The Church of England Deaconess and Missionary Training House was established in 1890 as a residential school to prepare women workers for Deaconess and missionary service. In 1947 the name was changed to the Anglican Women's Training College (AWTC). Anglican women from all over Canada came to Toronto to train for work in Christian Education in parishes, medical and teaching services overseas, Indian and Eskimo Residential Schools and reserves, Bishop's Messengers in western Canada, Sunday School by Post and Radio, youth and social work. The Woman's Auxiliary recruits were sent to the AWTC for missionary training for a year or less before being sent out. This was different from the three year diploma program offered to AWTC students.
In 1969, the AWTC merged with the United Church's Covenent College to become the Centre for Christian Studies using the former AWTC building on Charles Street, Toronto. In 1997, the building in Toronto was sold and a decision was made to discontinue the traditional residential program in favour of the community based program and to relocate the administrative offices to Winnipeg. In July, 1998, CCS officially moved.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of correspondence, fundraising and insurance records, architectural plans and blueprints, minutes of meetings, Alumnae and student records, daybooks, financial and legal records, annual reports, scrapbooks, pamphlets and other printed materials, photographs, artifacts, and oral history interviews.
Fonds is arranged in 7 series:
Series 1: Committee on Deaconesses, 1890-1897.
Series 2: Administration Records of the Deaconess House and AWTC, 1893-1990.
Series 3: Committees, 1899-1973.
Series 4: Associations, 1896-1990.
Series 5: Printed and Miscellaneous Material, 1892-1998. Series 6: Anglican Women’s Training College: A Background Document. – 1893-1990.
Series 7: Photographs, 1900-1969.
Related Fonds
Woman's Auxiliary fonds
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds
"Published by authority of the Minister of National Health and Welfare". -- verso of t.-p.
Issued also in French under title: A la recherche de solutions Le rapport du conseiller special du ministre de la Sante nationale et du Bien-etre social en matiere d'agressions sexuelles contre les enfants au Canada
DSS cat. no. H74-28/1990E.
Includes bibliography: p. 178-190.
"In August 1987, I was named Special Advisor to the Minister of National Health and Welfare, with a mandate to prepare for the Minister a report on the long-range direction of federal child sexual abuse initiatives, their implementation and co-ordination. The appointment has continued for the two and a half years it has taken to complete the work on this project and the preparation of this report". -- Foreword, p. 7.
Contents: Letter to the Minister of National Health and Welfare dated June 1990 / Rix G. Rogers -- Acknowledgment -- Foreword: The Special Advisor's Mandate -- Introduction: Personal Reflections of the Special Advisor and Priority Themes -- Children are Hurting: The Dimensions of Child Sexual Abuse in Canada -- Systems: In Search of Harmony and Effectiveness -- Public Awareness and Primary Prevention -- Child Sexual Abuse and the Judicial System -- The Challenges of Healing and Treatment -- Information Needed: Education, Training and Research -- Aboriginal Communities -- Emerging Concerns: Special Groups -- Stages of Implementation -- Appendix A: Roles and Responsibilities of Federal and Provincial/Territorial Governments -- Appendix B: Overview of the Federal Government's Response to the Badgley Report -- Appendix C: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Appendix D: Recommendations -- Bibliography.
Issued also in French under title: A la recherche de solutions Le rapport du conseiller special du ministre de la Sante nationale et du Bien-etre social en matiere d'agressions sexuelles contre les enfants au Canada
"In August 1987, I was named Special Advisor to the Minister of National Health and Welfare, with a mandate to prepare for the Minister a report on the long-range direction of federal child sexual abuse initiatives, their implementation and co-ordination. The appointment has continued for the two and a half years it has taken to complete the work on this project and the preparation of this report". -- Foreword, p. 7.
Contents: Letter to the Minister of National Health and Welfare dated June 1990 / Rix G. Rogers -- Acknowledgment -- Foreword -- Introduction: Personal Reflections of the Special Advisor -- The Realities of Child Sexual Abuse: Problems and Solutions -- Recommendations -- Stages of Implementation -- Appendix: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.