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Papers
Papers Presented to the Society over the Years
1970s
- 1975 – The Canadian Presbyterian Union of 1875 (John Johnston)
- 1977 – The Great Divorce and What Happened to the Children (Zander Dunn)
- 1978 – Presbyterian Women and the Indians (John W. Grant)
- 1979 – The Legal Problems of the Canadian Church Union of 1925 (Donald Corbett)
1980s
- 1982 – Conservatism in the Presbyterian Church in Canada in 1925 and Beyond: An Introductory Exploration (Ian Rennie)
- 1983 – The Cry That Silence Heaves (Marilyn Nefsky)
- 1987 – Sending the Gospel: The Development of the Knox College Student Missionary Society, 1845-1925 (Peter Bush)
1990s
- 1991 – Brands from the Blazing Heather: Canadian Religious Revival in the Highland Tradition (John W. Grant)
- 1992 – The West River Seminary (Sheldon MacKenzie)
- 1994 – Revivalism, Gender and the Community in 19th Century Congregationalism: A Case Study (Marguerite Van Die)
- 1994 – Happy Childhood: An Examination of Chinese Christian Literature for Children (Geoffrey Johnston)
- 1995 – Eternal Vigilance: The Rise of a Legislative Agenda and the Decline in Congregational Activity in Canadian Presbyterianism, 1875-1925 (Carey Nieuwhof)
- 1998 – A.B. Simpson: A Troubled Mystic (David Elliot)
2000s
- 2002 – The Jardine Auxiliary of Wychwood/St. Columba Presbyterian Church: A Skeletal Reconstruction (Lydia Ross Alexander)
- 2003 – Thomas McCulloch and the Rhetoric of Piety (Jack Whytock)
- 2005 – Keeping the Faith: The Presbyterian Press and the Great War (Michelle Fowler)
- 2005 – Church and Nation Declaration Revisited (William Klempa)
- 2005 – Gaelic Hymnody: An Auld World Beat with a New World Tempo (Jack Whytock)
- 2007 – The Communion Token: An Aid in Discipline, An Enticement for Growth (Angus J. Sutherland)
2010s
- 2010 – Edinburgh 1910 and Church Union 1925: The Ecumenical Missionary Impulse in Canadian Presbyterianism (A. Donald MacLeod)
- 2010 – The Rev. R.P. (Robet Peter) Mackay: Pietist as Denominational Executive (Peter Bush)
- 2010 – Re-Thinking Re-Thinking Mission: Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth, the China Inland Mission and the Disappearing Fundamentalists (Alvyn Austin)
- 2010 – Little and Late: Cooperation Made Easy. Two Canadian Missions in China (Geoffrey Johnston)
- 2010 – Church Union and the Presbyterians of Galt, Ontario (William Haughton)
- 2011 – The Union of 1861: Establishing an Authentic Canadian Identity for Colonial Presbyterians (A. Donald MacLeod)
- 2011 – William Fraser: A Father of Canadian Presbyterianism (Michael Millar)
- 2011 – Annie and Charlotte Montgomery: Teachers and Evangelists in Persia (Jack Whytock)
- 2011 – Challenges and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Francophone Evangelization: Jules Bourgoin and the Pointe-aux-Trembles School (Jason Zuidema)
- 2012 – Presbyterians and the War of 1812 (James T. Robertson)
- 2012 – Developing a Denominational Structure: The Introduction of a Unified Budget (Peter Bush)
- 2012 – Testing 1966: Unrest in Montreal (JoAnne Dickson)
- 2012 – Centennial Reminds Congregation of Inherent Dilemma: The Case of First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton (Ken Munro)
- 2012 – Knox College and Knox Church: Going Separate Ways after Church Union (A. Donald MacLeod)
- 2013 – Stanford Reid’s Legacy for Christian Academics (A. Donald MacLeod)
- 2013 – George Monro Grant and the Bow of Ulysses (D.B. Mack)(Revised 2015)
- 2014 – Voices from the Front: Canada’s Presbyterian Padres and the Great War (Duff Crerar)
- 2014 – Institutions and Ideas: The Challenge of the Great War for Canadian Presbyterians (Stuart Macdonald)
- 2015 – Struggles to Achieve: The Rev. James Nisbet and the Foreign Missions Committee of the Canada Presbyterian Church (Bob Anger)
- 2015 – Machen and the PCC’s Andrew Grant in a 1925 partnership to save “true evangelical Christianity” – (A. Donald MacLeod)
- 2016 – The Centenary of Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000) (A. Donald MacLeod)
- 2016 – Restless Spirit: The Odyssey of Norman Mcleod (R. Ritchie Robinson)
- 2016 – What Were They Thinking? The Place of Women and the 1966 Decisions on Ordination (Stuart Macdonald)
- 2018 – Donald Harvey Macvicar: Calvinist Educator (John Vaudry)
- 2018 – L. M. Montgomery and the Impact of Church Union (Kate Revington)
- 2018 – Reformed Presbyterian Church Architecture: Then and Now (Jack C. Whytock)
- 2018 – Teaching/Preaching in a Time of Cultural Change: The Forgotten Story of John J A Proudfoot, Knox College (Robert J. Dean)
Index of All the Papers Presented to the Society from 1975-2019
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