Canada in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1722-1952 - Volumes
Volumes
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USPG C series records relating to Canada: general papers, 1785-1864
These general papers have a significant focus upon the laws and legislature of Canada that were to affect the USPG, and especially so with regard to Acts that covered their reserves. The reserve fund accounts, from 1843 until 1848, serve to illustrate some of the significance that these lands held for the Society. The Government correspondence extends beyond the issue of laws relating to clergy reserves, into the laws governing... Read more →
USPG E series reports for Canada, 1901-1950
These documents are formed from narrative accounts of progress, correspondence of a less structured nature, photographs and in some cases, statistical returns. The three core events that impacted upon the work of these missionaries are World War One the Atlin Gold Rush, and the mass population movement following the droughts of the early 1930's. The rise of the typewriter becones evident in these reports as the quantity of typescript reports... Read more →
