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Church Missionary Society fonds
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- microform
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1821-1950 [Microfilmed ca. 1985] (Creation)
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- Church Missionary Society
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14 microfilm reels
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The Church Missionary Society (CMS), originally known as the Society for Missions in Africa and the East, was founded in 1799. Its work was extended to what is now Canada in 1822 in response to a request from Reverend John West (ca.1775-1845), a member of the Society who had been appointed chaplain to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1820. The CMS’s main interest was “in the conversion of the heathen rather than […] ministry to British settlers abroad”. It worked primarily among Indigenous and Inuit communities in territories controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1856, Captain James C. Prevost, R.N., urged the extension of its work to the Pacific. The first North Pacific Mission (British Columbia) missionary, William Duncan (1832 to 1918), arrived in Tsimshian territory in 1857. The main stations of its North Pacific Mission were established at: Metlakatla, 1862; Gingolx (Kincolith), 1866; Masset, 1876; Yalis (Alert Bay), 1878; Gitanmaax (Hazelton), 1880; Gitwangak (Giat Wangak), 1882; Gitlaxt'aamix (Aiyansh), 1883; Kitkatla, 1887; and Tahltan (Tahl Tan), 1898. In 1903, CMS began turning its Canadian missions over to the Missionary Society of the Canadian Church. Its work in the Arctic was turned over in 1907, and its final hand-over was completed in 1920.
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The fonds consists of Church Missionary Society papers relating to British Columbia.
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Finding aid available. See series MS-2250.
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Archives code(s): MS-2250
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- Church Missionary Society (Subject)