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Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Fonds Description
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Title: Administrative Records of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Fonds
Dates: 1917 – 2004; predominant 1954-1993
Extent: 43m of textual records and other material
The Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario is a regional organizational unit or court of the United Church, with jurisdictional responsibility from the Saskatchewan border to Marathon in northwestern Ontario. (Also see All Native Circle Conference Fonds which now serves First Nations ministries in this geography.) The fonds consists of textual and other materials generated by the Conference, the Conference Executive, Conference Staff and Conference Committee members in the fulfillment of their mandate as outlined in The Manual of The United Church of Canada from 1925 to 1994. This is the largest fonds in the holdings of the Archives.
An overview of the fonds Administrative Records of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Fonds Description provides the context and provenancial history. (Also see below under 500). The full Finding Aid, a masterful work of organizing by Linda White, is over 600 pages. The Full Finding Aid is available here in pdf format, enabling a word search. To aid researchers, however, the Finding Aid has been segmented into Series documents (Series Titles Document). The relevant Box Lists, where available, are integrated into the documents. See the Index below to access them.
The following Series have materials related to Indian Residential Schools: 500/1, 500/2, 501/1, 505/1, 505/2, 509/1, 509/2 – 1, 509/2 – 3, 509/2 – 4, 509/3, 516/3, 518/5, 519/2, 524/1. Please note materials related to other aspects of work with and among First Nations peoples may be found in other Series. The 2014 Index on IRS Related Records is available from the Keeper of the Archives. For background see Indian Residential Schools Overview.
Index to Administrative Records of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Fonds
There is a subject index as well as an index by Series Number.
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- Camps (520/1)
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank (512/3)
- CGIT (540/1)
- Christian Education Committee (508/1)
- Church Home for Girls (520/2)
- Church in Society (512/1)
- Communication Cte of Ed & Justice Unit (516/3)
- Communications (515/1)
- Conference Administrative Support (519/2)
- Conference Personnel Minister (518/4)
- Conference Staff Committee (518/2)
- Congregational Life and Work (511/1)
- Continuing Education Cte (517/2)
- Crossreach (511/1)
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H
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- Settlement Committee (518/1)
- Stewardship (519/4)
- Student Christian Movement (541/1)
- Students and Church Vocations (517/1)
- Superintendents of Home Missions: General Files (509/2 – 1)
- Superintendents of Home Missions: Presbytery Files (509/2-3)
- Superintendents of Home Missions: Property & Maintenance (509/2-2)
- Superintendents of Home Missions: Property Grants and Loans for First Nations Communities
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- 500Fonds Description
- 500/1Conference Annual Meetings • 500/1/1 Minutes • 500/1/2 Planning and Programming
- 500/2Conference Executive • 500/2/1 Minutes Executive and Sub-Executive • 500/2/2 Records of Executive Officers
- 500/3Conference Offices
- 501/1Committees of Executive & Special Committees
- 505/1Woman's Missionary Society (WMS)
- 505/2Woman's Missionary Society Archives
- 506/1Conference Men's Association
- 506/2As One That Serves (AOTS)
- 508/1Christian Education • 508/1/1 Committee on CE • 508/1/2 CE Business Committee • 508/1/3 CE Sub Committees • 508/1/4 Young People’s Union (YUP)
- 509/1Home Missions • 509/1/1 Minutes • 509/1/2 Registers Student Fields • 509/1/3 Churches in Indian Communities • 509/1/4 Advisory Cte to the Building Administrator • 509/1/5 Indian Metis Reception Lodge • 509/1/6 Chaplaincy in Hospitals and Custodial Institutions
