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
A New Spirit : the documents of the Visit of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd George L. Carey, to His Holiness Pope John Paul II, Advent 1996, in Rome
Cover title: A new spirit: the Archbishop of Canterbury's visit to Rome 1996.
"The joint declaration signed by the Archbishop and the Pope and the homilies preached during the visit do not sidestep the difficulties in our relationships, but courageously call for deepened theological dialogue and further consultation 'about how the relationship between the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church is to progress'. Anglicans and Roman Catholics, sisters and brother in Christ, can see in this historic visit inspired leadership from the Pope and the Archbishop proclaiming afresh our goal of full visible unity". -- Preface.
Contents: Preface dated 2 February 1997, Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord / John L. Peterson -- The Archbishop of Canterbury's Visit to Rome From the Co-Chairs of the Anglican / Roman Catholic International Commission dated December 1996 / Mark Santer, Bishop of Birmingham (Anglican) [and] Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton (Roman Catholic) -- Greeting of the Holy Father to the Archbishop of Canterbury Tuesday 3rd December 1996 / John Paul II -- The Archbishop of Canterbury's Greeting to His Holiness Pope John Paul II Tuesday 3rd December 1996 / George L. Carey -- The Archbishop of Canterbury's Greeting to His Holiness Pope John Paul II, 5 December 1996 / George L. Carey -- Greeting from Pope John Paul II to Archbishop Carey in the Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano, 5 December 1996 / John Paul II -- Archbishop of Canterbury, Press Briefing Rome, 5 December 1996 / George L. Carey -- Homily given by His Holiness during Solemn Vespers at San Gregorio Church, 5 December 1996 / John Paul II -- The Archbishop of Canterbury's Homily at Solemn Vespers at San Gregorio Church, Thursday 5 December 1996 -- The Common Declaration by Pope John Paul II and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rome, San Gregorio al Celio, 5 December 1996 -- Reflections on the Visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury to His Holiness, Pope John Paul II / John Hind, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe and Chairman of the Faith and Order Advisory Group.
Also laid in with booklet is a colour postcard (ca. 8 1/4 x 6 in.) of the Pope and Archbishop. Same photo used on cover of booklet.