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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.

Morris Lindsay Wright (1871-1948) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Quebec, Ontario and Alberta. He was born at Shanley, educated at Queen's University, and ordained in 1910. He was married to Alma Rogers.

C.W. DeWitt Cosens (1893-1966) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born at Walton, Ontario, and educated at the University of Western Ontario and McGill University. He married Lillian R. Brown of Cornwall and was ordained in 1918. He served charges at Bryanston, Ashfield, Springfield, Stratford, Clinton, Essex, Toronto and Kintore. He retired to Uxbridge in 1960. He was predeceased by his wife and by his daughter, Rev. E. Marguerite Cosens.

Annie Clare McGowan (1905-2004) was a United Church missionary to China. McGowan was born September 10, 1905 in East Wawanosh, Ontario. She attended the families “McGowan School”, Blyth Continuation School and Stratford Normal School; then taught public school before entering the University of Toronto’s School of Social Work. She graduated from the University in 1933 and from 1933 to 1937, she was sent by the Board of Overseas missions to teach at The Canadian School for missionaries' children at Chengdu. Upon return from China, she taught, then worked for the Children’s Aid Society of Huron County for a number of years. McGowan died in 2004.

Bessie French (1893-1979) was a deaconess and missionary in the United Church. She was born at Morton's Harbour, Newfoundland. She studied at the School of Social Work, University of Toronto, a Christian Education Course at Hartford, Connecticut, at Union Theological Seminary in New York, at Emmanuel College and at the United Church Training School.

Bessie French was both commissioned as a missionary under the Women's Missionary Society and designated as a deaconess. Prior to being designated as a deaconess, she spent eight years as a matron under the Board of Home Missions at Norway House and two years as a matron at Coqualeetza Indian School at Sardis, B.C. After designation, she served at File Hills, Saskatchewan, Crosby Girls' School, Port Simpson, B.C., Warden United Church, Glace Bay, N.S., St. Columba Community Centre, Montreal, and All People's Church, Hamilton.

Miss French retired in 1961 but continued to be very active in church work in the Hamilton area.

James Pedley (1856-1933) was a Congregational minister in Ontario and British Columbia. He studied at McGill University and was ordained in 1885. He served pastorates in Ontario and British Columbia. He was elected Chairman of the Congregational Union and of Toronto Conference. James Pedley was the son of an English Congregational minister, Rev. Charles Pedley, and the brother of Rev. Hugh Pedley.

Jean Margaret Crabtree is a United Church minister who has served in Toronto during the late twentieth century. Jean Crabtree was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was commissioned as a diaconal minister in Toronto in 1971 and ordained in 1983. She served as a chaplain at Women's College Hospital in Toronto.

Canadian Girls in Training began with the establishment of the Canadian National Advisory Committee for the Cooperation in Girls’ Work in summer 1915 at a meeting in Toronto with representatives of the Methodist, Presbyterian, Anglican, and Baptist Sunday School Associations, the Canadian Council of Provincial Sunday School Associations, and the Dominion Council of the YWCA. In October 1916 the Committee published a pamphlet entitles “Canadian Girls in Training” and the program it outlined was launched across the county the following year. The movement expanded so rapidly that by 1920 it was necessary to introduce a more formal organization.

In 1920 the National Advisory Committee became the National Girls’ Work Board of the Religious Education Council of Canada (R.E.C.C.). The R.E.C.C. was a co-operative organization of the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches in Canada. The R.E.C.C. was established in 1919 to take over most of the responsibilities for work in Canada, where previously the International Sunday School Association based in the U.S.A. was responsible. The National Girls’ Work Board gave the drive and direction to the C.G.I.T. movement after 1920 which had been provided prior to that point by the YWCA.

In the 1930s a financial crisis led to a revision of the constitution of the National Girls’ Work Board, but more substantial changes occurred in the following decade. In 1946 the Anglican Church withdrew its support from C.G.I.T. in order to develop its own denominational girls’ program. In the following year, the Canadian Council of Churches was established. The responsibilities of the former R.E.C.C. were transferred to the Department of Christian Education of the new Council, and the National Girls’ Work Board became the National C.G.I.T. Committee of this Department

In 1976 C.G.I.T. became an independent ecumenical body supported by the United Church of Canada, the Presbyterian Church in Canada and Baptist ministries.

In response to the General Council Centralized Print Task Group report, the Department of Graphics and Print Production was established in 1988. The Department was mandated to centralize the printing procedures of all General Council Divisions. Staff from existing positions in the Division of Mission in Canada, the Department of Stewardship Services within the Division of Finance and the Division of Communication were transferred to this department. Other Divisions and departments transferred budget resources for hiring freelance graphics people to this Department. The Department worked on developing the graphics and printing the resources while the Publishing House worked on the development of the resources from start to finish. With Division restructuring in 1999, the Resource Development Cluster was formed. Under this cluster was the Department of Graphics and Print, the Audio Visual Unit, and Publishing Unit. The cluster existed until 2000. Under the new Unit of Resource Production and Distribution, the Graphics and Print Department continued to exist as its own entity. In addition the role of Resource Coordinator was formed. The Resource Coordinators served as editors of materials. The Graphics and Print Department worked in tandem with them and the Publishing Unit to produce the graphics.

