This collection incorporates the extant correspondence and related documents of the General Council's executive and sub-executive for the period 1925 to 1983. The materials consist of correspondence to and from the executive, reports, minutes, petitions and legal judgements, all relative to the work of the General Council's executive bodies and officers. A chronological order has been maintained throughout.
The collection covers a wide variety of topics and is not easily described except in the most general sense. The majority of the material however, relates to the work of the Secretary of General Council and the concerns of the executive responsibilities of the Church. The collection is involved with the sale of properties, financial matters, the educational, legal, jurisdictional and theological concerns of the clergy and membership. The post-war period is especially involved with church extension and consolidation and the ecumenical links of the United Church.
In studying this finding aid, while great detail is suggested, in fact, many documents are not noted. For instance, appointments and resignations, routine acknowledgements, licensing of laity, commendations, local and non-property information are generally omitted. For this reason, the descriptive paragraphs are simply guides to the holdings. Furthermore, a single designation such as "re Albert College" may encompass a number of documents scattered chronologically through a file. Important topics may also extend over several files and even several years. Hence, each document in each file should be examined to determine the real and full extent of the information available on any given topic.
Remember, this finding aid is only a guide, not a comprehensive catalogue of the documentation. This collection should also be used in conjunction with other General Council series and with the related information found in the Papers of the Church's boards and departments.
Records are not listed publicly because they are subject to solicitor client privilege.
Subseries consists of correspondence files relating to questions of the acquisition and disposal of church properties, primarily at the national level.
Beginning July 19, 1999, all users will be asked to complete FORM 26 before receiving access to these records.
Subseries consists of correspondence and reports relating to property issues at the Conference and Presbytery levels, and appeals to the General Council on property matters affecting churches and officials, including St. Luke's Place, Cambridge, Lyon's Memorial Church, Gore Bay, Bridge Street Church Foundation, and camps.
Beginning July 19, 1999, all users will be asked to complete FORM 26 before receiving access to these records
See also United Church of Canada Conference and Presbytery fonds (1000-1044).
Subseries consists of correspondence between The United Church of Canada mission secretaries and officials of the Church of Christ in China; various reports and papers on issues affecting Chinese Christians; and some administrative records of the Church.
Subseries consists of correspondence of the Secretary of the mission and other missionaries; reports of missionaries; reports of Kwantong Synod, Church of Christ in China; minutes of Executive and Mission Council, 1933-1950 (incomplete) and; South China mission deeds.
Subseries consists of records of the Board Secretaries re China in general, 1928-1951, including records re medical issues, opium, silver exchange and Shanghai; correspondence and reports of the Christian Literature Society for China based in Shanghai, 1930-1948; Council on Christian Literature for Overseas Chinese, 1951-1952 (re its founding); China Christian Educational Association, 1927-1948; National Christian Council of China, 1925-1951.
Subseries consists of minutes and index to minutes, 1926-1966
Subseries consists of minutes various United Church Training School/Covenant College committees, 1926-1971, including Finance and Property, 1934-1970, Studies, 1934-1970, and Committees re joint U.C.T.S, and Anglican Women's Training College, 1967-1971.
Subseries consists of subject/correspondence files containing incoming/outgoing correspondence, reports, newsletters, minutes of non-U.C.T.S./Covenant College bodies, addresses, notes and other material predominantly of the Principal 's Office, 1918-1971; the files relate to various matters, including alumni, curriculum, Emmanuel College, finance and property (includes the Presbyterian Missionary and Deaconess Training Home), and the United Church of Canada's Committees relating to education, deaconesses and women's work.
Subseries consists of student cards with courses and marks, arranged alphabetically, 1926-1970; student
address cards for alumni, with address updates, arranged by class year and then alphabetically (includes
Methodist National Training School and Presbyterian Missionary and Deaconess Training Home), [190?]-1970; Summer School applications, 1943; student marks/convocation bulletins (includes Methodist National Training School), 1923-1969; student files containing various records, including application forms, evaluations, reports, correspondence and photographs of the students, arranged alphabetically, 1927-1969
Subseries consists of files re bursary funds, scholarship funds, prizes, and gifts.
Certain files concerning bursaries and awards are restricted for seventy-five years from the date of creation.
Subseries consists of minutes of Class meetings, 1926-1968 (incomplete), class yearbooks, 1926-1961.
Series consists of calendars, 1926-1969 (incomplete), newsletters, 1950-1962 and convocation programs, 1925-1969.
