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Series consists of photographs from Halton Presbytery, 1964-2011.

Series consists of photographs of Cherrywood United Church, [196-?]-1993.

Series consists of daily notes and diaries, 1951-1975.

Series consists of biographical records containing Wilna Thomas’s correspondence with her mother while overseas, student essays, and correspondence from Japanese friends following her retirement from active missionary work, 1934-1993.

Series contains correspondence, 1917-1975; scrapbook, biographical information, diaries, 1938-1954; papers, manuscripts and publications, ca. 1933-1961; correspondence and articles concerning political situation in China, 1940-1958; clippings, 1961-1976. Fonds also includes Council on Christian Literature for Overseas Chinese: minutes, 1961-1965; correspondence, 1955-1971; Church of Christ in China Hong Kong Council: annual reports, 1954-1971; publicity materials and clippings, ca. 1957-1970; and Christian Literature Society for China: minutes, 1933-1950; correspondence, 1938-1951; publicity, 1946-1947; literature, 1938-1944.

Series contains Margaret Brown’s photographs from her time as a missionary and teacher at the Hip Woh School, Wesley Village, and Haven of Hope Sanatarium in Hong Kong, 1955.

In addition to his regular correspondence, Edward Wallace kept many diaries, including a special “Diary Letter” from 1906-1911. Series consists of diaries and diary letters documenting Edward Wallace’s life and missionary work, 1881-1941.

Series consists of articles and original manuscripts, including “Being a Missionary in China”, written by Edward Wallace, 1913-1936.

Series consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, and materials relating to experiences as a missionary in China and India, 1917-1962.

Series consists of correspondence and correlating transcriptions from Vera Clark’s missionary experience in West China 1920-1925 and her reflections on that experience written in 1979. Also included is a scrapbook containing correspondence, ephemera, clippings etc. concerning her life from 1918-1997 and a book from her deaconess days at Runnymede United Church.

Series consists of minutes of Annual Meetings, 1955-1967; minutes of the Executive, 1956-1967 (incomplete); Annual Reports of the Board, 1956-1964; minutes and reports, agendas, and background materials of Board committees for which Secretaries had responsibility, including the Communications Standing Committee, Communications Survey Committee, Committee on Information and Public Relations, various committees on literature distribution, Stewardship Committee, Mission Education Committee, and Committee of Liaison with the Woman's Missionary Society, 1956-1967; correspondence with the General Council and Boards, 1955-1965; correspondence with Conferences and Presbyteries, 1956-1966; correspondence files with Board staff on subjects including Berkeley Studio, staff appointments, interdenominational broadcasting, 1957-1968; general correspondence files, 1957-1964; correspondence, financial and annual reports relating to the Literature Distribution Centre and regional depots, 1954-1966; a series of general files organized on a subject basis and arranged alphabetically, 1955-1965; financial documents including budgets, 1955-1965; and files related to general Board activities, including its constitution and amalgamation into the Division of Communication.

Series consists largely of the records of the Director and Assistant Directors, including minutes of committees, 1955-1957; similar records for films, 1965-1970; production files, including research material, correspondence, news clippings, interview transcripts and notes relating to the production of films, 1949-1967; workshop files relating to the uses and techniques of audio-visual materials by Church workers, 1961- 1968; and general subject files, containing correspondence, articles, questionnaires, reports, and circulars regarding research into audio-visual usage within the Church, policy matters, and Departmental administration.

Series consists of two files: miscellaneous press releases and press coverage of the union of the United Church and the Evangelical United Brethren in 1968.

Series consists photographs, audio reels and audio cassettes from various projects.

Series consists of the following subseries; 1) Records Relating to Administration and Federal Legislation, 1901-1942, 2) Records of the Dominion Commission on Church Property, 1925-1927, 3) Papers of Gershom W. Mason, 1922-1946, 4) Records Relating to Provincial Property and Legislation, 1923-1933, 5) Legal Documents, 1926-1941.

Series contains records relating to Records Management 1987-2003.

Series contains records relating to Library Administration 1981-1998.

Series contains records relating to UCC Archives Finances 1985-2008. Records include budgets, bequests/trusts/endowments, donations, financial statements, financial appeals, grants and insurance.

Series consists of records re conferences and workshops given around Ontario and Canada, 1972-1988.

