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Bibliographic Essay General historical works on the Anglican Church of Canada, national and regional , include the following: Philip Carrington, The Anglican Church in Canada :A History (Toronto: Collins,1963); Thomas C.B.Boon,The Anglican Church from the Bay to the Rockies: A History of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert’s Land and Its Dioceses (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1962); Thomas R. Millman and A. R. Kelley, Atlantic Canada to 1900: A History of the Anglican Church (Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1983); Frank A. Peake, From the Red River to the Arctic: Essays on Anglican Missionary Expansion in the Nineteenth Century (Toronto: Canadian Church Historical Society, 1989), also published as Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 31 (1989): 1–147; Frank A. Peake, The Anglican Church in British Columbia (Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1959); C. W. [Charles William] Vernon, The Old Church in the New Dominion: The Story of the Anglican Church in Canada (London: SPCK, 1929); and, principally with respect to missions, Sydney Gould, Inasmuch: Sketches of the Beginnings of the Church of England in Canada in Relation to the Indian and Eskimo Races (Toronto: [Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada], 1917). Excellent recent biographies of most of those persons identified in this book who died before 1920 can be found in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1966– ). To date, fourteen volumes have been published in this significant project of historical research, and religious figures are treated with full seriousness. The volume in which the biographical entry appears is determined by the subject’s year of death: volume 1 (1000–1700); 2 (1701–40); 3 (1741–70); 4 (1771–1800); 5 (1801–20); 6 (1821–35); 7 (1836–50); 8 (1851–60); 9 (1861–70); 10 (1871–80); 11 (1881–90); 12 (1891–1900); 13 (1901–10); and 14 (1911–20). An older work of Anglican biography is Leaders of the Canadian Church (3 vols.),edited byWilliam Bertal Heeney (Toronto: Musson,[1918]43 ).Biographical data on all Canadian Anglican bishops until the mid-1970s can be found in O. R. Rowley, The Anglican Episcopate of Canada and Newfound09 .BIB.311-314_Haye 1/20/04, 9:39 AM 311 312 bibliographic essay land (Milwaukee: Morehouse, 1928); A. R. Kelley and D. B. Rogers, The Anglican Episcopate in Canada, vol. 2 (Toronto: Anglican Church of Canada, 1961); and David J. Carter and John W. Carter,The Anglican Episcopate in Canada, vol. 3 (Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1977). Histories of Anglican dioceses and parishes are numerous. The John W. Graham Library of Trinity and Wycliffe Colleges maintains a specialized collection of these histories, and its holdings, together with others in the University of Toronto library system, can be searched online at . The academic journal for CanadianAnglican history is the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, 600 Jarvis St. Toronto, ON M4Y 2J6. Relevant articles also appear in Anglican and Episcopal History, which is published by the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, 606 Rathervue Place, Austin, TX 78705.Both are among the hundreds of journals indexed in theAmerican Theological Library Association Religion Database, an essential bibliographical resource available in research libraries and online by subscription. Primary source material is available primarily in the various Anglican archives . The Anglican Church of Canada is highly decentralized, and so, therefore , are its archives. For matters involving the primate and the General Synod of the Church, the archives of General Synod are located at 600 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, ON M4Y 2J6. Each of the four Anglican provinces and (as of this writing) twenty-nine dioceses bears responsibility for its own archives.Many parishes also maintain their own historical records,although most deposit them in their diocesan archives. The holdings of the various provincial and diocesan Anglican archives across the country are described in the four volumes (1986– 95) of the “Records of the Anglican Church of Canada” series, available from General Synod Archives and in some research libraries. Anglican materials can also frequently be found in public and private collections. John Strachan’s papers , for instance, are housed in the Archives of Ontario, Toronto. More than 1,400 printed items dating before 1900 and related to Canadian Anglicanism are housed in the General Synod Archives. A list by date, indexed by name,is published as “Pre-1900 Imprints in General SynodArchives,” JCCHS 39 (1997): 1–339. Many printed sources before 1900 are available on microfiches published by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM...

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