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.
Reid Emerson Vipond (1913-2001) was a United Church minister. He was born in Huron County, Ontario and graduated with a B.A. from Queen's University in 1936 and a B.D. from Queen's Theological College in 1939. He served the following charges: Lanigan, Sask., 1939-1941, Trowbridge, Ont., 1941-1944, Amherstburg, Ont., 1945-1946, Westminster, Winnipeg, Man., 1946-1949, Metropolitan, Edmonton, Alta., 1949-1959, 1963-1971, Lakeview, Regina, Sask., 1959-1963, St. John's Winnipeg, Man., 1980-1981, Metropolitan, London, Ont., 1981-1989. He was married to Susanna Pearson. He died in 2001.
Victoria Park United Church was established in 1925, formerly Methodist. Located at 1 Stamford Square North in Scarborough, it was originally known as Dawes Road Methodist Church. Services began in the Dawes Road School in 1912, and in 1917 the Methodist Church took over the congregation, and a building was erected in 1920. This building was later sold in 1952 and a new building erected in that year; the congregation took on the name Victoria Park in 1953. The church closed in April 2018.
Vera Greig Clark, nee Allen (1896-1997) was medical missionary and deaconess. She was born in Smith Falls, Ontario to parents Mary Elizabeth Eugenia (Minnie) Condie and William Thomas Allen. From a young age she was active in the church, she played the organ and taught Sunday school which inspired her to become a missionary. She did very well in school and earned a scholarship to Queen’s University. While at school in 1918 she answered a call for volunteers and went to Latchford Ontario as a Presbyterian missionary to serve as the community’s sole preacher. Also while at school she met James Mortimer Clark whom she married in 1920 upon graduation. She graduated from Queens with B.A. and later a B.A., M.B. After marrying Mortimer they took a train to the first boat sailing out of Canada which was to West China to the province of Szechwan. There they served as Methodist medical missionaries living in Jenshow from 1920-1922, and Luchow from 1922 until Mortimer’s sudden death from typhoid fever in 1925. After his death, she and their two children returned to Canada where she served as a United Church deaconess in Toronto from 1927-1944. In 1944 she remarried to Frederick Charles Clark, younger brother of Mortimer, and became the matriarch of blended family of five children. After serving as a deaconess she remained active in the United Church for the rest of her life.
Harold Vaughan, (1908-1989) was a United Church minister and church administrator. He served various congregations in Ontario; in 1958 he became Secretary of the Board of Colleges, subsequently the Division of Ministry, Personnel and Education, a position he held until retiring in 1973.
Jane Van Norman (fl. 1844-1857) was a teacher at Upper Canada Academy, Cobourg; and a founder of Burlington Ladies' Academy, Hamilton, Ontario.
Corinne Clark Van Loon (1915-2005) was a lay person active in the United Church of Canada in the second half of the twentieth century. Born Corinne MacDonald in 1915 in Acton, Ontario, she lived most of her life in Hamilton, Ontario. She worked for London Life Insurance for twenty-five years. She was active in Livingston, Westdale and Bowman United Churches, with the Canadian Girls in Training (Builders Group) and I.O.U. Sunday School Class. Corinne Clark van Loon also served as local and Presbyterial President of the United Church Women, as Chairman of the Board of Wesley Centre, as Chairman of Hamilton Presbytery and as President of the Hamilton Conference of the United Church of Canada. She was married to Otto Clark and John V. Van Loon, both of whom predeceased her. Corrine Clark Van Loon died in 2005.
Alan Van Every chaired a Young People's Church Union Rally in 1924
Val D'or Pastoral Charge was formed ca. 1972 and included Val d'Or and Malartic. It was previously Bourlamaque Pastoral Charge, established in 1937; it included Bourlamque and Malartic, and briefly Sisco (ca. 1941-1944).
Val d'Or United Church, located at 171 Champlain Ave in Val d'Or, Quebec, was established ca. 1972. It is still an active congregation of the United Church of Canada as a shared ministry with the Anglican Church of Canada.
