Rev. George Turner, M.A., B.D., Th.M.

George Turner is a native of Scotland. He was born in Dumfries and spent his early life in Dalry, Kircudbrightshire before moving with his family to Cumnock, Ayrshire, where his father was a teacher.

After attending Cumnock Academy, George studied for his Arts degree at Aberdeen University and then attended New College in Edinburgh. Post-graduate studies then took him as a Fulbright Scholar to Princeton Theological College in New Jersey, U.S.A.

George was a "son of the manse" - but, after the fact. During the years that he was at University, his father, Harry, decided he would take early retirement from teaching chemistry and physics at Cumnock Academy and proceed to the ministry of the Church of Scotland. After studying at Trinity College in Glasgow he was ordained and inducted to the pastoral charge of Lyne and Manor to the west of Peebles where he served for almost 20 years before retiring to Dunoon.

A summer student ministry appointment took George to Canada in 1965 where he served the pastoral charge of Lost River, Lakeview and Crystal Falls, in the scenic Laurentian Mountains near Lachute, P.Q., and north of Montreal.

During the late 1960s, George was Assistant Minister at three churches in Scotland - St. Stephen's Blythswood in Glasgow; Greenbank Parish Church and Palmerston Place  Edinburgh. 

George was ordained in 1971 by the (then) Presbytery of Dalkeith and served until 1976 as Minister at Cranstoun, Crichton and Ford Parish Church set among the beautiful Midlothian hills to the south of Edinburgh.

Looking for new horizons of service, George and family set sail - or, rather, set flight - for Canada in September 1976 where he accepted a call to be Minister of Knox Presbyterian Church in the predominantly Scottish town of Kincardine, Ontario, on the shores of Lake Huron. 

In 1986, George received a call to be Minister of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in the centre of Peterborough, Ontario - a picturesque city situated among the Kawartha lakes, some 80 miles to the northeast of Toronto - where he has served for the past 21 years. 

George is married to Evelyn Kariango - a former resident of Portobello, student at Mary Erskine School and secretary at the Scottish Union of Students Travel Department - and for the last 19 years, church secretary at St. Paul's. 

George and Evelyn have a family of three:

• Russell who is a lecturer in economics at Sir Sandford Fleming College and Trent University in Peterborough. He is married to Rebecca and they have a daughter, Makena.

• Cameron who is a software developer, working for Public Health Agency of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, where he lives with his wife, Jennifer and his two sons, Alex and Ian.

• Larissa graduated from Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough from the legal assistant, travel & tourism & web developer programmes. She now has her own web design company, LJ Designs.