Frances Mary Sim, a church worker in Bledlow and Windsor, England, was the sister of the Yukon missionary, Rev. Vincent C. Sim.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a letter from Bishop Bompas (1885), two from Bishop Stringer (1908, 1912) together with a copy of the book "An Apostle of the North: Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas, D.D.", by H.A. Cody. Includes original photographs and a newspaper clipping.
George Exton Lloyd (1861-1940), enrolled at Wycliffe College and quit to join the Queen's Own Rifles to fight in the North West Rebellion, 1885. Ordained priest, 1885 and rector of Rothesay, New Brunswick and principal of Rothesay School for Boys. Conducted deputation work for the Colonial and Continental Church Society in London, England until 1903. Lloyd was a leader of the Barr Colony, 1903, and a promoter of the Colonial & Continental Church Society. He was principal of Emmanuel College in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1908-1916 and Bishop of Saskatchewan, 1922-1931.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of correspondence and other papers regarding the establishment of the Barr Colony and a manuscript, "The Trail of 1903". Newspaper clippings, a magazine article on the Barr Colony, miscellaneous papers and photographs arranged by subject matter.
Related Fonds
Other records relating to George Exton Lloyd can be found in the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf fonds in series 3 titled, publications.
Arthur Reading Kelley (1882-1961), graduate of Trinity College, Toronto and ordained deacon, 1906 and priest, 1907. Served his ministerial career in the Diocese of Quebec and a founding member of the Canadian Church Historical Society and the General Synod Archives Committee.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of papers on parish and diocesan histories, biographical sketches of members of the Anglican church. Chapters for a book on the history of the Anglican church. Correspondence, reports from the Anglican Advance Appeal and miscellaneous papers on subjects of interest to Kelley.
Born in London, England, James Jones (1787-1879) came to Canada in 1841 as an S.P.G. missionary. He was ordained deacon in 1842 and served at St. James Church, Bedford, Que., 1842-1863 and was involved in the building of the Parsonages at Bedford, West Farnham and East Stanbridge.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a carbon copy of a typescript of excerpts taken from Rev. Jones' journal. In his journal, he discusses his daily life and activities, efforts in raising money, church building at Bedford, West Farnham and East Stanbridge, and his travels.
Associated Material
See also entry under this heading in the classified catalogue.
In 1886, Charles Jenkins, a businessman and lay delegate to the Synod of Huron, moved a successful resolution calling the Provincial Synod to take immediate action to unite Anglicans in one national organization. A committee was formed to investigate the extension of the existing Provincial Synod's powers in legislating for the Canadian Church as a whole. In 1887, Jenkins, with the help of other laymen founded the "Association for Canadian Church Union". Based in London, Ont., the organization had local branches in every diocese in order to promote the cause of "Consolidation". In 1887, the Rupert's Land Provincial Synod concurred with the principle of consolidation and appointed a committee to prepare for a future conference in Winnipeg that lead to the formation of General Synod and the Church of England in Canada.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of bound correspondence of Charles Jenkins and W.J. Imlach, secretary of the Canadian Church Union, with Canadian diocesan authorities concerning the subject of consolidation of the Canadian Church of Canada. This lead to the formation of the General Synod and the Church of England in Canada.
Related Fonds
Other records relating to the Canadian Church Union can be found in the Charles Jenkins fonds.
Other records relating to the Canadian Church consolidation can be found in (GS75-01) The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada fonds
Edmund James Peck (1850-1924) joined the Church Missionary Society in 1876. While serving at Little Whale River, 1876-1885, he learned the Eskimo and Cree languages and compiled an English/Eskimo grammar book, which went through five major editions. Peck believed it was imperative that Christians read the scriptures. He served in Fort George, 1885-1893, Cumberland Sound, 1894-1905 and became Superintendent of the Arctic Mission Diocese of Moosonee in 1905.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of manuscripts about John Horden's life and an unpublished autobiography of E.J. Peck; Maps of Northern Canada, the Arctic and the Hudson and James Bay; Correspondence; printed materials concerning the Arctic; sermons; notebooks; drawings; journals; Eskimo grammars and notebooks; and photographs.
Associated Material
Other records of E.J. Peck can be found in the Diocese of Moosonee papers (Mf 81-4, Reel 2) and the Moose Factory Mission Church records (Mf 81-5).
Robert William Dyer (1808-1887), a proponent of Dr. Andrew Bell's monitorial system of teaching was schoolmaster of Greenspond School, Bonavista Bay, 1840-1859. He was also missionary and farmer at Cascumpeque, P.E.I, 1859-1884.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of the Dyer's journals arranged in chronological order with excerpts pertaining to his career and interactions with people while employed at Greenspond School, 1841-1859 and the Cascumpeque mission in Alberton, 1859-1884.
Associated Material
Insights into the life and times of a pioneer West Prince Anglican Missionary from the journal of the Revd. Robert William Dyer, 1859-1884 : a short introduction, 2009.
