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CA ON00340 F500-3 · Series · 1925-1975
Part of United Church of Canada General Council fonds

Series consists primarily of correspondence and reports--including that of the Church's lawyers, particularly A.E. Whitehead--concerned with the operation of Pastoral Charges, Presbyteries, Conferences and committees; and the Council's function to settle disputes over property, doctrine, the settlement, transfer of ministers, and all other matters pertaining to the government of the Church.

Beginning July 19, 1999, all users will be asked to complete FORM 26 before receiving access to these records. All personnel files are restricted for 100 years from birth.

CA ON00340 F500-4 · Series · 1940-1978, predominant 1954-1978
Part of United Church of Canada General Council fonds

Series consists of reports, correspondence and some minutes, organized by Board and/or Division, including Boards of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Christian Education, Evangelism and Social Service, Board of Women, Information and Stewardship, Home Missions, Overseas Missions, World Mission, Divisions of Communication, including The Observer, Congregational Life and Work, Finance, Ministry, Personnel and Education, Mission in Canada, World Outreach.

Beginning July 19, 1999, all users will be asked to complete FORM 26 before receiving access to these records

CA ON00340 F500-7 · Series · 1940-1986
Part of United Church of Canada General Council fonds

Series consists of correspondence, reports and some minutes of interdenominational organizations and other religious organizations with which the United Church had some relationship. These organizations include the Alliance of Reformed Churches, Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, Church of Scotland, Coptic Church, Evangelical and Reformed Church (U.S.A.), Evangelical Churches of Germany and German Democratic Republic, Disciples of Christ union discussion, International Congregational Council, Lutheran Reformed Dialogue, Moravian Church, National Council of Churches (U.S.A.) , Orthodox Churches, Presbyterian Church in Canada, Roman Catholic Church, Russian Orthodox, Unitarian Service Committee, the World Council of Churches, and the Canadian Council of Churches. The series also includes records of non-institutional relationships, like Christian-Jewish relations and aid to European churches during World War II.

Beginning July 19, 1999, all users will be asked to complete FORM 26 before receiving access to these records

CA ON00340 F500-9 · Series · 1968-1974
Part of United Church of Canada General Council fonds

The Department of Planning Assistance was established by General Council in 1968 as a successor to the Long-Range Planning Committee, becoming operational in the following year. The Department was to assist Divisions, Conferences and Presbyteries in their planning, but a confusion of responsibilities and planning guidelines led to its abrupt termination in 1972.

Series consists of minutes, 1969-1972, correspondence, reports, and miscellanea. Includes "A Process for Planning," 1968: a report prepared by Kates, Peat, Marwick & Co. with the assistance of the Long-Range Planning Committee.

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CA ON00340 F500-10 · Series · 1961-1984
Part of United Church of Canada General Council fonds

These committees served both administrative and social functions. The General Council Secretaries, the Group of Eight, and Senior Secretaries all describe basically the same group of decision makers at different times. The Group of Eight was seen as the senior management committee of the Church, comprising the General Council and Division Secretaries, with responsibility for channeling policies and priorities through the Church, monitoring operations and ensuring accountability of the Divisions, and acting as a body to recommend to General Council the assignment of particular responsibilities. Officers of Church House (OUCH) was a body called together by the Moderator, consisting of all officers appointed by General Council, and was largely a consultative body that attempted to provide cooperation in the conduct of their several responsibilities, and in understanding the overall mission of the Church. The Group of Twenty was comprised of the General Council Secretariat, the Division Secretaries, and the Conference Executive Secretaries; its task was primarily to monitor the accountability of Conferences and General Council to the Church's policies and priorities. Club 85, originally the Gift and Flower Club, was organized by women working in Church House, primarily as a benevolent organization that became a social and support group. It was disbanded in 1981.

Series consists of minutes, correspondence, and reports of the following bodies: General Council Secretaries (including records of the Group of Eight), 1978-1983; Group of Twenty, 1976-1984; Senior Secretaries, 1969-1980; Administrative Officers, 1975-1990; Officers of Church House (OUCH), 1961-1972; and Club 85, 1961-1980; files re a committee on smoking in the work place. Includes two photographs of retirement teas.

Beginning July 19, 1999, all users will be asked to complete FORM 26 before receiving access to these records.

