Religion

When you study the history of Canada you can't help but be struck on how it was the missionaries who went out into the country to provide both churches and schools and through that work helped to establish what are now our towns and cities. The ministers and missionaries thus contributed in a major way to the building of Canada and through this section we hope to show some of their work.

Most of our information comes from antiquarian resources but we'd be more than happy for any contributions from our visitors in text, pictures or videos to add to the site.

Overview of Religion in Canada taken from a US Report.
The Life of James Robertson
Missionary Superintendent In the Northwest Territories by Charles W. Gordon (Ralph Connor) published in 1908, second edition. An amazing man who build many churches and schools in the North West.
St Monicas Anglican Church
The Poorest Anglican Church in Toronto where the Rector is also the Prior of St James Priory of the Knights Templar and also Chaplain to Mount Sinai Hospital.
Knights Templar Canada
Here we provide some information on the Knights Templar in Canada.
The Sovereign Great Priory of Canada
Of the United Orders of Malta and the Temple Supreme Grand Masters, Compiled and Edited by Michael Jenkyns, K.T. (2016) (pdf)
George Millward McDougall
The Pioneer, Patriot and Missionary.
Centennial of Canadian Methodism (1891)
Past and Present
Or a Description of Persons and Events Connected with Canadian Methodism.
Memoir of the Rev James MacGregor D.D.
Missionary of the General Associate Synod of Scotland to Pictou, Nova Scotia with Notices of the Colonization of the Lower Provinces of British America, and of the Social and Religious condition of the Early Settlers by his Grandson The Rev. George Patterson (1859)
Knox Presbyterian Church
Tiverton, Ontario - 150 years
Memoir of the Right Reverend John Strachan D.D. LL.D.
First Bishop of Toronto by A. N. Bethune his successor in the See (1870)
Experiences of a Backwoods Preacher
Facts and Incidents culled from thirty years of Ministerial life by Rev. Joseph H. Hilts, Second Edition (1892)
Rev Nola Crewe
Minister of St Monics's Anglican Church of Toronto has her own forum where she is posting up videos of her homilies which she gives out at her home in Toronto. [External Link]
Writings of John MacLean
This author wrote a couple of books revolving around the Native Indians of Canada and also of the missionary work carried out with them. He's writing with a background of many years living and working with the native people.
Handbook of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (1883) (pdf)
A Sermon on the Sin of Torturing Animals
By the Rev. John Moffatt, Minister of the Scotch Kirk, Bayfield, Canada (pdf)
A History of the Scotch Presbyerian Church, Montreal
By the Rev. Robert Campbell, M.A., The Last Pastor (1887) (pdf)
John Lorne Campbell
John Lorne Campbell (1845–1928) was a noted Baptist pastor, educator, author, lecturer, apologist, mission advocate, and world traveler. In a career that spanned a remarkable sixty years of full active service, he ministered not only among his native Canadian Baptists but also among both Northern Baptists and Southern Baptists in the United States and Baptists in England.
Talks on the Maple Leaf in Many Lands
By Mary I. Houston (pdf). This book is a wee bit hard to read but worth the effort.
Christie Redfern's Troubles
By Mrs Robertson (27th impression)
The Beneficial Influence of a Well Regulated Nationality
A Sermon delivered before the St Andrews Society of Montreal on St. Andrew's Day, Nov. 30th, 1857 in Saint Gabriel Street Scotch Church by The Rev. Alexander F. Kemp, Chaplain (1857) (pdf)
Carols of Canada
By Mrs. Macleod (1893) (pdf)
The Pioneer Pastor
Some Reminiscences of the Life and Labors of The Rev. Geo. Buchanan, M.D., First Presbyterian Minister of Beckwith, Lanark County, Upper Canada by Jessie Buchanan Campbell, His only Surviving Daughter (1900)
Pioneer Days in British Columbia
Reminiscences by Violet E. Sillitoe
Historic Sketches of the Pioneer Work and the Missionary, Educational and Benevolent Agencies of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (1903) (pdf)
A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of the Rev. Robert Campbell
Minister of St. Gabriel Church, Montreal by the Rev. G. Colborne Heine, BA, Minister Emeritus (1922) (pdf)
Handbook of the Brotherhood of St Andrew in Canada (pdf)
Infants Prayer Book
With Texts and Simple Hymns for Infant Minds by Mrs. C. P. Traill (1873)
Missionary History of the Pacific Northwest
