Eric Tayor Woods is a Canadian political and cultural sociologist with interests in the politics of identity, particularly in relation to nationalism, ethnicity, and religion. His interests also include the politics of memory and trauma in former British settler colonies.
His research included exploring the history of the Anglican's Church's involvment with running the Indian and Eskimo residential schools. This resulted in a Ph.D. thesis about the long road to the Anglican Church's apology.
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Fonds consists of one electronic file (PDF) of the Ph.D. Thesis entitled, The Anglican Church of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools: A Meaning-Centred Analysis of the Long Road to Apology.
Carling C. Beninger is a settler historian that focuses on settler colonialism, Indigenous education, residential schools, Indigenous activism, Indigenous-Church relations, and reconciliation. She continues to do historical research and educates others on settler colonialism and Indigenous history. Ms. Beninger researched and wrote her M.A. thesis on the Anglican Church of Canada Indigenous policies.
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Fonds consists of one electronic file (PDF) of the M.A. Thesis entitled, The Anglican Church of Canada: Indigenous Policies, 1946-2011.
James Roger Miller (1943- ), F.R.S.C. is the Canada Research Chair and Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan. His published works in the area of Indian Residential Schools includes Shingwauk's Vision (1996), Sweet Promises: A Reader of Indian-White Relations in Canada (1991), Skyscrapers hide the heavens : A history of Indian-White relations in Canada (1989 , revised 1991)
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File consists of Archivists, historians, and residential schools : The opening keynote address to the Association of Canadian Archivists, Palliser Hotel, Calgary, Alberta. May 15, 2009.
Max Friesen (1961- ) is an arctic archaeologist and a professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. His research explores how the linkages between social organization, world view, economy, technology, environment, and landscape have shaped northern peoples’ lives over the past 5,000 years. Professor Friesen has done extensive research into Isaac Stringer's missionary work in the Mackenzie Delta in the 1890's.
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Fonds consists of one article in typescript 35p. in length about the village of Kittigazuit. The article is a description and interpretation of Bishop Stringer's account of Kittigazuit, the largest and most important Inuvialuit site of the 19th century.
Ian R. Dalton is the great grand nephew of the Rev. William Arthur Johnson and the son of F. Keith Dalton who originally wrote an article on The Life of the Rev. William Arthur Johnson.
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Fonds consists of 1 article in typescript 53 p. in length entitled, The Life of the Reverend William Arthur Johnson (1816-1880) Clergyman, Schoolmaster, Scientist, Artist and Master-Builder. Founder of Trinity College School, Weston & Port Hope. It is the expanded version of the short biography compiled by F. Keith Dalton in 1965 and published in The Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, Vol. III, No. 1, March 1966.
Faith, Worship, and Ministry Committee (1995- ) was created at General Synod 1995 from the amalgamation of the Doctrine and Worship Committee and the Committee on Ministry. The Faith, Worship, and Ministry Committee nurtures the common life and identity of Canadian Anglicans. This work includes the areas of ecumenism, Anglican identity, ethics, interfaith relationships, worship, theological education and ministry.
This committee’s role is to help Canadian Anglicans live out their Christian faith thoughtfully, prayerfully and with commitment through liturgical development and theological education, to foster inter-church and interfaith dialogues, to promote theological reflection and to provide resources on issues of doctrine, ethics, ecumenism, evangelism and mission.
Preceeded by the Doctrine and Worship Committee (1969-1995) and the Committee on Ministry (1969-1995).
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Fonds consists of minutes, reports, program files.
Sorrento Centre was established in 1963 on Shusway Lake in Sorrento, British Columbia as a spiritual retreat for people to learn the teachings of Christianty.
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Fonds consists of a manual outlining the policies and standards of the centre, pamphlets, brochures and pledge cards.
Conference on Canadian Missionaries & East Asia was held at Croft Chapter House, University College, University of Toronto from April 22-23,1983. The conference speakers included Cyril Powles, M. Gewurtz, A. Austin, J. Grant, and others.
