Missions to Seamen fonds
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- Main Entry
- Missions to Seamen.
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records.
- 51 photographs : b&w.
- Printed.
- Typescript.
- Dates
- 1942-1978
- Fonds Number
- 174
- Fonds
- Missions to Seamen fonds
- Material Type
- Multiple media
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records.
- 51 photographs : b&w.
- Printed.
- Typescript.
- Dates
- 1942-1978
- Administrative / Biographical History
- The Mission to the Seamen's operation in Canadian ports was inititiated in 1955 by Canon Guy Marshall, on behalf of the Flying Angel Mission. The Mission to Seamen provides recreational facilities, day trips, reading material in various languages, tutor lessons, souvenir articles and spiritual counsel by chaplains for any sailor docking in Canada. Thousands of sailors each year visit the numerous missionary posts. Missionary posts in Canada were originally established in Halifax, Toronto, Hamilton, The Lakehead, Vancouver, North Vancouver and New Westminster.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of notes of the Seaway Regional Conference of Missions to Seamen in Hamilton. Annual reports of various mission branches. Newsletter of the organization's operation in Vancouver. Photographs of clergymen with sailors and various social events provided by the organization.
- Main Entry
- Missions to Seamen.
- Accession Number
- M78-17
- Custodial History
- No custodial history exists.
- Title Proper Source
- Title based on contents of fonds.
- General Notes
- The photos from the Missions to Seamen fonds are located in P8428.