The Church of England Deaconess and Missionary Training House was established in 1890 as a residential school to prepare women workers for Deaconess and missionary service. In 1947 the name was changed to the Anglican Women's Training College (AWTC). Anglican women from all over Canada came to Toronto to train for work in Christian Education in parishes, medical and teaching services overseas, Indian and Eskimo Residential Schools and reserves, Bishop's Messengers in western Canada, Sunday School by Post and Radio, youth and social work. The Woman's Auxiliary recruits were sent to the AWTC for missionary training for a year or less before being sent out. This was different from the three year diploma program offered to AWTC students.
In 1969, the AWTC merged with the United Church's Covenent College to become the Centre for Christian Studies using the former AWTC building on Charles Street, Toronto. In 1997, the building in Toronto was sold and a decision was made to discontinue the traditional residential program in favour of the community based program and to relocate the administrative offices to Winnipeg. In July, 1998, CCS officially moved.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of correspondence, fundraising and insurance records, architectural plans and blueprints, minutes of meetings, Alumnae and student records, daybooks, financial and legal records, annual reports, scrapbooks, pamphlets and other printed materials, photographs, artifacts, and oral history interviews.
Fonds is arranged in 7 series:
Series 1: Committee on Deaconesses, 1890-1897.
Series 2: Administration Records of the Deaconess House and AWTC, 1893-1990.
Series 3: Committees, 1899-1973.
Series 4: Associations, 1896-1990.
Series 5: Printed and Miscellaneous Material, 1892-1998. Series 6: Anglican Women’s Training College: A Background Document. – 1893-1990.
Series 7: Photographs, 1900-1969.
Related Fonds
Woman's Auxiliary fonds
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds
Alfred Wellington Buckland (1868-1932) was born in Chester, England. He served as a lay reader at St.Thomas' Church, Montreal, 1889-1892. He served as a lay missionary at Fort Chimo, York Factory, Moose Factory, Ungava, Chesterfield Inlet, and Cape Fullerton. Buckland was ordained deacon in 1897 and priest in 1898. He was Organizing Missionary for Southern Ohio until 1911, served at the Mission of Portneuf and the Rectory of New Carlisle and Cookshire and as a chaplain on the front line during WWI.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of diary excerpts by Buckland from 1895 to 1896 concerning his experiences with the Eskimos. One photograph of Buckland in arctic winter clothing.
The Canadian Church Missionary Association was founded in 1894 in connection with the Church Missionary Society of England (C.M.S). Formed by members of the Church of England in Canada, its purpose was to send out Canadian missionaries to convert the non-Christian world. Some of their first missionaries went to Japan. In 1895, the Association was amalgamated with the Wycliffe Missions. The Association was to act in Canada on behalf of the Church Missionary Society to receive and examine candidates for service as well as to promote its cause within the Canadian Church. In 1902, the Association's full name of "Canadian Church Missionary Association in Connection with the Church Missionary Society" was abbreviated to "Canadian Church Missionary Society" (C.C.M.S). In the same year, the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (M.S.C.C.) was formed. Shortly thereafter, the C.C.M.S. pledged its loyalty to this new missionary society with the intent of forming one great missionary society for the whole of Canada.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of original annual report booklets, informational pamphlets, circular letters, correspondence and a photograph of a group of C.C.M.S. missionaries with their Japanese pupils.
Associated Material
See MM51 .A21 "The Canadian Church Missionary Society", by David Cameron Adams, 1965
Canadian Church Missionary Gleaner, 1902 and C.C.M.S. reports in New Era, 1903-1911
Related Fonds
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (DFMS) fonds
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds
Frederick Herbert DuVernet (1860-1924) was educated at Wycliffe College, Toronto and ordained deacon in 1883 and priest in 1884. He served a year at St. James the Apostle, Montreal, but spent most of his career in Toronto and British Columbia. From 1885-1895, he was professor of Practical Theology at Wycliffe College. DuVernet was very involved with the Wycliffe Missions and then the Canadian Church Missionary Society. He was the Secretary-Treasurer for the Canadian Church Missionary Society, as well as the editor of The Canadian Church Missionary Gleaner, 1894-1901 and Associate Editor of the New Era, 1901-1904. He also write abd published many Religious and Psychological articles in his later years.
In 1904, Duvernet was elected Bishop of Caledonia and moved to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. At the time of his death, DuVernet was Archbishop of Caledonia and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a holograph original diary, Diary of a missionary tour, attributed to DuVernet, outlining a tour of the Rainy River District from July 11-20, 1898.
18.28 m of textual, graphic and audiovisual materials
Administrative History
The General Board of Religious Education (GBRE) Committee (1918-1967) came into existence by the enactment of Canon VII at the 8th General Synod in September 1918. Its mandate was to study the educational needs of the church in respect of primary and secondary education and of all Sunday School work, and to recommend such measures as it may deem advisable and to advance the cause of religious education in the schools. This does not generally include Indian Residential Schools.
The GBRE was divided into I. Educational Section for parish needs, teacher training, and religious education in public schools; and II. Editorial and Supplies Section. Other residual programs were the Sunday School by Post and Radio, the Sunday School Caravan Mission, and the Anglican Young People's Association (AYPA).
