Compiled by the Historical Sites Subcommittee of the History and Archives Committee,
The United Church of Canada
April 7, 2014
Airhart, Phyllis D.
A church with the soul of a nation: making and remaking the United Church of Canada.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.
Airhart, Phyllis D.
Serving the present age: Revivalism, progressivism and the Methodist tradition in Canada.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992.
Allen, Richard
View from Murney Tower Salem Bland, the late Victorian controversies, and the search for a new Christianity.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c2008.
Audet, Francis-J.
Le clergé du Bas-Canada de 1760 à 1800.
Ottawa: J. Hope, 1901.
Barman, Jean
Sojourning sisters: The lives and letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Betts, E. Arthur
Congregational Churches in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 1749-1925.
Nova Scotia: Maritime Conference, United Church of Canada, 1985.
Burrows, Bob
Healing in the wilderness: A history of the United Church mission hospitals.
Madeira Park BC: Harbour, 2004.
Burrows, Bob
Hope lives here: A history of Vancouver’s First United Church.
Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 2010.
Bush, Peter
Western challenge: The Presbyterian Church in Canada’s mission on the Prairies and North, 1885-1925.
Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer, 2000.
Chown, Samuel Dwight
Story of church union in Canada.
Toronto: Ryerson Press, c1930.
Christie, Nancy
Full-orbed Christianity: The Protestant churches and social welfare in Canada, 1900-1940.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.
Davies, Alan T.
How silent were the churches? Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish plight during the Nazi era.
Waterloo ON: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1997.
Dawes, C. H.
Just being around: reminiscences of a small town United Church minister.
Edmonton: West Wind Press, 1988.
Emery, George Neil
Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914.
Montreal; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001.
Flatt, Kevin N.
After Evangelicalism: the sixties and the United Church of Canada.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013.
Forward with China: The story of the missions of the United Church of Canada in China.
Toronto: United Church of Canada, Board of Foreign Missions, c1928.
Fowler, Albert G.
Peacetime padres: Canadian Protestant military chaplains, 1945-1995.
St. Catharines ON: Vanwell Publishing, 1996.
From log church to new millennium: The faith journey of the Duncan United Church, 1869-2004.
Duncan, BC: Firgrove Publishing, c2005.
Gagan, Rosemary Ruth
Sensitive independence: Canadian Methodist women missionaries in Canada and the Orient, 1881-1925.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992.
Genizi, Haim
Holocaust, Isreal and Canadian Protestant churches.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.
Gidney, Catherine
Long eclipse: The liberal Protestant establishment and the Canadian university, 1920-1970.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.
Grant, John Webster
Divided heritage: The Presbyterian contribution to the United Church of Canada.
Yorkton SK: Gravelbooks, 2007.
Grypma, Sonya
China interrupted: Japanese internment and the reshaping of a Canadian missionary community.
Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.
Hare, Jan, and Jean Barman
Good intentions gone awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the northwest coast.
Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.
Heath, Gordon L.
War with a silver lining. Canadian Protestant Churches and the South African War, 1899-1902.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.
Henderson, R.W.
These hundred years: the United Church of Canada in the Queen Charlotte Islands 1884-1984.
Lawn Hill BC: Official Board of the Queen Charlotte United Church [1985?]
Higham, C.L.
Noble, wretched & redeemable: Protestant missionaries to the Indians in Canada and the United States, 1829-1900.
Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000.
History of the Japanese congregations of the United Church of Canada (1892-1959).
Scarborough ON: Japanese Canadian Christian Churches Historical Project, 1998.
History of the Scotch colony, Victoria County, New Brunswick, 1873-1969.
Perth NB: United Church of Canada, Andover-Kincardine Pastoral Charge, 1970.
Howse, Ernest Marshall
Roses in December: the autobiography of Ernest Marshall Howse.
Winfield BC: Wood Lake Books, c1982.
Hunter, A.J.
Friendly adventure: The story of the United Church mission among New Canadians at Teulon, Manitoba [Ukrainians].
Toronto: United Church of Canada, Board of Home Missions, c1929.
Huntly, Alyson
Daring to be united: Including lesbians and gays in the United Church of Canada.
Etobicoke ON: United Church Publishing House, c1998.
Ion, A. Hamish
Cross and the rising sun set: The Canadian Protestant missionary movement in the Japanese empire, 1872-1931.
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990.
Ito, Roy
Hamilton Japanese United Church, 1946-1996.
Hamilton ON: The Church, c1996.
Johns, Mrs. Thomas H.
History of Metropolitan Church, Victoria. B.C.
Victoria BC: Historical Committee, Metropolitan United Church [1960?]
