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          Corporate body · 1934-2013|1925年-1934年

          (日本語版は以下に記載) (Japanese version below)
          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.

          組織歴・履歴 :
          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。

          Corporate body · 1932-1942

          In 1929, Dr. Kozo Shimotakahara of the Vancouver Japanese United Church gathered seven other Japanese Canadian doctors and began a free clinic, held once a month, for babies and children. The clinic was opened under the auspices of the Vancouver Japanese Women’s Auxiliary and the Kindergarten Mothers Group.
          Within a few short years, in response to an alarming incidence of tuberculosis among the Vancouver Japanese population, Dr. Shimotakahara and others in the community approached the City’s Department of Health, offering to open a free medical clinic at the church, under the supervision of the department. In 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, the free clinic opened in the gym of the Powell Street Church. The Department of Health provided the clinic’s supplies and sent two nurses to the clinic but organizations within the Japanese community provided funding. Women of the church donated countless hours of service in these clinics. Dr. Shimotakahara and his colleague, Dr. Uchida, volunteered their services. The clinic provided free inoculations against diphtheria and smallpox, and hosted lectures and films to educate the community on public health.

          Although it moved to 474 East Pender Street, the clinic continued to operate until the federal government forcibly removed the community from the coast in 1942.

          Corporate body · 1925-1942|存在の日付 : 1925 年-1942 年

          (日本語版は以下に記載) (Japanese version below)
          Methodist work among Japanese Canadians living in New Westminster began in 1898. The Japanese Methodist Church was built in the Sapperton area of New Westminster in 1907. In 1925, at the time of church union, the congregation entered the United Church of Canada. The congregation was closed in the fall of 1942, due to the Canadian government's forced uprooting and internment of Japanese Canadians.

          組織歴・履歴 :
          ニューウエストミンスター市 (英: New Westminster)在住の日系カナダ人を対象としたメソジスト教会のミッションは1898年に始まった。1907年にはニューウエストミンスター市のサパートン地域 (英: Sapperton) に日本人メソジスト教会を建設した。1925年の教会統合に伴いカナダ合同教会の一員となった。1942年のカナダ政府による日系カナダ人の強制収容に伴い閉鎖した。

          Corporate body · 1888-1942

          (中文版在下面)|(日本語版は以下に記載) (Chinese and Japanese versions below)
          In 1885, missionary John Endicott Gardner began sheltering Chinese women and girls working as sex workers in Victoria. Gardner received support for this work from the Rev. J.E. Starr, a local Methodist minister. In 1888, a home on Cormorant Street was purchased, and the Chinese Girls' Rescue Home officially opened. At Starr's urging, the Woman's Missionary Society (WMS) at Pandora Avenue (later Metropolitan) Methodist Church became involved. By 1890, the home's main priority shifted to providing refuge for Asian domestic servants suffering enslavement and abuse. In 1908, the WMS opened a newly constructed facility, and the name of the home was changed to the Oriental Home and School. It offered shelter and Christian education for Chinese and Japanese women and girls. The United Church continued to operate the home after Church Union in 1925. The forcible removal of Japanese Canadians from the coast during the Second World War brought an abrupt end to the home in 1942. Japanese residents were forcibly relocated and interned in a WMS home at Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. The WMS purchased a smaller home on Pembroke Street for the remaining Chinese women, and it became known as a Chinese Christian community centre.

          历史简介
          1885 年,传教士约翰·恩迪科特·加德纳 (John Endicott Gardner) 开始庇护在维多利亚从事性工作者的中国妇女和女孩。 加德纳得到了当地卫理公会牧师 J.E. Starr 牧师对这项工作的支持。 1888年,在Cormorant街购得一处住宅,华女救助院正式开启。 在Starr的敦促下,潘多拉 (Pandora Avenue)大道(后来的大都会)卫理公会教堂的妇女传教协会 (WMS) 参与了进来。 到 1890 年,该院的首要任务转移到为遭受奴役和虐待的亚洲家庭佣人提供庇护所。 1908 年,WMS 开设了新建的设施,并将该院的名称更改为东亚女学堂。 它为中国和日本的妇女和女孩提供住所和基督教教育。 协和教会在 1925 年教会联盟后继续经营此学堂。第二次世界大战期间日本加拿大人被强行驱逐出海岸各地,东亚女学堂于 1942 年戛然而止。日本居民被迫搬迁并被拘留在萨斯喀彻温(Saskatchewan)省 Assiniboia 的 WMS 家中。 WMS 在Pembroke街为剩下的华人妇女购买了一个较小的房子,它后来被称为华人基督教社区中心.

