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The series is comprised of documents and correspondence relating to several interdenominational and international Christian organizations with which Pidgeon was associated, predominantly during the 1930s and 1940s.

Series consists of approximately 30 speeches and public addresses made by Pidgeon in the latter half of his career.

Series consists of four subseries: Lectures, 1927; Lessons, 1952-1955; International Sunday School Lessons, 1922-1945; and Notes, 1923-1961.

Series consists of items created by or belonging to Pidgeon or members of his family, including poetry, a diary, a short story, correspondence, photographs, and other documents of personal significance.

Series contains agendas, proceedings, minutes and correspondence of the Continuing Committee on Muslim-Christian Co-operation, including journalism relating to its meetings by Howse, 1942-1972. There is also a great deal of pamphlet material dealing with Arab-Israeli relations, Islam, the Palestinian crisis, and related issues.

Series contains correspondence, journals, scrapbooks, notes and biographical information of Constance Kilborn and Lewis Walmsley re their missionary work and personal lives 1911-1998.

Series consists of minutes and reports and supporting documents of the National Coordinating Group, 1980-1988.

Series consists of correspondence, study guides, drafts on the Statement on Human Sexuality, and background documents, 1982-1984.

Series consists of correspondence and reports of antecedent organizations: United Church Gays and Lesbians of Quebec (UCGLQ), 1979-1982, Toronto United Church Homosexuals (T.O.U.C.H.), 1982, and Gays and Lesbians of the United Church in B.C., 1981; minutes and correspondence, reports and briefs of National Affirm, 1982-1996. (See Series 3 for records of Affirm regional groups.)

Series consists of minutes, correspondence and reports of regional Affirm, Friends of Affirm, and Affirm
United groups, including: Affirm Halifax/Dartmouth, 1987; Affirm Montreal, 1982, 1986-1987; Toronto
Affirm, 1985-1992; Toronto Friends of Affirm, 1985-1992; Toronto Affirm United, 1992-2003; Affirming Congregations Network of Hamilton Conference, 2001-2002; Affirm United Manitoba and Northwest Ontario, 1990-1998; Affirm Saskatchewan, 1982; Friends of Affirm Saskatchewan, 1986-1987; Affirm United Saskatchewan North, 1999-2000; Friends of Affirm Alberta and Northwest Conference, 1987- 1988; Affirm United Alberta and Northwest Conference, 1999; and Affirm B.C., 1982-1993.

Series contains records of the National Association and Council and related committees 1952-1983. Records include minutes, reports and national project work.

Series contains files from Provincial Councils in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and include correspondence, ‘Round-up Reports,’ (reports of annual meetings’, programs of annual meetings, some directories of members and related publications.

Series consists of programs, financial statements, minutes, reports, correspondence, and membership rolls.

Series consists of programs, minutes, annual reports, financial records, clippings and histories.

Series consists of annual reports, records of donations, treasurer's books, secretary's books and correspondence.

Series consists of minutes, reports, manse records and newsclippings.

Series consists of minutes of the Planning Committee, programmes and miscellaneous papers.

Series consists of miscellaneous material re women in The United Church of Canada, information re the organization of W.A. and various pamphlets.

This mission was founded in 1885 by the Reverend John Gibson, under the Foreign Mission Committee Eastern Section in partnership with the British Guiana Presbytery of the Church of Scotland. Gibson died in 1887, and there was no further action until 1896, when the Reverend J.B. Cropper was appointed by the Foreign Mission Committee Eastern Section. The mission was directed to the East Indians in British Guiana. This work was carried on by the continuing Presbyterian Church in Canada after the establishment of The United Church of Canada in 1925.

Series consists of correspondence, 1909-1925--primarily letters received and copies of letters sent by Board secretaries, R.P. MacKay and A.E. Armstrong; the numerous correspondents are primarily missionaries serving in British Guiana, including J.A. Scrimgeour; also included are minutes, 1915-1924, of the British Guiana Council of the Mission to East India Immigrants (formerly the Canadian Mission Council in British Guiana); reports submitted by missionary R. Gibson Fisher, 1911-1919; and reports of the mission treasurer, 1918-1920.

