Fonds F3650 - George Brockwell King fonds

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George Brockwell King fonds

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CA ON00340 F3650

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  • 1947-1951 (Creation)
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    King, George Brockwell, d. 1956

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1 cm of textual records

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(d. 1956)

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George Brockwell King was born in Orillia, Ontario and died in Toronto on June 2, 1956. After years spent in Public and High Schools he registered as a student in Victoria College of the University of Toronto. He was received as a candidate for the Christian ministry in the Methodist Church and was ordained in 1911. Pursuing his studies for the Ph.D. degree he and his wife went to Germany and enrolled at the University of Leipzig, but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. They returned to Canada where he taught Hebrew at Victoria College, while earning at honours degree at Harvard University. He became Editor of the “Canadian Journal of Religious Thought” until 1929 when he was appointed Professor of New Testament and Church History at United College, Winnipeg, and succeeded to the office of Dean of Theology a few years later. In 1947 he retired from his office as Dean in Winnipeg and in the meantime was honoured with election as President of the Manitoba Conference of the United Church of Canada, he was later Chairman of the Winnipeg Presbytery.

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This material forms part of the General Council program of the United Church of Canada Archive.

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Fonds consists of correspondence from Miss Rebecca Sing describing recollections of her family in Picton in the 1840s and the story of a printing press sent by the Wesleyan Missionary Society for Cree Syllabic.

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      1986.373C/TR

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