Talk:Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada

Proposed Outline

I Millerite years.

II The later 1800s

III Organization, 1902,3

IV 1905 to 1914

.......Evangelism

.......Education

.......Sunday Laws

.......The War

Sunday Laws of first decade of 1900

History of Canada Outline

(This outline below is used in the History of Canada WP entry )

1 World War I 1.1 The conscription crisis of 1917

1.2 Halifax Explosion

2 Post-war society

3 The Great Depression 3.1 Government reaction

3.2 New parties

3.3 On to Ottawa Trek

4 Canadian foreign policy in the Interwar Years

5 World War II

5.1 Military accomplishments

5.2 Women

5.3 Aid to Britain

5.4 The conscription crisis of 1944

5.5 Japanese internment

6. The Post-war world

7. Newfoundland Joins the Country

8. The Cold War

9. High Arctic relocation Contents [hide]

10. Universal Suffrage

11. The New Flag

12. The Quiet Revolution

13. Expo 67

14. The October Crisis

15. Trudeau and the 1970s

16. Canada and the Vietnam War

17. National Energy Program

18. The 1980 Quebec referendum

19. Marathon of Hope

(This above outline is used in the History of Canada WP entry )

This timeline should be of help, as well:

• "Canada Timeline". Canada History, The History Project. Access History Web (AHW).

Chronology for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada

The Millerite Years

1840s

Litch on Canadian Work

1844

The seventh-month movement rose to its first height in the Exeter, New Hampshire, camp meeting, August 12-17. Men and families had come from all New England from Maine to Massachusetts, and from New York and Canada.
Spalding 1949, p. 86.

1845

Albany, New York, April 29, 1845; and here, six months after the disappointment, most of the chief men in the Second Advent Movement were convened...Joshua V. Himes, Josiah Litch, and William Miller had been the chief movers in this call for a conference, which consisted of sixty-one recognized delegates from responding Adventist societies, in nine States and Ontario, Canada....Brother Hutchinson, from Toronto....
Spalding 1949, p. 141

1850s

Joseph Bates traveled in Canada in the depths of winter, wading deep snows and enduring below-zero temperatures.
Spalding, A. W. (1949) Captains of the Host. p. 42

Joseph Bates likewise was on the road, practically all the time, roving farther than the Whites, but particularly working in Vermont and New Hampshire as well as Massachusetts, and then pioneering in Eastern Canada (Quebec), Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana.(Spalding 1949, p. 182.)

Edson also was a pioneer in Canada, alone and with Bates, and there a considerable constituency was built up. (Spalding 1949, p. 196.)

George W. Holt, of Connecticut, was one of the first pioneers, from the day that he swung the scythe with James White in the hayfield, to the years of his far-reaching service. He labored long in New England, Canada, and New York, helping to build strong constituencies there, then on into Ohio, where he pioneered, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin. More often than any other, he is mentioned in letters to the early Review and Herald by converts, some of whom became strong workers. He lived until 1877, though physically unable to labor the last fourteen years.(Spalding 1949, p. 198.)

1850

Early in 1850 (Spalding 1949, p. 224) Joseph Bates came into Canada East.

G.W. Holt preached the message at several points in Canada West, including Delaware, Ontario and Ameliasburgh, Ontario. (Spalding 1949, p. 224)

1851

In the winter of 1851 Bates visited Canada West, and for several years thereafter he labored widely at times in both regions.(Spalding 1949, p. 224)

1856

Two brothers, A. C. and D. T. Bourdeau, French Americans in Vermont, accepted the faith in 1856, and became strong workers in the cause. The younger, Daniel, was with Loughborough a pioneer in California. He also translated some works into French, and labored among French people in Canada, the United States, and Europe,, spending fifteen years in France. A. C. Bourdeau, besides doing yeoman service in America, pioneered the work in the south of Europe. (Spalding 1949, p. 205)

1901-1905

1901

November 27 to December 5, Eastern Union Conference session held at South Lancaster, Mass. in order to organize the Canadian Union Conference. (Daniels, 1901)

1902

January 1, Canadian Union Conference organized. (Thurston, April, 1903)

April 2, —The Canadian Union Conference has taken over the publishing business from the Review and Herald Pub. Co., and Brother S. D. Hartwell, formerly secretary of the Wisconsin Tract Society, is in charge of the Canadian depository at Toronto.

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/ALUG/ALUG19020402-V01-13__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=10

June, Maritime Conference organized. (Thurston, April, 1903)

1903,Alaska Boundary Treaty

1904, Great Fire of Toronto

Canadian Union Conference, President Thurston Reports to the 1903 GC

(useful facts are highlighted)

Thurston, W. H. (April 2, 1903). "Canadian Union Conference: Report by the President". General Conference Bulletin: Thirty-fifth Session. 5 (4). Oakland, California: The Seventh-day Adventist General Conference: 1, 2. Retrieved July 7, 2011.

Canadian Union Conference

REPORT BY THE PRESIDENT, W. H. THURSTON

The organization of the Canadian Union Conference was effected Jan. 1, 1902. It embraces the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and has an area of 662,350 square miles, with a population of 5,000,000.

The first of last June the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island were organized under the name of the Maritime Confer- ence. We now have three organized conferences and one mission field,— Newfoundland,—in the Union Confer- ence, which embraces 38 churches, seven companies, 1,162 Sabbath-keepers, 49 Sabbath-schools, and five church-schools.

There are 19 church buildings, and six others under construction.

Our ministerial force is not very strong numerically, numbering only 13 ministers, seven licentiates, and seven holding missionary credentials. Adding to this 15 canvassers makes the total number of workers 43, only 25 of whom are on the pay-roll. Of these 25 workers, five are supported by outside conferences and one by the Mission Board.

The amount of book sales, at the wholesale price, including sales made to the Manitoba Tract Society, was $5,492.90, or about $11,000 retail value. In addition to this, there have been something over 1,000 copies of "Christ's Object Lessons" sold by the churches.

The Review and Herald Publishing Company and the Mission Board, shar- ing equally, made a generous donation to the Canadian Union Conference of $6,387-52 worth of stock, mostly books, thus transferring to the Union the To- ronto branch of the Review and Herald office. This gift was very much appre- ciated. We are endeavoring to make good use of it.

The appropriation to this field made by the Mission Board for the year 1902, for general evangelistic work, was- $3,38o; but $280 of this amount had been previously expended, and the ap- propriation was made to include this.

Not having statistics of previous years, I am not able to make compari- sons, but by what I have been able to learn, I find quite an increase in tithes, offerings, and book sales over the year 1901. This certainly is as it should be, and it is our intention, as well as desire, to see a greater increase this year in all lines of work than we have seen in the past.

We had ten tents in the field during the tent season, and while there were only about 65. who embraced the truth, many were interested, and are still in- vestigating. The work is being followed up, with a prospect of more fruit.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

Tithe, year end. Dec. 31, 1902. .$7,891 34 Annual offer, to foreign mis... 655 64. Wkly offerings to foreign mis. 229 59 Misc. offer, to foreign mis..... 140 29 S. S. offerings to foreign mis.. 363 48 S. S. offerings, home work.... 343 28

Total receipts, including

tithes and offerings... $9,623 72 Amount of offerings sent to foreign missions .......... .$1,389 10

NEEDS OF THE FIELD

One great need realized by nearly all is a place or places in the Canadian field where Canadians can be trained for service. Our young people go to Battle Creek and other places for training; very few, however, ever come back. Experience has demonstrated the advis- ability of training workers in their own field, and, in response to the demand, we have taken steps to start two in- dustrial schools and one sanitarium. The industrial schools are being started in the Ontario and Maritime Conferences, and the sanitarium in the Quebec Conference. The properties have been purchased, and we hope to open the sanitarium the first of June and the schools the first of September.

Last June we opened a health institute in St. Johns, Newfoundland, with Dr. A. E. Lemon and wife (she being also a physician) in charge. It has been self-supporting almost from the first. It is now being made a training-school for gospel workers.

Another recognized need in the Canadian field is workers who will come to stay. Some have entered that field, and, after laboring a few months, want to go "home," as they call it, while some are there to stay until called else- where. A few more "stand-by" work- ers are needed, and then, with the facil- ities which are being provided, we hope to be able to train workers to supply every demand.

ADVANTAGES OF THE UNION

The results of the organization of the Union Conference are apparent in dif- ferent ways:—

1. It unifies the work throughout the entire field, and strengthens every part, for "in union there is strength."

2. The local conferences are brought into closer touch with each other, and manifest a deeper interest in each other's welfare.

3. The people feel much encouraged, and while they do not desire to com- plain of the past, they do feel that something definite is now being done for the Canadian field.

Our policy is to have all branches, departments, and institutions under the direction and management of the con- ference, and we aim to provide workers for each department, making a specialty of evangelistic canvassing, providing provincial agents, as well as a general agent, to lead out in this work.

We are endeavoring to combine the gospel work, medical missionary work, canvassing work, and Bible work, blend- ing all in one, and enthusing all the people with the importance of giving the "Advent message to the world in this generation."

See above for reference.

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ORGANIZATION OF THE CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE, 1901-1902

Daniells, A. G.; Ford, I. A. (December 17, 1901). "Organization of the Canadian Union Conference" (PDF). Review and Herald. 78 (51). Battle Creek, Michigan: Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association: 12, 13. Retrieved July 10, 2011.

ORGANIZATION OF THE CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE.

DURING the session of the Eastern Union Conference held at South Lancaster, Mass., November 27 to December 5, a number, of meetings were held with members of the General Conference Committee, also representatives from Canada, for the purpose of organizing a Canadian Union Conference. The members of the General Conference Committee present were A. G. Daniells, W. C. White, W. W. Prescott, S. N. Haskell, H. W. Cottrell, I. H. Evans, and Frederick Griggs. The representatives from Canada were J. W. Collie, S. A. Farnsworth, G. E. Langdon, H. J. Farman, I. A. Ford, James Hannah, and W. R. Andrews.