Subseries consists of financial statements, 1925-1969 (incomplete), financial ledger, 1933-1935.
Subseries consists of scrapbooks containing clippings, and some photographs, depicting the School/College and women's church work in general, 1927-1959, and the Building Campaign, 1951-1952.
Subseries consists of minutes of the Covenant College Corporation, 1966-1991 and the Field Education Committee, 1965-1974.
Subseries consists of yearbooks, 1963-1970.
Subseries consists of copies of outgoing correspondence, predominantly of the Principal, relating to various matters, 1981-1995
Series consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records and other records of various Centre for Christian Studies Committees and Groups, 1964-1994, including Academic Staff Committee,
1982-1988.
Amalgamation Committee, 1970-1991, Central Council, 1970-1990, Covenant College Corporation,
1966-1991, Educational Affairs Committee, 1970-1984, and the Personnel Committee, 1970-1993.
Series consists of marriage register of services performed at the Centre for Christian Studies, 1964-1984
Subseries consists of records of students marks, 1970-1982, statement of standings for students (includes marks), 1979-1984, student information forms [198-?], statistics, student records and lists, 1985- 1987, individual student files (includes marks), 1970-1994.
Subseries consists of printed material, 1970-1998, including publicity material, 1970-1988, and annual reports, 1989-1998.
Series consists of financial statements, 1970-1992 and financial ledgers, 1956-1988
Subseries consists of reminiscences of alumnae, 1985-2006
The correspondence of the General Secretary is wide-ranging, covering materials as diverse as immigration, Saskatchewan's drought relief efforts in the 1930s and United Church participation in them, Indian Residential Schools in western Canada, hospitals and several other institutions which the church either operated or participated in and a great deal more. In addition there are several manuscripts and published papers housed here. The records have been arranged chronologically.
Subseries consists of records of each charge that received aid from the Board. This would include information on salaries, rentals of buildings (including homes), insurance costs, travel costs, and any other costs associated with the work. They are organized only by Conference, with no description in the finding aid. Included in this section are also special accounts kept on car allowances (boxes 160-161), accounts for special ministries, and property fund accounts.
Subseries consists largely of correspondence files dealing with loans and grants to congregations and institutions that were assisted by the Board.
Subseries consists of correspondence and records of disposition of funds from trusts and estates bequeathed to the Board for its work.
Subseries consists of records of debates and legal decisions dealing with the properties owned by the denominations that entered into union in 1925. In addition there are copies of the decisions of the Dominion property Commission, and a Joint Advisory Committee set up by the churches to determine the fate of properties that the continuing Presbyterian Church in Canada would retain.
Subseries consists of records of the Methodist Church (Canada) Committee on Union, including minutes, 1904 and 1914-1924; reports from Annual Conferences on union vote, 1912; and controversial pamphlets, letters and speeches on union from T.A. Moore, S.D. Chown and others, 1911-1924.
Subseries consists of records of the Methodist Church (Canada) Committee on Union, including minutes, 1904 and 1914-1924; reports from Annual Conferences on union vote, 1912; and controversial pamphlets, letters and speeches on union from T.A. Moore, S.D. Chown and others, 1911-1924.
Subseries consists of minutes of meetings, 1904-1909, 1914-1916 and 1921-1925; minutes of Sub-Committees: Administration, 1904-1908, Doctrine, 1905, and Law, 1908; minutes of the Finance Committee, 1923-1925; cash book, 1916-1919; circulars and reports of the Subcommittee on polity, 1905-1906; copies of the Basis of Union, 1915, 1922, and 1924, including historical statements; reports of the interim committees on the settlement of ministers for proposed conferences; minutes, reports and papers of the subcommittee to prepare for the first General Council; materials from the Church Union Committees of the several provinces; and resolutions re Church Union, 1893-1923.
Subseries consists of records of the Presbyterian Church in Canada General Assembly, including minutes and reports of the Committee on Church Union, 1904-1925; resolutions, reports and debate of Assembly re union, 1904-1925; remits on Basis of Union from Presbyterians, 1911 and 1916, including returns by Presbyteries; records and returns from congregations voting on union, including replies to request for suggestions on amending the Basis of Union, 1912 and 1915; documents and Basis as amended, 1915; controversial works on church union, 1922-1924; correspondence of Secretaries of the Committee and Clerks of the Assembly, 1912-1925; reports from the Synod Committees on Union; and minutes and correspondence of the Church-Union Movement Committee.
