Date

1977 May 3-6

Source

National Executive Council. Minutes

Type

Resolution

Mover

Somerville

Seconder

Carter

Prologue

Archdeacon Hobson presented a memorial to the National Executive Council concerning the Kelley Papers which have been written on the early history of the Anglican Church of Canada, with the recommendation that a unit or commission be established to write an official history of the Anglican Church of Canada, investigating the possibility of editing and printing the Kelley Papers as the first volume of that history.

Text of motion

That the Primate be asked to establish a Commission to study the feasibility of producing a history of the Anglican Church of Canada, and in this respect to consider the Kelley Papers as the basis for volume one of such a project. CARRIED

Subjects

Anglican Church of Canada - History

Anglican Church of Canada - Information resources - Publication and distribution

Anglican Church of Canada - Publishing

Kelley, Arthur Reading, 1882-1961

Atlantic Canada to 1900 : a history of the Anglican Church

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