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Person · 1870-1955

John Thomson Taylor (1870-1955) was a Presbyterian/United Church missionary to India. He was born near Galt, Ontario. In 1899, he married Harriet Ellen Copeland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. The same year, the Taylors went to India to work as missionaries. Rev. Taylor served as Principal of the Theological Seminary at Indore. He retired from the United Church in 1945.

Person · 1915-

George Milledge Tuttle (1915-) was a United Church minister, administrator and Moderator. He was born at Medicine Hat, Alberta, the son of Methodist minister Aubrey Stephen Tuttle. He obtained a doctorate in theology from Victoria University. He had several mission fields, a pastorate in Sangudo, Alberta and a term as assistant minister in Toronto. As well, he served as National Director of Youth Work, Professor at Union College, Vancouver, 1951-1966, and Principal of St. Stephen's College, Edmonton, 1966-1979. He was President of British Columbia Conference in 1963, on the Executive of General Council in 1974 and served as Moderator from 1977 to his retirement in 1980.

Rogers, George, 1831-1913
Person · 1831-1913

George Rogers (1831-1913) was a Methodist minister in Ontario and Quebec. He was born in Yorkshire, England and came to Canada in 1833. He spent three years following the gold rush in Australia. When he returned to Ontario in 1863, he was received on trial for the Methodist ministry and was ordained in 1867.

Storey, Anne M., 1913-1997
Person · 1913-1997

Anne M. Davison (1913- ) was a United Church missionary to China and Korea. She was born in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario and was trained as a social worker and was appointed by the Woman's Missionary Society to Honan in 1945. She served in China from 1946 to 1951. From 1953 to 1961 she was re-assigned to Korea. Anne M. Storey is her married name.

Burnside, Albert, 1917-
Person · 1917-

Albert Burnside (1917-) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Britain and Canada. Born in England, he was ordained in 1946 as a minister of the Methodist Church of Great Britain. He was received into the ministry of The United Church of Canada by the London Conference of the United Church in 1955. He served at St. Enoch's in Toronto from 1956-1959, Victoria Village from 1960-1963, and Edith Rankin Memorial in Kingston from 1974-1980. In 1968 he obtained his Dr. Th.D. from the University of Victoria.

Lund, Edward, 1878-1939
Person · 1878-1939

Edward Lund (1878-1939) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Northern Ontario and Manitoba.

Mackay, John, 1870-1938
Person · 1870-1938

John Mackay (1870-1938) was a Presbyterian minister in Montreal, first Principal of Westminster Hall Theological College, Vancouver, and Principal of Manitoba College, Winnipeg.

McColl, Duncan, 1754-1830
Person · 1754-1830

Duncan McColl (1754-1830) was a Methodist minister in New Brunswick. He was born in Scotland, raised Calvinist and converted to Methodism. After fighting for Britain against the Thirteen Colonies, he settled in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. He started a Methodist society and became a lay preacher. He was ordained by Bishop Asbury in 1795, and ministered until his health failed in 1829.

Ross, Donald, 1797?-1852
Person · 1797?-1852

Donald Ross (1797?-1852) was the chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company at Norway House, Manitoba; he was involved in the James Evans trial in 1846.

Chalmers, Thomas, d. 1847
Person

Thomas Chalmers (d. 1847) was a Presbyterian minister and a Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He led the Free Church group in its secession from the established Church of Scotland in 1843.