Series 1 - Richard Orlando Jolliffe Family

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Richard Orlando Jolliffe Family

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CA ON00340 F3309-1

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  • 1907-1971 (Creation)
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    Jolliffe, Richard Orlando, 1874-1959

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71 cm of textual records

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(1874-1959)

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Richard Orlando Jolliffe (1874-1959) was a Methodist/United Church missionary to China in the first half of the twentieth century. Richard Jolliffe was born in Bruce County, Ontario, in 1874. He studied at Victoria University, and served briefly in Alberta for the Methodist Home Missions Board, 1903-1904. He was appointed to the West China Mission in 1904. He married Lena Dunfield, a Woman's Missionary Society missionary in China, in 1905. Together they pioneered missions in the salt wells area of Tzeliutsing. In 1922, Richard Jolliffe was appointed to work for the Mission Press in Chengtu. He and his wife produced a large volume of Christian literature and the monthly magazine Christian Hope. They retired in 1945 to Rockwood, Ontario. Richard Jolliffe died in 1959, Lena Jolliffe in 1976.

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Series consists of daily diaries, 1901-1971; correspondence, 1938-1945, personal marriage register of Rev. Richard Orlando Jolliffe, 1945-1959; personal baptismal register of Rev. Richard Orlando for Rockwood, Ont. (1946-1958) and West China (1909-1946), 1909-1958.

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      1986.319C

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      1986.400C

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      1995.072C

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      2003.133C

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