Girls Auxiliary Members: Sophia Anderson (prominent), Sarah Beardy (centre background), Lilian Atley (looking into box), assisting their Leader at Gillam, MB by giving out chocolate at a Christmas Party for little Cree children.. - [n.d.]
Grace Winnifred Gibberd (1900-2001) was born in London, England and was a missionary in Kaifeng, China for the Anglican Church of Canada from 1928-1945. After returning to Canada for a year furlough in 1946, Gibberd decided not to return for health reasons. She worked in an office at Blenheim in 1948, and then in London from 1949-1954 at the Diocese of Huron Synod office as Bishop's secretary and then Director of the Book Centre. In 1954, she married Reginald Percival Dan Hurford.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of a copy of a typescript written by Grace Gibberd in 1945 entitled "In Spite of War : a partial account of how some people carried on from July 1937 to August 1945, during the Sino-Japanese War". It describes the activities and daily life of missionaries in China during the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945). Included is a photocopy of her typed manuscript "How we went to Macedonia: a diary of twenty days of adventurous travel in Honan, China from Oct. 10 to Nov. 18th, 1940". This manuscript is illustrated within the body of the text with photographs taken during this trip that Gibberd took with Archdeacon Andrew, his wife, and Greta Clark in Honan. Several images show how transportation by rickshaw or boat was hampered by the flooding of the Yellow River.
Related Fonds
General Board of Religious Education (GBRE) fonds
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds
Fonds consists of two articles 1. The work we have done: relationship, investment and contribution The Inuit workers of St. Luke's Hospital, Pannirtuuq, 1930-1972. Prepared by Emily E.S. Cowall Farrell and Meeka Alivaktuk. (2005), 15 p.
2. Take your medicine: the knowledge of resourcefulness : Inuit, nurse missionaries, medical doctors and sanitary science (2006) 45 p.
18.28 m of textual, graphic and audiovisual materials
Administrative History
The General Board of Religious Education (GBRE) Committee (1918-1967) came into existence by the enactment of Canon VII at the 8th General Synod in September 1918. Its mandate was to study the educational needs of the church in respect of primary and secondary education and of all Sunday School work, and to recommend such measures as it may deem advisable and to advance the cause of religious education in the schools. This does not generally include Indian Residential Schools.
The GBRE was divided into I. Educational Section for parish needs, teacher training, and religious education in public schools; and II. Editorial and Supplies Section. Other residual programs were the Sunday School by Post and Radio, the Sunday School Caravan Mission, and the Anglican Young People's Association (AYPA).
The GBRE was run by the General Secretary:
Robert Arthur Hiltz (1877-1955), 1910-1950
Arthur Harding Priest (1892-1958), 1950-1958
Kenneth Howard Michael Creal (1927- ), 1958-1965
Thomas David Somerville (1915-2011), 1965-1966
Jefferson, Philip Clarke (1928-2012), 1966-1973
The GBRE was preceded by Inter-Diocesan Sunday School Committee and the Sunday School Commission of the Church of England in Canada. In 1967 the GBRE Committee was dismantled and the Department of Religious Education became a section in the Programme Department at the General Synod.
Scope and Content
Fonds consists of reports, minutes, legal documents, correspondence, financial records, printed materials, graphic materials and audio-visual materials.
Fonds organized into the following series:
Series 1. Inter-Diocesan Sunday School Committee, 1889-1904
Series 2. Sunday School Committee of the General Synod of the Church of England in Canada, 1905-1908
Series 3. Sunday School Commission of the Church of England in Canada, 1908-1918
Series 4. General Board of Religious Education, 1918-1967
Series 5. Anglican Young People's Association, 1902-1967
Series 6. Periodicals, 1883-1971
Series 7. Pamphlet and Printed Materials, 1910-1967
Series 8. Curriculum and Text books, 1926-1967
Series 9: Illustrated Materials and Picture Rolls, [192-?]-1965
God's Children: First Lessons on the truths of the Christian Religion. For use with groups of children where no previous religious instruction has been given. 344 p.. - 1955?