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Stella Burry | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. Portraits Collection, Stella Burry 76.001P780, United Church of Canada Archives. Stella Annie Burry was born in Greenspond, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, on August 11, 1897. At a time when getting an education was considered secondary for girls, Burry’s mother was insistent that Stella obtain a good education. She attended the Methodist school in Greenspond. Burry knew that the people she served wanted to help themselves and to devel...

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Peter Jones | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. Rev Peter Jones (1802-1856). Peter Jones (1802-1856) or to use his Ojibwe name, Kahkewaquonaby ( Sacred Feathers ), became in 1833 the first ordained Indigenous Methodist minister in what is now Canada. Thanks to him, and to other Aboriginal Methodist workers, a solid First Nations Methodist Church was established in southern Ontario in the 1820s and 1830s. Toronto: William Briggs, 1883), page 59. The last known image of Peter Jones...

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Program Eligibility Criteria | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. Persons of Historic Significance. Nominated subjects in this category either individuals or groups of people – must have been actively involved in The United Church of Canada or its predecessor Churches, or their work must have had a significant and demonstrable impact on the Church, its culture, or how the Church has evolved. Persons must have been deceased for 25 years or more at the time of nomination. Nominated subjects in this ...

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Commemorations | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. Formation of Truro Presbytery. Formation of Truro Presbytery. Rev Peter Jones (1802-1856). Formation of the United Church of Canada (1925). Formation of the United Church of Canada (1925). Formation of Truro Presbytery. June 28, 2016. June 28, 2016. July 3, 2014. Formation of the United Church of Canada (1925). June 24, 2014. June 3, 2014. United Church of Canada: Digital Collections. Up and Down the Coast. United Church of Canada.

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Sources on the History of the United Church of Canada | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. Sources on the History of the United Church of Canada. Compiled by the Historical Sites Subcommittee of the History and Archives Committee,. United Church of Canada. April 7, 2014. Airhart, Phyllis D. A church with the soul of a nation: making and remaking the United Church of Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. Airhart, Phyllis D. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992. Ottawa: J. Hope, 1901. Full-orbe...

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Making a nomination | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. Determine whether your nomination meets the program eligibility criteria. View program guidelines here. View program eligibility criteria here. Fill out the nomination form. If you choose to download the Nomination Form please attach additional pages and information, if needed. Submissions by mail and email are accepted. For more information contact:. The United Church of Canada Archives. Toronto, Ontario M5A 2C6. June 28, 2016.

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Formation of Truro Presbytery | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. Formation of Truro Presbytery. Formation of Truro Presbytery. Truro Presbytery is the first regularly formed and oldest Presbytery in Canada. It was first organized in 1786 and still continues its work in the United Church of Canada in 2016. A Tale of Two Centuries: Truro Presbytery, Oldest in Canada by the Truro Presbytery History Committee, Sackville, N.B.: Tribune Press, 1993. On 2 August 1786, the first formal meeting of Truro P...

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Hay Bay Church | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. Ontario Churches and Institutions Photograph Collection, People leaving the Hay Bay Methodist Church 90.162P006, United Church of Canada Archives. Ontario Churches and Institutions Photograph Collection, Congregation outside Hay Bay Methodist Church 90.162P004N, United Church of Canada Archives. This entry was posted in Commemoration. June 3, 2014. Formation of the United Church of Canada (1925) →. August 19, 2014 at 5:42 pm. Format...

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Introduction | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. The Archives and History Committee is a Committee of General Council. Its mandate comes from the Manual of the United Church of Canada which states:. The Archives and History Committee is responsible for coordinating and promoting archival and historical activity for the United Church.” (E 4.8.3). The Committee’s duties include, among other responsibilities:. Promoting a knowledge of, and interest in, the history of the United Church.

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Guidelines | Honouring Our Heritage

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Celebrating the United Church of Canada Historic Commemorations Program. The Historic Commemorations Program is an initiative of the Archives and History Committee designed to highlight distinctive aspects of the Church’s history, culture, and heritage. Through this program, The United Church of Canada will publicly recognize:. Persons of Historic Significance. Places or Sites of Historic Significance. Events of Historic Significance. Formation of Truro Presbytery. June 28, 2016. June 28, 2016.