The Board's mandate included missionary work in Trinidad, primarily to East Indians, and thus continued the work begun in 1867 by the Reverend John Morton (sent by the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces of British North America), and after 1875 by the Presbyterian Church in Canada Foreign Mission Committee Eastern Section.

In Trinidad a Mission Council responsible to the Canadian Church was established in 1872. This Council was at the same time constituted into a standing committee of the Presbytery of Trinidad to attend to work among the East Indians there.

In 1872 the branches of Presbyterianism joined together to become the Presbytery of Trinidad, assuming the name Presbyterian Church of Trinidad.

This collection of records consists of: correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1892-1925; records of the Trinidad Mission Council, 1885-1925; and records of the Presbytery of Trinidad/Presbyterian Church of Trinidad, 1845-1939.

The correspondence includes letters received and copies of letters sent by Thomas Stewart, Secretary of the Board of Foreign Mission Eastern Section, and by R.P. MacKay and A.E. Armstrong, Secretaries of the Board of Foreign Missions, and various secretaries of the Trinidad Mission Council.

The Trinidad Mission Council series consists of minutes, 1885-1925, a notebook of K.J. Grant, 1891-1892, and financial ledger of the Council. Also included are minutes of the General Council of Trinidad and British Guiana (1913-1917) which was dissolved in 1917.

The Presbytery of Trinidad/Presbyterian Church of Trinidad records include minutes back the establishment of the first mission by the United Associate Secession Church in Scotland, 1845-1926 (manuscript) and 1926-1939 (microfilm).

Presbyterian mission work began on a part-time basis in 1907 and full-time in Vancouver in 1913 and in Victoria in 1914.

Series consists primarily of correspondence received by Board Secretaries, and occasionally copies of letters sent. Among the correspondents are missionaries who served among the East Indians. Letters deal mainly with Canadian immigration policy, treatment of East Indians, and problems associated with establishing the mission.

In 1875, responsibility for Presbyterian missions to Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada was absorbed by the Foreign Mission Committee Western Section of the newly formed Presbyterian Church in Canada. From 1875 to 1885, the Committee was aided informally by the Presbytery of Manitoba in oversight of the work. Following the organization of the Synod of Manitoba and the North West in 1884, the Manitoba Foreign Mission Committee was appointed in 1885 to act in conjunction with the Foreign Mission Committee Western Section in the furtherance of mission work among Indigenous Peoples of the North West. A similar committee was struck in connection with the Synod of British Columbia when it was created in 1892. These Synodical Committees, each with their own Executive bodies, acted in an advisory capacity, reporting on mission work within their bounds, and making recommendations with respect to appointment of missionaries, expenditures, and expansion of the field. Although the Synodical Committees gradually assumed more responsibilities in the administration of mission work, their actions were always subject to the approval of the General Assembly's Foreign Mission Committee. The role of the Presbyteries was also enlarged. In 1901, the Foreign Mission Committee Western Division passed regulations which authorized the Presbyteries to take oversight and report on mission work within their bounds, and to meet with missionaries to confer with them regarding work to be undertaken with a view to estimating expenditures. In 1912, all missions to Indigenous Peoples were transferred to the Board of Home Missions which became part of the Board.

Series consists primarily of incoming correspondence to Committee Convenors and Secretaries from missionaries, Synod officials, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society officials, and others re missions in Manitoba and the North West, 1875-1923 (predominant 1875-1912), and British Columbia, 1891-1912. Fields of work covered in the correspondence include missions and mission schools at, for example, Mistawasis, Makoce Waste, and Crowstand, Sask., Bird Tail Creek, and Swan Lake, Man., Stony Plain, Alta., and Ucluelet, B.C.; residential institutions such as those at Regina, Sask. [Regina Residential School], Birtle, Man. [Birtle Residential School], Lake of the Woods, Ont. [Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School] and Alberni B.C. [Alberni Residential School]; and beginnings of the marine mission on the coast of Vancouver Island. There are also passing references made to work among the Chinese and East Indians in British Columbia.