Leslie D. Upward is a United Church minister. He was ordained in 1962 by Newfoundland Conference and has served charges in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Ontario.
Uno Park United Church was established in 1925. It formed part of a multiple point charge, Uno Park Pastoral Charge, with Milberta, Hillview , Henwood (ca. 1935-1938), Harris and Sutton Bay. Uno Park United Church closed ca. 1959 and the other congregations joined Elk Lake Pastoral Charge.
The Associate Presbytery seceded from the Church of Scotland in 1733 and in 1747 split into two factions known as the Burghers and Anti-Burghers. These factions reunited again in 1820 to form the United Associate Secession Church of Scotland and in 1847 became the United Presbyterian Church upon union with the Relief Church.
The Presbytery of Canada East was established in 1843 as the Missionary Presbytery of Eastern Canada in connection with the United Secession Synod in Scotland; in 1844 the Presbytery was granted admission to the Missionary Synod of Canada; the Synod became the United Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1847.
The United Church Women was approved by the 1960 General Council and in 1962 January 1, The United Church Women came into being as a new organization for all the women in the United Church. The creation of the organization was part of the general reformation of the Church's structure which also saw the creation of the national Board of Women and the demise of the Woman's Missionary Society and of the Woman's Association.
The United Church Women was to be organized at the congregational, Presbyterial and Conference levels, membership being open to any women in sympathy with the aims of the organization. These aims were broadly defined as the promotion of the mission of the Church. The organization enjoyed a special relationship with the Board of Women, which acted in the capacity of an intiating and defining body to the United Church Women. While the Board of Women was made up of representatives of several United Church Boards, a significant part of its membership came from the United Church Women. The United Church Women were to make annual reports to the Board, and the Conference bodies were to carry out recommendations and policies as determined by the Board of Women.
Following the dissolution of the Board of Women on the establishment of the Division of Mission in Canada, the United Church Women became a more independent body. While it was to retain a cooperative relationship with this Division and others, it lost for a time any corporate representation at the national level of the Church. The creation of the National Consultation of Women of The United Church of Canada corrected this.
The United Church Women at all levels had an Executive composed of the Past President, the President and Vice Presidents, and Secretaries of portfolios. The organization at each level was represented by members of other levels; for instance, the Presbyterial United Church Women sent representatives to its Conference Branch. Each level sent representatives to the next superior level in the organization. After 1973 it was responsible for overall planning at its appropriate level, in consultation with the superior and inferior levels. The annual meeting of the organization was to have representatives from the appropriate lower level, the Executive, and representatives of the successor bodies to Presbyterial organizations which had ceased to exist.
The Mission, originally opened by the Methodist Woman's Missionary Society in 1894, was engaged in evangelistic, medical (hospital) work, and educational work (schools and involvement with West China Union University). During World War II the influx of Honan missionaries and the transfer of the Christian Literature Society from Shanghai to Chengtu boosted the population. As with other China missions, work was difficult due to growing nationalism and wars. The last missionary left China in 1952.
This station represented the first attempt by the Presbyterian Women's Foreign Missionary Society to place a worker abroad when Annie Blackadder was sent as a school teacher to Trinidad in 1876. The work remained largely educational in nature, and was, as the work of the United Church's Boards in Trinidad, directed towards the East Indian immigrant population of the island. In 1951, Committee for Women's Work was organized with oversight over all woman's work and in 1955 the Church Development Committee was also established by the Presbyterian Church in Trinidad to work for the closer integration of women's work in the Church. Thus throughout the 1950s the Presbyterian Church in Trinidad gradually took over direction of the work.
The first woman sent out by the Presbyterian Society arrived in 1904. At the time of Church Union in 1925 there were five missionaries at the stations, pursuing educational, medical and evangelistic work. Educational facilities for boys and girls at the three stations were supplemented by the Union Normal School at Canton.