Annual Conference

2026 Canadian Society of Presbyterian History Conference
Saturday, September 26, 2026 9:30-4:30 EST
Knox College, Toronto
In-Person and on Zoom

A panel on Canadian Presbyterian Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne Green Gables, hosted by CSPH president Robert Revington, and featuring some special guests:

Kate Macdonald Butter (Lucy Maud Montgomery’s granddaughter and also a film producer and author of The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook)

Kate Scarth (Chair of L. M. Montgomery Studies at the University of PEI)

Irene Gammel (Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and author of the book Looking for Anne of Green Gables)

Other presentations:

Penni Churko, President of the Friends of Ralph Connor House, on the history of the historic house in Winnipeg where Canadian author and Presbyterian minister Ralph Connor/Charles Gordon lived

Michael Fallon, Christian Reformed chaplain at McMaster University, on Dutch Reformed immigration to Canada after the Second World War

Peter Bush on Presbyterians in Canada and the United States of America, 1776-2026

Les Jones on Knox College’s 1878 championship-winning soccer team

Brian Graham on Home Missions of the Presbytery of Ottawa until 1925

William S. Morrow, professor emeritus at Queen’s University and one of Canada’s leading biblical scholars, on “How Knox College Laid the Foundation for My Career as a Biblical Scholar: A Memoir from the 1970s”

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Stuart Macdonald, Tradition and Tension 1945-1985

CSPH Past President Rev. Dr. Stuart Macdonald’s Tradition and Tension (2025)

History Matters, Rev. Dr. Stuart Macdonald

History Matters, A Festschrift in Honor of Stuart Macdonald. Editors, John A. Vissers and Ernest van Eck (2026)

Video Recording of the
2021 Conference

See links to previous conferences at the bottom of this page.

Contacts

Secretary, Ian Mason: [email protected]
President, Dr. Robert Revington: [email protected]

Videos of Past Conferences