The GBRE was run by the General Secretary:
Robert Arthur Hiltz (1877-1955), 1910-1950
Arthur Harding Priest (1892-1958), 1950-1958
Kenneth Howard Michael Creal (1927- ), 1958-1965
Thomas David Somerville (1915-2011), 1965-1966
Jefferson, Philip Clarke (1928-2012), 1966-1973
The GBRE was preceded by Inter-Diocesan Sunday School Committee and the Sunday School Commission of the Church of England in Canada. In 1967 the GBRE Committee was dismantled and the Department of Religious Education became a section in the Programme Department at the General Synod.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of reports, minutes, legal documents, correspondence, financial records, printed materials, graphic materials and audio-visual materials.
Fonds organized into the following series:
Series 1. Inter-Diocesan Sunday School Committee, 1889-1904
Series 2. Sunday School Committee of the General Synod of the Church of England in Canada, 1905-1908
Series 3. Sunday School Commission of the Church of England in Canada, 1908-1918
Series 4. General Board of Religious Education, 1918-1967
Series 5. Anglican Young People's Association, 1902-1967
Series 6. Periodicals, 1883-1971
Series 7. Pamphlet and Printed Materials, 1910-1967
Series 8. Curriculum and Text books, 1926-1967
Series 9: Illustrated Materials and Picture Rolls, [192-?]-1965
33.1 m of textual records plus graphic materials, and sound and moving images.
Administrative History
The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada was formed in 1893. The Anglican Church was initially known as The Church of England in Canada and changed its name in 1956. The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada is composed of the Archbishops and Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada and of Clerical and Lay delegates elected by the Dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada. This body of members meets every three years to assess and direct the business and spiritual direction of the church.
In between the triennial meetings the work of the General Synod is overseen by the Council of General Synod, formerly the National Executive Council (1965-1995), preceded by the Executive Council (Central) (1923-1964).
The General Synod has the authority to adopt canons, rules, regulations and by-laws relating to the Church or Synod. It exercises these powers through boards, councils, committees, and commissions which the General Synod from time to time appoints.
The General Synod owns property in Toronto that it uses for its national office, historically referred to as Church House. The departments that support the work of the General Synod Councils, Boards, and Committees are housed at Church House directed by the General Secretary and the Primate.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of the Constitution & Canons, the General Synod journals, General Synod Handbooks, minutes and records of the General Synod and its boards, councils, committees, commissions and task forces.
Henry Alford Naylor (1873-1956) graduated from McGill University and took his theological training at the Montreal Diocesan Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1896 and priest in 1897. He became the first missionary at Forty Mile, Yukon Territory where he worked among the miners for three years. In 1899, he became rector of St. Paul's, Dawson City. In 1901, Naylor returned to the Montreal diocese and became incumbent of Chelsea until 1905; Incumbent of Arundel, 1905-1910; Rector of Frehlighsburg, 1910-1915; Rector of St.Lambert, 1915-1926. Rural Dean, 1915-1927; Curate of St.Cyprus, Montreal, 1927-1933; Incumbent of Valleyfield, 1933-1945 (retired). H.A. Naylor was the son of Archdeacon W.H. Naylor of Clarendon, Quebec, and brother to Archdeacon R. Kenneth Naylor.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of personal and professional correspondence and photographs regarding people and places in the Diocese of Yukon. Includes correspondence with members of the Naylor family; Bp. and Mrs. W.C. Bompas; Roland Palmer of the S.S.J.E. and other people working in the in the Yukon such as Benjamin Totty, John Hawksley, Isaac Stringer, H.A. Cody, R.J. Bowen.
James Richard Lucas (1863-1938) enrolled at the C.M.S.'s school in London, England and was ordained deacon in 1892 and priest in 1893. Served at Fort Chipewyan, Archdeacon of the Mackenzie River Diocese for seven years and Bishop of Mackenzie River, 1913-1926. Warden of the Church Army in Canada, 1929-1934.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of financial records; correspondence with missionaries and mission stations; clergy lists; and returns and statistics on grant payments, church attendence, indigenous work and expenditures of the diocese.
John Austin Worrell (1852-1927), educated at Trinity College School, Port Hope and University of Trinity College, Toronto. Graduated in 1871, studied law and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1878. Assessor to the General Synod, 1896-1927 and Chancellor of the Diocese of Toronto.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of letters and correspondences written to Worrell, relating to the law suit case by Reverend Frederick Julius Steen against the Bishop of the Diocese of Montreal, William Bennett Bond, constitutional rules on status of delegates to the General Synod, and the creation of the Diocese Of Honan and the consecration of Bishop White.
Related Fonds
Other records relating to the Diocese of Honan can be found in the Diocese of Honan fonds.
Other records relating to the Diocese of Honan and Bishop W.C. White can be found in the William Charles White fonds
John Carry (1824-1891), educated at Lennoxville, was admitted to Holy Orders in 1850 and served as parish priest in several charges for over 40 years.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of catalogue and price lists of the late John Carry's library and rough note's price lists. Letters between Mrs. Carry and W.H. Naylor regarding the sale of Carry's library.