Canadian Protestant and Catholic missions, 1820s-1960s
Subtitle: historical essays in honour of John Webster Grant
By: edited by John S. Moir, C.T. McIntire ; foreword by Robert T. Handy.
Contributors: Grant, John Webster.; Moir, John S.; McIntire, C. T.; American Society of Church History.; Canadian Society of Church History.; University of Toronto. Centre for Religious Studies.
Series: Toronto studies in religion ;; vol. 3
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Grant, John Webster.; Missions -- Canada.; Missions, Canadian.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Essays presented at a joint meeting of the American Society of Church History and the Canadian Society of Church History at McMaster University in April 1987.
"Published in association with the Centre for Religious Studies at the University of Toronto"--P. [ii].
Table of contents: title: A biographical sketch of John Webster Grant, with a list of his major writings / John S. Moir; title: Approaches and themes in the history of missions / C.T. McIntire; title: The bark school house : Methodist Episcopal missionary women in Upper Canada, 1827-1833 / Elizabeth Muir; title: Different visions : the multiplication of Protestant missions to French-Canadian Roman Catholics, 1834-1855 / Robert Merrill Black; title: Poverty and piety : the Saint Vincent de Paul Society's mission to Irish Catholics in Toronto, 1850-1890 / Brian P. Clarke; title: The road to winsome womanhood : Presbyterian mission among East Indian women and girls in Trinidad, 1868-1939 / Geoffrey Johnston; title: Far indeed from the meekest of women : Marion Fairweather and the Canadian Presbyterian mission in central India, 1873-1880 / Ruth Compton Brouwer; title: Evangelicals, civic mission, and prisoners' aid in Toronto, 1874-1896 / Ronald G. Sawatsky; title: Deaconess as urban missionary and ideal woman : Church of England initiatives in Toronto, 1890-1895 / Alison Kemper; title: For the uplift of the world : the mission thought of James A. MacDonald, 1890s-1915 / Brian J. Fraser; title: A watchful eye : the Catholic Church Extension Society and Ukrainian Catholic immigrants, 1908-1930 / Mark George McGowan; title: From Jewish mission to inner city mission : the Scott Mission and its antecedents in Toronto, 1908-1964 / Paul R. Dekar.