With financial restructuring in the early 1990s the United Church Publishing House was sectioned into two departments: the Department of Publishing and the Department of Retail and Distribution. In 2002 the United Church Resource Distribution (UCRD) was formed as a result of the restructuring of the Division of Communication becoming the United Church Resource Production and Distribution Unit (UCRPD). Until 2002, the United Church Publishing House was responsible for the production, marketing and distribution of all UCC resources. When the UCRPD formed, the Publishing House still existed as a brand with in it and controlled production while UCRD served as a centralized order fulfillment and distribution service for the United Church of Canada to distribute UCC produced and supported resources. The distribution network included a central General Council Office infrastructure supported by distribution revenue and a network of Presbytery and Conference resource centres across Canada. Resources distributed included: UCPH publications, Voices United and other worship resources, Mission and Service program and support materials, free and paid subscriptions, curricula and General Council materials. Marketing of publications was the responsibility of the Publishing House yet came from the UCRD budget.

In 1973, the Department of Media Services was established bringing together the functions of the former Audio Visual Resources and Broadcasting Departments, and of Communication Education because their work often overlapped. The impact of that was that film was seem as a medium appropriate ether to projection on a screen or to broadcasting on television, while taped radio programs could be used as an audio tape for inter church educational use. The traditional boundaries disappeared which also included the sale of material between departments. In 1983 the Department of Media Resources was established by adding the Education for Mission function. Thus Berkeley Studio, AVEL, the Audio Visual Consultant and the mission interpretation and education programme became components of this new Department. The Department participated in various interdenominational bodies including Interchurch Broadcasting, the World Association for Christian Communication, the communication wing of the National Council of Churches of Christ (U.S.A.), the media magazine Media and Values, the Canadian Church Press and Associated Church Press. Berkeley Studio was responsible for production of radio and television, film and still pictures (photographs, filmstrips, slides), and was involved in the production of material for Vision TV, the Canadian interfaith religious television network. With restructuring in the late 1990s and early 2000s the unit became the Audio Visual Unit under the Resource Development Cluster in 1999, then Berkeley Studio from 2002 to 2006, and Multi Media Producer under Graphics and Print Unit Creative Services from 2013 to the present.

Thomas Harry Williams, M.D.C.M, D.T.M., H (English), F.C.A.P., (1888-1965) was a Doctor and Medical Missionary in West China. Williams was born in Escanaba, Michigan and his family moved to Manitoba when he as a young child. He attended Central Collegiate in Winnipeg, then graduated with an M.D. and M.S. from the University of Manitoba in 1916. In World War I he served in the Medical Corp. In 1919 he was appointed as a Medical Missionary in the pathology department of West China Union University. He sailed on October 30th, 1919 and remained stationed in China until 1942. Upon retiring from missionary work Williams continued work as a Pathologist, becoming director of laboratories, and the Department of Oriental Diseases at Deer Lodge Military Hospital in Winnipeg. He also served for a time as an Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Manitoba, and as President of the Canadian Association of Pathologists. Williams was married three times; to Laura McGirr, Kate McKellar and Emily Neil. He was widowed following the deaths of Laura Mcgirr and Kate McKellar. After retiring as a doctor, Thomas and Emily moved to Victoria B.C.

Sang Chul Lee (1924-) was born in Siberia, a son of Korean immigrants. At seven, he moved to Manchuria and while there, attended a school operated by the Canadian Mission Board. After World War II he moved to South Korea, and received his theological education there and in Switzerland and Vancouver, Canada. His ordination was in the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK), a partner church of the United Church. With his family, Lee emigrated to Canada in 1965; serving a three-point charge in Vancouver. He came to Toronto in 1969 and for twenty years was pastor of the Toronto Korean United Church. Lee served as Moderator of the United Church from 1988-1990. He served as Chancellor of Victoria University, Toronto from 1992-1998.

Marion Best was born in New Westminster, British Columbia. She received Nurse Training at the Royal Columbian Hospital, then worked there from 1968-1975. In 1977, she and her husband Jack Best received a joint call to the Naramata Centre in British Columbia, where she worked on programs and he worked on public relations and finances. She continued work there until 1987 when she began freelance consulting work with church and community groups, in the healthcare field. For many years, she was on the Executive of the World Council of Churches. She was also President of the British Columbia Conference, and on the United Church’s General Council Executive. A lay-leader, she served as Moderator of the United Church from 1994-1997, and in 1998 began serving as Vice-Moderator of the World Council of Churches. Best was Chair of the sessional committee that produced the 1988 recommendations on opening the ministry to gays and lesbians, in the report Toward a Christian Understanding of Sexual Orientation Lifestyles and Ministry.

