Proceedings of the conference "The Role of the Anglican Church in Western Canadian History", held in Winnipeg, February 27-28, 1987.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Acknowledgements / Barry Ferguson -- Secular History and Church History : An Introduction / Barry Ferguson -- The Church of England and Canadian West / L.G. Thomas -- "Insidious" Sources and the Historical Interpretation of the Pre-1870 West / Frits Pannekoek -- Anglican Archives in Rupert's Land / Wilma MacDonald -- The Public Institution as Church Archivist : Anglican and Other Church Records / Keith Stotyn -- Anglican Missionaries as Agents of Acculturation : The Church Missionary Society at St. Andrew's, Red River, 1830-1870 / Robert Coutts -- Father Cockran and His Children : Poisonous Pedagogy on the Banks of the Red / George van der Goes Ladd -- John Smithurst and the Ordination Controversy : Reflections on Red River Society in the 1840s / F.A. Peake -- Robert Machray and the Foundation of the University of Manitoba in 1877 / Laurence F. Wilmot -- The Church of England and the Manitoba School Question / Christopher Hackett -- The Anglican Church in Western James Bay : Positive Influence or Destructive Force ? / John S. Long -- Bishop Bompas and the Canadian Church / Kerry Abel -- Asking for All Sorts of Favours : The Anglican Church, the Federal Government and the Natives of the Yukon Territorym 1891-1909 / Ken Coates -- The Church of England and the Immigrants in the Diocese of Qu'Appelle / Trevor Powell -- The Fellowship of the Maple Leaf Teachers / Marilyn Barber -- Eva Hasell and the Caravan Mission / Vera K. Fast -- The Bishop's Messengers : Women in Ministry in Northwestern Manitoba, 1928-1979 / Alyson Barnett-Cowan -- Contributors -- Index.
Photo consists of boys and girls sitting at their desks drawing, while a teacher stands in the background. Victoria is on the far left, then Olive, and Peter is the boy just right tof the middle. "This school was burnt", is written on the back of the photo.