PÉTURSSON, RÖGNVALDUR, Unitarian minister, businessman, editor, author, and community leader; b. 14 Aug
records, 1793–1945”: www.familysearch.org (consulted 26 June 2016). FD, Unitarian Messiah (Montreal), 29 March 1934. LAC
commitment to socialism and pacifism. In 1913 she and Marion left Knox Presbyterian Church for the recently established First Unitarian Church of Calgary, which had a progressive women’s alliance. Three years
Harnack, whom he later privately described as a “Unitarian of the highest type
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
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
of voluntary involvement and primary commitment to mission work and offered Little (a Unitarian) an annual salary of $1,000, which he accepted on the understanding that he would not have to participate
heart attack; he had had some heart trouble the previous fall during a bout of influenza. A member of First Unitarian Church in Toronto and of All Angels’ Episcopal Church in New York, he was interred in
meetings of Christian Scientists and was asked to write for their publication; she was invited to publish in the Unitarian Hibbert Journal (London); she attended the summer school of the Society of
things to say about the Unitarians. Of the Jews, Campbell comments: “Over against [the crucifixion of Christ] is to be placed the fact that our great redeemer was a Jew, and that Christians owe the large
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
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
organ respectively. Fisher was active in the Boston area both as a pianist, with the Boston Choral Union and the Newton Musical Association, and as an organist, at Second Unitarian and Phillips churches
when the synod decided to emphasize a Christian, rather than exclusively Lutheran, orientation. Icelandic Unitarians attended, and were excused from the otherwise mandatory attendance at chapel services
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
the family helped found the Unitarian Church of the Messiah [see John Cordner*]. Louisa and her family continued to support the church