Peter Short (1948-) was born in Kingston, Ontario. He married his wife, Susan in 1953. He graduated from York University in 1973, Emmanuel College in 1977 and was ordained by the Maritime Conference in 1978. He served at Yellowknife United Church from 1983-1990, Beaconsfield United Church, Montreal 1990-1999, Wilmot, in Fredericton from 1999-2008. Short served as Moderator from 2003-2006. He also served the General Council office as a member of the Executive of the Department of Stewardship Services (1993-1998), chair of the Moderator’s Advisory Committee for the Very Reverend Bill Phipps (1997-2000), Chair of the Business Committee of the Executive of General Council (2000-2002), and Chair of the Agenda and Planning Committee for the 38th General Council. Short retired in 2010.

David William Giuliano (1960-) was born in Jerseyville, Ontario and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He married his wife, Pearl E. Ryall in 1959. He earned a B.A. from Guelph University in 1982, and following that, worked at the University as a Human Rights Commissioner, Conference Co-Ordinator and Residence Manager. He earned a Master of Divinity in 1986, and a Master of Theology in 1987 from Queen’s University. He was ordained by London Conference in 1987 and began work as a minister at St. John’s United Church in Marathon, where he remained until he was elected to serve as Moderator of the United Church from 2006-2009. Aside from pastoral duties, Giuliano served the church as Chairperson of the Pastoral Relations Committee and Outreach and Social Action Committee for Cambrian Presbytery, and a member of the Presbytery Planning Committee and Youth Event Planning Committee for Cambrian Presbytery, the Local Justice Concerns and Ordination Interview Committees for MNO Conference, and the National Learning on the Way.

Philip A. Cline, B.TH, TH.M (1928-) was born in Zelma, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, St. Andrew's College, and was ordained by Saskatchewan College in 1956. He obtained a Bachelor of Theology from Union College of B.C. in 1966, and his Master of Theology from St. Stephen's College in 1977. He served at Cronach Pastoral Charge, Saskatchewan 1956-1959; Forest Lawn Pastoral Charge, Alberta, 1959-1962; Knox Pastoral Charge, Alberta 1962-1968, and Avonmore Pastoral Charge, Alberta, 1968-1973. He was Executive Secretary of Alberta Conference from 1973-1983. Cline was General Secretary of the General Council from 1983 until his resignation in 1985. He then moved to a pastorate at St. Paul Street United Church in St. Catharines and remained there until his retirement from active ministry in 1993. He held many volunteer positions during his career, including six presbytery chairmanships, nine Conference committees and several General Council Task Forces. In his personal life he as a member of the Masonic Lodge, chaplain of the Royal Canadian Legion, and member and officer of the Rotary Club.

George Matthew Morrison (1913-2001) was born in Toronto. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1936 with a degree in commerce and finance. For three years following that he articled in an accounting firm and became a chartered accountant in 1939. He spent one year with the Hudson's Bay Company and then served with the Royal Canadian Air Force for four years (two years as a civilian assistant financial superintendent of the Department of National Defense for Air). After the war, he returned home and became a partner in a Toronto accounting firm, and in 1950 joined I.B.M. as controller of I.B.M's World Trade Corporation. He left the finance sector in 1953 to attend Emmanuel College and graduated in 1956 with a bachelor of divinity. Following that, he took a fellowship to St. Andrew's University Scotland. He received a Doctor of Divinity from Emmanuel in 1968. During this time, he held pastorates at Robertson Memorial in Winnipeg, 1957-1959; and Ryerson in Vancouver, 1966-1971. He was also Assistant Secretary in the Board of Home Missions and later a Secretary in the Board of Finance. He was elected General Secretary of the General Council in 1972. In 1975 and became minister at Timothy Eaton Memorial United Church in Toronto. He received a second Doctor of Divinity from St. Andrew's (Scotland) in 1978 and in that same year, he and his wife Bindy retired to British Columbia.

Nora Sanders (19??-) graduated with a degree in History from Western University in 1977. She was Deputy Minister of Justice in Nunavut before becoming the General Secretary of the General Council, a position she has held from 2006-2019.

William Edward “Ed” Aldworth (1905-1995) was a United Church minister and missionary. He was born in 1905 to parents Rebecca Northcott and Charles Edward Aldworth in Hay Township, Huron County, in Ontario. As a child he worked on his family’s farm and at seventeen left home for a harvest excursion in Saskatchewan. Upon his return home a year later he decided to become a minister and to also attend university in Saskatoon. He finished high school in Ontario and from 1928-1931 he attended the University of Saskatchewan and then St. Andrews College from 1932-1934. In 1927 he became a ministerial candidate and served as student missionary until his ordination in 1934 by the London Conference. He served as a minister for sixty years at the following charges which included student missionary work and rotary work: Springside, Saskatchewan; Golden Prairie, Saskatchewan; Uffington, Muskoka Presbytery; Lintlaw, Saskatchewan; Canora, Saskatchewan; Staffa, London; St. Marys, London Conference; St. Pauls, Tillsonberg; Harrow, Ontario; Merlin-Fletcher; Epworth Kingsville, Former Main St. United Church Exeter. In 1935 he married Janet (Netta) Pryde. In addition to serving as a minister he also served various roles within the Saskatchewan and London Conferences as well as holding positions within the General Council including Commissioner and Executive on the Board of Christian Education. Notably he was a charter board member of Iona College, University of Windsor, and he published a genealogy of his family entitled Western Sunset.