Containing the Wonderful Story of Jason Lee with Sketches of Many of His Co-laborers and Illustrating the Life of the Plains and in the Mountains in Pioneer Days by H. K. Hines, D. D. (pdf)
Notes on a Tour through the North-West Territory
By Rev. A. Sutherland, D.D. (1881) (pdf)
Colportage in Canada
The calling of the Colporteur, though not under that name, was an early one in the Church (pdf)
The Trapper's Son
By William H. G. Kingston (pdf)
Father Lacombe
In his more than sixty years of work among the Indians of Western Canada
Life and Work of D. J. MacDonnell
Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Toronto with a selection of Sermons and Prayers edited by Prof. J. F. McCurdy, Ph.D., LL.D. (1897) (pdf)
The Times of Old, and their Happy Memories
A Discourse in two parts Preached in St. Andrew's Church, Toronto on the Occasion of The Tricentenary of the Scottish Reformation by John Marclay, D.D. (1861) (pdf)
Memorial from the Committee of Missions of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia
Tp the Glasgow Society for Promoting the Religious Interest of the Scottish Settlers in British North America with Observations on the Constitution of that Society and upon the Proceedings and First Annual Report of the Committee of Directors and First Annual Report of the Committee of Directors by Thomas M'Cullogh, D.D. (1826) (pdf)
Saintly Smith
And The School Upon The Hill By E. M. Morphy, A York Pioneer (pdf)
Scottish Patriotism
Annual Sermon before the St. Andrews Society by The Rev. J. C. Baxter in Stanley Street Church, Montreal, November 30, 1876 (pdf)
Report of the Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
For Promoting the Religious Interests of Scottish Presbyterians in the British Colonies, 23d May 1839, and Deliverance of the Asembly with Appendix containing correspondence with the Colonial Office, and other documents (pdf)
Endowments of the Church of Scotland in Canada
Evidence of Mr. Douglas Brymner before the Senate Committee on Private Bills, In opposition to the Bills for transferring the said Endowments to the Presbyterian Church in Canada 24th and 26th April, 1882. (pdf). A very interesting case.
In Memoriam: Recollections of Father Dawson
By Henry J. Morgan (1895) (pdf)
Canadian Hymes and Hymn Writers
By Rev. A. Wylie Mahon, B.D. (1908) (pdf)
A Sermon
Preached in St. John's Church, Cornwall on the Occasion of the Lamented Death of the Late Minister of that Church, the Rev. Hugh Unquhart, D.D., by the Rev. Neil MacNish, M.A., B.D. (1871) (pdf)
Telugu Trophies
The Jubilee Story of some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924 by the Canadian Baptist Foreign Board Jubilee Volume (pdf)
The Life and Times of the Rev. Robert Burns, D.D. F.A.S., F.R.S.E, Toronto
Including an unfinished Autobiography by The Rev. R. F. Burns, D. D., Montreal (1872) (pdf)
The Writings and Life of William Black Laws
Late Bookseller of Glasgow Scotland (1895) (pdf)
Christ Church, Petrolia
In Commemoration of Sixty Years of Faithful witness, worship and administration 1882 - 1942 of Christ Church, Petrolia (pdf)
Caravaning through Prairie and Mountain in Canada
By F. H. Eva Hasell (pdf)
Taylor, William
Minister
History of Presbyterianism on Prince Edward Island
By Rev. John MacLeod (1904) (pdf)
The Missionary Education Movement
Of the United States and Canada (pdf)
The Apostle of the North
Rev. James Evans by Egerton R. Young, Author of "On the Indian Trail", "By Canoe and Dog-Train", Etc (1899) (pdf)
A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of the Rev. Robert Campbell, D.D.
Minister of St. Gabriel Church, Montreal by the Rev. G. Colborne Heine, B.A., Minister Emeritus, Westmount, Quebec (1922) (pdf)
Great Canadian Preaching
Edited with Introduction and Biographical Notes by W. Harold Young, M.A., B.D. Minister of St. Paul's United Church, Toronto (1925) (pdf)
Pioneers of the Cross in Canada
By Dean Harris (pdf)
An Ursuline Epic
By Lt.-Col. William Wood, Author of “The Fight for Canada.” (Read May 23, 1908.) (pdf)
The Correspondence of Hon. William Morris
With the Colonial Office, as the Delegate from the Presbyterian Body of Canada (April, 1837) (pdf)
The Canadian Friend
Volume 101, No. 2 March 2005 (pdf). To further the work and witness of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Canada.
Isles of Scotland
By Orthodox Canada
The Story of the Old Time Communion Service and Worship
Also The Metallic Communion Token of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1772 by Rev. George A. MacLennan, B. A., Montreal, Que. (1924) (pdf)
Life of Rev. William Cochrane, D.D.
