The next AGM will be held at McMaster Divinity College on 26 April 2025, and will coincide with the Canadian Baptist Symposium.
Documents for the AGM 2025 are available for download here:
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Papers presented at past meetings:
2024
Michael Haykin, “‘Revolutions of Empires’: Robert Robinson, Andrew Fuller, and the Politicization of the English Particular Baptists”
Peter Ludlow, “Baptist-Catholic Relations in Nova Scotia: The Experiences of David Graham ‘D. G.’ Whidden and his History of Antigonish”
Francis Kyle, “A. G. Wilcox (1845–1921) of Halifax County, North Carolina: Lessons for Today Drawn from Southern Baptist Rural Church Planting and Revitalization During the Post U.S. Civil War Era”
Seán McGuire, “‘Who Do We Follow when the Nations Rage?’: Exploring the Tension in Ontario Baptist Attitudes to Peace and War at the Dawn of World War Two”
2023
Taylor Murray, “‘It has Pleased God to Make us of a Different Colour’: Black Baptists in Victoria, British Columbia, 1876–1881”
Glenn Tomlinson, “Washington Christian (1776–1850) and the Founding of the First Coloured Calvinistic Baptist Church of Toronto”
Dudley Brown, “The Underground Railroad and its Intersection with the Black Baptist Church in Canada”
Gordon L. Heath, “National Identity in the African Baptist Association, 1855-1914”
2022
Paul R. Wilson, “Joshua Denovan: A Prototypical Militant Fundamentalist, 1829–1901”
Doug Adams, “‘The Great Contention’: Ontario Baptists and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Struggle for McMaster University, 1919–1927”
Brian Froese, “Prairie Preachers and Educators: William ‘Bible Bill’ Aberhart, L. E. Maxwell, and Baptist Fundamentalism in Alberta, 1922–1970”
2021
Chris Crocker, “Rev. Alexander Stewart: Pioneer Baptist”
Melody Maxwell, “‘Proceed with Care’: Atlantic Baptists and Women’s Ordination in the 1980s”
James Taneti, “An Examine of the collaboration of Telugu Baptist Women and their Canadian Counterparts in South India in the Christianization of Dalit Communities and the Feminization of Telugu Christianity”
2020
**Cancelled due to COVID-19**
2019
Baiyu Andrew Song, “Joseph Kinghorn’s (1766–1832) Educational Vision and Its Canadian Legacy”
Jerry Thomas, “Growth through Church Planting: French Fellowship Baptists in Quebec, 1944-1963”
Jeff Straub, “T. T. Shields: The Canadian Spurgeon? A Fitting Comparison?”
2018
Mark Steinacher, “E.J. Stobo, Jr.: Quiet Fundamentalist”
Taylor Murray, “‘Come out from among them and be separate’: The Rise and Fall of John James Sidey’s Independent Baptists, 1934-1939”
Adam Rudy, “‘The Ecumenical Movement, is it of God?’: Central Canadian Baptist Identity and Ecumenism in the 1960s”
2017
Paul R. Wilson: “Torn Asunder: T. T. Shields, W. Gordon Brown, and the Schisms at Toronto Baptist Seminary and within the Union of Regular Baptist Churches of Ontario and Quebec, 1948–1949”
Santha Jetty, “An Independent Mission to the Telugus: The Canadian Baptist Mission and its Pioneering Missionary Activities in Colonial Coastal Andhra, India 1850-1950”
Gordon L. Heath, “The Life and Legacy of Chaplain William A. White, 1917-1918”
2016
Ken and Dianne Morgan, “The Church in Left Field”
Joyce Munro, “Ebenezer Muir Rice”
Ian Clary, “Archibald Maclay”
2015
Sharon Bowler, “Baptists and Women: An Opportunity to Explore Tangential Research in that Uncatalogued Box”
Marilyn Färdig Whiteley, “Crossing Boundaries: The Mission of Isabel Crawford”
Pat Townsend, “Maritime Women’s Long Road to Ordination: Some Preliminary Thoughts”
2014
Gordon L. Heath, “South Africa to the Somme: The Legacy of the Boer War for Canadian and New Zealand Baptists in the Great War”
Michael Haykin and Ian Clary, “Canadian Baptists and the First World War”
Charles Johnston, “McMaster University and the War”
2013
Michael Plato, “E. Y. Mullins, C. S. Lewis, and the History of Christian Experience”
Michael Haykin, “Andrew Fuller on being Trinitarian”
2012
Chris Crocker, “Rediscovering Our Roots: A History of Pioneer Baptists in Elgin County, 1816-1856”
Doug Adams, “T. T. Shields and the First World War”
2011
Priscilla Chan, “Anne Steele and Her Spiritual Vision: Seeing God in the Peaks, Valleys, and Plateaus of Life”
Ian Clary, “Alexander Carson’s Doctrine of Scripture”
2010
Kirk Wellum, “The Life and Times of Caleb Evans (1737-1791)”
Sharon Bowler, “Answering A Call to Keep Them Up: Jonathan Woolverton (1811-1883), A Physician and Educator in Upper Canada”
2009
Gordon L. Heath, “Ontario Baptists and the War of 1812”
Stan Fowler, “The Theology and Practice of Associations in Early Baptist Life”
2008
Paul Wilson, “Caring for Their Community: The Philanthropic and Moral Reform Efforts of Toronto’s Baptists, 1834-1918”
James T. Robertson, “Go Up and Possess the Garden of the World: The Baptist Mission to the North West Territories, 1870-1880”
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