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Unitarians in Canada 9 Renaissance 206 ISBN 0-88902411 10 National Identity 248 1 Contents Introduction viii 1. Why Unitarian? 1 0 1978 by Phillip Hewett AU rights reserved 2 The Beginnings 16 No part of this publication may be 3 The Cordner Era 34 reproduced in any foml, or by any means, 4 Allies: 'Christians' and without permission in writing from the publisher. Universalists 66 published by Filzhenty & Whiteside Limited 150 Lesd Road 5 The New Theology 93 Don Mills, Ontario M3B 2T5 6 Expansion in The West In a.ssodation with the Canadian Unitarian Council 7 War and Aftermath Published simultaneously in the United States 153 Press, by Beacon Boston 8 The Bleak Years 175 Hewett, Phillip. Unitarians in Canada 9 Renaissance 206 ISBN 0-88902411 10 National Identity 248 1. Unitarians in Canada. 2. Unitarianism- History, 1810-1975 I. Title. 11 Turbulent Transition 275 12 The Social Contribution 31 2 Notes 359 Bibliography 373 Index 379 Manufactured in Canada by Webcorn Lunited LIST OF ILL STRATI0 Abbreviations 1. Letter to the Hon. John Molson from T. S. Brown, 1834 (page 29) 2. First Montreal church, built in 1845 (pages 42-43) 3. Chancel of the present Montreal church. Most of the furnishings are memorials to former members (photo by Brian KieW AUA American Unitarian Association 4. John Cordner, minister in Montreal from 1843 to 1878 BFUA British and Foreign Unitarian Association 5. Unitarian church on Jarvis Street, Toronto (1854-1950) 6. Installation service in Toronto church for William P. Jenkins, 1943 CCUU & Canadian Conference of Universalists, Unitarians and 7. Icelandic church, Winnipeg (page 131) KRL Kindred Religious Liberals 8. Laying of lhe foundation stone for All Souls' Church, Winnipeg 1913, by CUA Canadian Unitarian Association Mayor Deacon, with Horace Westwood giving the address (page 146) 9. A11 Souls' Church, Winnipeg CUC Canadian Unitarian Council 10. Horace Westwood in the minister's study at AN Souls' Church. The GA (British) General Assembly of Unitarian and Free picture in the background is the famous one of Unitorion beginnings in Christian Churches Transylvania. 11. Vilhjalmur St$ansson, bust by Emanuel Hohn. Both subject and sculptor IARF International Association for Religious Freedom were Canadian Unitarians. (By ~ermissionof the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa). UUA Unitarian Universalist Association 12. William Irvine, M.P., minister at Calgary, 1915-20 and of Ottawa, 1922- USC Unitarian Senice Committee 25; one of theprincipal founders ofthe CCF. 13. First CUC board, 1961. Back row, I. to r., Rev. Phillip Hewett, Rev. Angus Cameron, Richard L. Knight, Rev. P. M. Petursson, Rev. Jay Chidsey. Front row, I. to r., CromweN Young, Paf Chefurka, Bunny Turner and Rev. Charles W. Eddis. 14. The Unitarian church at Gimli, Manitoba, t@cal of the rural Icelandic churches. 15. Breaking the sod for Hamilton's fourth building, 1952, by Sarah E. Berry (page 228) 16. Ottawa's second building dedicated in 1967. 17. Vancouver's second building, dedicated in 1964. 18. The Unitarian Wilderness Camp at Fry Point on Kootenay Lake, B.C. (page 286) 19. The old church in Vancouver, 1913-63. 20. Musfheads of some of the Unitarian and Universalistperiodicals published in Canada during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Introduction ix the word Unitarian would appear to be a rather difficult task, but even this feat was accomplished when Mrs Lewes wrote the life of her grandfather, Dr Southwood S~nith.'~It is diMicult to avoid the conclu- sion that something of the same sort has happened in Canada when, for instance, H. J. Morgan's Canadian Men and Women of the Time (1898) lists G. W. Stephens and Dr Clarence Church, both lifelong Unitarians, as Anglicans. In the second place, those not familiar with some of the semantic Itmight appear at a casual glance that Unitarianism would be a form tangles of religious history can easily be led astray. Thus, it has been of religion with a peculiar appeal to Canadians. Canada: Unity in alleged in a number of Canadian references, most recently in the Diversity was the title of a recent book'-precisely the phrase long Dictionary of Canadian Biography, that William Hincks was a Presby- used by Unitarians to describe their distinctive approach to religion. terian minister who became a Unitarian, the implication being that The image of the mosaic, which has been used for half a century and this was a clear break with an earlier Calvinism. In fact, Hincks more to represent Canadian society, expresses better than any other became a Unitarian only in the sense in which a person growing up in the kind of religious fellowship Unitarians seek. Again, as William a Unitarian family becomes a Unitarian. By the time of his birth all Kilboum puts it, 'Canadians have been accustomed to define them- the English Presbyterians and a considerable number of the Irish selves by saying what they are not.'2 So too have Unitarians. Attempts Presbyterians were in