Series contains correspondence, 1935-1949 and a scrapbook relating to West China, 1934-1943.

Series consists of minutes of the Radio and Television Committee, 1955-1957; correspondence with sponsoring Church Boards, 1956-1960; correspondence with Conference Communications Committees concerning regional staffing, production, and programme scheduling, 1962-1967; staff correspondence, 1963-1967; general correspondence with external bodies and individuals, including script writers and musicians, re programming, 1956-1967; programme correspondence, scripts, evaluations, cost sheets, programme outlines, promotional material of individual programmes, (including for example, Checkpoint including audio-tapes, Christmas and Easter broadcasts, Just a Minute, On the Spot, When a Child Asks, Women's Broadcasts, General Council coverage, and the Spectrum television ), 1955-1969; Local Live Television files, 1959-1966; workshop files, 1958-1969; policy and administration files, 1955-1967; records, including minutes, of committees in which the Directors had membership--within the Board, of General Council, and of other Church and interdenominational bodies, 1955-1968; financial records, including budgets, 1955-1967; and general subject files, including, for example, files re the Broadcasting Research Project, 1961-1964, investigating the viewing habits of children.

Series consists of minutes of the Committee on Missionary Education/Mission Education, and various subcommittees (including those regarding children, teenagers, and adults), 1955-1966; and general files of the Editor of Missionary Education Publications, including proposed biographies of prominent United Church members as well as notes and scripts for plays.

Series consists of the following subseries; 1) Records of the Joint Committee on Church Union, 1893-1925, 2) Records of the Methodist Church (Canada) Committee on Union, 1904-1924, 3) Records of the Presbyterian Church in Canada General Assembly, 1904-1925, 4) Records Relating to Presbyterian Non-Concurrence, 1910-1931, 5) Records Relating to Congregational Union of Canada, 1873-1955, 6) Records Relating to Cooperation and Local Union, 1885-1968, 7) Records of the Bureau of Literature and Information, 1923-1928, 8) Records Relating to Other Union Negotiations, 1905-1927, and 9) Newspaper Clippings, n.d.

Series consists of photographs of the United Church and Victoria University Archives, as well as photos of the United Church's 75th birthday celebration and exhibits.

Series consists of sermons and addresses, 1954-2006.

Series consists of personal correspondence and other documents relating to missionary work in Japan, return to Canada, travel, continuing education and retirement 1948-1985.

Series consists of records relating to Wilna Thomas’s work for the Women's Missionary Society, 1939-1960. Series includes records relating to Thomas’s field work as Secretary for Younger Groups, including reports on the work; scrapbooks which highlight work with new Canadians at Hamilton All People's Church; and her work with young people as WMS Secretary, lecture notes and reports from her teaching activity in Japan, notebooks, correspondence, and notes from her tour of the mission fields in 1960-1961.

Series consists of records, including minutes, reports, and correspondence, relating to the Commission on Union (formerly Committee/Commission on Reunion) and corresponding Joint and other (sub) Committees; records relating to Basis of Union Agreements with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the British Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Reformed Episcopal Church in Canada; as well as publications and study materials, including “Growth In Understanding” and the “Principles of Union…”, Canadian Evangel magazine, Christian Reunion Movement newsletter; as well as papers and other resource materials.

Series consists of the following nine distinct subseries: subseries 1: Administrative records, 1967-1975; subseries 2: General Commission Subject Files, 1966-1975, listed alphabetically and includes records related to publications, joint projects, consultations and other records; subseries 3: General Files Relating to the UCC General Council and the ACC General Synod, 1968-1972, listed by date and alphabetically; subseries 4: Correspondence, 1965-1975, includes General Commission administrative correspondence as well as correspondence with Conferences and with Joint Study Groups, listed alphabetically by region name; Subseries 5: General Commission Subcommittees, 1965-1975, listed alphabetically; subseries 6: Financial Records, 1968-1975; Sub-subseries 7: Printed Materials re: Plan of Union, 1972, including drafts, correspondence, and promotional supplements; subseries 8: Publicity Materials, 1968-1972, including print, radio and television; and subseries 9: Papers, Briefs, and other General Commission Resource Materials, 1968-1974.

