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1886-1972, predominant 1925-1962 (Vervaardig)
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- United Church of Canada. Woman's Missionary Society
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The United Church of Canada Woman's Missionary Society (WMS) brought together in October 1925 the Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church (Canada) and the Canada Congregational Woman's Board of Missions. The new Society had its first annual meeting in 1926. Like the earlier societies, it brought the message of missions before the entire community of the Church, while offering financial support and personnel to its own wide mission programme. The Home and Overseas Missions were organized into separate Departments, and other Departments were devoted to Finance, Home Organization, Literature, Periodicals, and Scholarship and Candidates.
The foreign missions were under an Executive Secretary of the Foreign Mission Department (renamed Overseas Missions in 1945), with secretaries responsible for each foreign nation in which the Society served. The women's work encompassed the whole of the modern century's missionary ideal: medical service, including clinics and nursing, but also hospital building, financing and administration; education from the primary to the university level; evangelism, visitation and social service. By the 1950s, control of many of these mission enterprises had been transferred to local leadership. The Society worked in cooperation with the United Church's Board of Overseas Missions in many of these missions.
The home missions were under an Executive Secretary of the Home Missions Department. The Department worked with immigrants and the poor, on Aboriginal reserves where they operated hospitals and schools, and in cities where they ran boarding schools and homes for out-of-town children. The Society originally established a number of schools and hospitals, predominantly in Western Canada, but these were gradually turned over to government administration.
In 1962 the Society's overseas missions work was merged with the new Board of World Mission; the home missions work was merged with the Board of Home Missions. Other work was incorporated into the Board of Women, established in 1962, and into the general work of United Church Boards in which women were achieving more equal participation.
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Fonds consists of twenty-nine series: 1) Records of the Dominion Board, 1889-1972; 2) Records of the Overseas Missions: Angola, 1924-1961; 3) Overseas Missions: Honan, 1925-1955; 4) Overseas Missions: South China, 1927-1951; 5) Overseas Missions: West China, [192-]-[1953]; 6) Overseas Missions: Hong Kong and Formosa, 1930-1961; 7) Overseas Missions: India and Nepal, [after 1925]-1962; 8) Overseas Missions: Japan, 1866-1961; 9) Overseas Missions: Korea, 1926-1961; 10) Overseas Missions: Northern Rhodesia, 1953-1961; 11) Overseas Missions: Trinidad, 1926-1961; 12) Records of the Home Mission: Boarding Schools and School Homes, 1906-1962; 13) Home Missions: Community Missions East, 1932-1968; 14) Home Missions: Department of the Stranger, 1925-1931; 15) Home Missions: Community Missions West, 1986-1961; 16) Home Missions: Indian Work, 1927-1961; 17) Home Missions: Medical Work, 1909-1962; 18) Home Missions: Oriental Work, 1927-1962; 19) Home Missions: Scholarship and Candidate Departments, 1925-1961; 20) Home Missions: Home Organization Department, 1934-1961; 21) Home Missions: Literature Department, 1926-[196-]; 22) Home Missions: Periodicals Department, 1925-1962; 23) Home Missions: Bay of Quinte Conference Branch, 1925-1962; 24) Home Missions: Toronto Conference Branch, 1914-1962; 25) Home Missions: Hamilton Conference Branch, 1925-1967; 26) Home Missions: London Conference Branch, 1914-1962; 27) Home Missions: Historical Documents from Conference Branches, 1884-1961, 28) Photographs, 1932-1964 and 29) Architectural Records, 1928-1936.
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Includes: 110 photographs, 2 maps, 8 architectural drawings, 72 v.
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- Presbyterian Church in Canada. Women's Missionary Society Eastern Division (Onderwerp)
- Presbyterian Church in Canada. Women's Missionary Society Western Division (Onderwerp)
- Methodist Church (Canada). Woman's Missionary Society (Onderwerp)
- United Church of Canada. Board of Overseas Missions (Onderwerp)
- United Church of Canada. Board of Foreign Missions (Onderwerp)
- Canada Congregational Woman's Board of Missions (Onderwerp)
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updated Apr. 2019 AZ
This record was changed on March 10, 2023 by LH in accordance to the UCCA policy on inclusive description.