Meeting was called to order by Elder A. G. Daniells. Prayer was offered by Elder I. H. Evans. I. A. Ford was elected Secretary of the meeting. By vote, all present were constituted a committee of the whole for the transaction of business. On motion of Professor Prescott, it was voted to proceed with the organization of a Canadian Union Conference, with the understanding that the proceedings of the committee be submitted to the churches of Canada, and to go into effect by Jan. I, 1902, providing the action of the committee shall have been approved by two thirds of the Canadian churches. The following Constitution was unanimously adopted: —

CONSTITUTION OF THE CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE.

ARTICLE I. — NAME. This organization shall be known as the Canadian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

ARTICLE II. — PURPOSE. The purpose of this Conference shall be the economizing of our time, energy, and means for the speedy heralding of the Third Angel's Message to all within our borders, and the assisting as far as passible in the giving of the same to all the world.

ARTICLE III. — BOUNDS. This Conference shall include the Conferences of the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, the Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island), and Newfoundland.

ARTICLE IV. — REPRESENTATION. Section I.— Each local Conference shall be entitled to-one delegate to any session of the Canadian Union. Conference, without reference to numbers or its ex-officio member, and one additional delegate for each fifty members of such local Conference. Sec. 2 —Each local Conference shall elect its delegates according to its approved methods, upon due notice of the appointed session of the Canadian Union Conference.

ARTICLE V. —OFFICERS. Section f.— The officers of the Canadian Union Conference shall consist of a President, a Vice- President, Secretary and Treasurer, Auditor, and also an Executive Committee, as provided for in Section 3. Sec. 2.— The above-named officers and the Executive Committee shall be elected at a regular session of the Conference, for a term of two years, or until the election of their successors. Sec. 3.— The Executive Committee shall consist of eleven members, of whom the President, Vice- President, and presidents of the several local Conferences embraced .in the Canadian Union Conference as ex-officio members, with an authorized representative from the medical, educational, and publishing work in the Conference, shall be members.

ARTICLE VI. — TRUSTEES AND AGENTS. Section i.— The members of the Conference shall at each regular session elect boards of management for such incorporated institutions and enterprises as are or may be connected with this organization, in accordance with the rules governing the same, and the laws of the province or colony wherein the same are situated. Sec. 2.— The Executive Committee shall appoint departmental Secretaries, a Business Agent, also a General Canvassing Agent, for the said Conference, who shall serve under their direction. Sec. 5.— The Conference shall employ such ministers, missionaries, committees, agents, or other persons as are necessary to carry on its work.

ARTICLE VII. — DUTIES OF OFFICERS. Section i.— President: The duties of the President shall be such as usually pertain to that office. Sec. 2.—Vice-President: In the absence of the President or the vacation of the chair for any reason, the Vice-President shall fill the vacancy. Further, he shall assist the President in his work as he may be requested to do by the Executive Committee. Sec. J.— Secretaries: The duties of the secretaries shall be such as usually pertain to the office, and they shall also do such other work as the Executive Committee shall assign them. Sec. 4.—Treasurer: It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to 'receive all moneys belonging to the Conference, to keep a faithful account thereof, to deposit and disburse the same according to the direction of the Executive Committee. He shall make a full report of receipts and disbursements at all regular sessions of the Conference, or at such time as may be required by said Committee. The Treasurer shall also collect from the Conferences embraced in the Canadian Union Conference such financial and statistical reports as are required, and forward copies of the same as the Committee may direct. Sec. 5.— Auditor: The Auditor shall faithfully audit the books of the Conference at such times as directed by the Executive Committee, and make a report of the same to the Conference. He may also audit the books of the several Provincial Conferences embraced in the Canadian Union Conference, upon their request. Sec. 6.— Executive Committee: During the interval between the sessions of the Conference, the Executive Committee shall have full administrative power, and shall exercise a general watchcare over all matters pertaining to the work of the Conference, and shall fill for the current term any vacancies that may occur in the Conference, unless the same has been provided for in other sections of the Constitution or By-laws. It shall direct the work of the employees of the Conference, and pay them for labor performed, at regular intervals, from the funds of the Canadian Union Conference. Sec. 7.— The Executive Committee may call for donations from local Conferences, churches, or individuals, when in their judgment it becomes necessary. They may also make contributions to the General Conference from the funds on hand when there is urgent need, and it seems advisable. Sec. S.— Trustees elected by the Conference for any corporate organization shall faithfully perform the duties incumbent upon them by the Constitution or By-laws of the Canadian Union Conference, and by the corporate laws of the province or colony in which the same may be located, and make such reports from time to time as the law requires or the Executive Committee may ask. Sec. o.— Agents: The Business and Canvassing Agents shall faithfully perform the duties belonging to their respective offices, under the direction of the Executive Committee, and in harmony with the laws governing the corporate bodies they may represent. They shall make such reports and at such times to the Executive Committee or Conference as may be required by the same.

ARTICLE VIII. — AUDITING COMMITTEE. The Auditing Committee shall be composed of the President of the Canadian Union Conference and the Presidents of the Provincial Conferences, with such assistance as in their judgment may be advisable, and shall audit the accounts of the Conference laborers at least once a year.

ARTICLE IX. — FUNDS. Section I.— The funds of the Canadian Union Conference shall consist of such tithe as it shall receive from the several local Conferences within its determined bounds, with such gifts, legacies, bequests, devises, and other donations as shall otherwise be made to it. Sec. 2.— The tithe shall be used for such purposes only as 'the word of the Lord directs. All other means to be used according to the best judgment of the Executive Committee and the specifications of the donors.

ARTICLE X.— SESSIONS. , The Canadian Union Conference shall hold regular sessions at intervals of about two years, at such time and place as its Executive Committee shall designate by a notice in the REVIEW AND HERALD, three weeks before the date of meeting. The Conference Committee may call special sessions of the Conference at any time necessary, by giving notice of the same as for regular meetings.

ARTICLE XI.— BY-LAWS. The Conference may make By-laws,, and amend them or repeal them, at any session. The scope of such By-laws may embrace all subjects not inconsistent with this Constitution.

ARTICLE XII. — AMENDMENTS. This Constitution may be amended by a threefourths vote of the members present at any regular session.

OFFICERS. Officers were elected as follows: —

Voted, That Elder W. H. Thurston be elected President of the Canadian Union Conference, providing he is willing to accept the position; and if he is not, that we request the General Conference Committee to assist in securing a president with as little delay as possible. Voted,'That Elder J. W. Collie be elected Vice-President.

Voted, That Carroll H. Drown be elected Secretary, Treasurer, and Auditor.

Voted, That Charles F. Parmele be elected Union Conference Canvassing Agent.

Voted, That the following-named persons be elected members of the Executive Committee: W. H. Thurston, J. W. Collie, S. A. Farnsworth, Geo. E. Langdon, H. J. Farman, I. A. Ford, Carroll H. Drown, T. H. Robinson, George Gushing, Alven Huguley, Charles F. Parmele.

DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR.

A careful study of the needs of the field led to the following recommendations: — That J. R. Israel and wife make Newfoundland their field of labor, to go there as soon as possible. That we request the Mission Board to donate four hundred dollars for the purpose of building a missionary boat to work the coasts of Newfoundland.

That an ordained minister and wife, of good experience, be sent to Prince Edward Island.

That a minister and wife be gent to Cape Breton. That we request that a minister and Bible worker be sent to Quebec.

That the selection of the headquarters of the Canadian Union Conference be left with the Executive Committee.

That if possible a general meeting for Canada be held in camp about the first of July, in the city selected for the headquarters of the Conference, the same to be followed with a strong tent effort during the summer.

That, if possible, the General Conference arrange for Elder E. E. Franke to attend the general meeting, and remain as long as consistent with other duties, to carry on the tent work.

PUBLISHING WORK.

The question of the publishing work was also considered. It was thought that it would be for the best interests of the work in the Canadian field if the publishing work could be controlled entirely by the brethren on the ground, and the following request was adopted: —

Whereas, It seems for the best interests for the advancement of the Third Angel's Message in the Canadian Union Conference, that said Conference have the control of the publishing work in said territory; therefore, we —

Recommend, That the General Conference Committee be requested to negotiate with the Review and Herald Publishing Company, and secure _the transfer of all its invested interests in said publishing work in the Canadian field to said Canadian Union Conference, or to such organization as said Conference may create to receive the same. Voted, That we request the General Conference Association to surrender the notes held against the Review and Herald Publishing Company for the purchase of 'the Toronto Branch Office, with ^the understanding that the Review and Herald Publishing Company donate all its interests in the Toronto office to the Canadian Union Conference.

Voted, That we request the Pacific Press Publishing Company to donate to Newfoundland the stock of books and tracts now on that island which belong to them.

Voted, That the Canadian Union Conference publish a monthly paper of from eight to sixteen pages, as the necessities of the work may demand.

SCHOOL WORK.

Voted, That we request the Eastern and the Lake Union Conferences to surrender to the Canadian Union Conference their territory 'on the sale of '•'Christ's Object Lessons;" that the proceeds of the sales of this book from this time be used for a fund with which to organize a school in the Canadian Union Conference.

The meetings of the Committee were pleasant, harmonious, and instructive. The blessing of the Lord rested upon us as we planned for the enlargement of the work in the great Canadian field. There was a general feeling on the part of the Committee that we were following the line of duty as marked out by the providence of God; and it is believed tha.t this will mark the beginning of a new era in the history of this message in Canada, and that from this day forth the cause will move forward with greater rapidity. When the Committee had finished its work, the above decisions were read to the delegates and visitors attending the Eastern Union Conference, who expressed their approval of the same, and wished the Canadian Union Conference a hearty Godspeed. A. G. DANIELLS, Chairman. I. A. FORD, Secretary.

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19011217-V78-51__B.pdf#view=fit

pages 12, 13

1905 - 1920

....Prohibition 1916 - 1919 ....Sunday Laws ....Halifax Explosion, December 6 ? , 1917 ....Conscription

1916
March, ASIATIC DIVISION MISSION NEWS: PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE ASIATIC DIVISION MISSION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

EDITOR : Mrs. R. C. Porter ; ADDRESS: U. S. Box 523, SHANGHAI, CHINA

Pastor M. N. Campbell, president of the Canadian Union Conference, has been chosen as superintendent of the India Union Mission field, to take the place of Prof. H. R. Salisbury, whom death has removed from that responsibility.

