The CCHS exists to promote the study of Canadian Church History, and has published a highly respected journal since 1950. President of the CCHS: The Rt. Rev.
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Terry Brown
Editor: The Rev'd Daniel F. Graves, [email protected]
Subscriptions: Mrs. Laurel Parson, [email protected]
The Canadian Church Historical Society has published a special edition of its annual Journal, focusing on the Mohawk Institute, the oldest continuously operated residential school in Canada. Entitled Documents of the Mohawk Institute: The Journals and Reports of Robert Ashton, 1872-1876 and the Diar...
Congratulations to Dr. Bill Acres on his recent publication of the Ashton Journals, related to the Mohawk Institute in the 1870s, in the most recent issue of the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society. This carefully edited edition of these important historical documents is prefaced by a lengthy and informative introduction by Dr. Acres setting the documents in their historical context. CCHS members will be receiving their copy in the mail presently. Non-members can purchase them through General Synod archives by following the link, below:
https://www.anglican.ca/news/new-volume-of-cchs-journal-focuses-on-the-mohawk-institute-in-the-1870s/30046556/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1Uf5OyfnPNqKfkTdxsHx8QjTwmgPXSzJJCxPIcIlkIFt1uBZL458LRvzI_aem_AfbX8qdv4CUgAiiLDpYOuVBDGscGd0g9DKQtgHLvBLNq5vtvafo7x7wEhfuX7NpYiNoT4n6cDl8k3lSZgCra4A3v
Some of the very attentive and engaged attendees at the MRI at 60 Conference.
Some highlights from our MRI at 60 conference panels. More to come.
The speakers at this evening’s public lecture at St James Cathedral. The Rev Professor Mark Chapman, Dr Andrea Mann, and Bishop Jo Bailey Wells.
Our MRI at 60 Conference has begun with a wonderful keynote address by the Rev. Professor Mark Chapman.
Here is the timetable for the upcoming "MRI at 60" conference on April 12th-13th at St. Paul's, Bloor Street. Registration is still open on the conference website, $150 for in person (deadline April 4th) and free for online participation (deadline April 11th). In person registration includes two good lunches and four refreshment breaks. Hope to see you there!
As part of the upcoming CCHS-sponsored conference marking the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress, we are co-sponsoring a free public lecture at St. James Cathedral, Toronto, the evening of Friday, April 12th. Here are the details. It should be a stimulating evening. All are welcome.
The Canadian Church Historical Society wishes to thank the Anglican Foundation of Canada for their recent $10,000 grant towards travel bursaries for the upcoming "MRI at 60" conference marking the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress.
The daily program and list of abstracts for the "MRI at 60" conference in Toronto on April 12th and 13th marking the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress are now available on the conference website. https://mriat60.wordpress.com/. Please consider attending this important conference: online participation is free, in person participation is $150. Registration details are on the website.
A Conference to Mark the 60th Anniversary of the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress
A new editor has been appointed for the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society Journal.
The Executive Committee of the Canadian Church Historical Society (CCHS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Thomas Power to the Editorship of the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, effective 1 March 2024, for a three-year renewable term.
Call for Papers:
Special Issue of the "Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society"
The Guest Editors invite proposals for paper submissions for a special issue of the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society (JCCHS) honouring the scholarly legacy of the late Professor William Westfall (1945–2023). We welcome proposals for papers that reflect on Dr. Westfall’s scholarship, as well as build upon, and extend his research into the history of Christianity in Canada.
Interested authors are encouraged to contact the Guest Editors via email with a short abstract for papers approximately 7,500 words in length. Proposals for submissions in alternative formats, including poetry and literary tributes, may also be considered for inclusion.
Guest Editors:
Prof. Todd Webb: [email protected]
Prof. Bruce Douville: [email protected]
Proposals are due by Wednesday March 27, 2024. Final submissions will be due September 2024.
Registration is open!
An article on the upcoming CCHS-organized "MRI at 60" conference this April in the February Toronto Anglican. Save these dates, April 12 and 13.
In August 1963, Anglican leaders from around the world came to Toronto for an Anglican Congress. The event, which included a service at Maple Leaf Gardens that was attended by 17,000 people, was featured in Time magazine, with a photo of Archbishop Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on th...
Here is the first notice of the Episcopal Church's 2025 Tri-History Conference. Theme: Caminemos con Jesús: History of Latino Ministry in the Episcopal Church.
Additional detail will be added as it is available
https://www.stthomas.on.ca/household-of-god-subscription
To help mark the parish’s 150th anniversary, Household of God, 1994–2024, volume 2, will be published in November 2024 as our sesquicentennial year concludes. Much of the book will cover the thirty years since 1993, when the first volume celebrated the 100th anniversary of the parish church de...
A new issue (despite its 2020 date) of the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society has appeared. It features a lead article on the Cridge Controversy in the Diocese of British Columbia in 1872-74 (Reformed Episcopal Bishop Cridge is on the front cover), Notes and Comments, a Conference Report, Book Reviews and In Memoria. The Journal comes with membership in the CCHS for a nominal fee. Email [email protected] for further details.
We have updated our "MRI at 60" website to include the post-1963 Anglican Congress film, "The Rebirth of the Church," telling the story of the Congress. It is a fine film and good background for anyone contributing to or attending the CCHS-sponsored conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress.
