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United Church History Seekers oral history collection
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Harold T. Allen interview : [Williams, 1975]

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family background in Montreal. Move to Naramata, B.C., in 1909. His father and grandfather. Education. The first church at Naramata. Decision to become a minister. More about Naramata community. Effects of World War I. Life as a student minister. Ordination, 1926. TRACK 2: Young people's organizations in Vancouver in the 1920s; student Christian movement. Marriage. Work in Coalmont field. McBride and Giscome fields. Characteristics of the church in B.C. Community activities. Effects of the Depression.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ministers' financial problems in the Depression. The church's attitude to war, and to World War II. Serving the soldiers near Sardis. Outstanding figures in the church; Hugh Dobson and social concerns. TRACK 2: Dobson and social concerns (continued). J.S. Woodsworth, M.J. Coldwell, and Stanley Knowles and their backgrounds. The Sanford brothers. Re-location of Japanese (during WWII). The church in the 1970s.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 3 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: The need for a new sense of brotherhood.

Janet McNeill interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Forty years at Grandview United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1923-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Janet McNeill was born in 1906 and come to Vancouver in 1907 at age one. Forty years in Grandview area: attending Grandview Church. Camp Fircom.;

Lorraine Bolton interview ; Muriel Richardson interview ; Doris Jensen interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Memories of United Church activities in B.C., 1925-1975 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Lorraine Bolton: Brief memories of Dundas United Church. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C., 1975-06-20.] Miss Muriel Richardson: Work as Superintendent of the United Church Girls' Home in the 1950s and as a Deaconess at First United Church in Vancouver, 1944-52. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C., 1975-07-15.] Doris Jensen: Social life and United Church activities in Ocean Falls, B.C., ca. 1925-1950. [Recorded 1975-11-24; very brief.]

Mac Sanford interview ; Olive Sanford interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections about O.M. and A.M. Sanford PERIOD COVERED: 1871-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Osbert McLean (Mac) Sanford talks about his father and his uncle, the Reverends O.M. and A.M. Sanford. Biography of A.M. Sanford. Story of his father, Reverence O.M. Sanford: pastorates in Iowa, Nicola, Kamloops (1909-1913), and Vancouver. Mount Pleasant Church, young peoples camping at Ocean Park in the 1920s. TRACK 2: Olive Sanford talks about women's groups at Mount Pleasant Church. Mac talks about men's activities. More comments about his father. Beginning of the Religious Education Council in B.C. History of Ocean Park Camp 1910 to 1975. His own work as Chairman of the Board of Ocean Park Camp, 1943-53.

May McLachan interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church missionary to Japan and Soowahlie Indian Band in Chilliwack PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1960 RECORDED: Chilliwack (B.C.), 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss May McLachan was born in Manitoba in 1895. Training as a teacher and missionary. Missionary work in Japan, 1923-1942. Taught Japanese-Canadian children in the internment camp at Tashme, B.C., 1943-1945. Returned to Japan as missionary after World War II, 1947-1963. TRACK 2: Missionary work in Japan continued. Missionary work with Soowahlie Indian Band near Chilliwack, 1964 on.

Mrs. Alex Jamieson interview ; Edna Fotheringham interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church women's groups, 1925-70 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Alex Jamieson: The beginning of Dunbar Heights United Church. The Women's Auxiliary. Organization of the W.A. Presbytery. Role as President of the Conference, 1949-51. Ordination of the United Church women from the W.M.S. and W.A. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C.] Edna Fotheringham: The United Church at Sardis, B.C. Work in the W.A. and W.M.S. President of the Westminster Presbytery. Formation of the United Church Women. Changes in missionary work. Coqualeetza Indian School. Changes in women's church work. [Recorded in Sardis, B.C., 1975-05-14.]

Mrs. Fred James interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of a C.G.I.T. leader PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Her own church and Sunday school background and experience in Canadian Girls In Training. C.G.I.T. camps. Experience on the C.G.I.T. board in the 1930s. C.G.I.T. today. The new uniform. Vesper services. Trips on the "Thomas Crosby".

Rev. D.H. Telfer interview

CALL NUMBER: T2643:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister on the Prairies and in B.C., ca. 1904-1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend D.H. Telfer was born in 1886 and recalls his earliest memories of London, England. His father's work in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in London. Family decision to settle in Canada, 1904. Settling on a section of land at Belvedere, Alberta. Father's role as a local Methodist preacher. His own early jobs. More about his father's life as a preacher, and his death in 1908. TRACK 2: ;Other local denominations. His own studies for the ministry. Effects of World War I. University studies and ordination, 1915. Marriage and a sales job. Effects of the Great Depression. How the churches helped in the 1930s. Church Union, 1925. Move to West Point Grey United Church, 1940.