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/ADO/ADO19160301-V05-04__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=4

1918, Civil Service Act

1918, Vancouver General Strike

1919, Winnipeg General Strike

1930 - 1950

1933

Campbell and Perrin write to Canadian Governement explaining Adventist view of participating in warfare http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CUM/CUM19331017-V02-08__C/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=1

Alternative Service Work

1944

War notes http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CUM/CUM19441004-V13-07__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=2

1945

Council on Industrial Relations

In the fall of 1945 Adventist leaders established two new organizations to wrestle with the problem of aiding members escape the dilemmas posed by union membership: the Council on Industrial Relations and the Commission on Rural Living. Carlyle B. Haynes was probably the most forceful member of both. This is not surprising as Haynes had spent the previous five years in aiding Adventist soldiers as secretary of the War Service Commission. Church leaders saw a parallel between the problem of military conscientious objectors and workers seeking to avoid union membership because of religious scruples.

LBTR p. 515

1946 Maracle appointed to the Council of Industrial Relation. C. B. Haynes. Labor Union Difficulties. Canadian Union Messenger. March 6, 1946, p. 1

1960 - 1980

1967, Canada's 100th

An essay by A.W. Roberts

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CUM/CUM19671213-V36-26__C/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=10

SPECIAL JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE AMENDMENT TO TERM 17 OF THE TERMS OF UNION OF NEWFOUNDLAND

http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=1038239&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=36&Ses=1

SPECIAL JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE AMENDMENT TO TERM 17 OF THE TERMS OF UNION OF NEWFOUNDLAND

COMITÉ MIXTE SPÉCIAL CONCERNANT LA MODIFICATION À LA CLAUSE 17 DES CONDITIONS DE L'UNION DE TERRE-NEUVE

EVIDENCE

[Recorded by Electronic Apparatus]

Monday, November 24, 1997

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[English]

The Joint Chair (Mr. Gerry Byrne (Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, Lib.)): Members, seeing quorum, we will reconvene with meeting number seven of the Special Joint Committee on Term 17 of the Terms of Union of Newfoundland.

We are joined this afternoon, from our first group of witnesses, by Mr. George Morgan. He is a member of the lay council of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Canada, and is joined by Mr. Barry Bussey, who is legal counsel for the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Canada.

We have one hour slotted to hear a brief from these witnesses and to entertain questions and answers following the brief, for a total of one hour.

Welcome, gentlemen. Thank you very much for agreeing to appear before this special joint committee. I will now turn the floor over to you, Mr. Morgan. I understand you will be presenting the brief...

http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=1038239&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=36&Ses=1

Native Canadians

Adventists and the Tuscarora Reservation, 1906

Ethnology of Canada and Newfoundland (Google eBook)

David Boyle

L.K. Cameron, 1906 - 179 pages

http://books.google.ca/books?id=nkILAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156&dq=newfoundland+adventist+history&hl=en&ei=1nobTp_UAfGv0AG5odnLBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=adventist&f=false

p. 156

Most of the present-day Iroquois reside on three reserves, viz.: in Tuscarora township, Brant county; at Deseronto, Tyendenaga township, Hastings county; at Caughnawaga, Laprairie county, opposite Montreal; and there is a large band of Oneidas at Delaware, near London, Ontario.*

Many of these people farm in a simple way, a few somewhat extensively, but some of them act as guides to tourists and travellers "doing" the lake country.

Schools on all the reservations afford means of education, and a considerable number of the people can read and write. Some 01 the more intelligent natives are themselves teachers, and others act in various official capacities either privately or in the civil service.

Of the three thousand or so on the Tuscarora reserve, about two thousand profess Christianity—Episcopalian, Methodist, Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist (!). The rest are pagans. At Deseronto they are Methodists; at Caughnawaga all are Roman Catholics; and the Kent county Oneidas are Protestants.

Those who desire to learn particulars respecting the history of the Canadian Iroquois cannot do better than consult the recently issued and very excellent volume by the Rev. Dr. W. M. Beauchamn. and published as Bulletin 78, by the University of the State of New York.

As a matter of course the doctor's book relates especially to tbe New York Iroquois, but the history of our own Iroquois who, indeed, form the main body, is so indissolubly connected with that of the former, that the story of the one, until near the close of the eighteenth century, is the history of both.

NEAR BRANTFORD

"THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN": MILLERISM IN THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS, 1835-1845

http://www.andrews.edu/~fortind/AdventismWorldUpsideDownJETS.htm

"THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN": MILLERISM IN THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS, 1835-1845 [1] (Article published in the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, Fall 1997)

Denis Fortin

Religious Liberty

2004 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents

VI. PROTECTING THE VICTIMS, v) SUPREME COURT OF CANADA CASES

In the third case, Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem et al, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Jewish condominium owners in a Montreal building had the right to set up their own personal succahs, temporary religious huts that are constructed in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Succot. The League was an appellant in the matter following the initial refusal of the condominium corporation to allow observant Jewish residents to construct individual succahs on their own balconies. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, and World Sikh Organization of Canada also intervened in the case, recognizing that it has important ramifications for the interpretation of the guarantee of freedom of religion as set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

http://www.bnaibrith.ca/audit2004_Cap6.html

Statement on the Status of Marriage in Canada

Statement on the Status of Marriage in Canada

18 June 2003

Introduction

Over the past year four Canadian courts have ruled that marriage, recognized under the common law as "the union of one man and one woman," is inconsistent with constitutional values in modern Canadian society and offends the equality rights of homosexuals under section 15 of the Charter. These courts have determined that the existing legal framework for marriage is too narrowly defined and does not offer equitable treatment for non-traditional unions.

Two of the courts acknowledged the unique role of Parliament in formulating a proper response to this question. They gave the federal and provincial legislatures until July 2004 to rectify this situation. On June 10, however, the Ontario Court of Appeal acted unilaterally. It pre-empted further discussion by Parliament by striking down the common law definition of marriage and reformulating it as "the voluntary union for life of two persons." The court ordered that this remedy take effect immediately.

In reaching its decision the Ontario Court of Appeal does three noteworthy things. First, it imposes a new and disputed ideology of "close relationships" upon marriage. On this view marriage (for legal purposes) is reduced to the public recognition of committed relationships between two adults. This theory bleaches out the significance of sexual difference and dismisses any "rational connection" between marriage, gender complementarity, procreation, and the rearing of children by their biological parents. It renders a very pale concept of marriage with a doubtful claim on the public interest.

Second, the Ontario Court adopts a strategy which effectively disallows any attempt to defend the traditional, more robust view of marriage from the charge that it is unacceptably discriminatory. It takes up the subjectivist notion of human dignity which has recently been advanced in Canadian courts - viz., that "dignity means that an individual or group feels self-respect and self-worth" - and insists that "the impugned law must at all times be viewed from the perspective of the claimant." According to this formula, the law of marriage must be reconfigured to the experience of same-sex couples. "The question to be asked is whether the law takes into account the actual needs, capacities and circumstances of same-sex couples, not whether the law takes into account the needs, capacities and circumstances of opposite-sex couples." This establishes a circular form of reasoning which no arguments in favour of the existing definition of marriage can hope to penetrate.

Third, and uniquely, it insists that "the courts have jurisdiction to alter the common law definition of marriage" without reference to Parliament. While allowing that the common law did not invent, but only recognized, marriage as the union of a man and a woman, it nonetheless claims the power to re-invent marriage as the union of two persons - contrary to the expressed will of the people of Canada through their parliamentary representatives as recently as 1999.

This decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal has been heralded by some as bringing the whole debate about marriage in Canada - a debate still in its infancy - to a fitting conclusion. By others it has been denounced as an especially egregious example of judicial activism. In our view it only serves to underscore the conclusion of earlier judgments, namely, that Parliament, not the courts, is the place to forge an appropriate legislative response to the complex and multi-layered issues surrounding the public definition of marriage and the legal recognition of same-sex unions. Given the very grave significance of this public debate for three vital institutions in our nation - the family, the judiciary, and Parliament - a great deal more serious deliberation and democratic input is required.

I. Proposals for Respecting Marriage

The institution of marriage has a long history of development and adaptation. So too, of course, does our society. We recognize that there is a need now, for a wide variety of reasons, to re-think our society's approach to marriage. We also recognize that there is a need to provide new legal frameworks for various forms of adult inter-dependent relationships. However, we maintain that marriage as the common law has long recognized it - as "the voluntary and lawful union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others" - is something distinct from other forms of human relationships. We do not accept that this time-honoured institution, which continues to provide the vital core of family life in Canada, can justly be impugned as discriminatory. We therefore make the following proposals:

a) Parliament should assert its right, by whatever means necessary, to determine the ways in which marriage is to be recognized in Canadian public life, and to forge patiently a comprehensive legislative response to the complexities of the current situation.

b) Canadian law should continue to embody the conviction that marriage, as an opposite-sex union which is commonly aimed both at mutual support and at the procreation and rearing of children, is the principal social basis upon which our society seeks to ensure its vitality, stability, and perpetuation.

c) Legislative changes made in order to facilitate the recognition of other forms of adult relationships involving cohabitation and mutual support should be made under appropriate titles that do not negate the recognition of marriage as the union of two persons of opposite sex.

II. Why Preserve the Existing Definition of Marriage?

Marriage is a unique cultural institution that affirms and supports a distinct social ecology in human culture: the bridging of the gender gap; the generation of life through the fusion of the sexes; the birth-right of children to know, to be connected to, and to be in stable relationship with, their natural parents.

Marriage pre-exists European colonization and reaches back into Canada's aboriginal traditions. It is also a pillar of the Judeo-Christian traditions that have helped to shape Canadian life. In the recent parliamentary hearings aboriginal, Muslim and other cultural or religious groups in our diverse society have urged parliamentarians to resist proposals to abolish (by over-extension) the legal recognition of this distinctive human institution so vital to Canadian culture and history.