Charles Jenkins (1839-1920) is considered "The Father of the General Synod." In 1886, Charles Jenkins, a businessman and lay delegate to the Synod of Huron, moved a successful resolution calling the Provincial Synod to take immediate action to unite Anglicans in one national organization. A committee was formed to investigate the extension of the existing Provincial Synod's powers in legislating for the Canadian Church as a whole. In 1887, Jenkins, with the help of other laymen founded the "Association for Canadian Church Union". He was also a member of the National Committee of the Anglican Layman's Missionary Movement and of the General Committee for a revised Hymnal, and worked for changes in the Anglican Ordinal to allow for secular deacons.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of papers, letters, booklets and newspapers related to the promotion and organization of the Canadian Church Union and the formation of General Synod at the Winnipeg Conference. Letters from Bishop Arthur Sweatman and Chancellor L.H. Davidson.
Related Fonds
Other records relating to the Canadian Church Union Movement can be found in the Canadian Church Union fonds.
Other records relating to the Canadian Church consolidation can be found in (GS75-01) The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada fonds
Richard John Bowen (1868-1952) trained with the Church Missionary Society (CMS) at Islington College, London in 1894. He was ordained deacon in 1897 and priest in 1898. Bowen was a CMS missionary in the Diocese of Selkirk (now Diocese of Yukon) ministering among the indigenous people and gold seekers during the Yukon gold rush in Whitehorse. He was Rector of the first parish St. Paul's Church in the Yukon Territory, 1898-1903. Bowen also served in Nanaimo and Ladysmith, BC, 1903-1907. He was the Organizing Secretary for the Western Ontario District of the Canadian Bible Society, 1907-1925 amd was licensed in the Diocese of Huron from 1930-1952.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a notebook of various words and meanings translated from English to a native dialect and vice versa. Easter anthem titled "They Have Taken Away My Lord". A testimonial to Bowen from St Paul's Church, Dawson City. A Holy Bible and a copy of the New Testament. A history of Bowen's communion set written by his wife. Photographs of various people, streets, buildings and towns in the Yukon Territory. Miscellaneous items include a piece of altar linen and an ivory or bone knife.
Related Fonds
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds
Hiram Alfred Cody (1872-1948), a graduate of King's University, Windsor, Nova Scotia, was ordained deacon in 1896 and priest in 1898. Served in churches at Doaktown and Ludlow, New Brunswick before becoming Archdeacon of Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton. Wrote numerous novels while serving as a travelling missionary in the Yukon, mainly pertaining to life in the Northland. He was rector of St. James Church, Saint John for 32 years.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of correspondence with Bishop Isaac O. Stringer, Bishop William Carpenter Bompas, Bessie Parmalee, the Rev. A.E. O'Meara, the Rev. John Hawksley and other missionaries; addresses and sermons by Cody; and photographs.
Thomas Henry Canham (1852-1947) studied at the Church Missionary Society College at Islington, England and was ordained priest in 1880. He served at Portage La Prairie, Manitoba (1881-1882), St. Matthews Mission, Peel River, McKenzie River, N.W.T. (1882-1887), St. James Mission, Lower Yukon River (1888-1892), Tukudh Mission (1888-1891), St. Andrew, Selkirk, Yukon (1892-1910), St. Saviour, Carcross, Yukon (1910-1922), and Archdeacon of the Yukon (1892-1924). His English-Wood Indian vocabulary was published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (S.P.C.K) in 1898. His work in the north was shared by his wife, Charlotte Sarah French Canham (m. 1886).
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of official documents, correspondence, various addresses and clippings, catalogues of books at the Church Missionary Society at Carcross and St. Andrew's Mission, notebooks and diaries, sermons and sermon material, glossaries and hymns in Selkirk Indian, translations of sections of the Prayer Book and Bible, photographs and glass plate negatives of people and places in Canham's missions.
Series on Charlotte Sarah French Canham, T.H. Canham's wife, consists of a biographical profile and articles on Charlotte by her distant relative Marilyn Lappi.
Healey Willan (1880-1968) moved to Canada from London, England in 1913 and was the organist for St. Mary Magdelene Church from 1921 to his death. He wrote 14 plays, and composed over 200 works; chamber music, songs and organ works and choral and instrumental works. Was commissioned to write a Homage Anthem at the Coronation of Elizabeth II, awarded the Canadian Council Medal in 1961 and made an honourary member of the Canadian League of Composers in 1955.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of published works, consisting of various carols, chorals, hymns and instrumental music composed by Healey Willan and arranged alphabetically by the publishing houses/presses.
John Austin Worrell (1852-1927), educated at Trinity College School, Port Hope and University of Trinity College, Toronto. Graduated in 1871, studied law and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1878. Assessor to the General Synod, 1896-1927 and Chancellor of the Diocese of Toronto.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of letters and correspondences written to Worrell, relating to the law suit case by Reverend Frederick Julius Steen against the Bishop of the Diocese of Montreal, William Bennett Bond, constitutional rules on status of delegates to the General Synod, and the creation of the Diocese Of Honan and the consecration of Bishop White.