Subseries consists largely of controversial pamphlets and speeches, with a small amount of correspondence.
Subseries consists of reports and correspondence on and of Union Churches of Western Canada, 1913-1925; minutes and general correspondence re cooperation in the home mission work, 1885-1923; agreements for cooperative work, 1903, 1911, 1917, and 1923; lists of union charges, 1921-1924; minutes and correspondence, Joint Committee on Cooperation in non-Anglo-Saxon work in northern Ontario and Prairie Provinces, 1919-1925. In addition there is material on cooperation, arranged by province; Maritimes: correspondence, 1920-1925; Ontario and Quebec: correspondence, 1902-1924; Ontario: minutes, Committee on Cooperation, 1912-1923; Manitoba: minutes, Commission on Cooperation, 1916-1918; correspondence, Joint Committee, 1916-1924, and miscellaneous papers and reports on cooperation; Saskatchewan: minutes of Cooperative Committee, 1911-1925, and correspondence, 1913-1924; Alberta: minutes, Joint Committee, 1911, minutes of Provincial Committee, 1921, and correspondence, 1903-1924; and British Columbia, correspondence, 1921-1924.
Subseries consists of minutes of the Committee on Literature, Information and Public Meetings, 1923-1928; reports of the Committee, 1925; correspondence of union propagandists (S.D. Chown, John H. Edmison, T.A. Moore, and others), general correspondence, and correspondence with foreign churches, 1923-1929; correspondence arranged by province, 1923-1929; reports of congregational votes, by province, and press releases on same, 1925; circulars and letters sent to newspapers, 1923-1925; Proceedings of the First General Council, 1925; controversial literature, correspondence, and circulars sent to congregations and the public, 1923-1925.
Subseries consists of minutes and correspondence, and some pamphlet material; records relating to the reconstitution of the Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society, particularly with reference to the Mary Smith Estate.
Subseries consists of correspondence and reports on Other Union Negotiations, including unions in foreign countries, earlier attempts at union in Canada, Christian unity and the Church of England in Canada (Anglican).
Subseries consists of records relating to administration and legislation, including minutes of the Committees of Law and Legislation, 1921-1933; copies of The United Church of Canada Act (Dominion), 1924, and similar legislation for the provinces, Newfoundland and Bermuda; correspondence re passage of the legislation; copies of the House of Commons debates, 1924; general correspondence, 1922-1942; accounts, 1923-1930; correspondence re use of the name "Presbyterian Church in Canada"; papers of the Committee Chairman, Newton Wesley Rowell, 1921-1929, and of W.R. Motherwell, a defender of the legislation in the House of Commons, 1924-1925; and "Resolutions re Church Union of Presbyterian General Assembly, 1899-1923; of the Joint Committee on Church Union, 1904-1923; Methodist General Conference, 1902-1922; and of the Congregational Union of Canada, 1901-1923: a compilation with index (94.167C).
Subseries consists of records of the Dominion Commission on Church Property set up to distribute property held by the centrally held property, including Proceedings, 1925-1927; correspondence on valuation of properties; correspondence re home mission properties, benevolent funds, and theological colleges, legacies; records of the Joint Advisory Committee to the D.P.C.; declarations of non-concurring ministers organized by Conference; and records relating to foreign missions; letters, reports, judgments of the Commission (94.167C).
Subseries consists of papers of Gershom W. Mason, lawyer dealing with church union property issues, and also later legal questions around the definition of the newly evolving Church courts and The Manual; and "Church Union in Canada From a Layman's Viewpoint," 1929 (94.167C)
Subseries consists of records relating to Provincial property commissions and legislation, arranged by province, including files on individual charges and congregations (the largest section is devoted to Ontario).
Subseries consists of legal documents (primarily wills) and correspondence, largely relating to disputes over bequests to the Presbyterian Church in Canada which had been made before Church Union--arranged alphabetically, by name of benefactor, 1926-1941.
Subseries consists of records of Harriet Pringle’s parents, Martha Furnival and Henry Pringle, and her
brother, Angus Pringle.
Subseries consists of records of Martha Wilson and John Wesley Furnival (d. 1858) who were the parents of Martha Pringle (Furnival). They were married in September, 1855 in Belleville, Ontario. Included are letters with various other family members, such as Ann Clapbon Appleby (mother of John Wesley Furnival). Letters of note include those written during by soldiers during the Civil War, and family members who survived the Chicago Fire.
Subseries consists of records of denominational property; correspondence (1930-1968), and properties listed by province.