Video “Re-Birth of a Church: Anglican Congress 1963” is a record of the Toronto Anglican Congress of 12-23 August 1963. The film was made by Jack Chisholm Film Productions Ltd. of Toronto, and narr…
The Canadian Church Historical Society is advertising a three-year paid position for Editor of the Society's Journal. For details, see below:
Position Description
Editor, Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society
Position: Editor, Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society
Term: 3 years, renewable
Reports to: Canadian Church Historical Society Executive Committee
Relates to: the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society; The General Synod Archivist; The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada; Council of General Synod; other professional bodies related to the study and publishing of Church History (i.e., the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church (HSEC), Episcopal Women's History Project (EWHP), National Episcopal Historians and Archivists (NEHA), and the Canadian Society of Church History (CSCH), etc.); authors; academic referees.
Supervises: contractors such as proofreaders and layout/design artists.
The editor is responsible for publishing at least one issue per year. Ideally, each issue should contain 2-3 academic articles of approximately 7500 words each, a selection of book reviews, conference reports, and occasional notes and queries. The mandate of the Journal is to publish peer-reviewed research on Canadian church history, and especially on the history of the Anglican Church of Canada. The criteria for book reviews is broader. Book reviews can be on any subject related to church history (not only in Canada)
The editor is responsible for receiving unsolicited manuscripts, assessing their relevance to the Journal’s publishing mandate and their literary merit, and making a decision either to reject the article or to send it out for peer review. Likewise, the editor may solicit prospective manuscripts (subject to peer review) deemed of interest to the mandate of the Journal. The editor may decide (often in consultation with the CCHS Executive Committee or Journal editorial board) to undertake “theme” issues.
The method of peer review used by the Journal and overseen by the editor is “double-blind.” The editor solicits a minimum of two reviewers who are academics of particular qualification and expertise in the area of the submission to referee the submission. The editor may seek a third review if there is a significant discrepancy on the merits of the article. The editor makes the final decision to publish.
The editor is responsible for overseeing the proofreading and layout and printing of the Journal.
The editor sits as a member of the CCHS Executive Committee.
From time to time the editor will be responsible for participating in the organizing of conferences, colloquia, and other events organized by the CCHS and arrange for the review and publication of the proceedings of these events in a special issue of the Journal.
Remuneration is $2500.oo per issue. Expenses will also be paid for the editor to attend appropriate conferences to solicit papers.
Qualifications: the editor will hold a graduate degree in an appropriate field. Experience in editing and publishing academic writing is desirable.
Deadline date for application: The executive aims to begin considering applications 15 January 2024; applications will be open until an appointment is made.
Submit applications or enquiries to [email protected]
Some important background reading for the CCHS conference "MRI at 60" next April in Toronto: Dr. David Cox's Yale S.T.M. thesis on the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress, now on Project Canterbury at http://anglicanhistory.org/academic/cox_MRI_1987.pdf.
The Canadian Church Historical Society is pleased to issue a Call for Papers for a conference it has initiated and is co-sponsoring on April 12-13, 2024 in Toronto to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress. Please consider presenting a paper and being present, either in person or remotely. Here are the details:
A Conference to Mark the 60th Anniversary of the 1963 Toronto Anglican Congress
An important church history conference on Apostolic Ministry coming up in October at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University.
August 31, 2023Registration is open for “The Apostolic Ministry: History, Theology, Ecumenism,” a conference co-organized by Matthew Reese (Yale and The Johns Hopkins Universities) and Christopher Adams (Fordham University) and hosted by Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. “The Apostolic Ministr...
The CCHS is sorry to hear of the recent death of Dr. Bill Westfall, an important historian of the Anglican Church of Canada. Further details are here: https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/william-westfall-obituary?id=52935119&fbclid=IwAR3-IP1xmiusZz44CNtLBiMMke6E1iIeNIcHx6BJV8Gdnhf4USR7e4gjw_k
View William WESTFALL's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
If you are at General Synod or near Calgary, please stop by the CCHS display table. Thanks to Laurel for staffing it.
An invitation to a Zoom book launch of an important new book on Anglican history.
Please join Benjamin Guyer and Alec Ryrie on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 (at 12pm EST/5pm GMT), as they discuss Dr. Guyer's monograph, How the English Reformation was Named: The Politics of History, c. 1400-1700 (OUP, 2022; cover below). To register, please fill out the following. Registrants will r...
The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church is an association dedicated to preserving and disseminating information about the history of the Episcopal Church and the other churches of the Anglican Communion.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Book Launch for Bruce Douville's The Uncomfortable Pew
On Thursday November 18, 2021, at 7:00 pm Eastern, there will be an online gathering to celebrate the release (this past spring) of Bruce Douville's The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity and the New Left in Toronto. This event -- sponsored by the Canadian Society of Church History -- is free and open to the public. Bruce Douville will speak, followed by a Q & A session. In addition, guests at the event will have access to a special discount if they wish to order copies.
This celebration will take place via Zoom. (Past president of the CSCH, Marilyn Whiteley, has been kind enough to provide a Zoom meeting link for this occasion.)
Topic: Marilyn Whiteley's Zoom Meeting
Time: Nov 18, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Join our guest Speaker will be the Rev. Dr Kortright Davis, who will be discussing his book: We Belong to Big Church.
Congratulations to Alan Hayes.
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