fact Unitarians, though a good many of them in to define an identity in more positive terms have in both cases often England and aU of them in Ireland held on to their inherited Presby- raised explosive difficulties and disagreements. terian name? The story of Canada's development over the years gives grounds for The story of the Unitarian movement in Canada has never before surprise that the country is not much larger than it actually is, alter- been told except in the most fragmentary way. As in many similar nating with surprise that it still exists at all. The same could be said of situations, the absence of a written history has resulted in a luxuriant Unitarian history. Within both contexts appears the phenomenon of growth of legendry, much of it fanciful. It may be too much to hope the revolving door. A great many people come in from the outside but that no such legendry has found its way into these pages, though an they don't all stay. Those who do stay are torn between the desire to attempt has been made to go back to original sources wherever possi- keep what they brought with them and the desire to shake themselves ble. entirely free of it. This siudy was commissioned by the in 1970, with the financial Despite these .superficial similarities, Unitarianism has never been cuc assistance of the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto Foundation. the religion of more than a tiny segment of the Canadian people. The Many persons and organizations have contributed to its making. The most recent census recorded no more than 21 000 in the whole coun; Unitarian Church of Vancouver provided me with a three-months' try. Yet this small minority has had an influence upon the national life sabbatical which was devoted to research supported by a grant from out of all proportion to its numerical strength. of its members more the Canada Council. Some local congregations produced outlines of have held leading positions in all walks of life than is commonly . their own history or referred me to earlier writings along the same recognized. lines. I am particularly grateful to those who assisted me directly in At least two reasons for this lack of recognition can be identified. It the work of research: Trevor Watkins in England; Glenn Turner in has been noted in England that the biographers of well-known persons Massachusetts; Mary Lu MacDonald in Montreal; Christine Johnston, sometimes went to great lengths to avoid mentioning their subjects' Avis McCurdy, Nancy Knight, and Eugen Fandrich in Toronto; and Unitarian affiliation, as though this were some kind of reprehensible secret. 'To write the life of a man who had been a Unitarian minister Richard Morton in Edmonton. I am indebted to the librarians of Manchester College, Oxford, Dr Williams's Library in London, the and founded the Scottish Unitarian Association without mentioning viii K UMrians In Canada Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago and the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley; and in particular for their valua- ble assistance and advice to Carl Seaburg and George Spencer of the uu~,Alan Seaburg of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, and Hugh Taylor, formerly of the Public Archives of Canada. Professor Russell Miller of Tufts University and Dr George E. Carter of the Institute for Minority Studies at the University of Wis- consin referred me to a wealth of material on Universalism, which was amplified by the studies already made by Louise Foulds of Olinda. Arnold Westwood gave me access to his father's unpublished auto- biography. Philip M. Petursson and Emil Gudmundson reviewed the sections on the Icelandic contribution and offered useful criticism and advice. I have enjoyed a number of stimulating discussions with Edgar Andrew Collard, whose forthcoming history of the Church of the Messiah in Montreal will no doubt supplement this narrative in many 'The dedication of the first avowedly Unitarian church in British ways. To Professor Ian MacPherson of the University of Victoria I am America almost requires of us that we explain and justify ourselves in particularly grateful for reading the entire manuscript and offering a such a step. When there are so many other houses of public worship number of helpful suggestions. in which the members of this societj might have found opportunities The laborious work of preparing the typescript was ably and cheer- of religious service, . .why have they thought it necessary to erect a fully handled by Greta Stewart and Ethel Greer; likewise the publish- sanctuary bearing the distinctive name of Unitarian?' ing arrangements by Joan Hams. Jack Wallace gave valuable assist- The date was May 11, 1845. The spring sunshine brightened the ance in laying out the illustrations. My grateful acknowledgment to the crowded building as Ezra Stiles Gannett spoke at the dedication of the many helpers named above and unnamed must be supplemented by Montreal Unitarians' first church.
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