CA ON00340 F502-1 · Series · 1925-1961
Part of United Church of Canada Board of Overseas Missions fonds

Series includes minutes of the Board and Executive with indexes, 1926-1961; general correspondence of Board and mission secretaries regarding, for example, policy, finance, and candidates, relating to all mission fields; reports of the Joint Policy and Medical Committee; Treasurer's reports, correspondence with the Woman's Missionary Society, scholarship applications and documentation for the United Church's involvement with the Canadian School of Missions (later, the Canadian School of Missions and Ecumenical Institute), each secretary having sat on the Board (1927-1973).

Records relating to Angola
CA ON00340 F502-2 · Series · 1925-1961
Part of United Church of Canada Board of Overseas Missions fonds

Series consists of minutes the Angola West Africa Mission Council, 1927-1956; minutes of the annual joint meetings of the West Central Africa Mission and Angola West Africa Mission, 1926-1952; minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Central Institutions at Dondi, 1926-1934 and 1943-1959; minutes of joint meetings of the Angola West Africa Mission, Angola Mission, and Angola Church Council, 1953-1956; minutes of the General Assembly of the Council of Evangelical Churches in Central Angola, 1956-1961; minutes of annual meetings of the Committee of Missionaries [Canadian and American], 1957-1962; minutes of the Joint Consultative Committee re Africa [the Canadian and American Home Boards], 1926-1961; correspondence of the mission secretaries and treasurers with the Board Secretaries; correspondence of individual missionaries; and reports of educational and medical work at Dondi; photographs taken during the trip to Angola of the Board Secretary, Dr. David Gallagher, and Rev. Anson Moorhouse, 1951.

Records relating to China
CA ON00340 F502-4 · Series · 1910-1965, predominant 1925-1952
Part of United Church of Canada Board of Overseas Missions fonds

Series consists of the following subseries: records relating to West China, 1910-1965; Church of Christ in China records, 1929-1957; records of the Honan Mission, 1912-1952; records relating to South China, 1925-1953; and records re China in general and of interchurch bodies.

CA ON00340 F502-5 · Series · 1925-1961
Part of United Church of Canada Board of Overseas Missions fonds

Series includes minutes of the Central India Mission Council, 1925-1957 (bound); correspondence between the Board Secretaries, and the Secretary of the Central India Mission Council and the missionaries, 1925-1961; and reports of colleges, and hospital and medical stations and other references to church property.

Administrative records
CA ON00340 F503-1 · Series · 1962-1971
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes of Executive and annual meetings, 1962-1972 (official); general files arranged by year including, for example, records of internal and international ecumenical committees, and correspondence of Board staff, and records of Crossroads Africa, 1961-1968.

Missionary files
CA ON00340 F503-3 · Series · 1951-1971
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of correspondence with individual missionaries, concerning work in the field, their own positions, and reports on other missionaries. There is a good deal of the correspondence of Sid Gilchrist, mission doctor in Angola and Zambia.

This material was removed from the files of the Board of World Mission and the Woman's Missionary Society of the United Church at some point in the past, and is now restored.

Records relating to Nepal
CA ON00340 F503-15 · Series · 1954-1974
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists primarily of published minutes of the Executive Committee and of the Board of Managers of the Mission, 1959-1965 and 1968-1974; correspondence of the Executive Secretary with the Board of World Mission, 1961-1972, and of the missionaries stationed there, as well as some general files.

CA ON00340 F503-23 · Series · 1925-1973
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes of various committees, correspondence, research papers and reports, background documents, and speeches relating to the following bodies: Canadian Council of Churches Department of Overseas Missions, 1947-1970; Foreign Mission Conference of North America, 1925-1950; National Council of Churches of Christ USA--Division of Overseas Ministries, 1951-1974; International Missionary Council, 1925-1961; and World Council of Churches: Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, 1971-1973.

Printed Material
CA ON00340 F506-5 · Series · 1948-1971
Part of United Church of Canada Board of Men fonds

Series consists of printed materials for distribution by Board of Men and its predecessor committees, such as: promotional leaflets, manuals for many levels and areas of men's work/laymen's activities in the United Church, brochures for organizing Laymen's Sunday, and a published newsletter titled "National News".

CA ON00340 F527-1 · Series · 1979-1995
Part of Affirm United / S'Affirmer Ensemble fonds

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.)

CA ON00340 F527-2 · Series · 1987-2010
Part of Affirm United / S'Affirmer Ensemble fonds

Series consists of records of the national Affirm United, including: annual general meeting minutes, correspondence and reports, 1996-2006; minutes and correspondence of the National Consultative Council,1996-1998, 2000-2004; general correspondence, 1995-1998, 2001; newsletters, 1996-2007; minutes, correspondence and resource publications of Affirming Congregations Administrative Task Group, 1990-2007, including correspondence with Affirming United Church organizations/congregations,
1987-2010.