          組織歴・履歴 :
          1885年、ジョン・エンディコット・ガードナー (英: John Endicott Gardner)宣教師はヴィクトリア市でセックスワーカーとして働く中国人の女性に住処を提供するために活動を始めた。ガードナー宣教師は地元牧師のJ.E.スター (英: J.E. Starr)の支援を受け、1888年にコーモラントストリート (英: Cormorant Street)の一角の一軒家を購入。チャイニーズガールズレスキューホーム (英: Chinese Girls’ Rescue Home)を始める。同時期にスター牧師は地元のパンドラアベニュー (英: Pandora Avenue)合同教会 (のちのメトロポリタン合同教会) の カナダ夫人宣教師会 (英: Woman’s Missionary Society)の協力を取り付けた。
          1890年代には規模を拡大し、虐待や奴隷扱いを受けたアジア系の家政婦たちに避難所を提供していた。1908年にカナダ夫人宣教師会は中国系・日系女性にキリスト教の教育と避難先を提供するオリエンタルホームアンドスクール (英: Oriental Home and School)が開校された。1925年に行われた教会統合後も合同教会はシェルターを提供し続けたが、1942年のカナダ政府による日系カナダ人の強制収容により終わりを迎えることとなる。オリエンタルホームに在住していた日系の女性はカナダ夫人宣教師会がサスカチュワン州のアシニボイア 市(英: Assiniboia)に保有していた家に強制移動させられた。残された中国系女性のためにカナダ夫人宣教師会はペンブロークストリート(英: Pembroke Street)に一軒家を購入。この一軒家は後にチャイニーズクリスチャンコミュニティセンター (英: Chinese Christian Community Centre)と名付けられた。

          Corporate body · 1925-[195-]

          Pierce Memorial United Church began as a Methodist mission in the early 1870s. During this period it was part of the Port Simpson circuit. A Methodist church was built in Port Essington in 1876. The congregation provided baptism, marriage, and burial services for the Indigenous, Japanese Canadian, and European Canadian residents of the town. Port Essington Methodist Church came into church union in 1925. On March 15, 1936 a new church building was dedicated at Port Essington, which was named Pierce Memorial, in honour of Rev. William Henry Pierce, the first Methodist minister in the area and an Indigenous (Metis) man who was ordained at the first meeting of the British Columbia Conference in 1887. According to the United Church yearbooks, Port Essington Pastoral Charge has had many different preaching points over the years such as Balmoral, Haysport, and Sunnyside. In the 1950s Prince Rupert Presbytery decided to close the congregation.

          Corporate body · 2011-2022

          The Seniors Working Group (SWG) originated in 2011 with representatives from the pastoral committees of five United Church congregations on the west side of Vancouver: Dunbar Heights, Knox, Trinity, West Point Grey, University Hill. The working group formed partly in response to a growing gap in community services for seniors west of Granville Street. Within a few years, it grew to encompass further westside congregations, including Anglican parishes.

          The SWG's main purpose and vision was to help seniors/elders age with vitality and expanded options, working within church congregations and the wider community. It sponsored pastoral care training events; held public forums on a variety of topics; and undertook networking and collaboration with other community groups with similar aims. Congregational pastoral care committees within the SWG membership supported an array of activities, including prayer groups, transportation, education/communications, food support and programs, visitation, and card and flower ministries.

          Collaborative work with the nascent Westside Seniors Hub – which operated out of Kitsilano Neighbourhood House – began in 2015. The Westside Seniors Hub gradually assumed the community-wide programming of the SWG, and the SWG dissolved after transferring its funds to that organization on May 27, 2022.

