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Borland, Alan Leonard, 1923-
Person · 1923-

Alan Leonard Borland (1923- ) was a United Church minister. He was born in Peterborough in 1923. He graduated from Emmanuel College in 1951 and was ordained in Peterborough. Rev. Borland is married to Rev. Judith Borland.

Corporate body · 1925-ca. 1969

Bothwell United Church, located at 178 Elm Street in Bothwell, was established in 1925, formerly Methodist and Presbyterian. The Methodist church esas etsablished in 1874 with services being held in a boarding house in the community. Later that year, a church building was erected. The Elm Street Methodist Church joined the United Church in 1925. It formed part of Bothwell Pastoral Charge, later known as Bothwell-Wabash Pastoral Charge, with Armstrong (until ca. 1966) and then Wabash beginning ca. 1969.

Zion Presbyterian Church in Bothwell was established as early as 1863 as a mission station along with Florence. By 1876, it was shown as a congregation of the Presbyterian Church. It joined the United Church of Canada in 1925 and was first known as Zion United Church and formed a two-point charge with Cairo. It then amalgamated with Elm Street United Church ca. 1926-1927 to form Bothwell United Church.

Person · 1892-1952

George Ernest Bott was born in Blackwater, Ontario in 1892 and was a missionary in Japan for 31 years. He graduated from Victoria University in Arts and Divinity and was ordained as a Minister of the Methodist Church in 1921. Shortly afterward he married Edith Clark, and they left almost immediately for missionary work in Japan, stationed first to Tokyo and then to Kofu. They remained there until 1942 when, on the outbreak of the Pacific War, they were repatriated via the "Gripsholm." After the war, in 1946, Dr. Bott was asked to take charge of LARA (Licensed Agencies for Relif in Asia) and became a field director of Church World Service in Japan, representing the United Church of Canada Board of Overseas Missions in its work for relief in Japan. He and another missionary were the first two foreign missionaries to return to Japan in March, 1946. Bott remained in Japan until his death on March 5, 1952.

Person · 1867-1951

Isaac Graham Bowles (1867-1951) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was ordained in the Methodist Church in 1896 and served throughout northern and southern Ontario. He served at Toronto, Wellesley Church, 1921-1925; Toronto, Yonge Street Church, 1925-1929; Livingston Church, Hamilton, 1929-1938. He was married to Ida Louise Gerolamy.

Person · 1877-1970

Reverend Newton Ernest Bowles (1877-1970) was born and raised in Peel County. He was ordained by Toronto Conference in 1904. He graduated in Arts from Victoria College, Toronto in 1903, and completed his B.D. course in 1907. He was a missionary to China from 1906-1930. He was first stationed in Jenshow in 1906, and in 1908 moved to Kiating where he soon took over duties of the evanglistic and educational work of the station, including outstation supervision. For some years he had charge of the work in connection with the Alexander Sutherland Memorial Church in Chengtu, and was closely associated with the Chinese Conference during its early formative days. Bowles married fellow missionary Miss Muriel Wood in 1912, and the couple had five children, all born in Chengdu; George Herbert, Muriel Margaret, Newton Rowell, Elizabeth Joy and Olive Gertrude. Upon retirement as a Missionary in 1930, he continued work for the United Church in Niagara, Toronto West, Simcoe, and Lindsay Presbyteries until 1948. Newton Ernest Bowles is the brother of Richard Pinch Bowles, former chancellor of Victoria University, Toronto, 1913-1930.

Bowslaugh (family)
Family

The Bowslaugh family was a Methodist family in Ontario. Peter Bowslaugh (1756-1848) was a lay preacher on the Ancaster Circuit.

Boyd, John Melville, 1906-
Person · 1906-

John Melville Boyd (1906- ) was a United Church minister in Ontario and a church administrator. He was born in 1906 in Shallow Lake, Ontario. He was ordained in 1935 and in the same year married Muriel Lane. He served at Elk Lake, Swastika, Bolton, Earlscourt United Church, Toronto and Wesley Centre, Hamilton. Rev. Boyd also served on the Board of Home Missions of the United Church.

Boyd, S. Wesley, 1884-1968
Person · 1884-1968

S. Wesley Boyd (1884-1968) was a Methodist/United Church minister. He as born in Metcalfe, Ontario. He received his Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Wesleyan Theological College in Montreal in 1910, the same year that he was ordained. He went on to earn his Doctor of Theology degree from United Theological College in 1931. He served at Dundela, Algonquin, Westboro, Magog, Sutton and Cowansville, as well as supplying in Coaticook and Sherbrooke after his retirement in 1946.

