Founded in 1910, the British Columbia and Yukon Church Aid Society grew out of the earlier New Westminster and Kootenay Missionary Association, informally founded in 1879 by the Rt. Rev. A.W. Sillitoe, first Bishop of New Westminster. The association was continued by the second bishop, the Rt. Rev. John Dart and was formally established in 1902. In 1910, it became the British Columbia and Yukon Church Aid Society. Rev. Jocelyn Perkins, minor canon and sacrist of Westminster Abbey, was secretary for most of the society's life. Special interests of the society were the episcopal endowments of New Westminster, Kootenay and Cariboo dioceses, the provincial theological college, the Columbia Coast Mission and the Provincial Board of Missions. The society was disbanded in 1965.
Scope and Content
Microfilm consists of letter books of the Rev. Canon Jocelyn H.T. Perkins (1870-1962), General Secretary of the BC and Yukon Church Aid Society (1910-1965) and minutes of various committees, including the Executive Committee for the BC&Yukon Church Aid Society (BC&Y.C.A.S.).
Reel 1 - Letterbooks, Vol. 1-6
Reel 2 - Letterbooks, Vol. 6-11
Reel 3 - Letterbooks, Vol. 12-18
Reel 4 - Letterbooks, Vol. 18-25; Minutes of various committees
Reel 5 - Minutes, Executive Committee of the BC&Y.C.A.S.
Finding Aids
Finding aid available. See Microfilm collections - British Columbia and Yukon Church Aid Society
Related Fonds
British Columbia and Yukon Church Aid Society fonds
The Canadian Church Magazine and Mission News, June 1887 to 1902, (formerly Our Mission News, established July 1886) was published by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. It was followed by New Era in 1903 to 1913 under the MSCC.
Scope and Content
Microfilm consists of :
Reel 9 - Canadian Church Magazine and Mission News, 1886-1900
Reel 10 - Canadian Church Magazine and Mission News, 1900-1902
The Canadian Church Missionary Gleaner was published 1896-1903 by the Canadian Church Missionary Society. In 1903 they joined forces with the MSCC and published its news in the New Era.
Scope and Content
Microfilm consists of :
Reel 10 - Canadian Church Missionary Gleaner, 1902
The Fellowship of the West, a missionary society that was affiliated with the Diocese of Montreal to assist the western clergy. Founded in 1928 in Montreal by Geoffrey Guiton, Elton Scott and Reuben Kenneth Naylor, they believed that not all missionary efforts had to be funnelled through the central MSCC office in Toronto. Two teams of enlisted clergy in 1929 were sent from Montreal to provide personnel to the Dioceses of Athabasca, Kootenay and Cariboo. The fellowship was disbanded in the spring of 1978.
Scope and Content
Reel 1 - Microfilm consists of Newsletters, 1929-1975; Diary by R.K. Naylor, 1929; printed material; Minute Books, 1928-1956; Fellowship of the West material from the Diocese of Toronto
Finding Aids
Finding aid available. See Microfilm collections - Diocese of Montreal.
Microfilm consists of the Swiss Mission Register issued by the Canada Baptist Missionary Society; the Grande-Ligne Mission Register (1847-1854); the Registers and reports of the Evangelical Society of La Grande Ligne (1855-1870).
The Mission World (1914-1921), which superceded The New Era (1903-1913), was published by the MSCC. New Era and The Mission World are numbered continuously. Mission World ceased publication at the end of 1921 due to lack of funding. The annual lenten children's issue was continued with the title, Children's Mission World.
Monthly Letter Leaflet (1888-1893) was the newsletter of the Church of England's Woman's Auxiliary to Missions. It was renamed The Letter Leaflet when the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society was formed and ran under that title from Feb. 1893 until December 1922. It was followed by the Living Message, 1923 to May 1986, and then the Anglican Magazine, Jan. 1987-Dec. 1991. Volume numbering is continuous
Scope and Content
Microfilm consists of September 1888 to December 1889.
The New Era (1903-1913) was published by the MSCC. It changed its name to The Mission World in 1914 and ran until 1921. New Era and The Mission World are numbered continuously.
The Canadian Church Juvenile was published in the New Era as their Junior Dept. section Aug. 1903 to 1913.
In 1903 the Canadian Church Missionary Society started publishing its news in the New Era under the title Canadian Church Missionary Gleaner instead of having its own separate publication.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) started in 1701. It functioned as the missionary society of the Church of England, even though formally it was chartered as an independent organization. Its purpose was to provide clergy to minister to British people overseas; and to evangelize the non-Christian races of the world.
The SPG started supporting missionaries in Newfoundland in 1703 and Nova Scotia in 1728. The SPG either sent or supported missionaries right across Canada by the 1850s helping to establish the Church of England in Canada and to evangelize the indigenous people. They also established a national education system to train people for the ministry instead of sending them to England.
Scope and Content
Reel 1 - Finding Aid
Reel 2-102 - SPG Records
Finding Aids
Finding Aids available. See Microfilm collections - Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG)
Restrictions
No copies without written permission from Library and Archives Canada.
The transcription and copying of the records of the SPG that related to Canada was done by the National Archives of Canada over several periods of time. In 1955 and 1989 these records were microfilmed and made available by the National Archives of Canada. Copyright remains with them for these microfilmed records.