Without implying that there is one comprehensive understanding of marriage to which everyone ought to give full assent, nevertheless there are core elements, purposes, and aspirations of marriage that have won wide approval and deserve to be handed on from one generation to the next:

Marriage is based on the free consent of one man and one woman to join as husband and wife in a union of life together.

Marriage is truest to its nature when monogamous and faithful.

Marriage serves the vast and complex social-sexual ecology of male-female bonding (99.5% of all couples in Canada are heterosexual).

Marriage serves the procreativity of male/female bonding; conjugal union between a man and a woman is the only social union that can be a reproductive union.

Marriage, as an institution, has a child-centred dimension; it directs mothers and fathers to the care and support of their children.

Marriage establishes the norm that children have a prima facie right and a need to know, to be connected to, and to be raised by their own mother and father, unless exceptional adverse circumstances dictate otherwise.

Marriage is generational and genealogical; it binds together the past and the future.

Marriage pre-exists the state and religion; while it is appropriately recognized, regulated and affirmed by the state and religions, nevertheless, it is not created or determined by the state or religions.

While marriage has a unique and indispensable place in human existence, nevertheless it is neither necessary nor good that every human person should enter into this particular form of social union. All of the above can be affirmed without prejudice to the fact that there are other forms of personal relationships that have their own distinct dignity and purpose.

III. The Perils of the Current Remedy

By a narrow and disputed vote of the Commons justice committee, our federal government has been urged to capitulate to the decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, and now appears to be in the process of doing so. While we applaud the government's decision to put the impending legislation to a free vote in the House, we urge it to recognize the danger in taking the country down the path marked out by the Court, in the face of so many unresolved questions and in the absence of anything like a consensus. We recognize that there is a need to address patterns of unjust discrimination, wherever they occur, against persons of homosexual orientation. But we ask our parliamentarians to consider closely the many good reasons for objecting to the Court's remedy, among which are the following:

This remedy is not in continuity with the history, tradition, and values of Canadian society. It attempts to re-design an institution which is older and more fundamental to Canadian society than Parliament itself.

This remedy wrongly impugns that institution, and its many supporters, as discriminatory.

This remedy, while meant to respect diversity, actually diminishes diversity by homogenizing very different forms of relationship. However well-intentioned, it is an inappropriate and inadequate response to concerns about the equality under law of persons of homosexual orientation.

This remedy pre-empts legitimate debate, inside and outside of the legal system, as to the meaning of Section 15 equality rights.

This remedy threatens to obstruct the ability of governments to develop public policies which promote the distinct characteristics of marriage, affirm the good of intact families, and support the relationship of children to their mothers and fathers.

This remedy threatens the freedom of individuals and communities working to support and promote the common human understanding of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, inasmuch as it may open such activity to charges of discriminatory speech or conduct. It threatens religious freedom, academic freedom, and the freedom of parents to educate their children according to their traditions, norms and beliefs.

This remedy, in the words of Mr. Justice Robert Blair of the Ontario Superior Court, is not merely an incremental change in the law, but a "profound change." Justice Blair points out that "the consequences and potential reverberations flowing from such a transformation in the concept of marriage are extremely complex. They will touch the core of many people's belief and value systems, and their resolution is laden with social, political, cultural, emotional and legal ramifications. They require a response to a myriad of consequential issues relating to such things as inheritance and property rights, filiation, alternative biogenetic and artificial birth technologies, adoption, and other marriage-status driven matters." Previous experience in Canada with far less radical changes to marriage legislation demonstrates that such concerns cannot reasonably be dismissed as "speculative."

Conclusion

The commitment of Canadians to fairness, equality, and tolerance may entail the extension of legal recognition to various kinds of relationships beside that of marriage; indeed it has already done so. But that commitment will not be served by expropriating and reconfiguring an historic institution designed to meet the unique challenges and complexities of opposite-sex conjugal relationships. It would be better served by maintaining the existing institution of marriage and simultaneously affirming the federal government's right and obligation to recognize in appropriate ways those other forms of relationship which merit legal status across Canada. Canadians, whatever their faith or ethnic backgrounds, whatever their sexual orientation, should resist any approach that would undermine, rather than meaningfully develop and enrich, an institution so essential to the well-being of Canadians past, present and future.

Principal authors: Dan Cere and Douglas Farrow Montreal, Quebec Signatories

Affiliations listed after the signatory's name are for identification purposes only.

Douglas Allen, Simon Fraser University

Iain T. Benson, Barrister and Soliciter

Spencer Boudreau, McGill University

Bishop Anthony Burton, Anglican Diocese of Saskatchewan

Barry Bussey, General Counsel, Seventh-day Adventist Church In Canada

Ernest Caparros, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Ottawa

Daniel Cere, Institute for the Study of Marriage Law and Culture

Bruce Clemenger, President Evangelical Fellowship of Canada

Veronica N. Dewar, Inuit Women's Association of Canada.

Lorna Dueck, Broadcaster

Salam Elmenyawi, Muslim Council of Quebec

Douglas Farrow, McGill University

Edouard Cardinal Gagnon, President Emeritus, Pontifical Council on the Family

M. D. Khalid, Director, Islamic Society of North America

Janine Langan, University of Toronto

Thomas Langan, University of Toronto

Francois Lehmann, University of Montreal

Preston Manning, Massey College

Lois Mitchell, Canadian Baptist Ministries

Rabbi David Novak, University of Toronto

Archbishop Terrence Pendergast, S.J., Catholic Office for Life and the Family

Mark Petersen, R. L. Petersen Family Foundation

Darrel Reid, President of Focus on the Family Canada

Ruth Ross, Christian Legal Fellowship

Claude Ryan, retired politician and journalist, Montreal

Cathy Towtoongie, President of Nunavut Tunngavik Limited

John Vissers, President, Presbyterian College, Montreal

David Williams, McGill University

John Zucchi, McGill University

Christopher Gray, Concordia University

http://www.bcptl.org/marriage.htm

"Statement on the Status of Marriage in Canada" first appeared in The Globe and Mail website, June 18, 2003. It is available on the website of The Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law, and Culture: www.marriageinstitute.ca

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1893, G. W. Morse reports on the Toronto Branch of the Tract Society

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REPORT OF TORONTO BRANCH OFFICE.

The publishing work in Canada, as connected with this office, has been quite satisfactory the past year. Evidences of the prospering hand of the Lord have been numerous, and there is abundant occasion for praise to him for what has been accomplished.

" Bible Readings " and " Patriarchs and Prophets " are the only books that we have had manufactured at Toronto, as yet. We continue to employ the firm of Warwick and Sons to do our printing and binding, and find them satisfactory parties to deal with.

The two books mentioned, are the ones that have been handled chiefly by the canvassers, " Bible Readings " continuing to take the lead. Something has been done with "Great Controversy," and " Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation,'- and the sale of our denominational trade books, tracts, and pamphlets has been gradually increasing. The Office keeps in stock a supply sufficient to meet probable demands, of all our denominational pub- lications, including the Bible Students and Sentinel .Libraries, also the publications of the Good Health Publishing Co.

The canvassing work in the Maritime Provinces has continued under the direct supervision of the Office. My brother, F. W. Morse, continued his

labors there as General Agent until about September I, when, in response to the call of the General Canvassing Agent, he dropped the work to prepare for another field. Since then no General Agent has

•been appointed for that field.

The Quebec Tract Society has continued to carry forward the work in their province.

In the autumn of 1891 an arrangement was made

•with the Michigan Tract Society, whereby the can- .vassing work in Ontario is carried forward jointly by that Society and the Office. The Society supplies the field agentJbr the Province, selects and arranges with the canvassers as to territory and work, while the Office attends to all financial transactions with the canvassers. A percentage of all sales of sub- scription books in the territory thus • managed, is placed to the credit of the Tract Society.

The office has continued to have charge of the

•work in Manitoba and the Northwe'st Territories. Last spring, in harmony with the counsel of the General Canvassing Agent and the President of the Publishing Board, Brother James Hackett, of Min- nesota, was appointed as General Agent for that field.

British Columbia continues- under the charge of the North Pacific Tract Society.

The number of canvassers who worked for varying periods of time during'the year 1892 was as follows :

.Maritime Provinces, 20; Quebec, 13; Ontario, 70;

'Manitoba, 4; British Columbia, 3 ; total, 109. Total number of days work done by. those canvassers, 5575, or an average of 51 days each. The actual sales of ihe Office for the year consisted of 13,679 copies of subscription books, the retail value of which was

•$32,027. The value of trade books, tracts, and pam- phlets sold during the year was $1037.50, at retail prices, making the total retail value of publications sold during the year, $33,064.50.

Four years have elapsed since the establishment of this office. Through the favoring hand of Providence, the financial situation has continued favorable al- most from the beginning. The trial balance and statement made last May (that being when the books were last closed) showed the net gain up to that

• lime to be $5002.36.

-An examination of the monthly trial balance for Feb. 1, 1893, with careful and safe computations made as to the situation at that time gives the follow- ing results: The entire indebtedness to the parent house "was paid, and the balance is now in favor of the branch office. ' All bills for paper and the manu- facture of books are paid. The'cash on hand and in bank is more than sufficient to cover personal de- posits with the office. Accounts receivable (upon

•which there is occasion to make but slight discount for

•bad debts ) are nearly four times as much as accounts

payable. The, value of subscription books in stock, at wholesale prices, is $3,883.61; value of paper in stock, $1,050.00; value of all other publications in stock and miscellaneous items subject to invoice, such as electro plates, office fixtures, etc., $1,600.00, wholesale prices. This last item is partly estimated, but the estimate is known to be safe. Making a very ample allowance for bad debts and discount for usage on plates and office fixtures, the net profits of the office for the four years are shown to be not less than $7,500.00.

In considering the financial situation of the Office, it should be remembered that in addition to the usual and customary items of expense incident to carrying forward the work, the matter of duties on imports has required a -considerable expenditure. The sum paid for this one item during the four years amounts to $3,053.18. No advance has been made on the selling price of publications because of this expense. In the payment of railway fares of canvassers, and expenses of institutes, the sum of $2,500 has been expended.

