especially painful. Throughout most of his adult life, Workman was an adherent of the Unitarian church; he once confided to a friend that, as a Unitarian, he was “accustomed to vituperation from opposing

Presbyterian until 1840 and member of the St Gabriel Street Church, he converted to Unitarianism under the influence of the Reverend John Cordner

, along with the Unitarian Francis Hincks*, in the St Patrick Society, which had been founded in 1834. Both of them, with Lewis Thomas

 Harnack, whom he later privately described as a “Unitarian of the highest type

resources, but Van Horne’s death on 11 September intervened. A Unitarian funeral service was held at his Montreal home and a special CPR train

married John Wesley Weldon, also a well-known lawyer and politician; his son Charles Wentworth became a prominent Unitarian clergyman, congressman, and historian in Massachusetts. In recognition of Upham’s

unitarian, and leaned toward Owenite and radical views in politics. His diary, resumed in Paris after lapsing in 1835, shows him as having discussions with Louis-Joseph

(1857–58). But he worked for many other denominations in the city, designing the Methodist New Connexion Church, Temperance Street (1846), the Unitarian Church, Jarvis Street (1854), Zion Church

only one of many during his ministry in Montreal. In 1920 there was renewed concern when Symonds attended a service of the Unitarian Church of the Messiah in Montreal. Although Symonds’s stand was

. Stephens lived with his wife and children in his elegant home on Dorchester Street surrounded by three acres of manicured lawns and shrubs overlooking the city. He was a Unitarian, as were several other

Association. In addition, he was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade and sat on its council. A Unitarian, he participated in numerous philanthropic endeavours. Among his most prominent services were those

1882, when they purchased a plot in non-denominational Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and had their child’s remains reinterred there. Within the next few years members of the family joined the Unitarian Church

townspeople of Tracadie, the Presbyterian turned Unitarian who was always “reading and thinking” was an enigma. Undoubtedly Smith’s specialty, which was very much on the fringes of medical science, appealed to

their father and three eldest sisters. Little is known of Emma’s youth. Raised a Baptist, in adulthood she was recorded as a Unitarian and later an Anglican. She probably attended local schools and may

joined the Unitarian Church, and George was to remain a staunch Unitarian throughout his life. The Liberal Christian, a monthly journal edited by Cordner, was published by H. and G. M

PÉTURSSON, RÖGNVALDUR, Unitarian minister, businessman, editor, author, and community leader; b. 14 Aug

” – the contemporary Island name for atheists, agnostics, Unitarians, and apostates – and he did not have strong convictions about the intrinsic rightness or wrongness of either Protestantism or Roman

, Samuel Parkman, was a wealthy merchant and shipowner, and his father a prominent Unitarian minister. In 1840, after attending schools in Medford and Boston, Parkman entered Harvard University, which then

WCTU’s male advisers. “The ladies had but one mind and one object,” she wrote, “to win souls.” “Our minds had been fixed on the Master and his love, our object to win souls for Him.” Raised in a Unitarian

growth and influence of the Unitarian faith, of which she was an active member. She was on the advisory committee and the board of Montreal’s Church of the Messiah