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CA ON00340 F515 · Fonds · 1926-2016, predominantly 1968-2002

Fonds consists of fourteen series: 1) Records relating to Administration and Finance, 1967-2012, 2) Records of the United Church Publishing House, 1967-2010, 3) Records of the Retail and Distribution Department/United Church Resource Distribution, 1986-2010, 4) Records of the Graphics and Print Department, 1975-2001, 5) Records relating to Resource Coordination, 1990-2012, 6) Records relating to Publicity, Education and Information, 1969-2016, 7) Records relating to Communication Education, 1968-1997, 8) Records of the Committee on Education for Mission and Stewardship/Department of Education for Mission, 1926-1997, 9) Records relating to Regional/Conference Relations, 1967-1980, 10) Records relating to Special Projects, 1968-1982, 11) Records of the Department of Audio Visuals, 1962-1974, 12) Records of the Department of Broadcasting, 1942-1978, 13) Records of the Department of Media Services and Media Resources, 1948-2007, 14) Records relating to Website Management, 1997-2013.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
Communications Documents
CA ON00340 F515-6-9 · Subseries · 1969-2016
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

Subseries contains communication documents produced by the Division 1969-2016. Documents include Communiques/News Releases/Press Releases; Clippings; Daily Blues; General Council Communications; Press re Residential Schools; and Profiles.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-9 · Series · 1967-1980
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

The Division provided grants to Conferences for production costs related to local programming. In 1967 there were regional broadcasting centres operating in the British Columbia Conference, in western Canada (including the Prairie Regional Broadcasting Council) and in Ontario (including the Western Ontario Regional Broadcasting Council), all of which received block grants from the Division. The programme had initially been administered by the Department of Broadcasting under Keith Woollard; he served as Associate Secretary for Regional Relations and Communication Education after leaving the Department of Broadcasting in 1973, until his retirement in 1983. Conferences continued to have their own Communications Committees which were supported by the National Division.

Series contains fifteen subseries: 1) Administrative Records, 1968-1976, 2) Records relating to Newfoundland Conference Relations, 1975-1979, 3) Records relating to Maritime Conference Relations, 1969-1980, 4) Records relating to Montreal/Ottawa Conference Relations, 1969-1980, 5) Records relating to Bay of Quinte Conference Relations, 1967-1980, 6) Records relating to Toronto Conference Relations, 1968-1980, 7) Records relating to Hamilton Conference Relations, 1968-1980, 8) Records relating to London Conference Relations, 1971-1980, 9) Records relating to Manitou Conference Relations, 1975-1980 10) Records relating to Manitoba Conference Relations, 1968-1980, 11) Records relating to Saskatchewan Conference Relations, 1968-1980, 12) Records relating to Alberta Conference Relations, 1968-1980, 13) Records relating to British Columbia Conference Relations, 1968-1980, 14) Records relating to the Western Ontario Regional Broadcasting Council, 1968-1980, 15) Records relating to the Prairie Regional Broadcasting Council, 1968-1975.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-13-9 · Subseries · 1970-1989, predominantly 1973-1986
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

Audio-Visual Resources was brought under the Department of Media Services in 1973, bringing with it the responsibility for the consultant and, subsequently, the Audio Visual Education Library (AVEL). The Media Resource Consultant was to act as an educator and facilitator for Conferences and congregations, as well as a buyer of resource materials worldwide.

Subseries contains reports of the Media Resource Consultant and reports regarding audio visual usage, correspondence of both the Resource Consultant and the Audio Visual Education Librarian with Conferences, resource centres, other denominations and suppliers of materials, and bulletins and circulars issued by AVEL 1970-1989.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-13-8 · Subseries · 1956-1990
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

Still pictures were originally the responsibility of the Audio-Visual Department within the Board of Information and Stewardship (created 1954). The programme was continued by the Division of Communication's Audio Visual Department prior to 1973 and then by the Department of Media Services/Media Resources Still Picture Unit. The Unit, housed at Berkeley Studios, was involved in the collection and production of photographs, slides, and film strips. Like most of the other units in Media Resources, Still Pictures existed largely to serve the needs of other Divisions as well as Conferences and Pastoral Charges, maintaining a library of materials. These filmstrips produced were created for educational purposes on behalf of departments and divisions of the Church, especially the Division of Mission in Canada, and the Division of World Outreach, and their antecedent bodies. They were also used for fund-raising awareness within the church.

Subseries consists of the following files: administrations, correspondence, photo collections, production lists, general production files, film strips and slides production files, presentation slides/slide set production files, caption material and filmstrip kits and production files.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-2-8 · Subseries · 1996-2010
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

The Publishing Group was formed to focus on resources produced to animate a program. Specifically the Executive looked over book proposals and approved them, and then managed and oversaw the subsequent work.

Subseries contains minutes, correspondence, proposals and accompanying documents of the Publishing Group 1996-2010.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-1-8 · Subseries · 2008-2012
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

The purpose of the Communications Group was to galvanize people with communications responsibilities from units within the General Council Office, in order to implement a strategic communications program for the GCO. The goal was to create a simple, consistent, collaborative, efficient, and effective program. The General Council Secretary assigned the responsibility to develop and manage the communication to the Executive Minister of the Communications. The Communications Group focused on corporate communication tools that were produced to inform while the Publishing Group focused on resources produced to animate a program (See Series 2).

