Kevin Annett

Kevin D. Annett (born 1956 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian writer and former minister of the United Church of Canada. He is now notable for a number of publications AbOUT the historical treatment of Canadian aboriginals, notably his Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust.

Background

In the 1980s, Annett graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor's degree in anthropology and a Master's degree in political science. In 1990, he graduated from the Vancouver School of Theology with a Master of Divinity, and was subsequently ordained by British Columbia Conference of the United Church of Canada. In 1990-1991 he served in churches in rural Manitoba, and in 1991-1992 served at the Fred Victor Mission in Toronto, an outreach street-ministery of The United Church of Canada.

From 1992 until January 1995 he was the minister to St. Andrew's United Church in Port Alberni, British Columbia. The circumstances of his departure from Port Alberni remain in dispute - Annett himself sees them as key to understanding the claims advanced in his writings.

Since 1997, Annett has been placed on the Discontinued Service List of The United Church of Canada, and cannot function in any capacity as a minister of that denomination. Annett and the United Church disagree on the reasons for this decision.

The Circle of Justice has distanced itself from Mr. Annett in a public statement in which they say he has “spread unproven gossip,” “slandered and libeled trusted and dedicated First Nations activists,” and has “for purposes of self-promotion assigned to himself and used in print and word non-existent titles like ‘Advisor,’ ‘Chief Researcher,’ ‘Chief Expert Witness to the Vancouver Tribunal’ and others that were neither authorized nor voted on or ratified by the Circle of Justice.”

External links

• Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust, website by Kevin Annett
• Hidden from History, website about the book Hidden from History

Works

• Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust (1st ed. 2001; 2nd ed. 2005)
• Love and Death in the Valley (2002)