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Only top-level descriptions Missions to Seamen (Vancouver, B.C.) New Westminster (B.C.)
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Missions to Seamen (Vancouver, B.C.) fonds

  • AADNW F-297
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1990

The fonds consists of official records from the three original branches of the Missions to Seamen in the Diocese, Vancouver, New Westminster and North Vancouver branches. It includes Chaplain's personal records; handwritten notes; handwritten minutes of committees' meetings; handwritten logbooks and lists of ships' and hospitals' visits; financial statements; various committee records; publications [both locally produced and from England], scrapbooks and historical reference material. The fonds includes also records of women's organizations (Senior Lightkeepers, Harbour Lights Guild, and the Evening Watch) affiliated with each of the three branches. The fonds also includes records of the Holy Trinity Men's Club. It includes ca. 101 negative copy prints of photographs, loose or glued in the scrapbooks. Printed material includes mainly unbound and bound volumes of "The Church and the Sailor" (14 volumes: 1938-1942 and 1952-1956), issues of "The Flying Angel" of the Diocese of New Westminster (1976-1993) with two special issues of "The Flying Angel on the Pacific Coast published for the centennial celebration of the work of the mission.

Missions to Seamen (Vancouver, B.C.)