Subseries contains minutes and correspondence of the Communications Group 2008-2012.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-7 · Series · 1968-1997
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

Communication education had been an activity of several of the Departments in the Board of Information and Stewardship, including Press and Information, Broadcasting and Audio-Visual. These Departments continued their activity in the new Division of Communication. In the 1960s and 1970s Rev. Robert Reid took on the work of communication education and was responsible for increasing the churches understanding and familiarity with different media of communication through seminars, workshops, bursaries, scholarships, seminary courses and professional consultations. Reid worked closely with Helen Currie to bolster communication education concerning audio visual materials. However in 1971 Reid was removed from the audio visual focus and was tasked to oversee communication education concerning all types of media. In 1973 Communication Education was placed under the purview of Media Services and offered advance courses in theological schools, and workshops at conference and presbyteries levels typically involving other denominations. When the 1973 transition happened, Keith Woollard, former Director of Broadcasting, concentrated his energies on a new Communication Education Staff Group and on regional relationships. The Communication Education Staff Group assigned the responsibility of giving leadership on Communication Education within the Division and in relation to conferences. The group was devoted to aiding United Church ministers and workers in utilizing all manner of communications (print, audio, visual) to more effectively make their message heard. In 1975 Division of Communication authorized the formation of a Communication Education Task Force to develop a strategy for communication education within the United Church. The staff group was assigned to follow through with the Task Group’s strategy, to follow through with involvement in community cable projects and absorb the responsibilities of the Media Outreach Task Force originally established to encourage and assist the Maritime Conference and the Saskatoon Presbytery to design informational-motivational campaigns. The same task group also communed with local congregations, presbyteries etc. to create a guidebook for media outreach.

Series contains six subseries: 1) Administrative Records, 1968-1982, 2) Records relating to Communication Education Events, 1968-1980, 3) Records of the Communication Education Committee, 1985-1996, 4) Records of the Probe Communications Seminars, 1975-1989, 5) Records of Television Awareness Training and TV Scope Programmes, 1976-1981, 6) Records of Evangelism/Communication Program, 1983.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-13-7 · Subseries · 1962-1989
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

Audio/Video Production became a unit within the Department of Media Services in 1976, with Betty Richardson as producer. The Unit produced mostly audio cassettes. Responsibilities included recording of General Councils, Divisional meetings, and special events, and production of materials in response to programmes of the several Church Divisions, as well as maintaining an active library. In particular it produced "Godshow," an ecumenical radio magazine show, “Make My Day” which succeeded Godshow, and "Inside Track," an information series on audio cassette for the order of ministry, and it also publishes Visual Catalogue, which lists the holdings of its library.

Subseries contains administrative files, production files and files pertaining to Godshow, Make My Day and Inside Track 1962-1989.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-10-7 · Subseries · 1974-1982
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

These Things We Share was a United Church TV Project authorized by the General Council Executive in 1978. The program was meant to present on national TV the varied ways in which the gospel is experienced and shared in the plurality of the United Church and the current activities of the Church. The end goal was to foster people’s faith and move to actualize it.

Subseries contains planning documents, evaluations and photographs concerning These Things We Share 1974-1983.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-2-7 · Subseries · 1986-2001
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

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. The Publishing Department was further divided between two categories which mirrored the new financial divisions: mission and service. The mission area was considered to be venture publishing while service publishing referred to the production of resources for GC Divisions

Subseries contains publishing project files which include planning documents, copyright and agreement contracts, documents re printing and correspondence 1986-2001. Subseries is arranged by area of work mission and service as well as general publishing projects which cannot be places under ether work area.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-6-7 · Subseries · 1975-2000
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

In 1989 the Department Education and Information was created. The Department combined Information Services (from the Department of Finance and Administration) with Mission Education, Interpretation, and AVEL (from the Department of Media Services). The Department also absorbed the responsibility of the Publicist. The department was active until 1996 when it was dissolved and the responsibilities dispersed to other departments within the division. From 1989 to 1996 Douglas Flanders held the position of Director. Kristine Greenaway worked under him as Communication Education Coordinator then Media Consultant.

Subseries contains the files of Mary Francis Denis, Doug Flanders and Kristine Greenaway concerning their work in the Department of Education Information 1975-2000. Files include Kristine Greenaway’s work re AVEL and records of the Resource Distribution Task Group.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-1-7 · Subseries · 1991-1998
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

In addition to the Division Executive there was a Division Management Team that was a staff group comprised of the General Secretary, Directors of the five Division departments and managers from those departments. There were twelve people involved, six men and six women. The term "team" was unique to the Division as the other Divisions had fewer staff and departments.

Subseries contains minutes, correspondence and other related records created by the Division Management Team 1991-1998.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-3-6 · Subseries · 1986-2006
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

Resources Centres were hubs for the distribution of United Church produced material. The Resource Distribution Department and UCRD worked with Presbytery and Conference resource centres and outlets across Canada to deliver a comprehensive range of United Church and other recommended resources, bringing information, advice and resource access to church members. Under the umbrella of Resources Centres were Book Rooms: retail outlets overseen by the Conferences and Presbyteries. AVEL outlets were also under this umbrella offering free AV resources to Conferences. At some point some AVEL Outlets began to sell resources in order to counteract a lack of funding.

Subseries contains records relating to the various types of Resource Centres which included administrative groups like the Retail Distribution Branch Managers, the Resource Centre Administrative Task Group, the Book Room Branch Managers, and the Retail Operations Management Team. Files and subsequent arrangement reflect the type of resources centres including Presbytery Resource Centres, Book Rooms and AVEL outlets

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.
CA ON00340 F515-12-6 · Subseries · 1961-1972
Part of United Church of Canada Division of Communication fonds

Subseries contains production files concerning projects produced by Religious Television Associates in partnership with the Department of Broadcasting 1961-1972. Included are files kept by Keith Woollard and Peter Flemington, a producer for RTA and liaison with the Department of Broadcasting.

United Church of Canada. Division of Communication.