The prospects for the future of the canvassing work in the Canadian field are encouraging. It is purposed to enter New Foundland the coming sea- son, also to send a canvasser to the1 Magdalene Islands. A canvassers' institute is being planned for the Maritime Provinces, to be held in April or May, and it is greatly desired that the conditions neces- sary to success in that field may be fully secured for the future.

The Quebec Tract Society is laying broader plans for the extension of the work in that Province.

Present indications show -that a larger force than ever will enter Ontario the coming season. The office will join 'with the Michigan Tract Society in holding an institute at Battle Creek in March and April for the training of canvassers for both Michi- gan and Ontario.

It is also confidently expected that the canvassing force for Manitoba and the Northwest Territories will be increased the coming season. 'Through the kindness of the Minnesota Tract Society, the can- vassers for that field will have the privilege of at- tending their institute the coming spring. Our agent, Brother Hackett, will aid in the work of that institute. In harmony with her usual liberal policy, Minnesota has thus far furnished all the canvassers for our western Provinces — which kindness is heartily appreciated.

With some changes, which it is hoped will be se-, cured it appears evident that the canvassing work in British Columbia can be made to reach much larger and more satisfactory proportions than hereto- fore.

We feel especially grateful to the Publishing

Board, and to Captain Eldridge in particular, for many kindnesses shown in connection with the work of the Toronto branch. To them is due large credit for the success of the same.

In this connection I should he remiss not to make special mention of the invaluable aid that Mrs. Morse has rendered in connection 'with carrying for- ward the work that has been given us to do. Her first and best thoughts, cares and labors have al- ways been given to the interests of the work, and her counsels have been wise and helpful to a marked de-

The report was accepted on motion of J. M. Lough- borough.

Minutes of the First Biennial Session of the Canadian Union Conference, Sept. 10-15, 1902, Waterloo, Quebec

Minutes of the Canadian Union Conference

(most section titles have been added)

Time and Place

THE first biennial session of the Canadian Union Conference was held in connection with the Quebec camp meeting, at Waterloo, Quebec, Sept. 10- 15, 1902, the first meeting being called at 10:30 A. M., of the l0th, with Elder W. H. Thurston in the chair. Elder Collie led in the devotional exercises, earnestly asking the blessing of the Lord upon the deliberations of the conference.

Delegates

The following delegates were seated at the first meeting:

from the field at large, W. H. Thurston and S. D. Hartwell;

from Ontario, J. W. Collie;

from Quebec, S. A. Farnsworth, H. E. Rickard, J. M. Ellis, and J. C. Nichols;

from Maritime, George E. Langdon, M.. S. Babcock, and F. A. Tracy;

from Newfoundland, H. J. Farman.

At a subsequent meeting William Ostrander was seated as a delegate from Quebec.

Minutes of Previous Meeting

The minutes of the meeting held at South Lancaster, Mass., Dec. 3, 1901, at which time the conference was or- ganized, were read and approved.

President's Address

" The organization of the Canadian Union Conference went into effect Jan. I, 1902. It embraces the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, the maritime prov- inces, and Newfoundland.

Laborers

In looking the field over, it was evident that more laborers were needed, and we began at once to supply this demand.

" Up to date there have been sixteen laborers brought in from the States, and yet there are rich fields waiting for the faithful worker.

Maritime Conference Organized

" The maritime provinces were organ- ized into a conference last May, and each province in the conference was supplied with two or more laborers.

Meetings

Two local camp meetings and several general meetings have been held in the union conference during the summer, and ten tent efforts have been in prog- ress. As a result of these efforts a large ingathering of souls should be realized.

Health Institute in Newfoundland, Drs Lemon

" In St. John's, Newfoundland, a health institute has been established, with the Drs. Lemon in charge, and a good work is being done. The institution has been running only three months, and it is now self-supporting. It is true that a building had to be fitted up for giving treatments, and some further outlay of means will be necessary for the enlarge- ment of the institution to meet the in- creasing demand, but we believe that the money is forthcoming.

" At a legal meeting held at St. John's, Newfoundland, Sept. 2, 1902, the follow- ing resolution was adopted: —

Unity of Effort

"Resolved, That the medical mission- ary workers sustain the same relation to the mission field and to the Canadian Union Conference as other workers in the island; and that no line of separa- tion be recognized between the medical missionary work and other departments of work in this field.'

Drs Lemon on Church Payroll

" Dr. A. E. Lemon has been granted ministerial license, and Dr. Carrie J. Lemon, missionary credentials, and they are both on the pay roll of the Canadian Union Conference as conference labor- ers, the same as the ministers, and are in full harmony with this arrangement.

The Overall Work

" Looking at the situation as a whole, the outlook is good, the churches are much encouraged, and the missionary spirit is being revived.

Schools in Each Local Conference

" In regard to the educational work it has been thought best, instead of plan- ning for one large industrial school for the entire conference, as first suggested, to establish a school in each local con- ference as soon as practicable.

"NEEDS OF MISSIONARY WORK IN NEW DISTRICTS

"While safeguarding the essential in- terests of our established work through the conference, what we would seem at the present time to need in extended missionary districts and in our large cities, are the best practical ways

(1) of securing a sufficient number of suitable Christian workers;

(2) of properly distributing these laborers with due regard to economy and efficiency;

(3) of obtaining the resources to sustain these laborers and their indispensable institutions;

(4) of inspiring and helping them to secure and maintain a uniform policy of advance, uniting under proper regulations all our resources for vigilant and energetic progress.

The Publishing Work

The publishing work, and our future policy and details of operation, should receive careful con- sideration at this meeting,

Permanent Location for the Office Headquarters

and a permanent location should be decided upon for our headquarters.

Conclusion with Thanks

"I thank you all for your hearty co- operation thus far in the Canadian Union Conference work, and trust that the Lord will direct in all future plans and efforts in this important field."

Conference Reports

• Elder Collie gave an interesting report of the work in Ontario.
• Elder Farnsworth spoke for the work in Quebec, giving a brief report of the work of the past year, which he said was encouraging to the brethren of the conference. A number of laborers have been taken into the field during the year, some of whom are being supported by other conferences.
• Elder Farman reported advancement in the work in Newfoundland, the future prospects being bright. He strongly urged the importance of more laborers' being sent there.
• Elder Langdon reported the work in the Maritime Conference, and spoke encouragingly of the outlook.

Appointment of Committees

The Chair being empowered, by vote of the conference, to appoint the usual committees, reported the following:

• Nominations, George E. Langdon, H. J. Farman, J. ty[. Ellis;
• Credentials and Licenses, J. W. Collie, S. A. Farnsworth, M. S. Babcock.
• The delegates were appointed as a committee of the whole on Plans of Work.

Spicer Takes Part

Elder W. A. Spicer was invited to take part in the deliberations of the conference.

Publishing Work

The time of the second meeting of the conference was taken up in discussing the question of the publishing work, and conference headquarters. It was the con- sensus of opinion that the interests of the conference would be best served by continuing the publishing work in Canada,

Location of Headquarters in Montreal

and a motion was carried au- thorizing the Chair to appoint a commit- tee of two with himself to consider the matter of location. The east and the west were represented on this committee, Which consisted of Elders Langdon, of New Brunswick, and Collie, of Ontario. This committee subsequently reported, recommending Montreal as the headquar- ters, and suggesting that the time of making the change in location be left to the discretion of the conference president and the secretary. Report adopted

Legal Incorporation

Elders Rickard, Collie, and Babcock were appointed as a committee to con- sider the matter of legal incorporation, and after taking time for investigation, verbally reported, recommending the in- corporation of the Canadian Union Con- ference Association, with a board of seven trustees, to be elected at the regu- lar sessions of the conference, for the purpose of holding property in the Do- minion of Canada, not otherwise pro- vided for.

The Constitution

The constitution was, by vote, amended by striking out the word " eleven " and inserting the word " nine " in Section 3, Article V, thus reducing the number on the executive committee; also eliminat- ing the word "educational" from the same article, and providing that super- intendents of organized mission fields should be members of the executive board.

Election of Officers

Upon the recommendation of the Com- mittee on Nominations, the following persons were elected as officers for the ensuing two years:

• President, W. H. Thurston;
• Vice-President, J. W. Collie;
• Secretary, Treasurer, and Auditor, S. D. Hartwell;
• Executive Committee, W. H. Thurston, J. W. Collie, T. H. Robinson, S. D. Hartwell, A. E. Lemon, M. D., and E. P. Auger, together with the presidents of Quebec and Maritime Conferences and the superintendent of the Newfoundland mission field;
• Trustees of the legal incorporation, W. H. Thurston, J. W. Collie, S. A. Farnsworth, George E. Langdon, T. H. Robinson, S. D. Hartwell, and M. S. Babcock;
• Publishing Committee, W. H. Thurston, J. W. Collie, S. D. Hartwell, E. P. Auger, George E. Langdon;
• Mission Board for Newfoundland, Elders H. J. Farman and W. H. Thurston, Dr. A. E. Lemon, and Brother

Johnston, and one to be supplied. Ministerial credentials were granted to

• W. H. Thurston and
• H. J. Farman, and

ministerial license to

• Dr. A. E. Lemon and
• S. D. Hartwell.

Missionary credentials were given to

• Mrs. Carrie Lemon and
• Miss Clara Farman.

The following recommendations were passed, after interesting discussion: —

" Whereas, We recognize that the medical and evangelical work are one and should be placed upon the same basis, and,

" Whereas, The Newfoundland Health Institute has taken the initiative in re- solving and placing the medical work on the same basis as the evangelical work, therefore,—

"Resolved, That the workers in each department report to, and their accounts be settled by, the executive committee in the field in which they labor.

" Whereas, The Ontario Tract So- ciety, in order to obtain possession of the territory of'the Province of Ontario from the Review and Herald, assumed the responsibility of certain accounts, which have proved to be worthless, and,—

" Whereas, This assumed indebtedness is a part of the accounts turned over to the Canadian Union Conference by the Review and Herald, therefore,—

"Resolved, That that assumed indebt- edness be forgiven the Ontario Confer- ence, except those parts of the account for which they have received value; for these they will be expected to pay."

