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[194-]-1985 (Creation)
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- Walmsley, Lewis Calvin, 1897-1998
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ca. 20 cm of textual records
2 architectural plans
4 maps
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Lewis Calvin Walmsley (1897-1998) was a West China missionary and educator, head of the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto, and author. He was born in Milford, Ontario and studied at Victoria College and the College of Education in Toronto where he graduated in 1919. In 1920 he was engaged to Constance Kilborn, but they parted for a year and he went on to teach mathematics at Regina College in Saskatchewan. They married in 1921 and later that year they decided to become missionaries and later sailed to the West China Mission. He was appointed principal of the Canadian School for missionaries' children in 1923 and served there until 1947. During one furlough he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto (D.Paed.). In 1929 he taught pedagogy as well as social and experimental phycology at the West China Union University. He accepted an appointment as head of the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Toronto in 1949, and retired in 1963. He wrote several books about China.
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Series contains files pertaining to Lewis Walmsley’s educational work in West China at West China Union University and the Canadian School [194-]-1985.
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14 photographs, 2 architectural plan and 4 maps