Records of Regional Groups
CA ON00340 F527-3 · Series · 1982-2003
Part of Affirm United / S'Affirmer Ensemble fonds

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.

CA ON00340 F514-1 · Series · 1954-1968
Part of United Church of Canada Board of Information and Stewardship fonds

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.

CA ON00340 F514-2 · Series · 1949-1970, predominant 1954-1968
Part of United Church of Canada Board of Information and Stewardship fonds

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.

CA ON00340 F514-6 · Series · 1957-1972
Part of United Church of Canada Board of Information and Stewardship fonds

Series consists of reports and articles accumulated by the Board of Information and Stewardship. Two files document the formation and demise of the Board. A number of files relate to the relationship of the Board with Conferences, Presbyteries and Congregations. Others deal with Radio and Television Policy and with Missionary Education. Some files have no direct relationship to the activities of the Board of Information and Stewardship but reflect broader issues debated by the United Church.

CA ON00340 F521-1 · Series · 1873-1968
Part of United Church of Canada Church Union collection

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.

CA ON00340 F521-2 · Series · 1901-1946
Part of United Church of Canada Church Union collection

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.

Revision of the Service Book
CA ON00340 F526-2 · Series · 1958-1978
Part of United Church of Canada Committee on Worship fonds

Series consists of minutes, 1941-1968, proofs of revisions of the service orders (Lord’s Supper, Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Burial, occasional services, etc), correspondence, booklets, and reports and correspondence of the Sub-Committee on Revision of the Hymnary.

Committee on Worship
CA ON00340 F526-3 · Series · 1969-1980
Part of United Church of Canada Committee on Worship fonds

Series consists of minutes, 1969-1980, correspondence of the executive, reports and research papers prepared for the committee on several of the issues involved in the revision of the Service Book and correspondence, reports, and the Order of Service for the Fiftieth Anniversary celebrations.

Records Relating to Trinidad
CA ON00340 F502-7 · Series · 1925-1961
Part of United Church of Canada Board of Overseas Missions fonds

Series consists of minutes and correspondence of the Mission Council; minutes and correspondence of the Committee of Missionaries; minutes and reports of the Committee on Women's Work; financial records; reports and correspondence of missionaries; and records of educational institutions.

Series consists of feedback re the vote on the ordination of homosexuals; listed by group, reports, late affirmation reports, non-documented individual responses, late group responses, problem affirmations, statement lists compiled by different categories, feedback indices.

[Materials of this group were also located in a 1994 accession of records from the General Council Office (Accession 94.161C). Most of the 1994 were exact copies of minutes and mass mailings, already described here. The few additional pages of mass mailings found in this accession have simply been added without notation to relevant files in Box 1. Affirmation reports 1-241 (incomplete) included in the above accession in numerical order have been added to this finding aid. In the 88.073C accession, these affirmation reports had been divided into Conferences and filed as Feedback. Thus, they now exist twice--by Conference and in numerical order.]

Records of John Bruce Hunter
CA ON00340 F3383-1 · Series · 1908-1942
Part of John Bruce Hunter fonds

Series consists of records of John Bruce Hunter’s ministerial and military career, as well as personal correspondence (received and sent), educational and biographical material.

Records of Harriet Pringle
CA ON00340 F3383-2 · Series · 1896-1944
Part of John Bruce Hunter fonds

Series consists of correspondence received and sent by Hattie Hunter; predominantly letters sent by Bruce Hunter to Hattie during the wars, and letters written by various family members. Also included are some educational and biographical materials.

Minutes and Correspondence
CA ON00340 F566-1 · Series · 1874-1930
Part of United Church of Canada Committees on Law and Legislation fonds

Series consists of Minutes of the Committee on Law and Legislation, 1921-1942, correspondence and letterbooks of committees’ and church lawyers, 1927-1936, minutes of the Joint Committee on Church Union, 1923-1927; records on Church Union Legislation, Commissions and Miscellaneous, 1874-1930.

Property
CA ON00340 F566-3 · Series · 1854-1968
Part of United Church of Canada Committees on Law and Legislation fonds

Series consists of the following subseries; 1) Records of denominational property, listed by province (1854-1968 (predominantly 1927-1968), 2) Extension Councils; Camps and incorporated church organizations (1931-1974), 3) Congregational property, 1926-1966, 4) Property not associated with a church; mortgages held on property used for residential or retail business, 1914-1966.