Eric Winston Austin was born in Northwich, England on August 27, 1906. His family came to Canada in 1910. After graduating from medical school in 1932, he was employed for a short time at Large Memorial Hospital in Bella Bella with Dr. George Darby, and then on board the Thomas Crosby III (1932-1938) with Rev. Robert C. Scott. Dr. Austin subsequently became a physician at Wrinch Memorial Hospital in Hazelton (1938-1942). From 1942 until the end of the Second World War, he served the Royal Army Medical Corps. At war's end, he became a surgeon for the Vancouver Military Hospital, then for Vancouver General Hospital, and in later years had a private practice. Dr. Austin married his second wife, Mary Louise Hannah (nee Reid), in 1978. The couple were members of Shaughnessy Heights United Church in Vancouver. Eric Austin died on August 8, 1994.
Burns Lake Hospital was located at Burns Lake, British Columbia. A small hospital was opened in a farm house at nearby Francois Lake in 1919 and in 1920 some larger quarters became available at Prosser's Point (now known as Hospital Point). The staff relocated to Burns Lake in 1924. In 1931 construction began on a new 19 bed hospital. The Woman's Missionary Society of The United Church of Canada, the provincial government and the Department of Indian Affairs all made substantial grants and it officially opened in 1932. Then, a new larger and better equipped building was opened in July, 1952. Another building was opened in August, 1960 by the WMS and Ministry of Health Services in the province.
The first United Church Chaplain, Rev. M.J.V. Shaver, was appointed to the University of British Columbia after its creation by BC Conference in 1959. An interdenominational committee, the Anglican-United Joint Chaplaincy Committee, was formed in 1969, through the BC Conference Committee on Church and State in Education, to begin the process of creating a joint chaplaincy at UBC. In 1970 the Anglican United Campus Ministry (AUCM) was created. In 1974, the AUCM and the UBC Student Christian Movement (SCM) merged to form the Cooperative Christian Campus Ministry (CCCM) at the University of British Columbia. In 1979, the SCM left the CCCM and the United Church and Anglican Church continued to operate campus ministry at UBC through the CCCM. In 1986, the CCCM was dissolved and the partnership between the United Church and Anglican Church at UBC ended. Later that year, after a brief period without a United Church campus chaplain, the United Church Campus Ministry (UCCM) at UBC was formed. In 2021, Campus Ministry at UBC became a part of Pacific Mountain Regional Council through the formation of Campus United.
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The Fraser Valley Japanese Mission was formed in the early 1930s. It was an extension of the New Westminster Japanese mission, which had begun in 1898. In 1934, the Fraser Valley Japanese Mission became a separate mission and continued as such until 1942 when the Canadian government forcefully uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians. In the late 1950s, Fraser Valley Japanese United Church was re-established, and continued until it formally amalgamated with Northwood United Church (Surrey, B.C.) in 2013.
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フレイザーバレー日系人合同教会 (ミッション市、ブリティッシュコロンビア州)は1930年代初期に結成された。当初は1898年にニューウエストミンスター(英: New Westminster)で行われていた日系移民ミッションの一環であったが1934年に独立。1942年のカナダ政府による西海岸在住の日系カナダ人の強制収容まで活動した。1950年代後期に再度結成され、2013年に同州サレー市 (英: Surrey) のノースウッド (英: Northwood) 合同教会と統合するまで活動を続けた。
Michael John Victor Shaver (Jack) was born in Fort William, Ontario, in 1918 to the Rev. and Mrs. James M. Shaver. He grew up in the manse next door to All Peoples' Mission in Winnipeg's North End. He attended United College in Winnipeg and, following ordination in 1942, served charges in rural Ontario and Manitoba, then Fort Gary United Church in Winnipeg (1952-1959). In 1959, he moved with his wife, Dorothy, and their children to Vancouver, where he served as the very first university chaplain for the United Church (UBC, 1959-1969). Shaver worked for the Metropolitan Council of the Lower Mainland in the early 1970s, then on the staff of First United Church, where he spent the final ten years of his ministry, retiring in 1982. Shaver received two honorary doctorates; from the University of Winnipeg (1980) and the Vancouver School of Theology (1982).
St. Andrew's Hospital was located in Atlin, British Columbia. In March, 1898 St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Toronto formed a committee to send trained Christian nurses to the Klondike. The following year, Elizabeth Mitchell and Helen Bone of the Women's Home Missionary Society (WHMS) of the Presbyterian Church in Canada were the first missionaries/nurses sent. Medical work was first performed in a primitive cabin and tent. In 1900 a hospital was erected, named St. Andrew's Hospital. The original committee, known as the Atlin Nurses Committee became of the nucleus of the WHMS in 1903. In 1904 an arrangement was made for joint support of the hospital by the WHMS and community. The hospital continued under the Presbyterian Church and after 1925 The United Church of Canada until the year 1929 when it became self-supporting and was taken over entirely by the community. In 1969 the building was bought by the University of Michigan State for a Field Station.
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The BC Conference Oriental Committee established a separately incorporated United Church Oriental Missions Society in 1930. The primary role of the Society was to hold, manage, maintain, sell and convey property relating to the missions acquired in trust for The United Church of Canada. By 1935, the Oriental Committee perceived its own role as unnecessary, as most of its former work was now being handled by other Conference committees and courts. The Oriental Missions Society continued to hold annual general meetings, but was dissolved in 1947.
組織歴・履歴 :
1930年にBC総会オリエンタル布教活動委員会は別組織として合同教会オリエンタル人布教会 (英: United Church Oriental Missions Society) を成立させた。布教会の主な役割はカナダ合同教会が入手した様々な不動産の管理及び購買であった。が、1935年ごろには総会内の他会が各々の不動産を管理し始めたため、役割を失っていき、1947年に解散。また、解散されるまで年次会議を開催していた。