Archibald the Arctic
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/catalog6509
- Author
- Fleming, Archibald Lang, 1883-1953
- Publication Date
- c1956
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- BX 5620 F5A3 1956
- Place
- New York NY
- Publisher
- Appleton-Century-Crofts
- Publication Date
- c1956
- Physical_Description
- viii, 399 p. : ill. ; 21.5 x 14 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[B]y Archibald Lang Fleming, The Flying Bishop".
- Includes index.
- Contents: Foreword / Elizabeth Lukens Fleming -- The Awakening -- To Baffin Land -- Lake Harbour -- Snow Village -- Famine at Kinguckjuak -- Journeys by Umiak and Kayak -- Pagan Life -- The Grant Episode -- Interlude I -- Return to the Arctic -- Of Myths and Angakoks -- Where No White Man Had Gone -- Farewell to Baffin Land -- Interlude II -- The Rescue of Matto -- Archdeacon of the Arctic -- Epidemic -- Interlude III -- The Flying Bishop -- Hospitals in the Far North -- John Buchan Opens the Door -- Decision at Eskimo Point -- Interlude IV -- Reflections -- Index.
- The memoirs of Archibald Fleming, first bishop of the Diocese of the Arctic, 1933-1949.
- Subjects
- Eskimos - History
- Inuit - Missions - Canada
- Inuit - Canada - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - Bishops - Biography
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of the Arctic - History
- Missionaries - Anglican Church of Canada - Biography
- Missionaries - Canada, Northern - Biography
- Hospitals - Canada
- Call Number
- BX 5620 F5A3 1956
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- General Synod Archives
- Author
- Payne, D. Joyce M.
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- MM52.7 .P396
- Author
- Payne, D. Joyce M.
- Place
- Corner Brook, NL
- Publisher
- Transcontinental
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Physical_Description
- 181 p.
- Material Type
- Book
- Subjects
- Missionaries - Anglican Church of Canada - Biography
- Women - Religious education
- Women church workers - Anglican Church of Canada - History
- Anglican Women's Training College (Toronto, Ont.) - History
- ISBN
- 978-0-9866779-0-8
- Location
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- MM52.7 .P396
Letters from India, 1932-1945
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/catalog6738
- Author
- Puxley, Mary, 1912-2003
- Publication Date
- c2009
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BV 3269 P89A3 2009
- Author
- Puxley, Mary, 1912-2003
- Place
- Lockeport NS
- Publisher
- Community Books
- Publication Date
- c2009
- Physical_Description
- 208 p., ill. ; 22.8 x 15 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "[By] Mary Puxley".
- "[E]dited by Molly Titus".
- A selection of "letters written by Mary [Robertson Sedgwick] to her parents in Toronto, week by week, from the time in 1932 when she, a new bride of 20, and her husband Jimmy [Herbert Lavallin Puxley], stopped over in England to visit his family, through the voyage to India, the first romantic years getting to know people and places in India, the births of three children, the war years, and the return to Canada in 1946. ..... This book is an edited selection from more than 400 of those letters written from India mostly by Mary Puxley, with one or two by Jim Puxley, to their families in Canada and England." -- Intro., 5.
- "The letters have been selected and edited by Mary and Jimmy's daughter, Molly Titus". -- back cover.
- Jimmy [Herbert Lavallin] went to India as a professor of economics at St. John's College, Agra, India, a position financed by the Church of England Missionary Society. Born into a Presbyterian family, Mary became a member of the Church of England and a missionary with her husband. Jimmy Puxley was ordained a deacon in 1947 in Toronto and a priest in 1948, serving in the dioceses of Toronto and Nova Scotia.
- Contents: Introduction / [Molly Titus] -- What Thrills ! -- Lumbering at Sunset, on an Elephant's Back -- Almost in the Water but Dry and Comfortable -- Tiger, Panther, Deer and Bear Abound -- He is Very Good and Comes for Love -- They Have about 3000 Guests -- A Matter of Saving a Child's Life -- A Cruiser in the Harbour -- The Furlough -- A Steady Stream of Visitors from the Villages -- The Shadow of Conscription -- A Proper Cabinet of Indians -- As Convenient and Well-Run as Canada -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements.
- Subjects
- Puxley, Mary, 1912-2003 - Correspondence
- Missions - India
- Missionaries - India - Biography
- Missionaries - Anglican Church of Canada - Biography
- Puxley, Herbert (Herbert Lavallin), 1907-1998
- ISBN
- 978-1-896496-68-9
- Call Number
- BV 3269 P89A3 2009
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
Letters from India, 1932-1945
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/589
- Author
- Puxley, Mary, 1912-2003
- Publication Date
- 2009
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- MT80ea .P88
- Author
- Puxley, Mary, 1912-2003
- Place
- Lockeport, NS
- Publisher
- Community Books
- Publication Date
- 2009
- Physical_Description
- 208 p. : illus.
- Material Type
- Book
- Added Entry
- Titus, Molly, ed.
- Subjects
- Puxley, Mary, 1912-2003 - Correspondence
- Missions - India
- Missionaries - India - Biography
- Missionaries - Anglican Church of Canada - Biography
- Puxley, Herbert (Hebert Lavallin), 1907-1998
- ISBN
- 978-1-896496-68-9
- Location
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- MT80ea .P88