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Prairie Spirit
Perspectives on the Heritage of the United Church of Canada in the West
Dennis L. Butcher, Catherine Macdonald, Margaret E. McPherson, Raymond R. Smith, A.McKibbin Watts, Dennis L. Butcher, Catherine Macdonald, Margaret E. McPherson, Raymond R. Smith, A.McKibbin Watts
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Perspectives on the Heritage of the United Church of Canada in the West
Dennis L. Butcher, Catherine Macdonald, Margaret E. McPherson, Raymond R. Smith, A.McKibbin Watts, Dennis L. Butcher, Catherine Macdonald, Margaret E. McPherson, Raymond R. Smith, A.McKibbin Watts
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Written in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the United Church of Canada and prepared by the Archives Committee of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario, this collection of articles explores, in fifteen articles, the issues and concerns of the prairie congregations of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational Churches that combined in 1925 to for the United Church of Canada. The volume also includes six short essays about unique congregations, two bibliographic guides on archive holdings, and a charming photo essay on historic churches in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario.
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ABBREVIATIONS
| cms | Colonial Missionary Society of the Congregational Church of England and Wales |
| cmsl | Church Missionary Society, London, England |
| hbc | Hudsonâs Bay Company |
| hbca | Hudsonâs Bay Company Archives, Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| pabc | Provincial Archives of British Columbia, Victoria, B.C. |
| pac | Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario |
| pam | Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| pwms | Presbyterian Womenâs Missionary Society |
| uca | United Church Archives, Toronto, Ontario |
| uca-mno | United Church Archives, Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario, Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| uma | University of Manitoba Archives, Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| uwa | University of Winnipeg Archives, Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| uwo | University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario |
| wfms(wd) | Presbyterian Womanâs Foreign Missionary Society (Western Division) |
| wms | Wesleyan Missionary Society Archives, London, England |
BRITISH METHODISTS
1 hbc Governor George Simpson to Dr. Robert Alder, secretary of Wesleyan Missionary Society, 22 January 1840, hbca, A 1/60.
2 John McLean, James Evans: Inventor of the Syllabic System of the Cree Language (Toronto: William Briggs, 1890); Egerton R. Young, Rev. James Evans: Apostle of the North (Toronto: William Briggs, 1900); Nan Shipley, The James Evans Story (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1966).
3 hbc Governor George Simpson to Bishop of Juliopolis, 17 February 1840, hbca, A 1/60.
4 George G. Findlay and W. W. Holdsworth, The History of Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, vol. 1 (London: Epworth Press, 1921), 466.
5 Hugh A. Dempsey, The Rundle Journals, introduction and notes by Gerald M. Hutchinson (Historical Society of Alberta and Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1977), 16.
6 T.C.B. Boon, The Anglican Church from the Bay to the Rockies (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1962), 75.
7 Dempsey, Rundle Journals, 30.
8 Rev. Ephraim Evans to Rev. J. Carroll, 1865, uwo, London, Ontario, James Evans papers, #243.
9 Correspondence between George Simpson and Donald Ross, pabc, Donald Ross papers, AE R73.
10 Rev. James Evans to Chief Factor Donald Ross, 19 May 1845, hbca, D 5/14.
11 Sir George Simpson to Dr. Robert Alder, 16 June 1845, hbca, A 12/2.
12 Sir George Simpson to Chief Factor Donald Ross, 29 December 1845, pabc, Donald Ross papers, AE R73 La5.
13 Margaret Arnett Macleod, ed., The Letters of Letitia Mactavish Hargrave (Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1947), 207.
14 wms, School of Oriental and Asiatic Studies, University of London, private file, no date.
15 Dr. Robert Alder to Sir George Simpson, 1 December 1846, hbca, D 5/13.
16 Statement by William Mason to Wesleyan secretaries, 23 December 1853, wms, box 106, item 12.
17 Boon, Anglican Church, 79n.
18 Ibid.
19 The primary documentation for the work of Mason as printer at Rossville and the materials produced by the Rossville Mission Press is to be found in the archives of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, London, England. Extensive letters and reports to the Wesleyan Missionary Society covering the years between 1846 and 1854 were written by Mason to the society. This material has been summarized and supplemented by Dr. Bruce Peel, librarian emeritus, University of Alberta, in a publication entitled The Rossville Mission Press (Montreal: Osiris, 1974).
20 uca, 30 December 1886, doc. E99, C88m.
21 Boon, Anglican Church, 79-80.
22 Ibid., 463.
23 Ibid., 94.
24 Wallace L. Chafe, The World of the North American Indian (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1974), 154.
25 "Annual Conference, June 1854," in J.E. Sanderson, Methodism in Canada, vol. 2, 1840-83 (Toronto: Briggs, 1910), 96.
AS OTHERS SAW US
1 See Christopher Vecsey, Traditional Ojibwa Religion and its Historical Changes (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1983), especially pp. 45-58.
2 The James Evans papers, the library, uwo. See the entry in his journal for 18 May 1829.
3 Hugh Dempsey, ed., The Rundle Journals, 1840-1858 (Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1977), 116.
4 The Rev. A.G. Morice, O.M.I., History of the Catholic Church in Western Canada, vol. 1 (Toronto: Musson, 1910), 190.
5 See: Morice, History of the Catholic Church in Western Canada, from Lake Superior to the Pacific, 200; Pierre J.B. Duchaussois, Mid Snow and Ice: the Apostles of the North-West (London: Burns Oats and Washbourne, 1923), 82. It was on the 1844 journey, when Evans was racing Thibault to He a la Crosse, that the accidental shooting death of native teacher Thomas -Hassel occurred, aborting the journey.
6 Joseph E. Champagne, Les missions catholique dans lâOuest canadien: 1818-1875 (Ottawa: Editions des Etudes Oblates, 1949), 190.
7 Ibid., 191. The translation of these two passages is my own.
8 Dempsey, Rundle Journals, 192.
9 Ibid., 193-95.
10 The archives of the cms, 8 August 1840.
11 cmsl, 3 August 1840.
12 Letterbook, 1821-46, p. 202, cmsl.
13 The Journal of John Smithurst, 5 January 1842, cmsl.
14 Ibid., 6 October 1...