Subseries 1 - Records Relating to Administration and Federal Legislation

The papers of the first part of this collection consists mainly of the correspondence of R.B. Whitehead, who was appointed Legal Secretary of the Committee in October, 1923. When he resigned to become general solicitor for the Massey Harris Co., he was succeeded by this brother, A. T. Whitehead. There is also much correspondence of G.W. Mason, who was asked in June 1922 to prepare the legislation, and who represented The United Church in many cases. The Papers of Newton Wesley Rowell, who was chairman of the committee, and W. R. Motherwell, who defended the legislation in the House of Commons, are also gathered separately in this section.

Subseries consists of records relating to administration and legislation, including minutes of the Committees of Law and Legislation, 1921-1933; copies of The United Church of Canada Act (Dominion), 1924, and similar legislation for the provinces, Newfoundland and Bermuda; correspondence re passage of the legislation; copies of the House of Commons debates, 1924; general correspondence, 1922-1942; accounts, 1923-1930; correspondence re use of the name "Presbyterian Church in Canada"; papers of the Committee Chairman, Newton Wesley Rowell, 1921-1929, and of W.R. Motherwell, a defender of the legislation in the House of Commons, 1924-1925; and "Resolutions re Church Union of Presbyterian General Assembly, 1899-1923; of the Joint Committee on Church Union, 1904-1923; Methodist General Conference, 1902-1922; and of the Congregational Union of Canada, 1901-1923: a compilation with index (94.167C).