Don MacLeod [Curriculum Vitae] ( is the son of Presbyterian missionaries to China and Taiwan. After a childhood spent in the turbulent Far East of the 'forties and 'fifties, he returned to attend Stony Brook School on Long Island and from there complete an Honours History degree at McGill under the direction of W Stanford Reid. Awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences he then proceeded to complete theological studies at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia. On graduation he was appointed by the Presbyterian Church in Canada to what became a seven point charge in rural Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

    In 1967 he was asked by the Presbytery of East Toronto to plant a church which would be distinctively Evangelical in suburban Scarborough. This became the Bridlewood Presbyterian Church. Over a seven year period he began services in a high school, gathered a congregation, built a first unit and saw the congregation grow to about two hundred members and adherents. During that time he was also President of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (1973-5) and organized its 1975 Christian Leadership Seminar at York University. That same year he accepted a five year appointment as General Director of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of  Canada. 

    In 1980 he went on to be Associate Minister of Knox Church, Toronto, and helped form The Renewal Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Inaugurated on 8 May 1982, for five years he was its Chair and de facto Director. Called to Boston in 1987 to be Senior Minister of the historic Newton Presbyterian Church, he returned to Canada in 1997 to St. Andrew's Church, Trenton, Ontario, and also to teach at Tyndale Theological Seminary, Toronto.

    Since that time he has been Chair of the denomination's Committee on History and was a 2002 nominee to be Moderator of the General Assembly. He has been recommended by the faculty of Tyndale to its Board to become Research Professor, effective January 2006. He inaugurated the Reid Lectureship at Tenth Church, Philadelphia, in November 2005 under the auspices of the Religious and Theological Studies Fellowship Canada. He has an honourary Doctorate of Divinity from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in suburban Boston.

 
    Don is married to Judith Shone who comes from Merseyside, England, an Oxford graduate with a Master's from Gordon Conwell in Church History who was until their marriage in 1967 Women's Secretary of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship UK (now UCCF). She teaches with Don a course in the History of Missions at Tyndale Theological Seminary, Toironto. The MacLeods have two sons: Alex, Assistant Minister for University and Young Adults Ministries Outreach at Knox Church Toronto. Alex is married to Judith Michell, daughter of David, the late OMF Canada Director, and they have three children: Chloe (5), Callum (3) and Elizabeth, born December 2005. Their other son Kenneth is a senior software programmer in Dublin, Ireland, married to Kareena with two boys, Iain (5) and Andrew 2 1/2..

    Don enjoys a variety of interests, including stamp-collecting and antiques. He loves classical music and art history. The MacLeods live alongside the Murray Canal in Brighton, Ontario, and share a family home in Applethwaite, Keswick, Cumbia, England..