Canadian Church Historical Society

10/17/2025

From our friends at the Ecclesiastical History Society: Notice of their Online Winter 2026 Conference. Consider registering to attend or submitting a paper!

We're now accepting proposals for our online conference happening on 10 January 2026! 🌍💻

Theme: Creeds, Councils and Canons

Submit your paper proposals by 31 October

Don’t miss out — share your ideas with a global audience!

https://ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-meeting/

08/29/2025

The Deadline for submitting for the Millman Student Essay prize is just a couple of days away.

A prize of $500.00 is offered for the best essay in English or French in Canadian church history written in the 2021-2023 academic years by a graduate student enrolled at a Canadian university. The funding for this award is made possible by the Thomas R. Millman Endowment Fund. For the purposes of this award, a graduate student is any student work on a post-baccalaureate degree.

All essays submitted will be considered for possible publication in the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society.

Essays may deal with any aspect of Canadian church history and should not exceed 7500 words in length, be double-spaced, and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition – notes/bibliography format). Recent issues of the Journal may prove helpful in selecting subjects for the essay. The deadline for submission is August 31, 2024. Submissions should include a brief c.v.

Submissions should be sent electronically to Dr. Thomas Power: [email protected]

The Canadian Church Historical Society’s 2024 Millman Prize Essay Contest offers a $500 award to the best graduate‑level essay on Canadian church history (2021–2023) in English or French.

08/01/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS!
Anglican Missions and Missionaries Conference, 1701–1965
May 28-30, 2026
https://cchso.ca/call-for-articles/

The Canadian Church Historical Society invites proposals for historical papers and panels on any area relating to Anglican mission work—in or from Canada, the USA, or elsewhere—for a conference at Huron University College, London, Ontario, May 28–30, 2026. Registration is $250.

Authors who wish to be published in the Canadian Church Historical Society should have their papers nearly ready for editing at the time of the conference, as select papers may be invited to submit to a special issue of the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society.

For those wishing to submit proposal for papers, please fill out our online Paper Submission Form https://cchso.ca/call-for-articles/ or email your 250-word abstract (including title), and 200-word bio by October 31, 2025, to [email protected].

Possible topics:
*Church of England mission societies in Canada, colonial America, and beyond
*Formation & evolution of national mission societies
*Company missions (Hudson’s Bay, New England, Canada Company, etc.)
*Independent mission societies & ad hoc missions
*Women’s Auxiliaries & women’s missionary work
*Effects of overseas missions on sending churches
*Missions, imperialism & colonialism
*Trans-Imperial missionary work (e.g., CMS)
*Cooperation & conflict among mission societies
*Ecumenical partnerships & tensions
*Missionary literature, translations & readerships
*Theories, practices & debates in missions
*Archival resources
*Other related topics

photo: The Church of England Deaconess and Missionary Training House, Dispensary, Anglican Women's Training College, Toronto, 1918. General Synod Archives

06/12/2025

The current issue of the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society is now available. It contains a selection of papers offered at our conference last year commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the 1963 Anglican Congress and its theme 'Mutual Responsibility and Interdependence in the Body of Christ'. The volume includes essays by Alan Hayes, Mark Chapman, Bill Acres, Gerry Lynch, David Danner, Stephen Spencer, Rakgadi Khobo, Renta Nishihara, and Joseph Wandera.

10/25/2024

We hope you can join us for our AGM (via zoom) on Nov 8th at 7 pm. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Kwok Pui Lan. See below for more information.

05/22/2024

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...

05/22/2024

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

04/13/2024

Some of the very attentive and engaged attendees at the MRI at 60 Conference.

04/13/2024

Some highlights from our MRI at 60 conference panels. More to come.

04/13/2024

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.

04/12/2024

Our MRI at 60 Conference has begun with a wonderful keynote address by the Rev. Professor Mark Chapman.

03/21/2024

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!