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”
Contact [email protected] to register

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

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]
2016 Conference
2017 Conference
2018 Conference – Honouring Don MacLeod
2018 Conference – Jack Whytock
2018 Conference – Robert J. Dean
2018 Conference – Kate Revington
2019 Conference
2020 Conference – Angus Sutherland, Robert Revington, Rebbecca Jess, Stuart Macdonald
2021 Conference – Stuart Macdonald, Robert Revington and Phyllis Airhart