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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. Hugh M. Rae : A United Church minister in BC PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1970 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975-11-06 SUMMARY: END OF BUNT INTERVIEW (continued from T1991:0005): visits to Indian missions. REV. DR. HUGH M. RAE: Childhood in Scotland. Recruitment to fields in Canada, near Kamloops. Further education: McGill, B.C., Westminster Hall. First United Church B.D. Rosedale charge in 1917. Knox Church, New Westminster, and church union. Dunbar Heights, First Church in Ottawa. Retired supply in Vancouver. Anecdotes about experiences as a minister, including the coal miners' strike at Extension; Depression conditions; Japanese relocation; work on Evangelism And Social Service Committee, and others. Church music.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church minister and missionary PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975-10-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Childhood in Ontario. Move to the West. Decision to enter the ministry, 1912. Student fields. Further education and service in World War I. Graduation and marriage. Kaslo and church union. TRACK 2: Other experiences at Kaslo. Mission, BC, 1928-1931. The effects of the Great Depression. Missions to the Indians and Orientals, and his work as Superintendent of Home Missions. Relocation of Japanese Canadians. Visit to the Yukon. Policy in the Cariboo. [NOTE: The conclusion of this interview is on tape T1991:0006.]

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family background in Montreal. Move to Naramata, B.C., in 1909. His father and grandfather. Education. The first church at Naramata. Decision to become a minister. More about Naramata community. Effects of World War I. Life as a student minister. Ordination, 1926. TRACK 2: Young people's organizations in Vancouver in the 1920s; student Christian movement. Marriage. Work in Coalmont field. McBride and Giscome fields. Characteristics of the church in B.C. Community activities. Effects of the Depression.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ministers' financial problems in the Depression. The church's attitude to war, and to World War II. Serving the soldiers near Sardis. Outstanding figures in the church; Hugh Dobson and social concerns. TRACK 2: Dobson and social concerns (continued). J.S. Woodsworth, M.J. Coldwell, and Stanley Knowles and their backgrounds. The Sanford brothers. Re-location of Japanese (during WWII). The church in the 1970s.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 3 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: The need for a new sense of brotherhood.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church missionary to Japan and Soowahlie Indian Band in Chilliwack PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1960 RECORDED: Chilliwack (B.C.), 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss May McLachan was born in Manitoba in 1895. Training as a teacher and missionary. Missionary work in Japan, 1923-1942. Taught Japanese-Canadian children in the internment camp at Tashme, B.C., 1943-1945. Returned to Japan as missionary after World War II, 1947-1963. TRACK 2: Missionary work in Japan continued. Missionary work with Soowahlie Indian Band near Chilliwack, 1964 on.

CALL NUMBER: T2643:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister on the Prairies and in B.C., ca. 1904-1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend D.H. Telfer was born in 1886 and recalls his earliest memories of London, England. His father's work in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in London. Family decision to settle in Canada, 1904. Settling on a section of land at Belvedere, Alberta. Father's role as a local Methodist preacher. His own early jobs. More about his father's life as a preacher, and his death in 1908. TRACK 2: ;Other local denominations. His own studies for the ministry. Effects of World War I. University studies and ordination, 1915. Marriage and a sales job. Effects of the Great Depression. How the churches helped in the 1930s. Church Union, 1925. Move to West Point Grey United Church, 1940.

CALL NUMBER: T2643:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister and World War II in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The Church in the community during World War II. Conscientious objectors. Changes in congregations and church participation. Church extension, 1951-58. Outstanding individuals: Chown. The World Won for Christ. Japanese re-location.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Japanese minister in Canada, 1935-1945 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1975-06-30 SUMMARY: Reverend Yoshio Ono's memories of life in a Christian family in Japan. Study for the ministry in Canada in the 1930s. The Japanese evacuation in World War II: Hastings Park Camp and Tashme.;