Justice and reconciliation: The legacy of Indian residential schools and the journey toward reconciliation.
Etobicoke ON: The United Church, c2001.
Kanada Nikkeijin Gōdō Kyōkai shi, 1892-1959: A history of the Japanese congregations of the United Church of Canada, 1892-1959.
Toronto: Kanada Nikkeijin Gōdō Kyōkai, Zenkoku Kyōgikai, 1961.
Kelm, Mary-Ellen, ed.
The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary imperialism on the north Pacific coast.
Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006.
Kervin, William S.
Language of baptism: a study of the authorized baptismal liturgies of the United Church of Canada 1925-1995.
Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003.
MacInnis, Grace
J.S. Woodsworth: A man to remember.
Toronto : Macmillan, 1953.
McNaught, Kenneth.
A prophet in politics: A biography of J.S. Woodsworth.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959.
MacRae, John M.
In the beauty of holiness: Shady Creek Church 1895-1995.
[Saanich BC: Shady Creek United Church], 1995.
Marshall, David B.
Secularizing the faith: Canadian Protestant clergy and the crisis of belief, 1850-1940.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Mills, Allen
Fool for Christ: The Political Thought of J.S. Woodsworth.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Moir, John S.
Early Presbyterianism in Canada: Essays.
Gravelbourg SK: Gravelbooks, 2003.
Muir, Elizabeth Gillan
Petticoats in the pulpit: The story of early nineteenth-century Methodist women preachers in Upper Canada.
Toronto: United Church Publishing House, 1991.
Neylan, Susan
Heavens are changing: Nineteenth-century Protestant missions and Tsimshian Christianity.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.
Nix, J. E.
Hillhurst’s First Sixty Years, 1907-1967: Hillhurst United Church, Calgary, Alberta.
Calgary.: Hillhurst United Church, 1967.
Norman, Gwen R. P.
Grace unfailing: the radical mind and the beloved community of Richard Roberts.
Etobicoke ON: United Church Pub. House, c1998.
Opp, James William
Lord for the body: Religion, medicine, and Protestant faith healing in Canada, 1880-1930.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.
Osterhoust, Smith Stanley
Orientals in Canada: the story of the work of the United Church of Canada with Asiatics in Canada.
Toronto: United Church of Canada, 1929.
Owens, G.W.
Heritage of one hundred years: Duncan United Church 1869-1969.
Duncan BC: Cowichan Leader [1969?]
Pidgeon, George C.
United Church of Canada: The story of the union.
Toronto: Ryerson Press [1950]
Playter, George F.
History of Methodism in Canada with an account of the rise and progress of the work of God among the Canadian Indian tribes.
Toronto: A. Green, 1862.
Pringle, George Charles Fraser
In great waters: the story of the United Church marine missions.
Toronto: Board of Home Missions of the United Church of Canada, c1928.
Riordon, Michael
First stone: homosexuality and the United Church.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.
Roddan, Andrew
Church in Action: The Story of Ten Years Active Service in First United Church, “The Church of the Open Door”, Vancouver, B. C.
Vancouver: First United Church, n.d.
Roberts, Carol B.
Mrs. minister.
Winfield BC: Wood Lake Books, 1987.
Runnalls, F. E.
It’s God’s country: a review of the United Church and its founding partners, the Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches in British Columbia.
Ocean Park BC: F. E. Runnalls, 1974.
St. John, Judith
Firm foundations: a chronicle of Toronto’s Metropolitan United Church and her Methodist origins, 1795-1984.
Winfield BC: Wood Lake Books, 1988.
Sample, Neil
The Lord’s dominion: The history of Canadian Methodism.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, c1996.
Schuetze, Luther L.
Mission to Little Grand Rapids: Life with the Anishinabe 1927 to 1938.
Vancouver: Creative Connections Publishing, 2001.
Schweitzer, Don, ed.
The United Church of Canada: A history.
Waterloo ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.
Scobie, Charles H.H., and John Webster Grant, ed.
The Contribution of Methodism to Atlantic Canada
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992.
Scobie, Charles H.H. and George A. Rawlyk, ed.
The Contributions of Presbyterianism to the Maritime provinces of Canada.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997.
Wang, Jiwu
“His Dominion” and the “yellow peril”: Protestant missions to Chinese immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967.
Waterloo ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
Woodsworth, Charles J.
Prophet at home: An intimate memoir of J.S. Woodsworth.
Vancouver: Tricouni Press, 2005.
Wright, Robert A.
World mission: Canadian Protestantism and the quest for a new international order, 1918-1939.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992.