          Corporate body · 1896-1942 ; 1951-1953

          (日本語版は以下に記載) (Japanese version below)
          In 1895 or 1896, a Christian missionary in Vancouver, Matsutaro Okamoto, led the effort to build a small mission building for Japanese fishermen. A plot of land was secured on the grounds of the Phoenix Cannery (between present-day Chatham and Moncton Streets at No. 1 Road). However, just as the mission building was completed, a typhoid epidemic broke out and the building was used primarily as a mission hospital. Mr. Okamoto and others served as volunteer nurses and provided additional spiritual nurture through morning and evening prayers and at Sunday meetings. In 1897, the Methodist Church General Board of Missions took on responsibility for Japanese missions in B.C.

          By 1900, the Church transferred full responsibility for hospital operations to the recently established Japanese Fishermen’s Benevolent Society, which had already been carrying the financial burden of the hospital. The Benevolent Society built a new Japanese Fishermen’s Hospital separate from the mission building; the hospital operated until 1942. During the intervening decades, the Methodist mission continued providing spiritual care at the hospital, and the minister who served the mission generally also served as hospital superintendent.

          In 1904, the Benevolent Society demolished the old mission building and built a new one, where Sunday worship, Sunday school, and primary education in Japanese took place. The mission also began offering night school classes in English by 1911. When the Methodist Church of Canada amalgamated with Presbyterian and Congregational churches in 1925, the mission became a congregation within The United Church of Canada. That same year, and at the behest of the Benevolent Society, the United Church Woman’s Missionary Society (WMS) began teaching English in the Society’s newly constructed Japanese kindergarten building.

          In 1942, during Rev. Kyuichi Nomoto’s pastorate, the Japanese Canadian community at Steveston was among the first of the coastal communities to be uprooted and forcibly sent to internment camps in the interior. When the federal government lifted restrictions in 1949, allowing Japanese Canadians to return to the coast, a small number of families gradually returned. Church services resumed in 1951, with Rev. W.R. McWilliams as the primary minister, and WMS worker Hedwig Bartling ministering to children, youth and families and teaching kindergarten at Steveston. The congregation used Steveston United Church’s building on Broadway Street at Second Avenue, and in February 1953, the two congregations formally amalgamated. The combined congregation rehabilitated the former Japanese United property in 1954; it was used for kindergarten, Sunday school and mid-week activities. When the Steveston Community Centre was built two years later, community demand for use of the church hall greatly diminished, and the old mission church was demolished.

          スティーブストン日系人合同教会は1895年(一説では1896年とも)にバンクーバー在住の宣教師に岡本松太郎が日本人の漁師を対象としたミッションを推し進めたことから始まった。教会堂用にフィーニックスキャナリ (英: Phoneix Cannery) (現代のチャザム通り (英: Chatham) とモンクトン通り (英: Moncton Streets)の間)に土地を確保し建設自体は無事に完了したものの、腸チフスが流行を始めたことにより布教活動にではなく病棟として主に使われることとなった。1897年にメソジスト教会ミッション委員会がブリティッシュコロンビア州在住の日系人への布教活動の指揮を執り始めると、病院の管理は成立されたばかりのスティーブストン漁者慈善団体 (英: Japanese Fisherman’s Benevolent Society) に委託された。漁者慈善団体は直ちに新たな病棟を建設し、1942年まで運営を続けた。メソジスト教会の日系人ミッションを担当していた牧師は病院でスピリチュアルケアを提供した他、病院運営の監督者としても派遣されていた。
          1904年にスティーブストン漁者慈善団体は最初の教会堂を解体し、新たな教会堂を建設。新教会堂は日曜崇拝のほか、日曜学校と日本語での小学教育が行われた。1911年ごろには英語での夜間学校も提供され始めた。1925年に行われたメソジスト教会、会衆派教会、長老派教会の統合後にも活動は続いた。また、同年に漁者慈悲団体の申請を受けてカナダ夫人宣教師会 (英: Woman’s Missionary Society) は新たに建設された日本人保育園で英語教育を始めた。
          1942年にカナダ政府による日系カナダ人の強制収容が始まると、スティーブストンの日系コミュニティはごく初期に移動を強いられることとなる。強制収容命令が解除がされた1949年には数世帯はスティーブストンに帰還し、1951年にはW.R. マクウィリアム (英: W.R. McWilliams) 牧師を主任牧師に礼拝が再開された。カナダ夫人宣教師会のヘッドウィッグ・バートリング (英: Hedwig Bartling)が子供や若者の礼拝、保育園の運営などを担当した。当初、日系カナダ人の会衆はセカンドアヴェニューのブロードウェイ通り(英: Broadway Street at Second Avenue)にあるスティーブストン合同教会で行われていたが、1953年の2月にスティーブストン合同教会に吸収された。1954年には政府に没収されていた教会堂を取り戻すことに成功。旧教会堂はその後保育園や日曜学校などの活動に利用されたものの、2年後のスティーブストンコミュニティセンター (英: Steveston Community Centre)建設に伴い需要が大幅下がり、解体された。

