Collection ath-1873 - Anglican Church of Canada. Athabasca Archives Collection

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Anglican Church of Canada. Athabasca Archives Collection

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CA ATH ath-1873

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39.5 cm of textual records. - 2 audiocassettes

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The Hudson's Bay Company records show that the Anglican Mission in Athabasca Landing began July 1,1894. Bishop Richard Young frequently ministered. The log church-school of St.Matthew's was built in 1895-96.In 1898,Richard Cox joined the mission as a Lay reader.In June 1907 the construction of a new church, All Saints, was begun.

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The collection consists of records of the Anglican Church pertaining to the Athabasca area including synod reports, 1876-1928; historical notes and articles on local churches; correspondence and papers of Bishop Richard Young, correspondence of Bishop Sovereign, minutes of the All Saints Women's Auxiliary 1911-1942 and other local Anglican organizations; and a copy of Marian (Gill) Little's Anglican Church history"The Glorious Company". Names mentioned include Bishop William Day Reeve, Magnus Brown, Jim Cornwall, Leslie Wood, Fred H.Killick, Rev.William Grove White, Rev.Robert Little, Bishop Richard Young, Bishop Sovereign, Rev. A.C.Garrioch, Rev.George Holmes, Rev. Moxhay, Count Alfred Von Hammerstein, Gertrude (Reeve) Bannerman, and Eva Hasell of the Sunday School Caravan Mission. There is also a chapter from the book "A Heroine of the North: memoirs of Charlotte Selina Bompas."

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Copied by Gilda Sanders in 1985 and the Athabasca Archives in 1987. 00.30 was copied and donated by Tom Maccagno.

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File 20 has photocopies of many interesting photographs of Athabasca.<br><br>Record No. 89.04 Files 3, 5-43 (Box 13) Audiocassette s # 85, #92;89.25 b;00.30<br><br>

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