Series consists of minutes, membership, and correspondence of the Legal Commission.

Series consists of minutes, reports, membership, finances, records relating to senior staff consultation, records of the various Task Forces, addresses, correspondence and memoranda, Ecumenical Digest newsletter, and papers and other resource materials of the Committee.

Series consists of minutes, reports and consultation document including the Covenant of Intention, 1977, and a Study Guide produced by the Committee, 1984, and correspondence.

Series consists of addresses, including draft copies, and correspondence of Arthur B.B. Moore that relate to matters of church union. A leader in the United Church and ecumenical organizations, Moore participated in church union negotiations and served as Chairman of the United Church Committee on Union and Co-Chairman of the Joint General Commission on Union with the Anglican Church of Canada.

Series contains subject files on the various areas of work of the ICCAF 1973-2001. Files include resources, correspondence, minutes, biographies, reports, etc. pertaining to the following areas: Africa (General), All African Council of Churches (AACC), Angola, Botswana, Burundi, CIDA, Coalitions and Churches, Debt, Economic Justice, Ethiopia Free Trade, Foreign Policy, Gender Issues, Horn of Africa, Human Rights, Jubilee, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, National Consultation, NGOs, Nigeria, Partnership Africa Canada (PAC), Racism, Somalia, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Trips and Tours Reports, World Bank, Zambia, Zaire and Zimbabwe.

Series contains files relating to the administration of the Inter-Church Action for Development, Relief and Justice 1997-2001. Records included are minutes, financial documents and Africa Working Group minutes.

Series consists of photographs and slides relating to Inter-Church Action for Development, Relief and Justice.

Series consists of a photograph of “Dancing on the Edge” planning resource meeting, 1985.

Series consists of records of the Advisory Board, records re Planned Parenthood Toronto merger, correspondence, lists, articles and speeches, 1971-1976.

Series consists of a personal register consisting of sermon record, 1933-1975, baptisms, 1934-1967, marriages, 1934-1980; and burials, 1934-1990 in Ontario.

Series of consists of the minutes of Upper Valley Presbytery, 2012-2018.

Series consists of subject files/correspondence regarding Presbytery remits (including remit regarding affirming ministry), 2012, 2017.

Series consists of the individual deceased ministry personnel files, 1994-2018. For privacy purposes, names have been omitted from the finding aid.

Series consists of the membership book from 1903, manuscripts of papers for The Bulletin, published by the Committee on Archives and History of the United Church of Canada, 1978; and manuscripts of papers presented at the Canadian Methodist Historical Society annual conferences, 1983-1987.

Series consists of records re professional career; calls to pastorates, interviews, and his various career positions; as a scholar, pastor, Executive Secretary, Principal, Chaplain, General Secretary, Chair and Committee member, 1958-1993.

Series consists of regular and Executive Presbytery minutes: manuscript, 1957 1971, printed/typescript 1957 1961, 1967 2009.

Series includes Church in Society/World Affairs Committee, 2003; Education and Students Committee, 1987-1997; Men's Council minutes, 1957 1967; Pastoral Oversight Division minutes and other records, 1984-1997; Pastoral Relations Committee, 1994-1999; Planning and Development Division minutes and other records, 1972-2004; Seaton Community Commission, 1993; Task Force on Ministry, 1978.

Series consists of subject/correspondence files, predominantly from the Presbytery Secretary, including general correspondence, 1981-1987; affordable housing, 1988; Camp Big Canoe, 1997-2008; clusters, 1988, 1894; conference year, 1996-1997; Coordination Director of Ministers, 1967-1974; housing allowance, 1994-1998; Look at York Presbytery resource guide, 2008-2009; petitions re sexual orientation, 1988; presbytery assessments, 1983; property, 1964-1995; various reports, 1975-1979; Toronto United Church Council, 1982-1987; York Presbytery study, 1965; York Presbytery strategic plan, 1991; and York - Simcoe Ministries, 1987.