The matter of the forgiveness of the debts which were turned over to the conference was quite fully discussed by Brethren Thurston,. Spicer, Collie, and others, all concurring in the opinion that we should expect settlements to be made of all accounts where it was evident that value had been received by the creditors, as the proceeds of these accounts had been intended for the benefit of the union conference.

Four meetings were held, and all the business of the conference was per- formed with a unanimity of purpose and feeling, which was encouraging, and all felt that the conference had been a profit- able one, and the different conferences of the union were more closely bound together. Adjourned sine die.

W. H. THURSTON, President;

S. D. HARTWELL, Secretary.

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Thurston, W. H.; Hartwell, S. D. (October 7, 1902). "Minutes of the Canadian Union Conference" (PDF). Review and Herald. 79 (40). Battle Creek, Michigan: Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association: 17, 18. Retrieved July 19, 2011.

Chronology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, British Columbia

• 1893

CLEAN copies of the REVIEW, Signs, Sentinel, and Instructor will be used in the missionary work, if sent post-paid to J. L. Wilson, 33 Pandora St., Victoria, B. C.

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• 1900

At Mission, B. C., a church of twelve members was recently organized by Brethren J. L. Wilson and George Squire. A half dozen others are keeping the Sabbaih of the Lord who have not yet united with the church. The laborers here mentioned are now working in the suburbs of Vancouver.

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BROTHER J. L. WILSON reports two baptisms and two new accessions to the faith recently at Vancouver, B. C., with an excellent attendance at the Sunday meetings.

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• 1901

J. L. Wilson pitched his evangelistic tent in the small, isolated coal mining community of Cumberland, B.C., 150 miles north of Victoria on Vancouver Island, population, 1000. A boat brought the mail to the town every two weeks. He began meetings there July 4. Attendance was small but interested, no more than 35 people. The people of the town were mainly Scotch Presbyterians. There were also Catholics, Episcopalians, and Methodists, all seemed active in their faith. Although Wilson found the people to be very kind and hospitable, the work moved slowly. There was one family of Sabbath-keepers there. He hoped to see several people take a stand for "the truth". In contrast to the biweekly mail service, Wilson noted that "communications from heaven reach us daily, and they are not delayed, but fresh from the heavenly sanctuary every morning." J. L. Wilson, July 21, 1901. NORTH PACIFIC CONFERENCE: CUMBERLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA The Pacific Union Recorder, August 15, 1901, p. 5.

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J. L. Wilson elected to the North Pacific Conference's executive committee.

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J. L. Wilson the only North Pacific Conference minister living in British Columbia; Mission City. This document also lists British Columbia as part of the North Pacific Conference.

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• 1902

British Columbia Conference organized 1902. J.L. Wilson, president.

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At the 26th sesson of the North Pacific Conference, held in connection with the Portland Camp-meeting, voted unanimously that the conference furnish, from the conference treasury, an amount sufficient to support Elder Wilson in the British Columbia Conference for the coming year, or $800.

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• 1903

J. L. Wilson, British Columbia Items, Pacific Union Recorder, January 29, 1903, Volume 2, Issue 13, p. 8

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British Columbia area = about 367,000 square miles, with population = 200,000. Vancouver, the largest city = 30,000; Victoria is next = 25,000, New Westminster = 8,000; Nanaimo = 7,000.

large number of small towns population from 100 to 5,000.

We have less than 100 Sabbath-keepers in the whole of this conference.

Treatment Rooms

Our treatment-rooms have been self-supporting from the first. We have another opening in one of the other cities, which promises just as good success as we have met in Vancouver, but as yet the money for opening is not in sight. We are praying for it, and believe if the Lord wants us to fill this open- ing, He will send us the money.

A man from up the country came to the treatment-rooms and had treatment, after which he said to me, "If you will start a sanitarium (in a certain city), I will give you lumber to build, and will furnish you electric light and water free."

The last month I had two large lots and quite a nice sum of money offered to build a sanitarium here in Vancouver; so you see this branch of our work is in a very prosperous condition. I pray that it will continue so.

I have just organized a church at Salmon Arm. There are several families here who have moved in from Montana. Some others have taken hold of the truth since coming to this place. This company expects to erect a meeting-house.

We have just received a letter from R. Dunsmuir, Esq., ex-premier, who says, "I will give you a piece of land in Cumberland on which to build a church." The Cumberland company will also erect a place of worship in the near future.

A nice tract of land, of over 300 acres, has been given to us for the purpose of starting an industrial school. Over 200 acres of this are prairie land. It is situated twenty- two miles east of Vancouver, on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. This we intend to make use of in the near future.

God has and is blessing our efforts. The openings for work are many, but we are still heralding the cry, "The laborers are few."

Brethren, pray with us that the Lord of the harvest will send forth laborers. J. L. Wilson.

Vancouver. B. C, Jan. 13, 1903.

• Second Annual Conference of Seventh-day Adventists: The British Columbia Conference is now one year of age, and has just had its second annual session, which was held in the tent at Queen's Park, Westminster. ... All who attended camped on the ground, which was kindly allowed us by the City Council.

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1904 BC, Wilson President. School at Pitt Meadows http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/YB/YB1904__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=52

BRITISH COLUMBIA MEDICAL MISSIONARY AND BENEVO- LENT ASSOCIATION.

Office: 338 Columbia St., Van- couver, B. C.

Board of Trustees: J. L. Wilson, Win. Manson, S. A. Wilband, J. J. Dougan, J. F. Wilson.

Officers: Pres., J. L. Wilson; Sec and Treaa., J. J. Dougan.

VANCOUVER TREATMENT ROOMS. 338 Columbia St., Vancouver, B. C.

VICTORIA TREATMENT ROOMS. Victoria, B. C. http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/YB/YB1904__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=98

• 1931

British Columbia Conference submitted a petition regarding the Calendar reform movement.

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• Mr. Jim Wilson and family visited his father, Elder J. L. Wilson, over the week-end. They plan to remain in Illinois for a month at least. We understand Elder Wilson's son is from Canada. http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/LUH/LUH19291016-V21-41__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=3

J. L. Wilson, President, Maritime Conference Writes of the Halifax Disaster

Special Deliverances in the Halifax Disaster

FROM a personal letter written by Pastor J. L. Wilson, president of the Maritime Conference, to Pastor W. W. Eastman of the General Conference, the following interesting items were given regarding the deliverance of our brethren and sisters in the great disaster which wrought such ruin in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. While our church building was destroyed, and some of our brethren and sisters lost their homes, it is gratifying to learn that there was no loss of life among our church mem- bership :

" I went to Halifax the day of the explosion. The condition is indescribable. The papers picture it no worse than it is. About two thousand have lost their lives, about twice as many are wounded, and more than twenty thousand are homeless. Many are living in tents, with the ther mometer registering twenty below zero. There is scarcely a window left in any building for more than four miles from the place of the explosion.

" Our church building is a total wreck. The pews in it were broken to kindling wood, and I fear we shall have to ask our brethren in different places to help us get re-established.

" I found Brother and Sister Chapman and family safe, but every window had been knocked out of their house. I enquired for the rest of the Sabbath-keepers, and found that they were all safe, although three of them had wounds on their heads and faces, but nothing serious.

" You will remember Sister Hayward. Her house was smashed to kindling wood. A boy was blown out of another house right into her husband's arms, and she says they walked from the debris just as though they were on a smooth floor, with nothing in their way. All the houses around there,—east, west, north, south,— right up to their house, were burned up, and hundreds of people were burned up with them, but not so much as a splinter of their house was burned. Others of our people were delivered in a similar way, although some lost all their earthly possessions.

" Sister Locke you will remember also. When the calamity came, she and another sister and the childreu were on their knees having worship. The whole side of her house went out about three inches, and then stopped. Not a window in her house was broken, but in every place adjoining hers the windows were all knocked out. She has been able to take care of a good number.

" Sister Case was standing at the tele- phone when the explosion came. Her house, likewise, was smashed to pieces, and she was protected in that one place just as if a little room had been built around her. They had to dig her out, and found that she had not received even a scratch.

" Relief is coming from all over the continent. The only thing we shall need help in will be the rebuilding of the church. The work all over the conference is in a prosperous condition.

" The ninety-first psalm was verily ful filled in behalf of the Seventh-day Advent ists in Halifax ; although many of them lived right in the centre of the destroyed area, they miraculously escaped. I do not think we shall live to see anything like it unless it be the seven last plagues. Those who passed through it can truly say, with one of old, ' 0 that Thou wouldst hide me ... until Thy wrath be past' "

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Further Chronological Citations for J. L. Wilson

1873 suggested time of birth. This provides an anchor for the consideration of the various J. L. Wilson's mentioned in Adventist Archives. 1938 becomes a possible retirement date for this J. L. Wilson. Q: Did this wilson name his son J. L., Q2: What relation is J.L. to Jim Wilson, President of the Canadian Union Conference in the 1980's?

1893 Missionary License, North Pacific Conference http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/YB/YB1893__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=35

CLEAN copies of the REVIEW, Signs, Sentinel, and Instructor will be used in the missionary work, if sent post-paid to J. L. Wilson, 33 Pandora St., Victoria, B. C. http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH18930214-V70-07__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=15

1894 Tract Society Officer for the North Pacific Conference's District #4 http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/YB/YB1894__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=38

1897 J. L. Wilson of Tacoma, Washington. Quoted giving an example of a healer who intentionally avoided studying the law so he could maintain his power to heal. http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH18970406-V74-14__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=4

J. L. Wilson ordained to the Gospel Ministry, May 20-31, 1897 as part of the North Pacific Conference. http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH18970713-V74-28__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=12

J. L. Wilson and R. D. Benham work in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH18970810-V74-32__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=12

1898 Wilson and Benham conduct an evangelistic series in Vancouver, B.C. "The people here are very much prejudiced against anything "American," and are led by their ministers, and seem firmly wedded to their own churches." http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH18980308-V75-10__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=12

1943

Wilson — Sarah Elizabeth Green was born ir Pittsburgh. Pennsyl- vania, 1866. When but a child she moved with her parents to Kansas, where in 1885 she was united in marriage with Joseph L. Wilson. In the late eighties the young couple rro*r<?d westward to take up a home- stead in the state of Washington where Sister Wilson listened to the teachings of the Seventh-day Adventists and gave her heart to the

Lord. " Immediately she began to work and pray for the conversion of her husband. A few weeks later her husband responded to the pleadings of the Holy Spirit and they were baptized at a camp met I- ing held at Portland, Oregon, in tne year 1899.

