Edmund James Peck fonds
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- Main Entry
- Peck, E.J. (Edmund James), 1850-1924
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 214.8 cm of textual records.
- 85 photographs.
- Dates
- 1886-1924
- Fonds Number
- 108
- Fonds
- Edmund James Peck fonds
- Material Type
- Multiple media
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 214.8 cm of textual records.
- 85 photographs.
- Dates
- 1886-1924
- Administrative / Biographical History
- 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- Fonds consists of manuscripts about John Horden's life and an unpublished autobiography of E.J. Peck; Maps of Northern Canada, the Arctic and the Hudson and James Bay; Correspondence; printed materials concerning the Arctic; sermons;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).
- Main Entry
- Peck, E.J. (Edmund James), 1850-1924
- Corporate Name
- Church Missionary Society.
- Accession Number
- M56-1
- M2016-02
- P7502
- Custodial History
- The archives acquired E.J. Peck's records in May of 1956 from Peck's son, W.R. Peck.
- Title Proper Source
- Title based on contents of fonds.
- Originals and Reproductions
- Records are all originals.
- Finding Aids
- Finding aid available.
- General Notes
- Peck's diaries published under the title: Apostle to the Inuit : The journals and ethnographic notes of Edmund James Peck, the Baffin years, 1894-1905 / Edited by Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten, François Trudel, 2006.