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1966-1984 (Creation)
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- Ray, Donald G., 1918-2010
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10.05 m of textual records
11 photographs
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Donald Gordon Ray was a United Church minister and administrator. He was born in 1918 in Toronto, Ontario. He earned his B.A. at Victoria College in 1940 and attended Emmanuel College in 1940-1942. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1942-1945, completed his theological course at Emmanuel College in 1946 and was ordained in Toronto in the same year. He served the following charges: Berwyn-Grimshaw in Alberta, 1946-1949; Kettleby in Ontario, 1949-1951; Dauphin, 1951-1959, and Fort Garry in Manitoba, 1960-1970. He was President of Manitoba Conference in 1961-1962. In 1970 he was appointed Associate Secretary, in 1971 Deputy Secretary and in 1975 Secretary of the General Council until his retirement in 1983. Predeceased by his first wife, the former Mary G. Clark in 2002, he married Joan Dewar in 2003. Rev. Donald G. Ray died in 2010.
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Donald G. Ray was General Secretary from 1975-1983.
Subseries consists of General Council Office files. They include those of Donald G. Ray and administrative assistant Brenda D. Moyes. Also included are records of Deputy Secretaries Albion Wright and Peter Gordon White, and Moderator’s George Tuttle and Lois Wilson. The collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, inter-office correspondence and minutes from the various committees and divisions of Church House. Although the bulk of letters pass between members of divisions, committees, task forces, etc., correspondence from United Church members, private citizens and government officials also appear in the files.