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Fonds consists of edited transcripts of proceedings of the conference, with lists of participants and presentations.
John Sargent Moir (1926-2012 ) was born in Toronto and received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Canadian history. Professor of History at Scarborough College, University of Toronto, Dr. Moir also held teaching posts at the University of Toronto and Carleton University, Ottawa. He contributed widely to books, encyclopedias, scholarly journals, and is the author of numerous publications on Canadian history and the role of the Church in Canadian history. He died on March 9, 2012 in Brantford, Ontario.
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Fonds consists of a typescript paper on the Canadian Protestant public's reaction to the Roman Catholic's proclamation of the Ne Temere Decree in 1908, including an analysis of coverage in the Protestant press, conferences and government legislation.
Related Fonds
See also: Committee on the Ne Temere Decree (GS75-37)
Nicolas Howard MacGachen ([1822?]-1916) attended the University of Glasgow, Scotland and received a B.A. from Pembroke College, Oxford in 1849. He was ordained deacon in 1849 and priest in 1850, was curate of Brading, Isle of Wight (1853-1858), Parish Church (1858-1868), and then vicar of St. Mark, north end, Portsmouth, (1868-1869), rector of St. George with St. Mary Magdalene, Canterbury (1869-1881), vicar of Littlebourne, Kent (1881-1899), and domestic chaplain to Lord Rollo and Dunning (1884-1899). While visiting his son in Canada, MacGachen often pursued his interest in drawing and painting.
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Fonds consists of a copy of the newsletter "Inside Info"(Nov. 1981, vol. 11, no. 3), University of Winnipeg, which includes an article on a exhibition of watercolours from a sketch book kept by Rev. MacGachen, depicting Canadian scenes in the 1880's. Includes a page of biographical information about MacGachen and the exhibition at the University of Winnipeg library.
Edward Cecil Royle (1912-1990), taught Sunday School, appointed curate at Saint Matthias, Westmount and ordained deacon and priest in 1936. Served in the parish of Arundel, Laurentians, 1940-1943 and chaplain in the army. Served at Saint James' Church, Hudson Heights and Saint Mary's, Como after the war for over 30 years.
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Fonds consists of a biography of George Hedley Wolfendale, an order of service dedicating All Saints, South Merstham Church, newsletters from the Fellowship of the West, a newspaper clipping, a biographical sketch and black and white photgraphs of Geoffrey Guiton.
The Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ont. parish was organized in 1880 when a group of Anglicans asked Bishop Sullivan of Algoma for a clergyman. He sent Rev. W.M. Tooke (1880-1886) who organized the congregation and supervised the building of All Saints' Church, consecrated in 1884.
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File consists of historical facts and Order of Service for the Centennial Eucharist of All Saints', Gore Bay, and an Order of Service for the 88th Anniversary Evensong for St. Peter's Church, Silver Water.
Mel Robertson is a graduate in History from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He was Clerk to the Vestry and lay delegate of Holy Trinity Church, Burford, Ontario, and author of numerous historical and humorous newspaper articles as well as two books.
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Fonds consists of a typescript copy of "Saddle and Bible : the letters and reports of, and about the Reverend George S. Petrie, B.A., 1806-1847". The author, Mel Robertson, compiled and transcribed correspondence from Rev. Petrie to W.J.D. Waddilove, Bishop John Strachan to Petrie and others, and letters and reports concerning Petrie's death from an unknown friend to W.J.D Waddilove. Includes biographical and geneological information about Petrie and his family, brief sketches of William James Darley Waddilove (1785-1859) and Bishop Charles Stewart ("The Stewart Mission"), a note about postal service in Burford and the Cholera epidemic during Petrie's time. The letters and reports illustrate how Petrie, a Stewart missionary to the London district and first rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Burford, was working to bring the teachings of the Church of England to Upper Canada.