Missions & Missionaries

Education Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1975.

Analyzes a 1869 buffalo hunt, the hunting blocs formed and the last years of bison hunting.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2009.

Discusses development of Métis culture and values, the history of their agricultural colonies, and the impact of settlement and subsequent changes to the economy of the region.

Chapters three, four and five derive from pamphlet entitled Metlakahtla, or Ten Years' Work among the Tsmishean Indians, published by the Society in 1868.

Presents a letter to the editor of the Christian Messenger.

Book review of: The Mikmaw Concordat by James (Sakej) Youngblood Henderson.

Women in foreground of Roman Catholic Mission.

Children with adults (teachers?) pose for group photo on steps of the mission at Metlakatla, BC.

Images include groups standing outside the building: locals and mission staff.

Image includes group standing outside the building: locals and mission staff.

Image depicts group standing outside the building; locals and mission staff.

Book review of: Mission Girls by Christine Choo.

Book reviews of: Mission Girls: Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1900-1950 by Christine Choo and Loving Protection?: Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights 1919-1939 by Fiona Paisley.

Looks at slides used by a missionary to illustrate his lectures on missions of the Canadian Northwest in the late nineteenth century.

Book review of Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country by Elizabeth Bingham Young and E. Ryerson Young, edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S.H. Brown.

Book review of Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country by Elizabeth Bingham Young and E. Ryerson Young ; edited and with introductions by Jennifer S. H. Brown.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 8, (pp1-27).

Author cautions researchers on the use of some data information that may contain clerical errors, illegible handwriting, faded ink and missing pages.

Book review of: Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta, 1875-1917 edited by Mary Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens.

Chapter 14 from Nurturing Native Languages edited by J. Reyhner, O. Trujillo, R. L. Carrasco, L. Lockard.

Overview of debates and research, with focus on major themes found in scholarly literature.

Comments on how missionaries transmitted and instilled Western notions of race, class, and gender to Indigenous people.

Investigates missionary publications that often presented distorted, one-sided views of Aboriginal peoples, but revealed a great deal about the intellectual and moral base of the missionaries' society.

Paper provides documentation in support of Inuit entrepreneurs as catalysts for the abundance of trade goods rather than the missionaries or the merchants.

This article describes the author's experiences as an Anglican missionary in Ontario in the mid-1950s. Aspects of Aboriginal life covered include marriage, kinship, education, value system and religion.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2009.

Overview of a German missionary recruited in 1837 to work with the Aborigines.

View of home located in Hazelton, BC.

Copy of illustration depicting white missionary shaking hands with an Aboriginal man wearing traditional head-dress, beside a sod-roofed log cabin - supposedly near Carlton. Copied from Red Indians of the Plains by J. Hines, 1916, p.78. Two natives look on. Caption reads: I thought I never saw a finer built man.

This file contains three reports on the missionary and other work of the Church of England, mainly in Canada, in the early 20th century: "The Diocese of Qu'Appelle (1908?)," "M.S.C.C. Report of Committee on work among Indians and Eskimos, Montreal October, 19th, 1916," and "Report of the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada for the year 1903." The first two booklets are mainly financial reports, while the latter report gives a short history of the church in Canada, and the activity of Indians in the various missions. Part of this report was scanned.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2013.

History Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2009.

Book review of Mississauga Portraits by Donald B. Smith.

Explores how the Mississaugas of Northern Ontario adapted to the process of colonial marginalization by cooperating with the missionaries and openly rejecting European values in favour of their traditional way of life.

Book review of: Mister Maloga by Nancy Cato. To access review, scroll down to page 187.

Book review of: Mohawk Saint by Allan Greer.

Looks at how sewing traditions brought together Mennonite and Cheyenne cultures spanning over 70 years.

Examines why the Montagnais choose the lifestyle that the Jesuit missionaries offered.