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- 1927 - 1996 (Accumulation)
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53 photographs
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Thomas Reagh Millman was born in Kensington, Prince Edward Island on June 14, 1905. He was educated at Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, University College, Toronto (B.A. 1931, M.A. 1933), Wycliffe College (L.Th. 1933, B.D. 1938) and McGill University where he received his doctorate in 1943, which was published with the University of Toronto Press (1947).
He was ordained deacon in 1933 and ordained priest in 1934. From 1935 until 1941 Dr. Millman was lecturer and dean of residence at the Montreal Diocesan Theological College. From 1950-1954 he was professor of church history at Huron College, London, Ontario, and from 1954 until he retired in 1974 he was professor of church history at Wycliffe College. He was also associated with the Toronto School of Theology. He was awarded the degree of D.D. by the University of Western Ontario in 1953, by Wycliffe College in 1974 and Trinity College in 1977 and the degree of D.C.L. by the University of King’s College, Halifax in 1974.
As a parish priest Dr. Millman served first at Grafton in the Diocese of Toronto, then from 1941 to 1949 he was rector of Dunham and Frelighsberg (St. Armand East) in the Diocese of Montreal and finally at Alvinston with Inwood in the Diocese of Huron. He was made a Canon of St. James Cathedral, Toronto in 1969 and was an honorary assistant for over 40 years at St. Timothy’s Church, Toronto.
Dr. Millman was the first archivist of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, serving from 1955 until 1974, as well as a founder of the Canadian Church Historical Society. While in the Diocese of Montreal he was one of the founders of the Montreal Diocesan Archives, along with the Reverends S.B. Lindsay and R.K. Naylor and Professor J.I. Cooper.
Dr. Millman was a church historian who published many works. His first two books were biographies, Jacob Mountain, First Lord Bishop of Quebec (1947) and The Life of the Right Reverend, the Honourable Charles Stewart, Second Anglican Bishop of Quebec (1953). In 1983 he published Atlantic Canada to 1900: A History of the Anglican Church, which was started by Canon A.R. Kelly; Dr. Millman completed the book after the death of Canon Kelly in 1961. Dr. Millman was also a contributor to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and was also published in the Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society.
Dr. Millman married Margaret McLeod of Lennoxville, Quebec in 1944. She died in 1991.
Dr. Millman died on November 22, 1996 in Toronto. His funeral took place on November 25, 1996 at St. Timothy’s Church, Toronto. He is buried at St. Stephens, Irishtown, Prince Edward Island.
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File contains photographs not directly related to Dr. Millman’s role as a professor. Original order has been maintained where possible.
File includes two black pages from a scrapbook, containing 10 black and white photos. The first page contains:
- One 1x2 inch black and white photo of an unidentified man, title written above the photo is “Cavendish Beach”
- One 2x3 inch B&W photo of Millman standing near a bridge and fence
The second page contains:
- One 5x7 photograph, official class portrait; written underneath is “Freshman Class, Wycliffe, 1927”; on the back the names of the class are written
The third page contains:
- One 3x4 inch black and white photo of a man sitting outside, identified on the back as James Rhodes, Esq.
- One 3x4 inch black and white photo of 6 men wearing what appear to be school uniforms; identified on the back as Back: Tom Brown, TR Millman, Albert French, Cecil King Front: Hersey and Philip Downer
- One 4x6 black and white photograph of a procession of 7 people walking outside in the winter. On the back is written: “Some of the graduating class wished to celebrate the closing day of lectures. So we dressed up and gave Dr. Pilcher a treat in Church History. Leading off is Osborne Lancaster – a member of 3TI. He is jobless so far. Following me comes Ws. Pocknell a large fatman with several chins. Being a Greek, he is hard man to place and has been unsuccessful so far. Jones, next, was married the other day (24 years old) and is going to a mission on Hudson Bay taking with him a wife and timber to build a school. Peglar comes next and Ottley last. He is going to Hamilton, the Church of the Ascension. The girl in the distance is an interested spectator.”
The fourth page contains four 2x3 inch black and white photographs taken in the United Kingdom. One is of Oban Castle, the next of a ship identified as Duchess of Atholl; the third is of Blackfriar’s Church, England and the fourth is of Dr. Millman and an unidentified man standing on the steps of Abbotsford – Walter Scott’s Home.
Also included in this file:
- One 5x7 colour photo of Dr. Millman in a church with a group of people, with the Queen Mother
- Three 4x6 colour photos of St. Marks’s Church, Kensington, PEI 1993 (One interior two exterior)
- Three 4x6 colour photos of an unidentified woman; one standing next to the road sign for Millman Road; the next standing talking to an unidentified man in front of a barn, and with the same man standing in front of a house
- Three 4x6 colour of the Millman headstone, before Dr. Millman’s date of death has been written; on the back is written PEI June 1996
- Three 4x6 colour photos of an unidentified house covered with ivy
- One 4x6 colour photograph of a riverbank, unidentified location (riverside) and one 4x6 colour photograph of unidentified graveyard
- Two studio black and white photos of Dr. Millman, undated
- One black and white picture postcard from TR Millman to his mother dated 2 Jy 38 Liverpool, photo of Isle of Man
- 3 black and white photos that were sent to Dr Millman from Mrs. E V Vradenburgh, Kingston ON of 1) her and her cat 2) her and another lady at Plymouth near the rock and 3) sitting in her yard
Also included is a series of 22 candid 4x6 colour photos taken in 1995 at Dr. Millman’s 90th Birthday Celebration at the Cody Library in Wycliffe College. In the photographs there are eight people seated at the head table (L to R):
- Unidentified man; Rev Dr Michael Pountney – Principal of Wycliffe College; Shirley Spragge; T.R. Millman; Michael Peers (former primate); unidentified man; Terry Reilly (former archivist of the Anglican Church of Canada); unidentified man (possibly Jim Boyles former General Secretary of the General Synod). Other photos include candid photos of the guests sitting at the tables, photos of the video presentation given, and the cake.