CALL NUMBER: T2643:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister and World War II in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The Church in the community during World War II. Conscientious objectors. Changes in congregations and church participation. Church extension, 1951-58. Outstanding individuals: Chown. The World Won for Christ. Japanese re-location.

Rev. Everett S. Fleming interview : [Love, 1975]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend Everett S. Fleming was born in 1895, and discusses his childhood in Saskatchewan. School and farm chores in Kelowna, B.C. Education for the ministry: first mission fields and a trip through Europe. Ordination, 1926. First pastorate in the Kootenays. Master of Theology in New York. Posting to Dawson City. Marriage. Church buildings at Dawson City. Moved to Burns Lake, 1930, and Ocean Falls, 1938. Bible story in rhyme. Other pastorates: Ladysmith. TRACK 2: Other pastorates: Whalley, Campbell River, Fernie. Retirement to Kelowna.

Rev. F.E. Runnalls interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister in B.C., 1900-1964 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1964 RECORDED: Ocean Park (B.C.), 1975-06-17 SUMMARY: Reverend Francis Edwin Runnals, born in 1895, discusses his background and education as a Presbyterian minister. Working toward Church Union. His first churches in Grand Forks and Vancouver. Cedar Cottage Church in the Depression. Work as a minister in Prince George and Armstrong. President of the United Church Conference. His history of the United Church in B.C., entitled "It's God's Country".

Rev. Luther Schuetze interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life as a layman and minister : Bella Coola and Keremeos, 1920-60 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Reverend Luther Schuetze discusses how he became involved in church work. Working with native people. Pastorates in Bella Coola, Keremeos, and Penticton.;

Rev. Lydia Cruchy interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): First woman ordained in the United Church of Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Reverend Lydia E. Cruchy discusses childhood in France and England. Teaching in Saskatchewan. Ordination, 1936 (first woman). Executive Secretary of Committee on the Deaconess Order and Women Workers.; Other Saskatchewan pastorates, 1943-1962. D.D., 1953. The Church in Saskatchewan during the Depression. Work with New Canadians. Activities in retirement.;

Rev. Lyn Clerihue interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of a B.C. United Church minister PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1962 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend Lyn Clerihue describes childhood in Deloraine, Manitoba. Move to Deroche, B.C., 1907. Work as carpenter in mills. Decision to go into the Presbyterian ministry, 1913. Student fields.; Further education. Marriage and ordination. Pastorates at Britannia Mines, Port Moody, Fort William, Windermere Valley, Trail, Burnaby, Victoria, and North Vancouver. Out of retirement at Port Kells.; TRACK 2: Treasurer of conference and financial problems. Beginning of Development Fund of the United Church of Canada. The future of the Church.;

Rev. Norah Hughes interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Brief account of life of a woman minister in the United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1976?] SUMMARY: Childhood in England and B.C. How her family became United Church. Education and training in theology. Ordination, 1940 and first pastorate. Experiences as a woman minister. Ph.D. and other pastorates;. Work in the Presbytery. First woman President of Conference. Relations with other ministers. Retirement in Langley.;

Rev. Peter Connal and Mrs. Connal interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church minister and his wife in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1886-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend Peter Connal was born in 1886 and spent his early life in Glasgow, Scotland. Studying for the ministry in Canada. Ordained in Rutland, 1919. Pastorates in Alberta and B.C., including;: Salmon Arm, Prince George, Golden, Merritt, Haney, White Rock, Cumberland, and Kitsilano. TRACK 2: Mrs. Peter Connal recalls her childhood in Ontario. Teaching experience. Marriage to Peter Connal,; 1925. Life as a minister's wife in B.C.;

Rev. R.J. Love interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church minister in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Reverend Robert J. Love was born in 1905 and spent his childhood in Manitoba. Teaching experiences in Manitoba. Further education. University of Manitoba, 1930, theology, 1933. Student Christian movement activities. Student fields. Port Essington. Other student experiences. Married and ordained 1933. First pastorate in Port Simpson. Pastorates at Quesnel, Armstrong, Murrayville and Vancouver. Christian Education work, 1950s and 1960s. Pastorate at Como Lake and White Rock. Retirement activities. The church in the future.

Rev. R.W. Hardy interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): An active life in the United Church in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Reverend R.W. Hardy was born in 1890 and spent his childhood in Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto and served in World War I. Edinburgh University. Ordained and married in Whitby, 1921. Pastorates in Saskatchewan and B.C., including Cranbrook and Kitsilano. Secretary of Conference. St. George's, South Fraser. Changes in Christian Education. Changes in the Church. Church's role in the Depression. Retirement activities since 1955. The Church in the future.

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