For Thirty-Six Years Pastor of Zion Church, Brantford and for Twenty-Six Years Convener of the Home Mission Committee of the Presbyterian Church in Canada by R. N. Grant (1899) (pdf)
The Church in Canada
Journal of Visitation to the Western Portion of his Diocese by the Lord Bishop of Toronto (John Strachan) in the Autumn of 1842 (third edition) (1846)
We Are Too Scotch
The Reverend William Proudfoot and the United Secession Mission to Canada by Stewart D. Gill, M.A., PH.D. (1851) (pdf)
The Encyclopedia of Sunday Schools and Religious Education
Giving a World-Wide View of the History and Progress of the Sunday School and the Development of Religious Education. Complete in Three Volumes. Editors-in-Chief John T. McFarland, D.D., LL.D., Late Editor of Sunday School Publications, Methodist Episcopal Church, New York City, Benjamin S. Winchester, D.D., Department of Religious Education, Yale School of Religion, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Canadian Editor: R. Douglas Fraser, D.D., Editor Presbyterian Sunday School Publications, Toronto, Canada and European Editor: Rev. J. Williams Butcher, Secretary Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Department, London, England.
St. Andrew’s Society of Ottawa
Anniversary Sermon 1889 preached by Rev. B.D. Berridge, B.D. in St. Andrew's Church (pdf)
Primitive Methodist Colony in the North West Territory of Canada
Information for the use of Intending Settlers (1882) (pdf)
Canadian Baptists at work in India
By Rev. W. L. Orchard, M.A., B.D., Missionary Education Department of the Foreign Mission (1922) (pdf)
Father La Brosse
Jesuit, priest, missionary, and professor
Review of the Pastoral Letter of the Clergy
Of the Church of Scotland in the Canadas (1828) (pdf)
Address
Delivered at the Meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society, by His Excellency Sir William MacGregor, G.C.M.G., C.B., etc., St. John’s, Newfoundland, 26th March, 1908 (pdf)
John Bethune
By Rev. James MacKenzie (1971) (pdf)
The Rainbow in the North
A short account of the first establishment of Christianity in Rupert's Land by the Church Missionary Society by S. Tucker, author of "South Indian Sketches" (1852) (pdf)
Christian Responsibility
In the matter of Popular Amusements (pdf)
The Church and The Commonwealth
Discussions and Orations on Questions of the Day, Practical, Biographical, Educational and Doctrinakl written during a twenty year ministry by The Rev. wm. Cochrane, D.D., Brantford, Ontario (1887) (pdf)
Future Punishment
Or, Does Death end Probation? Materialism, Immortality of the Soul; Conditional Immortality or Annihilationism; Universalism or Restorationism; Optimism or Eternal Hope; Probationism and Purgatory, By the Rev'd William Cochrane, D. D., (Ex-Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada) (1886) (pdf)
The Last Three Bishops Appointede by the Crown
For the Memoirs and Remains of the Reverend Walter Inglis
African Missionary and Canadian Pastor by The Rev. William Cochrane, D.D., Brantford, Ontario (1887) (pdf) Anglican Church of Canada by Fennings Taylor (1869) (pdf)
The Heavenly Vision And Other Sermons (1863-73)
By The Rev. William Cochrane, M.A., Zion Presbyterian Church, Brantford (1874) (pdf)
Life and Labours of The Rev. Wm. McClure
For more than forty years a Minister of the Methodist New Conneion, chiefly and autobiography edited by Rev. David Savage (1872) (pdf)
The Life amd Times of The Rev. Robert Burns, D.D., F.A.S., F.R.S.E., Toronto
Including an unfinished Autobiography, edited by his son, The Rev. R. F. Burns, D.D., Montreal (1872) (pdf)
A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of the Rev. Robert Campbell, D.D.
Minister of St. Gabriel Church, Montreal by the Rev. G. Colborne Heine, B.A., Minister Emeritus, WestMount, Quebec (1922) (pdf)
Farewell Sermon
Delivered by Rev. Robert Campbell, D.D., on retiring from the Ministry of St. Gabriel Church, Montreal, October 3, 1909 (pdf)
Father Corson
Or, The old style Canadian Itinerant; embracing the Life and Gospel labours of The Rev. Robert Corson, Fifty-Six Years a Minister in Connection with the Central Methodism of Upper Canada, edited by The Rev. John Carroll, D.D. (1879)
A History of the Scotch Presbyterian Church
St. Gabriel Street, Montreal by the Rev. Robert Campbell, The Last Pastor (1887) (pdf)
Pioneer Laymen of North America
By The Rev. T. J. Campbell, S. J. in two volumes (1915)
Memoir of The Rev. John Bayne, D.D., of Galt
By Rev. G. Smellie, Fergus (1871) (pdf)
Union of Presbyterians in Canada
By Rev. Robert Campbell, M. A., Montreal, Prize Essay (1871) (pdf)
The Centennial History of the South Gower Baptist Church
1841 - 1941 (pdf)
The Revivalist and Anglo-American Magazine
For 1844 (pdf)
The Religious Experience of Neil Currie
A Native of the Island of Arran, Scotland, also his views of all denominations known to him since he came to Canada (1846) (pdf)
The Good Centurion
An example for Scotchmen in Canada, A Sermon, preached before the St. Andrew's Society of Montreal on Monday, December 1st, 1862 by The Rev. William Snodgrass, Chaplain (pdf)