Aaron A. Allen graduated from Bishop's College, Lennoxville, ordained deacon in 1851 and priest in 1853. Appointed Travelling Missionary in the Eastern Townships and the parishes of Riveriere du Loup, Berthier, Compton, Coaticook, Sabrevois and Stanstead. Incumbent of St. John, Huntingdon until 1881 and rector of Clarenceville, 1881-1887.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of correspondences, page of prayers, diaries and cash account records.
Project North was initiated by national Christian churches in Canada in September 1975 in response to the mega-development projects taking place in northern Canada. The Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC) was established as the result of a year long review by the Canadian churches of their aboriginal justice witness after Project North, ARC's predecessor, ended its twelve years (1975-1987) of service.
Objectives: ARC works towards the transformation of the relationship between Canadian society and Aboriginal peoples. Through education, research, advocacy and action, this coalition of national churches, faith bodies, and regional groups, works in solidarity with Aboriginal peoples. ARC seeks to embody true partnership by building authentic alliances in the global struggle for Aboriginal justice.
Activities: ARC has created and implemented innovative public education and political action campaigns towards: the recognition of Aboriginal land and treaty rights in Canada; realizing the historic rights of Aboriginal peoples as they are recognized in the Canadian constitution and upheld in the courts, including the right to self-determination; reversing the erosion of social rights, including rights to adequate housing, education, health care and appropriate legal systems; seeking reconciliation between Aboriginal peoples, the Christian community and Canadian society; clarifying the moral and spiritual basis for action towards Aboriginal and social justice in Canada; opposing development and military projects that threaten Aboriginal communities and the environment; and promoting Aboriginal justice within Jubilee.
A national assembly is held every two years and regional assemblies in the intervening years. A national office is located in Ottawa with regional offices, staffed by dedicated volunteers, in various parts of Canada.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of the records of the Project North and then the Aboriginal Rights Coalition. Records include minutes, correspondence, published resources, newsletters, articles, papers, press releases, administrative records, financial records, subject files, program files. Includes one audio recording of Ernie Willie.
Associated Material
Project North records are also held at Vancouver School of Theology Archives
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Partnerships fonds
Program fonds
Primate's World Relief and Development (PWRDF) fonds
Archibald Lang Fleming (1883-1953), enrolled at Wycliffe College in 1908, and was ordained deacon in 1912 and priest in 1913. Fleming was Archdeacon of the Arctic, 1927-1933 and first Bishop of the Arctic, 1933-1949. Earlier he had served as rector of the Church of St. John The Evangelist, Saint John, New Brunswick. His duration as Bishop, which landed him the name "The Flying Bishop", saw the Diocese of the Arctic add sixteen mission stations, two modern hospitals, nine churches, four residential schools, four chapels and two day schools.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of personal papers created and collected by or about A.L. Fleming. Includes: Notebooks regarding specifications for numerous ships and customs of the Eskimo; a dictionary of translated words; correspondence; financial records; scrapbooks; newspaper and magazine articles; cartographic records; Fleming's diaries, writings and photographs.
Fonds consists of the following series:
Series 1. Certificates, diplomas and personal documents;
Series 2. Diaries, notebooks and journals;
Series 3. General files;
Series 4. Scrapbooks, clippings, and memorabilia;
Series 5. Photographs;
Series 6. Maps and drawings;
Series 7. Manuscript writings;
Series 8. Publications
Alfred Campbell Garrioch (1848-1934) studied theology at St. John's College, Winnipeg. He established the first Protestant mission in the Peace River country in 1877 and helped found an Indian children training school at Fort Vermilion. Published several translations into the Beaver Indian language dictionary while in England and was the author of several novels.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a letter written by Garrioch to John Murray, Hudson's Bay carpenter, describing Garrioch's missionary work at St. Saviour's Mission, Fort Dunvegan and a journey made to Fort Vermillon to attend the first synod of the diocese of Athabaska in 1888. One typescript copy included.
Canon Alfred Henry Davis (1902-1985) was born in England. He received a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1930. He was ordained deacon in 1930 and priest in 1931 for the Diocese of Rupert's Land. He served that diocese, 1930-1932. Davis ministered in England, 1933 -1935. After returning to Canada, he was a priest in the diocese of Niagara for 46 years, serving in several different parishes. In 1952, Davis was appointed field secretary for the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC), a position he held until 1959. At that time A.H. Davis became the General Secretary of the MSCC serving in that capacity until his retirement in 1969. Davis was Honourary Canon in Niagara, 1948-50 and 1953-1969. He was given the title Canon (Emeritus) after 1970. Canon Davis celebrated his 50th anniversary of his priesthood on Feb. 17, 1981.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of personal papers and correspondence.
Related Fonds
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds
The Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ont. parish was organized in 1880 when a group of Anglicans asked Bishop Sullivan of Algoma for a clergyman. He sent Rev. W.M. Tooke (1880-1886) who organized the congregation and supervised the building of All Saints' Church, consecrated in 1884.
Scope and Content
File consists of historical facts and Order of Service for the Centennial Eucharist of All Saints', Gore Bay, and an Order of Service for the 88th Anniversary Evensong for St. Peter's Church, Silver Water.
The Anglican Book Centre / ABC Publishing started as the Department of Literature and Supplies (Anglican Book Centre) (1954-1969). Under Canon XVI, it became the central official publisher and distributor of the literature and supplies of General Synod and its departments. It also sold books, furnishings, visual aids, and church music.
In 1954, the operations of three Anglican book rooms were amalgamated into the Anglican Book Centre. It operated as a ministry of and to the church by providing resources for worship, parish life, theological training, and spiritual nurture. It sought to operate at a profit with powers to publish, purchase, market, sell and distribute books & other media. In January 2013 the Book Centre was deemed no longer profitable and closed its doors. The business was sold to Augsburg Fortress, its Lutheran counterpart. The ABC Publishing continues to publish Anglican liturgical products, the Anglican Directory, and the Canadian Church Calendar, which it distributes through an online eStore.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of ABC products, minutes of meetings, correspondence, administration files, mailings, plans, papers, original SPCK agreement 1932.
The Church Bible and Prayer Book Society was founded in 1898 as a voluntary society supplying Bibles and prayer books to needy missions and parishes. It was renamed the Anglican Church Bible and Prayer Book Society in 1986 and The Anglican Worship Resources Society in 1998.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of minutes, reports, financial records, correspondence, Books of Common prayer, newsletters and other printed materials.
Eric Tayor Woods is a Canadian political and cultural sociologist with interests in the politics of identity, particularly in relation to nationalism, ethnicity, and religion. His interests also include the politics of memory and trauma in former British settler colonies.
His research included exploring the history of the Anglican's Church's involvment with running the Indian and Eskimo residential schools. This resulted in a Ph.D. thesis about the long road to the Anglican Church's apology.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of one electronic file (PDF) of the Ph.D. Thesis entitled, The Anglican Church of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools: A Meaning-Centred Analysis of the Long Road to Apology.