The Cumberland-Devon Mission, located in the town of The Pas, N.W. of Winnipeg, was originally settled as a fur trading post. Founded in 1840 by Henry Budd, a native Cree who baptised several adults and children. Its first church was built in 1842 by James Hunter, Archdeacon of the mission, 1847-1850. A party searching for the failed Franklin expedition in 1847 spent the winter at the mission and assisted with building pews, furnishings and furniture for the Mission House.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of three registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials of the mission in chronological order. One sketch map of the mission, with the location of the town of The Pas, the Indian reserve and its various schools and churches and the surrounding rivers and lakes.
The Diocese of Honan was created in 1912 with William Charles White serving as its first bishop.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of registers of marriages and baptisms and banns and applications for marriage in the diocese. All names registered are of non-Chinese descent.
Related Fonds
William Charles White fonds
John A. Worrell fonds
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds