of Christ in China and the National Council of Churches/USA. In 1975 they moved to Toronto where Rhea served as Coordinator of the Education Liaison Programme of the University of Toronto/York University Joint Centre on Modern East Asia for the next two years. She subsequently worked with the Anglican Church of Canada as Regional Mission Coordinator for Asia and the Pacific from 1979-1984 and thereafter, served The United Church of Canada until her retirement in 2005. She was Area Secretary for Asia, 1984-1992; General Secretary of the Division of World Outreach, 1992-1999 and overseas personnel 1999-2005, teaching at Siliman University in the Philippines and Nanjing Theological Seminary in China. Rhea was widely respected and recognized for her exceptional work in international justice and peace. Along with her solidarity and support work in the struggle against the dictatorships in South Korea and the Philippines, overseas partners point to Rhea's pioneering work in opening up the commitment to gender justice in the context of mission partnerships. Rhea and her husband Ray played critical roles in the ecumenical churches’ ongoing relationship with the people and churches of China. Rhea meticulously took down notes of her travels and observations, at workshops and worship which documents form a large part of her records. In 2010, Rhea and Ray were awarded the Katharine Hockin Award for Global Mission and Ministry by the Canadian Churches' Forum for Global Ministries.

Jackson, Hope, 1922-2003
Person · 1922-2003

Hope Erna Jackson (nee Weber) (1922-2003) was born in Preston (now Cambridge), Ontario. She attended elementary and high school in Preston, then the University of Western Ontario (Waterloo College) from 1945, receiving a B.A. in 1948. She attended the United Church Training School, Toronto from 1948-1950, and Emmanuel College from 1956-1958, where she earned a B.D. She was received as a candidate in 1956 and ordained in 1966 in London Conference. She worked as a missionary of the W.M.S in Gypsumville, Manitoba from 1950-1956. Her pastorates were Kingston, Nova Scotia (1967-1971), River John, Nova Scotia (1971-1973), Walters Falls, Ontario (1973-1977), and Massey, Ontario (1977-1982). She served as secretary of the Division of Mission in Canada Committee of the Maritime Conference, was secretary of the National Committee on Liturgy, Chairman of the Committee on Liturgy for Manitou Conference, and President of Manitou Conference. She married Rev. Arthur Jackson in October, 1957. Her sister, Faith Bauman was a missionary with the United Methodist Church in India for over 25 years. Jackson died in June, 2003.

Person · 1906-1980

Anne Isabel Ward was a missionary. She was born in Granton, Ontario on January 14, 1906 and attended the Toronto Conservatory of Music, the University of Western Ontario and the United Church Training School. In 1930 she was designated as missionary and was sent to West China under the Woman’s Missionary Society. She taught at the Hwa Yin Girls’ High School in Chengtu until 1937; served as Dean of Women at the West China Union University for a brief period and became head of its Fine Arts Department. In between she taught choral work and piano. She did not leave immediately following the establishment of the Communist government in 1949 but stayed on for two more years and was one of the last missionaries of the United Church to depart from China.
After a year’s furlough, Anne Ward took up the post of General Secretary of the Dominion Board of the Woman’s Missionary Society. Under her helm, the work of the Woman’s Missionary Society and Board of Overseas Missions was unified paving the way for the creation of United Church Women and the Board of Women. She served as the first secretary of the latter board from 1962-1969. She died on September 1, 1980.