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Archival description
Administrative records
CA ON00340 F503-1 · Series · 1962-1971
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes of Executive and annual meetings, 1962-1972 (official); general files arranged by year including, for example, records of internal and international ecumenical committees, and correspondence of Board staff, and records of Crossroads Africa, 1961-1968.

Missionary files
CA ON00340 F503-3 · Series · 1951-1971
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of correspondence with individual missionaries, concerning work in the field, their own positions, and reports on other missionaries. There is a good deal of the correspondence of Sid Gilchrist, mission doctor in Angola and Zambia.

This material was removed from the files of the Board of World Mission and the Woman's Missionary Society of the United Church at some point in the past, and is now restored.

CA ON00340 F503-6 · Series · 1888-1969
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of a collection of pamphlets and documents written by Canadian missionaries and others, both in China and foreign countries, which documents issues of relevance to the China mission field. It covers evangelistic, medical, educational, political, social, economic and cultural issues. The collection is divided both geographically (West China, Honan, South China), and by topic. The pamphlets are arranged in numeric order within geographic and topical subseries: West China Mission (76 pamphlets); Honan (North) Mission including Christian Literature Society for Canada, 1888-1948 (25 pamphlets); South China Mission, 1902-1952 (5 pamphlets); culture, society, religion, industry, (39 pamphlets); history, politics, and geography (32 pamphlets); education and medicine (40 pamphlets); miscellaneous missions and Chinese Christian Church (83 pamphlets); young people's mission material (35 pamphlets). The documents are arranged under the following headings: medical and educational work; mission work and the Christian Church in China; social and political. Also included are unlisted ephemera and publications in Chinese.