Person · 1899-1987

Frederick William Leslie Brailey (1899-1987) was a Methodist/United Church minister in Ontario. He was born in England, graduated from Victoria College and was ordained in the Methodist Church in 1926. Rev. Brailey served as a United Church minister in the Hamilton and Toronto Conferences from 1926 to his retirement in 1964. He had a very active career including work on many boards and councils within the church and in the City of Toronto, and was the author of many pamphlets and articles on matters of concern to society. In 1926 he married Laura Pearl Ottmann.

Person · 1891-1975

Earl Watson Brearley (1891-1975) was a Methodist/United Church minister. He was born in Brantford, Ontario; in 1914 he married Gladys Clarke. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1921 and he served at Linwood, 1916-1918; Hornby, 1918-1922; Dereham, 1922-1924; Hagersville, 1925-1928; Hamilton, 1929-1939; Simcoe, 1940-1946; St. Thomas, 1947-1951; and Burlington, 1952 until he retired in 1961.

Person · 1882-1943

Egerton Ryerson Morrow Brecken (1882-1943) was a Methodist/United Church minister, educator, and Missionary to China. The son of Prof. Brecken of Mount Allison University, Egerton Ryerson Morrow Brecken was born in 1882 in Halifax. He was educated at Mount Allison and Victoria Universities. Ordained into the Methodist Church in 1907, he served in West China from 1908 to 1924, teaching Biblical Literature at Chengtu. He travelled and served in Saskatchewan until his appointment in 1930 to teach at Mount Allison. He retired in 1942 due to failing health and eyesight, and died in 1943.

Brewing, Willard, d.1960
Person · d. 1960

Rev. Dr. Willard Brewing was born in Sussex Corners, N.B. He trained for the ministry in the United States and served the Reformed Episcopal Church in Canada as minister and bishop. In 1929, he accepted a call to St. Andrew's - Wesley United Church, Vancouver, where he remained until moving to St. George's United Church, Toronto, in 1938. He was elected as Moderator in 1948 and served until his retirement in 1951. He died in Toronto on August 13, 1960.

Bridge, Wilson, 1906-1991
Person · 1906-1991

Wilson Bridge (1906-1991) was a Congregational/United Church minister and a military chaplain in England and Canada. He was born at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, and was ordained at Grimshaw Street Congregational Church, Preston, Lancashire, in 1936. During World War II, he served as England's first Chaplain to the Air Raid Shelters at Romford, Essex. He was also Honorary Chaplain to the 61st Anti-Aircraft Batallion during the Battle of Britain. In 1951, he emigrated to Canada, and served in Andover, New Brunswick, Lachute, Quebec, Falconbridge, Ontario, St. Catharines, Ontario and Dain City, Ontario. As well, during his time in Lachute, he participated in a pulpit exchange wtih Dr. Michaels of the A.M.E. Zion Church of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Corporate body · 1856

The British Methodist Episcopal Church was estabished by American missionaries of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church who worked among the blacks who had migrated from the United States after 1834. They organized themselves as a Canadian Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. After several years they decided they did not want to be subject to foreign bishops and discipline. Concessions were made to the A.M.E. Church resulting in the Canadian Conference becoming a self governing and responsible body. In 1856 the British Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada was organized in Chatham, Ontario.

Corporate body · 1891-ca.1922

The first year that Brock Street Methodist Church in Kingston is listed in the published Montreal Conference minutes is 1891; 1891 also marks the first time that Jubilee Methodist Church and Wesley Methodist Church are not listed, so it appears that Brock in some way replaced one or both of these churches--through an amalgamation, a name change, or for some other reason; Brock Street Church closed ca.1922.

Brooking, Robert, 1813-1893
Person · 1813-1893

Robert Brooking (1813-1893) was a Methodist missionary in Africa and the Northwest. Born in England in 1813, he was specially ordained in 1839 for work in Africa. He served the Gold Coast and the interior for seven years. When his health deteriorated, he returned to England, and later came to Canada to serve as a missionary to the Aboriginal Peoples of Ontario and at Norway House and Oxford House. He retired in 1880 and moved to Cobourg. He died in 1893.