Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: harles W. Gordon was born in Glengarry County, Canada West (now Ontario), on 13 September 1860, the son of Scottish immigrants.Educated at the University of Toronto, Knox College, and the University of Edinburgh, he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1890 and became Doctor of Divinity in 1906.He worked as a missionary in mining villages and lumber camps in Banff, Alberta, before becoming the minister of St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church in Winnipeg in 1894.He also served as a chaplain overseas during the First World War.As Presbyterian moderator, a post to which he was elected in 1921, he moved his own congregation toward the union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches that formed, in 1925, the United Church of Canada.Married to Helen Skinner King in 1899
Authors: Ralph Connor, Daniel Coleman
Institution: University of Toronto
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4392325874