Series consists of correspondence on a wide variety of topics, both personal and work related. Additionally, correspondence related to the many workshops and conferences Fidler presented at and attended. Workshop files may include additional resources. Some topics include marriage, marriage preparation, couples clubs, counselling, sexuality, sexual education, family, gerontology, Planned Parenthood, family planning, Christian education, Boys work, Lay preachers, the Publication Coordination Commission of the United Church of Canada, the Cedar Glen Implementation Committee, the Committee on Marriage Preparation, Marriage Guidance, the Marriage Guidance Council, the Canadian Council on Children, Ottawa Presbytery, Montreal and Ottawa Conference, Young Peoples, Tuxis, Divorce, Aging and Retirement, Christian Family Life Committee, United Church of Canada Board of Evangelism, The Vanier Institute, United Church of Canada Board of Christian Education.

Series consists of sermons and resources for sermons compiled by Frank Prescott Fidler in his capacity as a minister and councillor. Prescott was a minister at Bloor Street United Church, 1933-1939 and Glebe United Church, Ottawa 1939-1949. See also Series 4: Personal Registers for sermon record.

Series contains Ray Whitehead’s addresses, event information, articles, clippings, papers, sermons, biographical records, correspondence, etc. all relating to his life and also his teaching and missionary work in China, 1955-2013. Series also includes records relating to the K.H. Ting and Nanjing Union Theological Seminary and the Committee on Concerned Asian Scholars.

Series consists of correspondence re a dinner to honour Anne Ward, 1969-1970, various other correspondence, 1952-1981 and cash book.

Series consists of personal documents, correspondence, and worship materials, 1908-1976.

Series consists of drafts, working papers and final copies of publications by the National Coordinating Group; Dialogue – Sexual Orientations, Lifestyles and Ministry (kits 1 and 2), Final Report on the Ordination of Homosexuals Issue, and feedback.

Series consists of correspondence, media clippings, background documents and feedback (individual responses across Canada to the ordination of homosexuals issue), 1984.

Series consists of minutes 1926-1948, 1959-1968, correspondence of the secretary, 1927-1951, reports, correspondence, musical scores and lyrics for hymns, and similar types of material for the Order of Service, 1930-1943.

Series contains publications including: an evaluation, newsletter, ‘Bridges Builder,’ 1961-1972 (incomplete run); handbooks, pamphlets and booklets explaining aspects of the work; history of AOTS; president’s newsletter, and related material. In addition there are biographical profiles of leaders, reports from Annual Conference held at Banff, Elgin House (Ontario), programmes and registrations from conventions, 1953-1987, directories of local clubs and membership, 1980s, and personal files of executive members.

Series consists of two audio discs featuring the Scarborough AOTS Glee Club in Scarborough, Ontario.

Series consists of records minutes and reports of the Executive Committee, Sub-Executive Committee and Annual Meetings, as well as publications, programs and records relating to publicity.

Series consists of minutes, "historical data", and some financial records.

In 1876, the Foreign Mission Committee Western Section initiated the organization of a Woman's Missionary Society to function as an auxiliary of the Committee with a view to securing the more full cooperation of the female membership of the Church in support of women employed as missionaries. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Western Division, duly constituted, had as its object "to aid the Foreign Missionary Committee or Board of Missions, by promoting its work among the women and children of heathen lands." The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Eastern Division adopted similar aims when it was formed in 1876 as an auxiliary of the Foreign Mission Committee Eastern Section. In 1882, the Montreal Woman's Missionary Society, auxiliary of the Board of French Evangelization, broadened its mandate to include home and foreign work, and became known as the Woman's Missionary Society (Home, French and Foreign). These bodies amalgamated in 1914, along with the Women's Home Missionary Society, to form the Woman's Missionary Society Western Division. While continuing to declare itself an auxiliary of the Home and Foreign Mission Boards of the Church, the W.M.S. (W.D.) came to share in many aspects of decision making, and managed to expand the field of its activities to create a separate sphere in which to pursue its own priorities. For more information about these groups, see Presbyterian Church in Canada Women's Missionary Society Western Division fonds (127).

Series consists of incoming, and some outgoing, correspondence between the Foreign Mission Committee Western Section/Board of Foreign Missions, and the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Western Division, 1888-1914, the Women's Missionary Society Eastern Division, 1918-1925, the Woman's Missionary Society (Home, French and Foreign), 1892-1915, and the Women's Missionary Society Western Division, 1915-1925. The primary correspondents are Board and national Society officials. The correspondence deals mainly with administrative, operational, and financial matters for fields in which the Societies were actively engaged in mission work including abroad in India, China, Formosa (Taiwan), and Korea; and at home among Indigenous People in Western Canada, Chinese in British Columbia, and French Canadians in Quebec.

Series contains some correspondence received by the W.M.S. (Home, French and Foreign). It is not known when or how this original W.M.S. material was mixed into the records of the Board.

