By Christopher W. Crocker
I began frequenting the Necropolis Cemetery in Cabbagetown shortly after beginning to teach at Toronto Baptist Seminary in 2019.
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NEWS | Announcing the 2026 Annual General Meeting
On Saturday, 25 April 2026, we are meeting at Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto. Plan to join us for a morning of business and paper presentations!
Continue readingA Baptist Ghost Story
A Fresh Start: Bulletin of the Canadian Baptist Historical Society
By Taylor Murray
In the 1990s, the CBHS published a biannual periodical titled The Bulletin of the Canadian Baptist Historical Society. Continue reading
Baptists and Digital Research in Canada, Part Two: Canadian Baptist Archives
By Taylor Murray
Whether due to distance, time constraints, or pandemics, historians are not always able to visit archives for research. Continue reading
NEWS | Announcing our 2022 Annual General Meeting
Save the date for our 2022 Annual General Meeting. Due to COVID-19, the meeting will be a virtual one. See the attached flyer for details. We hope to see you there!
Continue readingStewart G. Cole, T. T. Shields, and the History of Fundamentalism
By Taylor Murray
Historians have debated definitions of the term “fundamentalism” practically since it was popularized in the early 1920s. Continue reading
Revisiting Cholera in this time of COVID: Exploration of Conscience and Faith
By Sharon M. Bowler
I often have referred to the historical research that I do as following in the methodology of Neil Postman’s “Building of Bridges.” Continue reading
The United Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces and the “Spanish Influenza,” 1918–1920
By Taylor Murray
Various historians have drawn similarities between the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and earlier events in world history. Continue reading
Profile of a Fledgling Baptist Minister, part 2
By Joyce H. Munro
During his student days at the Canadian Literary Institute in Woodstock in the early-1860s, Eben Rice had his share of romantic entanglements. Continue reading
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