Her long and useful life came to a close at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harold Smith, at Hammond, Sunday noon, May 23, 1943, with her husband and two members of The family at her bedside. For more than fifty-eight years she stood by the side of her companion and to- gether they reared five sons and three daughters. Surviving are her husband, six children, fourteen grandchildren, and one great grand- child, and two sisters. We tenderly laid Sister Wilson to rest in the little cemetery in Hammond to await the voice of the Life Giver, who said, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints," and who will come to awaken those whom He loves.

Our sympathy and prayers go out to Elder Wilson in this hour of be- reavement and to the members of the family.

W. A. Clemenson

Note: There is a discrepancy in the facts given by W. A. Clemenson regarding when J. L. Wilson became an Adventist. The chronology dates puts him active in Adventism six years earlier in 1893 when he is listed as having a missionary license.

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1944

WILSON— Elder James Low- ther Wilson was born in England on May 25th, 1862. In 1881 he came to America. On March 8th, 1885 he was united in marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Green. He leaves to mourn his passing three sons, three daught- ers, fourteen grandchildren, two great grandchildren, three sisters and one brother.

Elder Wilson gave his heart, to the Lord in early youth and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church in 1889. He began his min- istry in the colporteur work in the state of Washington and in British Columbia, which at that time was a mission field. During his first year of work he raised up a church. In 1897 he was ordained to the gospel ministry and located in the province of British Columbia. He was elected president of the British Columbia Conference upon its organization in 1901. From 1914 to 1917 he labored in evangelism in the province of Alberta. Then he was called to the Maritime Conference to act as pres- ident of that field from 1917 to 1922. Following this he spent four years as Home Missionary Secretary and Union Evangelist of the Eastern Can- adian Union Conference. He re- sponded to a call from the Illinois Conference where he labored from 1927 to 1931, returning to Canada where he remained until death called him to rest from his labor on March 19th, 1944.

We tenderly laid this soldier of the cross to rest in the Haney Cem- etery waiting for that final word from His Lord and Master, "Awake ye that sleep."

The funeral services were con- ducted by the writer and workers from the British Columbia Con- ference acted as pall-bearers. We extend to the sorrowing our sympathy.

W. A. Clemenson

Note: W.A. Clemenson corrects the date for Wilson's joining the church but creates a new discrepancy by referring to Wilson as James rather than Joseph.

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Compare and Wonder

WILSON — James Lowther Wilson passed away suddenly, Tuesday August 22. 1950 at 3 a.m. at his home in Oshawa. He was born in Wilkenson, Washington, May 19 1894.

On June 21, 1918, he was united in marrriage with Ida Hannah, at Oxford Nova Scotia.

Brother Wilson resided for some years in British Columbia. He was baptized into the S. D. A. faith at the early age of sixteen years. At the time of his death he was em- ployed by the Signs of the Times Publishing Association.

He leaves to mourn his wife, one son, James, three sisters, and two brothers. He will rest at Union Cemetery until the Great Resurrec- tion Morn.

A. W. Kaytor

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1914-1919

1915

On New Year's Day, 1915, W. C. White, the son of Ellen G. White, visited at the Eastern Canada headquarters in Oshawa, Ontario. He stayed for several days. He spoke four times, three of which were at Buena Vista Academy (now Kingsway College). The students enjoyed his stories about his mother and her gift of prophecy.

During his visit, he gave counsel to the leaders regarding how to extend Adventism in Eastern Canada. He urged them to start church work in new places immediately because the "the last days are closing in upon us." He said that ministers should be sent into new areas and that the lay people should take care of the existing churches. He also cited recent counsels from his mother calling on families to enter new areas as self-supporting missionaries.

1917

The Conscription Bill

For the benefit of our readers we give herewith a few quotations from "The Military Act, 1917."

Section two of this Act describes the persons liable tor service as follows:

...

Section eleven deals with exemptions as follows: (1) At any time before a date to be fixed in the proclama- tion mentioned in section four, an application may be made, by or in respect of any man in the class or subclass called out by such proclamation, to a local tribunal established in the province in which such man ordinarily icsides, for a certifi- cate of exemption on any of the following grounds;— ...

(f) That he conscientiously objects to the undertaking of combatant service and is prohibited from so doing by the ten- ets and articles of faith, in effect on the sixth day of July, 1917, of any organized religious denomination existing and well recognized in C'anadaat such date, and to which he in good faith belongs: and if any of the grounds of such'applica- tion be established, a certificate of exemption shall he ^mut- ed to such man.

...

presented by A. V. Olsen

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The Working of the Military Act

Under date of October 10, the Toronto Globe stated that the proclamation which will soon be pub- lished broadcast calling out the first class, of men for military service provides that:—

"Every man within the class called out must ei- ther report for service or claim exemption on or be- fore November 10," and that "Exemption Tribunals will begin their work on November tf, and must com- plete it by December 10, which is the earliest date on which anj man will actually be called to the colors."

When the Act goes into force every loyal citizen will complj with its provisions. Those who come within the class called out should either report for duty or file claim for exemption. It is the privilege of all who are conscientiously opposed to beating arms and who belong to a denomination whose tenets and articles of faith prohibit the undertaking of com- batant service to claim exemption from combntant service. A. V. OLSON.

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Postage Stamp issued in 2000

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1855, Go West, EGW Counsel

In 1936, one third of all Adventists in the U.S. and Canada were living west of the Rocky Mountains. Did B.C. Canada develop before the prairies? Quotation{{|So great has been the development of the work in the West that one third of all our believers in the United States and Canada are west of the Rocky Mountains. Just as the message predicted, the work grew rapidly, and developed into strength all through the West- ern States. Daniells, The Abiding Gift of Prophecy. http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/AGOP/AGOP1936__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=345}}

"DEAR BRETHREN : The Lord has shown me in vision some things in regard to the East and the West, which I feel it my duty to set before you. I saw that God has been opening the way for the spread of present truth in the West. It requires much more power to move the people in the East than in the West. ...

"The people in the East have heard the proclamation of the second coming of Christ, and have seen much of the display of the power of God, and have fallen back into a state of indifference and security, where it is almost impossible to reach them at present. . . .

"I saw that the people in the West could be moved much more easily than those in the East. They have not had the light of the truth, and have not rejected it, and their hearts are more tender and susceptible to the truth and the Spirit of God. . . .

"I saw that tenfold more has been accomplished in the West than in the East with the same effort, and that the way is opening for still greater success."—"Testimonies for the Church," Vol. I, pp. 146,147.

This definite guidance of the Lord, through the gift of proph- ecy, in connection with the establishment of the work in Battle Creek, should be fully appreciated. The location of the central office is a very important factor in determining the success of a movement. The Lord did not leave this important question to the unaided, finite judgment of men, with their limited vision and possible sectional prejudices. He gave positive, definite instruction.

"The burden of the work is in the West," they were told, "and it is of the greatest importance that the servants of God should move in His opening providence."—Id., p. 149.

In harmony with the outline given in this message, our work seemed to take wings in speeding forward from the time the headquarters were located in Battle Creek. It went westward, farther and farther, crossing rivers, plains, and mountains, until it reached the Pacific Coast. Believers were added in far greater numbers than had ever been experienced in the East. So great has been the development of the work in the West that one third of all our believers in the United States and Canada are west of the Rocky Mountains. Just as the message predicted, the work grew rapidly, and developed into strength all through the West- ern States.

Again Directed to Return East

But there is another remarkable statement in this same mes- sage that pointed out the reasons for the move westward in 1855. This statement is predictive, and therefore must take its place in testing the truthfulness of such predictions. Immediately following the last-quoted statement are the words:

"I saw that when the message shall increase greatly in power, then the providence of God will open and prepare the way in the East for much more to be accomplished than can be at the present time [Italics mine]." —Id., p. 149.

These words greatly comforted the brethren in the East. Dur- ing the few years prior to the move to Michigan, they had seen the center of the work moved a number of times; and, in their limited vision, they thought that it would be only a short time until the return that was promised.

But nearly half a century passed without any indication of a return to the East, as indicated in the message given by Mrs. White in 1856. During this time, not only had there been re- markable growth of the work, especially in the West, but a great institutional work had been built up in Battle Creek. Besides the headquarters of the General Conference, there were a large printing house, a mammoth sanitarium, and an excellent col- lege. More than two thousand Sabbathkeepers attended Sabbath services in the great Tabernacle.

This was the situation in 1903, when, at the time of the Gen- eral Conference held in Oakland, a number of the brethren were

Schwarz, Light Bearers to the Remnant, on Canada

33, 77, 81, 113, 138, 151, 211, 271, 322, 336, 426, 433, 454, 492, 516, 560, 584

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33,

Upon his return home, Miller found a letter containing a request from

the Baptist pastor in nearby Poultney that he come and talk to the Baptists of Poultney about the second advent. From that time on Miller was in constant demand as a speaker in the Methodist, Baptist, and Congrega- tional churches in the area and across the border in eastern Canada. In September 1833 his local Baptist church, without his knowledge and with the direct simplicity of frontier America, voted him a license to preach. It seems he was never formally ordained. Throughout the remainder of his life he refused to be called "Reverend," maintaining that it was not biblical to apply such a title to any human. Nor did he wear the clerical

robe and collar, preferring the simple clothing of a gentleman farmer.

