Fonds consists of records related to different General Council committees. See series descriptions for more details.
United Church of Canada. General Council CommitteesSeries consists of the following subseries; 1) Minutes and Agenda, 1958-1962; 2) Reports, 1957-1964; 3) Correspondence, 1959-1964; 4) Pamphlets published by the Interboard Committee on Recruiting for Church Vocations; 5) Miscellaneous Materials; 1960-1964, 6) Related Materials; 1948-1964.
Series consists of: minutes, 1936-1954; printed items relating to missions, including some program materials for Young People's Unions, 1937-1950; and printed missionary letters relating to fields in India (1935-1953, incl. some original correspondence), Trinidad (1939-1952), China (1945-1951), Japan (1952-1953), Korea (1952-1953). Includes typescripts of unpublished material written by different ministers.
Subseries consists of minutes of meetings, 1947-1980.
Subseries consists of research reports and briefing materials for meetings of the Committee and its
Executive; correspondence of the Secretary, 1958-1978.
Series consists of minutes of a meeting to consider the future of missionary and Board publications; and minutes of a subcommittee appointed to administer the issuing of the first number of The United Church Record and Missionary Review.
Series consists of a letter and a memorandum relating to questions facing the Commission.
Series consists of minutes of the Committee on Radio, 1944-1953; minutes of the Committee on Radio and Television, 1954-1955; correspondence, 1951-1957; list of programs, 1954-1955; agenda, Conference on Radio, 1949; minutes of the Canadian Council of Churches Conference on Radio Evangelism, 1953; financial estimates, budgets; memoranda; "Hymns for Radio Broadcasting," [n.d.];
records of the London Conference Radio Committee; and reports.
Series consists of minutes of the Commission; correspondence; submissions from various boards; and reports of the Commission.
Series consists of minutes of the Committee; correspondence; background papers; and reports of the Committee.
Series consists of minutes and agendas, 1955-1958; list of members, 1954-1958; surveys of hospitals conducted during the period 1954-1958; correspondence, 1955-1958; statistics for various hospitals, [ca. 1956]; briefs; and reports of the Commission, 1956 and 1958.
Series consists of minutes; correspondence; and draft reports.
Series consists of minutes, 1957-1958; correspondence, 1956-1958; briefs and reports regarding women's work, [195-]; briefs and reports regarding the Order of Deaconesses prepared by the Church of Scotland, 1957; pamphlets, 1955-1956; and draft reports of the Commission's report, [1958?]
Series consists of minutes, 1957-1960; briefs, [ca. 1956]; literature review of beverage and alcohol use, 1960; "Historical Development of the Temperance Movement in Methodism in Canada," a B.D. thesis by C.R. Wood, 1958; survey of pronouncements on temperance by the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches in Canada, [n.d.]; survey of drinking habits in Nova Scotia high schools, [n.d.]; pamphlets, 1938 and [195-]; Report of the British Royal Commission on Licensing, 1932; Rowell-Sirois Report, summary and criticism, 1940 and 1945; provincial legislation regarding liquor control, 1951-1958; and final report of
the Commission, 1960.
Series consists of minutes, 1957; correspondence, 1956-1960; briefs, 1957-1960; and report of the management consultants Woods, Gordon & Co., 1960.
Series consists of minutes, 1963. These records also contain minutes, terms of reference, correspondence, briefs and reports of the Commission on Ordination, 1959-1962.
Series consists of minutes, 1960-1961; correspondence, 1958-1962; pamphlet, [n.d.]; handbook, [ca. 1950]; briefs, [196-]; and reports of the Commission, 1960 and 1962.
Series consists of minutes of the Committee, 1959-1960; minutes of the Canadian Committee for World Refugee Year, 1959-1960; correspondence, 1959-1960; project material, papers, addresses and studies, 1959-1960; questionnaires regarding sponsors, 1960; publications of the United Nations and World Council of Churches, 1958-1960; pamphlets and other promotional materials, 1959-1960; newspaper clippings, 1959-1960; and reports, 1959-1960.