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Oliver R. Avison (1860-1956) was a missionary to Korea. He was born in Yorkshire, England, and came to Canada in 1866. He graduated from Toronto School of Medicine in 1887 and in 1893, Dr. Avison went to Korea under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. He and his wife, Jennie Barnes, stayed in Korea for forty years, until 1934, when they were expelled by the invading Japanese.

Andrew Baird Browning, (1855-1940) was a Presbyterian/United Church minister and educator. He was born near Motherwell, Ontario in 1855. He was educated at the University of Toronto, Knox College and in Europe. After a pastorate in Edmonton, he was made professor at Manitoba College in 1871. He taught for over fifty years at this Presbyterian/United Church college.

Edward Norcliffe Baker (1852-1929) was a Methodist/United Church minister and educator. He was born in Oakville, Ont. He was twice married, first to R. Meek in 1881, and then to Sarah Jane Axford in 1904. He was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1875 and served in the Toronto, Huron and Colborne Districts, serving at Sault Ste. Marie from 1911-1913. From 1913-1927 he was Principal of Albert College.

Edward Baker (1870-1952) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born in Birmingham, England and came to Canada at age sixteen. He graduated from Victoria College and was ordained into the Methodist Church in 1903. He served charges at Sundridge, Huttonville, Little Current, Markham, Cochrane, Newtonbrook, Meaford and Dundalk. He retired in 1936, whereupon he was made Minister Emeritus at Meaford.

Lynden Harold Winter Barclay (1912-1953) was a minister in the United Church of Canada. He attended high school at Glebe Collegiate in Ottawa. After graduation he attended McGill University, receiving a B.A. in 1932. He then earned an M.A. in Education at Queen’s University in 1934. He graduated from Emmanuel College in 1941 and was soon ordained into the United Church. He took some further post-graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in 1942. He was a minister at Radville, Saskatchewan 1942-1944; Kenogami, Quebec 1944-1948 and Woodroffe in Ottawa from 1949-1951. He took a study leave in 1942 and was studying for his doctorate of theology at Emmanuel when he was killed in a car accident in 1953. His parents were Dr. and Mrs. G.O. Barclay who served at Bell Street in Ottawa for over 40 years.

Enoch Barker (d.1921) was a Congregationalist minister in Ontario and Nova Scotia. He served the following charges: Speedside, Newmarket, Pictou, Fergus, Milton (Nova Scotia), Cornwallis, and Toronto.

Rev. George Wesley Barker (1872-1953) was a Methodist and then a United Church minister in Ontario in the first half of the twentieth century.

Herbert Whitehead Barker (1867-1951) was a banker who was active in the Congregational Union and then the United Church. He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia. His father, Rev. Enoch Barker, was a Congregationalist minister. Herbert Whitehead Barker settled in Toronto in the 1880s, working in banking. He was Treasurer of the Congregational Union from 1920 to 1925 as well as Treasurer of the Inter-Church Forward Movement. From 1925 to 1940, Mr. Barker served as Deputy Treasurer of the United Church.

Rev. Joseph Barnes (1863-1943) was a Methodist and then United Church minister in Ontario at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he came to Canada at the age of sixteen and settled in Belleville. He was educated at Victoria University and was ordained in 1896. Rev. Barnes served at Kinmount, Mountain Grove, North Port, Ameliasburg, Courtice, Tamworth, Odessa, Atherley, Wooler, Scugog Island, Milford and Greenwood. He was first married to Charlotte E. Lousley, and upon her death, he married Emma Quinn. Rev. Joseph Barnes died in 1943.

George Barnley (1816-1904) was a Methodist missionary to Hudson Bay. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1839. Between 1840 and 1848, he served as a missionary to Hudson Bay. He subsequently returned to England and worked there for another forty years.

Rev. Edward Barrass (1821-1898) was born in Durham, England. He worked in mines as a child, and was called to ministry of the Primitive Methodist Church in 1841. In 1853 he emigrated to Canada where he worked throughout the country until he was superannuated in 1891. He was an avid author, and published many volumes on church history and general life. He contributed to such publications as the Christian Guardian, and Canadian Methodist Magazine and was also very involved in the Temperance Movement.

Samuel T. Bartlett was a United Church minister, formerly Methodist. He was born in the island of Jersey on March 11, 1863 and moved to Canada at the age of nine years. At 17, he entered Methodist ministry and served pastorates in Ontario until he was appointed Associate Secretary of Sunday School and Epworth League Board in 1906, becoming General Secretary in 1909. In 1921 he started work with the Department of Art Photography at the Methodist Book and Publishing House. Rev. Bartlett was superannuated in 1925 and died on December 17, 1937.

Cornelius John L. Bates (1877-1964), was a missionary and educator in Japan. He was born at L'Orignal, Ontario in 1877. He was educated at Queen's University, McGill University and at the Wesleyan Theological College in Montreal. After a brief pastorate at Blind River, Ontario, Rev. Bates went to Japan as a missionary in 1902 and did evangelistic work. In 1910 he was appointed Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University. In 1920 he was made President, and presided over its great expansion. In 1941, Rev. Bates returned to Canada, supplying at Knox- Metropolitan United Church in Regina and assisting at Royal York United Church in Toronto. He retired in 1946. In 1959, he visited Japan and had an audience with Emperor Hirohito. He died in 1964.

George Frederick Bates was a United Church minister in Ontario. He was ordained in London Conference in 1967. He served charges in Shallow Lake, Schomberg, Mattawa and North Bay.

Emma Baylis was a Congregationalist missionary. She worked among Labrador fishermen ca. 1869 and among the Aboriginal People at Spanish River, Ontario ( near the present-day community of Espanola) during the summers from at least 1872 to 1885. At Spanish River, she taught a day school for children, organized reading classes for women, led Sunday meetings and taught Sunday School and Bible classes.

Samuel Milton Beach (1880-1953) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born at Kemptville, Ontario, was married to Mildred May Foster, and farmed for several years, before being ordained in 1914. He served charges in northern Ontario, Port Carling, Barrie and Toronto.

William C. Beer (1840-1916) was a Methodist minister in Ontario. He was born in Devonshire, England, and at fifteen years of age came to Canada and settled in Solina, near Bowmanville. He married Ann Bodkin of Delaware in 1870. He was received on trial in the Bible Christian Church began in 1865, achieved full connexion 1879 and was superannuated to the London Conference in 1901. In between, he served many charges in the Bay of Quinte and London Conferences.

Harold James Bell, (1890-1969), was a United Church minister. He was born in Beaverton, Ontario in 1890. He received his M.A. from University College, University of Toronto and his B.D. from Victoria University. He was ordained in 1925 and served several churches before retirement in 1958. He died in 1969.

John Wesley Bell, (1847-1929) was a minister and temperance worker in Western Canada. He was born in the Bay of Quinte area of Ontario in 1847. He was received on trial for the ministry of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1870. A graduate of Victoria University (B.D.), he was ordained by the Toronto Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada in 1877 and started a lengthy career of church and temperance work in Western Canada and the United States. In 1901 he resigned from the Methodist ministry and devoted most of his time to temperance work. He returned to the ministry in 1915. He died 1929 July 6. His wife, a medical doctor, survived him, as did his daughter.