Series includes the following subseries: records pertaining to the Honan Mission, 1889-1937; records pertaining to the South China Mission, 1902-1925; records pertaining to the Christian Literature Society for China and to the Shanghai Mission, 1887-1926; correspondence pertaining to the Mission of the Chinese Labour Corps in France during the First World War, 1917-1919.

The Board's mandate included work with the Chinese on the island of Formosa (Taiwan) continuing work begun in 1871 when the Reverend George L. MacKay was sent as a missionary by the Foreign Mission Committee of the Canada Presbyterian Church.

Series primarily consists of correspondence received by William McLaren, Thomas Wardrope, Hamilton Cassels, R.P. MacKay and A.E. Armstrong, officials of the Board and its antecedent body in the Canada Presbyterian Church. Beginning in 1908, copies of outgoing letters are included; correspondents are numerous with many letters from missionaries, including George L. MacKay.

n 1856, the Reverend G. Stevenson was sent to India but the Indian Mutiny of 1857 prevented the establishment of a mission. In 1873, the Canada Presbyterian Church sent missionaries to India and this Mission was carried further by the Presbyterian Church in Canada after 1875. Missionary work was concentrated in Central India. In 1925 The United Church of Canada took the principal responsibility for the Central India Mission, with the continuing Presbyterian Church in Canada retaining some work.

Series consists primarily of correspondence from missionaries sent to foreign mission officials of the Foreign Mission Committees/Boards of the Canada Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church in Canada (William McLaren, Thomas Wardrope, Hamilton Cassels, R.P. MacKay and A.E. Armstrong) and correspondence by the Presbyterian Church of Canada officials, 1854-1855. There are also minutes of the Central India Mission Council: manuscript, 1879-1897, and printed, 1905-1929; minutes of the Finance Committee, 1897-1906; minutes of the Presbytery of Indore, 1886-1905; Central India Mission Council correspondence, 1883-1896; financial records, 1884-1902, including account books of Indore College, 1890-1902; transcripts of proceedings re the John Wilkie case, 1903; property records, 1879-1906; records re the J.M. Douglas case, 1881-1882; minutes of the Women's Council Central India Mission, 1920- 1924; and of the Malwa Presbytery/Church Council, 1905-1939; maps of Central India Mission.

This Mission was begun in 1898 under the direction of the Foreign Mission Committee Eastern Section.

Series primarily consists of correspondence received and sent by Board secretaries, R.P. MacKay and A.E. Armstrong, with various correspondents including missionaries. There are also records, including minutes, of the Cooperating Board for Christian Education in Chosen, 1915-1925, which are concerned with Chosen Christian College and Severance Union Medical College; printed minutes of the Council of the Korea Mission, 1913-1925; printed minutes of the Council of Presbyterian Missions in Korea, 1916-1918, 1925.

The Reverend and Mrs. John Geddie left Nova Scotia to establish this Mission in 1846. The Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, then the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces of British North America, and finally the Presbyterian Church in Canada supported this Mission field. In 1925, this Mission was turned over to the Presbyterian Church of Victoria (Australia). New Hebrides is now Vanuatu.

Series includes primarily correspondence received by the Secretary, Thomas Stewart, from a variety of sources, including the missionaries who served here, 1903-1925 (79.197C); and minutes of the New Hebrides Presbyterian Mission, 1857-1938 (79.225C).

Series contains black and white photographs of West China from the 1930s, a photograph album, and colour slides documenting a trip on the Thomas Crosby V, 1984.

Series consists of images from missions in India.

Series consists of images from missions in Nigeria.

Series includes of Christian Education Committee minutes, 1937-1956, 1980; Hamilton Presbytery Mission Council records, 1957-1977; Mountain Zone Church records (includes East Mountain Zone), 1984-2001; Presbytery Committee to Investigate Securities, 1938-1943; Unified Appeal Committee records, 1960-1969; and Young People's Union records, 1937-1964.

Series consists of files on the Hamilton churches included in the survey, all for the period 1958 through 1964, including: All People’s, Calvary, Centenary, Central, Chinese, Delta, First, Grace, Japanese, Laidlaw, Livingston, Melrose, Pilgrim, Redeemer, Ryerson, St. Christopher’s, Trinity, Wesley Centre, and Zion. The survey consisted of questions related to church membership, property specifications and types of ministry offered.

In 1971 the Division of Ministry and Education added the term “Personnel” to its name. The term was added to reflect the need within the United Church to improve the method and quality of pastoral care for persons in ministry. Henceforth ministry personnel were managed by a number of areas within DMPE, including high level departments and committees such as the Personnel Services, Personnel Advocacy and Support, and the Pastoral Relations Committee. The advocacy of particular types of ministers was often overseen by smaller committees and areas such as Women in Ministry and Diaconal Ministry Committee.

