1. Alfreda Hall, Wheels Begin to Turn: The Story of Helping to Move Nations Christward (Toronto: Baptist Women’s Missionary Society of Ontario and Quebec, 1976), p. 29.
2. Ibid., p. 9.
3. Baptist Visitor, No. 400 (January, 1927), p. 2.
4. Women’s Baptist Home Missionary Society of Ontario West Minute Book (Nov. 2, 1925), p. 90.
5. Baptist Visitor, No. 388, (December, 1925), p. 138.
6. Minute Book (Nov. 13, 1925), p.91.
7. Ibid. (Nov. 26, 1924).
8. Ibid., p. 92.
9. Ibid., p. 93.
10. Ibid., p. 98.
11. Ibid.
12. Baptist Visitor, No. 390 (February, 1926), p. 2.
13. Ibid.
14. Baptist Visitor, No. 391 (March, 1926), p. 2.
15. Minute Book (March 18^th, 1926), p. 117.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., p. 120.
18. It is interesting to note, however, that the issue is raised by the Women’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Board of Ontario West. In the archives at McMaster Divinity College a 25 page paper produced in 1927 by Anabel Mills discusses the view that CGIT is infiltrated with "modernist," thus radical, thought.
19. Minute Book, p.140.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., pp. 144-145.
22. It is important to note that Mrs. Russel later returned to the board stating that she had misunderstood the call to organize a new society, stressing her loyalty. She was welcomed back and her resignation withdrawn. See Minute Book, p. 155
23. Ibid., p. 146.
24. Minute Book, pp. 153, 161.
25. Canadian Baptist, October 28, 1926, p. 3, cited in W. Gordon Carder, Controversy in the Baptist Convention, 1908-1929 (Hamilton: McMaster University, 1950), p. 56.
26. Gospel Witness, November 4, 1926, cited ibid.
27. Carder, Controversy in the Baptist Convention, pp. 58-59.
28. Minute Book, p. 146.
29. Baptist Visitor, No. 401 (February, 1927), p. 4.
30. Records of these positions can be found, for example, in various Baptist Year Books between 1910 and 1925.
31. See C. E. Maitland, ed., 1926 Baptist Year Book for Ontario and Quebec and Western Canada ([n.p.]: Standard Publishing Co., [1926]), p. 255, and idem, 1930 Baptist Year Book for Ontario and Quebec and Western Canada ([n.p.]: Standard Publishing Co., [1930]), p. 223.