Related Fonds
Other records relating to the Diocese of Honan can be found in the Diocese of Honan fonds.
Other records relating to the Diocese of Honan and Bishop W.C. White can be found in the William Charles White fonds
Owsley Robert Rowley (1868-1949) was an active lay Anglican and banker. He held several responsible positions in Southern Ontario and the United States, retiring in 1932 as Inspector of the Bank of Montreal. Rowley served the diocese of the Arctic as Honorary Lay Secretary and was a member of the Executive Council of the General Synod. He is the author of "The House of Bishops, Canada" (1907) and "The Anglican Episcopate of Canada and Newfoundland" (1928).
Scope and Content
Fonds consists personal and official correspondence, biographical sketches (manuscript and printed), articles, photographs.
William Herbert Naylor (1846-1918) graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in 1872, and M.A. in 1885. He was ordained deacon in1873 and priest in 1874, and served in the parish of St. Armand West, 1874, Clarendon, 1876-1907, and Farnham, 1907-1917. During his career, Naylor planned and selected sites for church buildings, conducted archdeaconry meetings, took missionary journeys through the Deanery of Clarendon and accompanied the bishop on many visitations. His book "History of the Church in Clarendon" was published in 1919.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of correspondence from the Rt. Rev. W.B. Bond dealing mainly with the Deanery of Clarendon, reports to the Bishop of Montreal for Deaneries of Clarendon and St. Andrews, histories for some parishes in the Deanery of Clarendon, and some miscellaneous material.
Irish born, John Thomas Griffin (1871-1960) entered the Church Missionary Society Preparatory College in 1905 and went the next year to Moosonee, Canada as a teacher and lay reader. He was ordained deacon in 1911 and priest in 1912 for the Diocese of Moosonee. He served as a missionary at Albany, Ontario from 1911-1921, was curate at Moose Factory and principal of the Indian Boarding School (where his wife was matron) from 1921-1927. From 1927-1933, Griffin was at Fort George where he did most of his own printing on a small English press using a Bishop Horden's type. Griffin was also a priest in the diocese of Dublin, 1933-1955.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of correspondence, historical notes on Fort George, a typescript of Griffin's biography (1959), a set of typescript articles describing his journeys and missionary activities, a scrapbook with clippings from the church periodical "Moosonee and Keewatin Mailbag", and photographs. Included are several small, handprinted Cree lesson, prayer and translation books.
The diocese of Moosonee was founded in 1872. The Synod of the diocese was organized in May, 1920, at Timmins. The diocese covers 350,000 square miles.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists M61-3: letterbook of Archdeacon Thomas Vincent, Fort Albany (1895-1899), the Rt. Rev. John Horden and the Rt. Rev. J.A. Newnham (1892-1904); correspondence of Bishop Horden and Newnham (1883-1904 ); Albany Mission journal (1883-1923); and a memo "Matters prepared by Bishop Horden for consideration with M. Grahame".
M85-7 - Cree translations and sermons by the Rev. R.A. Joselyn when he was missionary at Albany, 1932-1945.
Bishop William Charles White (1873-1960) was a missionary in Fukien, China, 1897-1909 and Bishop of the Canadian missionary Diocese of Honan, China, 1909-1934. He returned to Toronto as Professor of Chinese Studies and as Keeper of the East Asiatic Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum, a collection enhanced by his connections. He was also a biographer of the Rev. Canon H.J. Cody.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of missionary reports, histories and biographies from the Diocese of Honan in China, arranged in chronological order, photographs of people and places in the Diocese, a stole belonging to Bishop White, three sets of rubbings of Jewish memorial stones from Kaifeng (approx. dates: 1489-1512), W.C. White's correspondence and biographical notes, arranged chronologically (1896-1958), sermon notes and articles written on Chinese archeology, history, ethnology, everyday life and other miscellaneous matters, pamphlets written in both English and Chinese.
Fonds arranged in five series:
Series 1. Diocese of Honan, China, 1909-1950
Series 2. Personal correspondence, 1896-1957
Series 3. Writings, 1909-1956
Series 4. Pamphlets
Series 5. Photographs and rubbings.
Related Fonds
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds
Lilian Jane Lucey was a nurse at Kimberley, the Columbia Coast Mission, Alert Bay, Old Crow and Fort Nelson.
Scope and Content
Fonds consist of letters from Walter R. Adams, Archbishop of Yukon Diocese, Archdeacon C.W. Kirksdy of Alaska Highway and Horace G. Watts, Bishop of Caledonia Diocese to Lucey pertaining to her work experience. A published booklet for children about Indians and Eskimos. Newspaper clippings about Old Crow. Photographs mixed in the textual records concerning schools, churches and native life in Old Crow.