This series contains strictly ministry personnel files. Subseries includes: 1) Individual Personnel Files, 2) Ministry Candidate Files, 1960-1980, 3) Lay Ministry Personnel, [195-]-2005, 4) Ministers Ordained from Other Denominations, 1965-1971, 5) Chaplains, 1995-2000, 6) Personnel Transfers, 1982-1983.

In 1971 following the Implementation Committee’s Report on the Commission on Ministry in the 20th Century and the establishment of an office of Pastoral Relations, DMPE’s work proceeded in that area to regularize the methods of communication both to ministers and to Pastoral Charges concerning call and settlement of ministers. Studies were established on retraining and rehabilitation for ministers who were not successful in being located in congregational employment and a number of persons received assistance, retraining and rehabilitation (1972 yearbook). In 1975 the National Pastoral Relations Committee developed a new policy on personnel and procedures for admissions and readmissions and DMPE helped to make those policies available in a handbook for Conference Personnel Officers.

Series consists of records concerning DMPE work in the area of pastoral relations and has three subseries: 1) Office Files, Historical Files and Resources, 1971-2003, 2) Pastoral Relations Committee, 1964-2004, 3) Admissions, 1969-1999.

The 27th General Council’s passed a resolution that the Division of Mission in Canada and the Division of Ministry Personnel and Education should provide decisive direction in the area of training for leadership in Native settlements. A joint staff group from both divisions was formed called the Task Force on Native Ministry Training. The role of the task force was to survey the situation and develop resources for Conferences to improve native ministry training. In 1980 there was a National Native Ministry Consultation, planned in part by members of this task group. The purpose of the consultation was to allow Native communities to express their concerns on ministry. In light of their concerns, DMPE formed a standing committee to address their concerns by formalizing training for native ministry and providing support, financial and administrative in this area.

Series consists of two subseries: 1) Secretary and Office Files, 1979-1997, 2) Training for Native Ministry Committee, 1978-1990.

Continuing education has been a valued aspect of UC ministry since union. In 1928 the General Council asked theological schools to provide continuing education for their graduates. The 1968 General Council cemented continuing education by providing three weeks continuing education leave for all ministry personnel. They also created the Continuing Education Fund where money could be made available to underwrite some of the costs involved. The Continuing Education Fund was administered by DMPE. DMPE held the portfolio of continuing education for all if its existence, and the following records reflect the work of the division to foster continuing education by maintaining programs and providing funding.

Series consists of three series: 1) Secretary and Office Files, 1960-1983, 2) Continuing Education Committee, 1969-1991, 3) Colleges and Training Schools, 1968-1981.

Diane Bosman was Program Coordinator, Committee Member Services from 2006-2019.

Series consists of records of Diane Bosman, 2005-2016.

The position of Executive Minister of Theology and Leadership was created within the Office of the Moderator and General Secretary in 2015. Previously, there was a Theology and Faith position within the Faith Formation and Education Unit (2002-?), as well as a Deputy Secretary, Theology and Faith for the General Council (1979-2001). The current position holds responsibility within the General Council Office relating to United Church’s Theological Schools, staffing the Theology and Inter-Church Inter-Faith Committee and acts as a Theological Advisor to the General Secretary and any Committee or Task Group for whom work is assigned. The position also supervises the United Church Archives (2015-present).

Series consists of the following subseries: 1) Records of Educational Institutes, 1927-2016; 2) Records Re Theological School Funding, 1997-2010; 3) Historical Documents and Pamphlets, 1968-2006.

Bruce Gregersen was General Council Officer, Programs for Mission and Ministry from 2003-2013. He coordinated and supported the Canadian and global programs units of the church with particular care for the theological foundations of that work. Significant projects were undertaken during the tenure of Bruce, namely “Emerging Spirit,” “Environics pilot project, and “Mutual recognition of Ministry.”

Emerging Spirit was originally named ‘For Such a time as this.” Keith Howard was Executive Director and Bruce Gregersen was Senior Staff supervising Keith and the overall project.

Environics pilot project is a report that gives information about the social values and social trends of the people that participate in the congregation and of the people around the congregation.

Bruce was lead staff in the Mutual Recognition of Ministry processes leading up to General Council 42.

He also acted as supervisor of the Executive Director of Kairos, as required by Canada Revenue Agency rules to show operational control over the institution. These files relate to that specific role – approximately 2003–2012. The United Church was also a member of the Board and files will exist from this program perspective in the JGER unit.

Series consists of records of Bruce Gregersen re partnership reviews, maternity homes, full communion with United Church of Christ, Emerging Spirit and correspondence with units.