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Person · 1897-1998

Lewis Calvin Walmsley (1897-1998) was a West China missionary and educator, head of the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and author. He was born in Milford, Ontario and studied at Victoria College and the College of Education in Toronto where he graduated in 1919. In 1920 he was engaged to Constance Kilborn, but they parted for a year and he went on to teach mathematics at Regina College in Saskatchewan. They married in 1921 and later that year they decided to become missionaries and later sailed to the West China Mission. He was appointed principal of the Canadian School for missionaries' children in 1923 and served there until 1947. During one furlough he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto (D.Paed.). In 1929 he taught pedagogy as well as social and experimental phycology at the West China Union University. He accepted an appointment as head of the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto in 1949, and retired in 1963. He wrote several books about China. He also wrote a biography entitled, "Bishop in Honan : mission and museum in the life of William C. White", [ca.1974].

Mitchell (family)
Family

The Mitchell family served as missionaries from the Presbyterian Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada to India and China in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.

Person · 8 October 1899 - 10 October 1999

Clarence Heber Dickinson (1899-1999) was a Methodist/United Church minister and publisher. The son of John Dickinson and Edith Jane (nee) Pym, Dickinson was born in Anderson, Perth County, Ontario on October 8, 1899, along with his twin, Herbert Earl. He was educated at Victoria University, Toronto, where he received The Governor General’s Gold Medal on completion of the Bachelor of Divinity Degree, in 1926, and at Union Theological Seminary, New York. He was ordained by London Conference of the Methodist Church in 1924; one year prior to The United Church of Canada coming into being. He served as a student minister in a small congregational church on Long Island, New York before serving on Ashfield Circuit (near Lucknow, Ontario), at Moosejaw, and at Erskine-American Church in Montreal.

On May 31, 1930 he married Isobel Kneen (8 June 1896 – 1982), in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and they would go on to have three boys.

From 1937 to 1964, Rev. Dickinson served as Book Steward of the United Church Publishing House and as General Manager, at Ryerson Press in Toronto, Ontario. In 1948, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Victoria University for services with the United Church Publishing House and in 1967, he received a Canadian Medal for services with The English Speaking Union.

Rev. Dickinson retired in 1966 and would go on to serve as Associate Ministry of Chalmers United Church in Woodstock, Ontario. While living in the city, he helped form the Community Services Council, to examine and to integrate the various social services being rendered in the community. In addition, he was a member of the Woodstock Rotary Club, the Ministerial Association, the local branch of the Canadian Bible Society and The Canadian Club, as well as Learning Unlimited (Oxford). In 1990, he received an Ontario Senior Achievement Award for Services with Learning Unlimited (Oxford) and Social Services in the City of Woodstock. During his later years, he published a number of poetry books as well as wrote his autobiography.

Rev. Clarence Heber Dickinson passed away in Guelph on October 10, 1999.

Albright (family)
Family · 1888-1960

The Albrights were a Methodist/United Church family in Beamsville, Ontario. Charles Raymond Albright was born 1888 March 26 in South Cayuga. His parents were Josiah D. Albright and Sarah Moyer. He grew up in Beamsville, Ontario. In June 1917, he was ordained into the ministry of the Methodist Church. He retired in June 1952 and returned to Beamsville. His wife was Jean Little Wright. Other family members were his brother F.S. Albright (Fred), killed at Passchaendale in 1917, his brother W.D. Albright (Don) and his sister Mrs. Roy Hobden (Margaret). Before his death in 1960, Rev. Albright gave to The United Church of Canada a piece of property in Beamsville. This property later became the location for Albright Gardens, a community for retired United Church personnel.

London Missionary Society
Corporate body · 1795

The London Missionary Society was organized by the Congregationalists in 1795 and had missions in various parts of the world, including Canada.

Corporate body · 1839-1853

The Union was formed 1839; it was made up predominantly of churches in what is now Quebec, but included a few from what is now Ontario, east of Kingston. It amalgamated with the Congregational Union of Western Canada to form the Congregational Union of Canada, 1853-1867.

Corporate body · 1853

The Society was constituted in 1853, and held its first meeting in 1854; it was formed by the merger of the Congregational Union of Canada West Missionary Society and the Congregational Missionary Society for Eastern Canada. Its main responsibility was to give financial aid to churches and ministers in Canada.

Corporate body · 1881

The Society was organized in 1881 by the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec and was originally known as the Congregational Foreign Missionary Society of British North America. Its object was to spread knowledge of the Gospel. In 1889 the later name was incorporated; the primary responsibility was to raise money and oversee a mission in Angola.

Corporate body · 1886-

Founded 1886 in connection with the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, the Board soon directed its attention to the foreign field, sending its first woman missionary to Angola in 1890. Although foreign mission work continued to claim the greater part of the Board's resources, it also supported numerous home mission undertakings (collecting donations for needy Aboriginal People and settlers on the prairies; welcoming immigrants; assisting new Canadians in building churches), and contributed generously to the home mission schemes of the CanadaCongregational Missionary Society. The Board's main activities included fund raising, missionary education, and supplying woman missionaries for work abroad.

Corporate body · 1856-1929

The Society was formed 1856 as the Canada Congregational Ministers, Widows and Orphans Fund; it changed its name in 1873. Its objects were to raise and distribute money for pensions for retired ministers and the widows and orphans of deceased clergy in British North America (later Canada). In 1929 the Fund came under the management of The United Church of Canada Board of Pensions, as part of its consolidated pension fund.

Corporate body · 1877

Incorporated in 1877 in Toronto, the Company's responsibilities included publishing The Canadian Congregational Year Book and the periodical, The Canadian Independent.

Corporate body · 1896

Constituted in 1896 as the Western Association, it later changed its name, but retained its mandate to promote the fellowship of the churches and their efficiency in carrying out the work of Christ. The Association was comprised of churches in Ontario.

Corporate body · 1890

The Association was constituted 1890 as the Toronto Congregational Society. Its constitution was revised in 1894, after which it was known as the Toronto District Congregational Association until 1909, when the above name and a new constitution were introduced. The Association's purpose was to promote evangelical religion and cooperation in everything related to the interests of the member churches.