          Corporate body · 1925-1969

          The pioneer of Christian Education work in British Columbia was the British Columbia Sunday School Association, organized just prior to 1920. It was an interdenominational body seeking to combine the efforts of various church groups interested in working with children and youth. In the early 1920s, the B.C. Sunday School Association became the Religious Education Council of B.C., and around the year 1940, the Religious Education Council was replaced by the Christian Education Council of B.C.

          The independent Christian Education program of the United Church in B.C. operated from 1925 to 1969. Originally, the program was under the direction of Christian Education Field Secretaries (national staff officers resident in the Conference) in cooperation with the Conference Christian Education Committee. At various times, the field staff also included Associate Secretaries who were responsible for specific areas such as Boys' Work and Girls' Work. There were usually corresponding subcommittees of the C.E. Committee.

          In the early 1960s, attempts were made to decentralize the Conference Christian Education program. Instead of having a Field Secretary and several Associate Secretaries at work in the Conference, it was decided to have two Field Secretaries only. The Secretaries were to work closely with the presbytery C.E. committees -- each Secretary responsible for five presbyteries -- rather than the old system of working closely with the Conference C.E. Committee. More changes followed. In 1964, the Conference C.E. Committee became part of the new Division of Congregational Life and Work. Five years later, the Division was reorganized and the C.E. Committee was dissolved. The Christian Education function in B.C. Conference later came under the Division of Mission in Canada.

          Corporate body · 1925-1972

          The Superintendents were representatives of the national Board of Home Missions and worked in various conferences across Canada. Their duties, in cooperation with the presbyteries, included supervision of all aid-receiving missions and charges, the oversight of an annual fund-raising campaign, and the organization of new pastoral charges and mission fields. The emphasis in British Columbia was on Japanese and Indigenous missions, the coastal marine missions, and hospital work. For the period immediately following church union, British Columbia missions received a large share of all Home Missions grants, and the British Columbia Conference had a correspondingly large staff, with three Superintendents at the time of union. There were severe cutbacks during the depression, and this number was reduced to one by 1939, William Percy Bunt. He served from 1939 until his retirement in 1958, and was succeeded by Robert W. Henderson in 1959, with R.M. Warne serving part-time as a Superintendent as well. Lawrence G. Sieber succeeded Henderson in 1963, and served until the dissolution of the post, together with the Board of Home Missions, in 1972. In 1953 the responsibility for church extension in the metropolitan area was transferred to the Metropolitan Council for Church Extension. In the 1960s and 1970s a number of other administrative changes affecting the Superintendency also took place. In 1969 the new Metropolitan Council for the United Church of Canada in the Lower Mainland assumed responsibility for mission work in that area, and in the same year the first Native Affairs Consultant was appointed, and the first Presbytery Officer was appointed to serve the Kamloops-Okanagan and Kootenay Presbyteries. The Board of Home Missions and the Home Missions Superintendents were succeeded by the Division of Mission in Canada in 1972.

          Corporate body · 1925-1942 ; [ca. 1950]-

          The Japanese Methodist Mission was established in Vancouver in 1896. It fell within the purview of the Home Missions Board until well after WW II, even though the congregation had become self-supporting by 1936. The congregation's first building was constructed in 1907 or 1908 at the corner of Jackson and Powell Streets. It became known as the Powell Street Church. A gymnasium and social hall were added in the 1920s, for which the congregation raised $12,000. The Woman's Missionary Society (WMS) was involved with the Japanese Mission from very early on. They taught kindergarten and home economics at the Mission, held prayer meetings, and raised funds to add to the voluntary contributions of the congregation and Home Missions. The congregation boasted an excellent Sunday school, Tuxis and Explorers groups, Mission Band, and CGIT. The Rev. Dr. Kosaburo Shimizu served the congregation from 1926 to 1942. He introduced many Christian education opportunities within the congregation, established the Young People's Union, introduced monthly English-speaking worship services, and started a relief department providing food and clothing during the Depression of the 1930s. He also helped the congregation achieve self-supporting status.