- 509/2-1Superintendents of Home Missions: General Files • J.A Cormie • C.H. Best • George McMillan • N.K. Campbell • J.D. McMurtry • R.R. Smith
- 509/2-2Superintendents of Home Missions: Property and Maintenance
- 509/2-3Superintendents of Home Missions: Presbytery Files
- 509/2-4Superintendents of Home Missions: Property Grants and Loans to First Nations Communities
- 509/3Norway House Residential School
- 509/4Hospitals
- 510/1Evangelism and Social Service Committee
- 511/1Congregational Life and Work • 511/1/1 CL&W Work Committee • 511/1/2 Crossreach • 511/1/3 Church School Curricula and Training Programs for Indians • 511/1/4 Prairie Christian Training Centre (PCTC)
- 512/1Church in Society
- 512/2Evangelism and Social Action Council • 512/2/1 ES&A Council • 512/2/2 Committees Reporting to E&SA Council • 512/2/3 ES&A Council Communications Cte
- 512/3Inter-Conference and Ecumenical Groups Reporting to the Evangelism and Social Action Council • 512/3/1 Canadian Foodgrains Bank • 512/3/2 Christmas Cheer Board • 512/3/3 Inquiry into Unemployment • 512/3/4 Committee on Theological Education for Ministry • 512/3/5 InterChurch Coalition on Africa • 512/3/6 InterChurch Commission for Isolated Communities • 512/3/7 InterChurch Committee for World Development Education • 512/3/8 InterChurch Task Force on Northern Flooding • 512/3/9 Interfaith Pastoral Institute • 512/3/10 Manitoba Interfaith Council • 512/3/11 PLURA • 512/3/12 Social Assistance Coalition of Manitoba
- 515/1Conference Communications • 515/1/1 Broadcasting • 515/1/2 Communications Committee • 515/1/3 Media Resource Committee • 515/1/4 Inter-Council Communications Committee
- 516/1Worship and Education Council • 516/1/1 W&E Council • 516/1/2 AVEL/CANEC Advisory Cte • 516/1/3 AVEL Management Cte • 516/1/4 Camping Committee • 516/1/5 Cross Currents • 516/1/6 Families 2000 • 516/1/7 Leadership Network • 516/1/8 Ministry with Children • 516/1/9 Resource Centre Cte • 516/1/10 Senior’s Cte • 516/1/11 Share Fair Cte • 516/1/12 UCPH Cte • 516/1/13 Worship Cte • 516/1/14 Youth Cte • 516/1/15 Learning on the Way
- 516/2Worship and Education Council Women’s Groups • 516/2/1 UCW Co-ordinating Committee • 516/2/2 Women’s Concerns Task Group • 516/2/3 Women’s Consultation • 516/2/4 Cte. of Women’s Ministries
- 516/3Education and Justice Unit • 516/3/1 Justice Cte • 516/3/2 Education Cte • 516/3/3 Communication Cte
- 517/1Committee on Education, Students and Church Vocations
- 517/2Continuing Education Committee
- 517/3[Interim] Placement Committee
- 518/1Conference Settlement Committee
- 518/2Conference Staff Committee
- 518/3Ministry and Personnel Council • 518/3/1 Ministry and Personnel Unit
- 518/4Conference Personnel Officer • 518/4/1 Rev. J. Douglas McMurtry • 518/4/2 Rev. Hugo Unrah • 518/4/3 Pastoral Relations
- 518/5Conference Personnel Records • 518/5/1 Summer Interns • 518/5/2 Lay Personnel • 518/5/3 Ministerial Personnel • 518/5/4 License to Administer Sacraments • 518/5/5 Special Ordinations • 518/5/6 Pension Books
- 519/1Conference Finance Committee
- 519/2Conference Administration Support • 519/2/1 Congregational Support Committee • 519/2/2 Administrative Support Committee
- 519/3Administrative Support Staff
- 519/4Conference Stewardship • 519/4/1 Conference Stewardship Committee • 519/4/2 Conference Stewardship Council • 519/4/3 Stewardship and Mission Unit
- 520/1Church Camps • 520/1/1 United Church Fresh Air Camps • 520/1/2 Rock Lake United Church Camp • 520/1/3 Belair United Church Camp • 520/1/4 Portage Presbytery Camps
- 520/2Church Home for Girls
- 521/1Records of the Women's Union
- 523/1Woman's Association (MB Conference)
- 524/1Conference United Church Women
- 528/1Fellowship of Professional Women (Winnipeg Unit)
- 540/1Canadian Girls in Training (CGIT) • 540/1/1 Provincial Board • 540/1/2 Regional Boards or Councils • 540/1/3 Program Materials • 540/1/4 Manitoba CGIT Camps • 540/1/5 Legal and Financial CGIT Records • 540/1/6 CGIT Photographs, Slides, & Multimedia
- 541/1Student Christian Movement (SCM) • 541/1/1 SCM • 541/1/2 SCM General Secretary • 541/1/3 SCM Advisory Board