          Members living in Vancouver's Fairview neighbourhood raised enough money, along with a Home Missions grant, to build a second Japanese Church in 1928 (by then part of The United Church of Canada).The Fairview Mission later became known as the Columbia Street Mission (from 1949 on), which was sold in 1977. From 1942 to 1949, the two buildings were used by First United Church, St. Giles, and the WMS while Japanese Canadian citizens were interned in internment camps. The Powell Street and Columbia Street buildings were held in trust by the Board of Home Missions during the war. In 1953, the Powell St. property was sold. From then on, the Japanese- and English-speaking congregations met in a number of different venues, none of which they owned, beginning with First United Church. In 1958 both Nisei and Issei (Japanese speaking) church members were worshipping in Fairview Church on Columbia. In 1962, they moved to Renfrew United Church. In 1978, the congregation purchased St. Luke's United Church building.

          At its general meeting in May 2009, BC Conference made a statement of Recognition and Apology to the Japanese United Church for the sale of the Powell Street church building 56 years earlier. In June of that year, a Service of Reconciliation took place at the Vancouver Japanese United Church. Early in 2017, the English-speaking congregation disbanded.

          Person · 1889-1956

          (日本語版は以下に記載) (Japanese version below)
          Yoshinosuke Yoshioka was born in Sasebo, Japan in 1889. He graduated in 1912 from Kwansei Gakuin University at Shizuoka, Japan, and was baptized within the Christian church in 1914. Yoshioka married Hisa Misaki (1890-1975), then a primary school teacher, in Shizuoka, Japan, where they lived until they left for Canada. In 1921, he was ordained in the Methodist Church. He served the Steveston Methodist Church from 1922 to 1925. This was followed by an appointment at the Japanese Mission on Powell Street in Vancouver (1925-1926). He completed theological studies at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, and earned Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Arts degrees. In 1929, he was called to the mission at the Japanese United Church in Kelowna, British Columbia, where he served until 1952. He went on to serve in Lethbridge, Alberta, where he died May 26, 1956.

          The Yoshiokas had two sons, Edward and James. Edward Yoshioka was born in 1923. He attended Victoria University and Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. Having been ordained in 1947, he served as a United Church of Canada minister in several locations across Canada and as a missionary in Trinidad. He died in 1990. James Yoshioka was born in 1925. He earned a medical doctor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1949; thereafter he practiced medicine in Montreal, Quebec, and Oakville and Toronto, Ontario until he retired.

          履歴 :
          吉岡芳之助は1889年に佐世保市にて生まれた。1912年に関西学院大学を卒業。1914年に洗礼を受け、キリスト教に改宗。静岡在住時に小学校教員のミサキヒサ (1890年-1975年) と結ばれる。1921年にメソジスト教会より牧師に叙階されると、翌年にカナダに赴任。1925年までスティーブストン (英: Steveston) 日本人メソジスト教会にて仕えた。1925年-1926年パウエルストリートの日本人ミッションに参加した後にトロント大学のエマニュエルカレッジに入学。神学を専攻し、学士号と修士号を習得した。1929年より23年間ケロナ市 (英: Kelowna) 、ブリティッシュコロンビア州の日系人合同教会にて仕える。後にアルバータ州のレスブリッジ市の教会に赴任した。1956年5月26日没。

          吉岡家は二人の息子に恵まれた。長男の吉岡エドワード(1923年出)はヴィクトリア大学(英: Victoria University)及びトロント大学のエマニュエルカレッジを卒業し、1947年に牧師として叙階された後、国内のいくつかのカナダ合同教会の牧師として勤めた。また、トリニダードにおいて宣教活動も行った。1990年没。
          次男の吉岡ジェームズ(1925出)は1949年に医師の学位を習得。ケベック州のモントリオール、オンタリオ州のオークヴィル市(英:Oakville)とトロント市で引退まで働いた。