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It was young Andrews, however, who was to be of most immediate help

to James White in his publishing activities. At twenty-one he became one of the leading writers for the Review and Herald. His five-page article in the May 1851 issue was the earliest detailed Adventist exposition of Revelation 13 to interpret the two-horned beast introduced there as the United States. He later prepared a series answering O. R. L. Crosier's attacks on the Sabbath. During the winter of 1850-51 Andrews visited and ministered to the believers in northern New England and eastern Canada. But when the Whites moved back to New York, Andrews also headed west, going beyond them to search out and encourage believers in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. At the same time he continued his contributions to

the Review.

81, 82

Stephen Haskell

In 1853 the Review began to publish a little tract entitled simply "Elihu on the Sabbath." This tract was to play a large role in making Stephen N. Haskell a Sabbath-keeping Adventist. Haskell was nineteen when he heard his first sermon on the second advent by an unknown Evangelical Adventist. So thrilled was he with the subject that he talked about it to everyone he met. Challenged by a friend to preach, Stephen jokingly promised to do so if his friends would provide a hall and audience. To his amazement, they complied. Unwilling to back down, Haskell carried through on his promise, and from that time on combined part-time advent preaching with selling the soap he manufactured.

On the way home from an Adventist camp meeting in Connecticut in the summer of 1853, Haskell decided to visit a company of Adventist believers he had raised up in Canada the previous year. While changing trains in Springfield, Massachusetts, he decided to store his trunk until his return. Directed to the shop of railroad tinsmith William Saxby, he was courteously accommodated. Soon the conversation turned to the seventh- day Sabbath, as Saxby was a Sabbath-keeping Adventist. Although Has- kell avoided an invitation to a meeting of the Sabbatarians, he went home for the night with Saxby and was given a rapid synopsis of the truths Saxby had espoused. The next morning as Haskell was leaving, his host gave him a few small tracts including "Elihu on the Sabbath." Before reaching his Canadian destination the young preacher was convinced that "according to the best light I had, the seventh day was the Sabbath, and I would keep it until I could get further light."

The Sabbath seemed so clear to Haskell that he was certain his Advent- ist friends would also quickly accept it. But when he tried to present the matter at an Adventist conference in Worcester, Massachusetts, he found few who would listen; he was denied the privilege of speaking to the entire group. At the close of the conference Haskell was invited home with Thomas Hale, of Hubbardston. Here, during the next few months, he persuaded the Adventist company to become Sabbatarians. Some time later Joseph Bates suddenly appeared at Haskell's door, announcing him- self as a friend of William Saxby. Before Bates left, the Haskells had accepted all the doctrines the captain had presented and sent along with

him an order for every tract and paper published by the Review office.

113, 1867,

When the (Western Health)institute opened, it had "two doctors, two bath attendants,

one nurse (untrained), three or four helpers, one patient, any amount of inconveniences, and a great deal of faith in the future." The two doctors—H. S. Lay and Phoebe Lamson—were both alumni of Dansville. Two months later Lay reported that patients from nine different states and Canada were at the institute. It was necessary to rent additional rooms in

the neighborhood to house ambulatory patients.

138,

In the spring of 1870 the Bourdeaus returned east to work for the French- speaking people of New England and Canada.

151,

During its first quarter century the Seventh-day Adventist Church

membership grew sevenfold. In place of an estimated 3500 church mem- bers when the General Conference was organized in 1863, there were 26,112 by mid-1888. These were spread over thirty-two local conferences and five mission fields and organized into 901 churches. In 1888 one of every six Seventh-day Adventists lived in Michigan. California, the local conference with the second largest constituency, numbered less than half the membership of the Adventists in Michigan. Yet these members were more affluent and more liberal, contributing twenty-five percent more in tithes than did those in the larger conference.

The church's midwestern base in these years is clearly shown by the fact that, after Michigan and California, the four strongest conferences numerically were Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. It was also in these states that major efforts had been made to evangelize Scandinavian and German-speaking Americans. Outside the United States, Seventh- day Adventist numbers were still counted in the hundreds in any one country or area: less than 400 in Australia and New Zealand; about 150 in Great Britain, perhaps the same in Canada, some 700 in all of Germany,

Switzerland, France, and Italy, and a few more than that in Scandinavia.1

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Publishing Abroad

In 1885 publishing activities began in both Switzerland and France and also half a world away in Australia. The first party of Adventist mis- sionaries to Australia included a printer, Henry L. Scott, and a colporteur, William Arnold. The next year an Adventist publishing house was estab- lished in Sweden, followed in 1887 by one in London and in 1889 by one in Hamburg, Germany. The worldwide expansion of Adventism during these years comes through clearly in the publishing offices established during the 1890s: South Africa (1890), Denmark and Finland (1893),

Canada (1895), India (1896), and Argentina (1897).

271, 322, 336,

426,

In

Canada, too, it was generally possible for Adventist soldiers to arrange for

both noncombatant service and exemption from Sabbath drill and work.

433,

454,

492, Edward Banks and field schools of evangelism. 1960s on.

516,

520-521

Evolution

As dedicated biblicists, Adventists strongly rejected Darwinian evolu- tion and the concept of an earth millions of years old. During the nineteenth century those Adventists who bothered to answer the evolutionists and uniformitarian geologists generally relied on theological arguments. A young Canadian school teacher changed that shortly after the opening of the twentieth century. While George McCready Price was principal of a high school in New Brunswick, a local physician tried to convert him to the evolutionary view of human origins. As part of his campaign he encouraged Price to read widely in the substantial geologi- cal library he had collected. Price read, but with the purpose of discover- ing alternative explanations for the data presented that would harmonize with the Genesis account of Creation and the Flood.

In 1902 Price published the first of the more than twenty books he would eventually write in the fields of science and religion. In 1920 Price became professor of geology at Pacific Union College, During the next two decades he taught at four other Adventist colleges while at the same time pouring out a host of scientific articles defending Genesis.

Price got attention, if not acclaim, for his ideas by sending copies of his books and articles to leading scientists and theologians around the world. He became something of a hero to conservative Christians who had been floundering under the ridicule of evolutionists. William Jennings Bryan, in his antievolution campaign of the 1920s, frequently cited Price as a scientific authority. By the time Price retired from teaching in 1938, he had inspired several other young Adventist scientists, most notably Harold Clark and Frank Marsh, to take up their pens in defense of a special creation in six twenty-four-hour days. These men did not agree among themselves (Clark and Price in fact disagreed violently in the late 1930s) as to the best explanation of various scientific data, but they did provide Adventists with alternative answers to the arguments of evolutionists.9

From the start Adventist scholars were handicapped in their defense of the biblical creation account because they lacked formal training in earth sciences. Price was largely self-educated, while the advanced degrees of Clark and Marsh were in the biological sciences. As early as the 1940s President H. J. Klooster of Emmanuel Missionary College suggested that the church sponsor some reliable men for formal study in geology. His appeal was soon echoed by Adventist college science teachers. Yet it was not until the Autumn Council of 1957 that the General Conference Com- mittee decided to sponsor two experienced men "of proven loyalty" (Frank Marsh and Peter Hare) to study geology and paleontology at leading universities. A committee was established to guide their work. Out of this beginning came the Geoscience Research Institute, with

headquarters adjacent to the Andrews University campus.

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Maranatha Flights International

So successful was this project that Freeman and some friends pro- ceeded to organize Maranatha Flights International to sponsor similar programs. Freeman's idea caught on, especially among Adventist pilots, many of whom took Maranatha members to project sites in their own planes. By 1976 there were some 1200 Maranatha members; many were carpenters, plumbers, electricians, masons, or were skilled in some other building trade. But many were retired persons, housewives, and sec- retaries who could volunteer only their ability to mix mortar, carry cement blocks, or prepare meals for hungry workers.

There were a number of large projects, many small ones. In the summer of 1973 nearly 150 Maranatha members flew and drove to Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territories. There in two weeks' time, working around the clock, they constructed a multiple-purpose building that in-

cluded a church, gymnasium, and living quarters for the pastor.

Also reported by:

• Hackett, William H. (June 27, 1973). "County Dentist Building Church in Arctic Area". The Times-News, Henderson, North Carolina. Retrieved 2012-07-13.

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609, Loma Linda Foods establishes a Canadian division at Oshawa, Ontario.

Resources

• The role of dissent in the creation of Seventh-day Adventist identity

by Dunfield, Timothy L., M.A., University of Alberta (Canada), 2009, 168 pages; AAT MR53937 Abstract (Summary)

This thesis studies the benefits that a religious organization acquires from its identification of, and reaction to, "deviants" within it. If an organization is to continue growing while still maintaining a unique identity, periodically it must have deviant movements within it. Theoretically, I apply insights from sociologists of deviance (particularly Durkheim and Erikson) about the functional benefits of deviance labeling for several aspects of group functioning, such as beliefs and the means of disseminating them, structure and hierarchy, internal policies, and leadership styles.

I studied the Seventh-day Adventist organization, applying Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory to it, in order to better illuminate its history and reaction to dissenters. I focused on three Adventist dissenters; Dudley Canright, John Harvey Kellogg, and the threat posed by Ellet J. Waggoner and Alonzo T. Jones, showing how the organization reinforced its boundaries and maintained control of its members by identifying and punishing these supposed deviants. Indexing (document details) School: University of Alberta (Canada) School Location: Canada Source: MAI 48/02, Apr 2010 Source type: Dissertation Subjects: Religion Publication Number: AAT MR53937 ISBN: 9780494539378 Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=1921522581&Fmt=7&clientI d=79356&RQT=309&VName=PQD ProQuest document ID: 1921522581

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• Motivation and mobility among Seventh-day Adventist secondary teachers:

a survey employing the Herzberg two-factor theory Front Cover Walter Dale Cox 0 Reviews Texas A & M University., 1972 - 212 pages

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• THE STATUS OF AND NEED FOR INDUSTRIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION IN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SECONDARY SCHOOLS

by UNDERHILL, CHARLES MELWOOD, Educat.D., Texas A&M University, 1968, 215 pages; AAT 6905159 Indexing (document details) School: Texas A&M University School Location: United States -- Texas Source: DAI-A 29/10, p. 3428, Apr 1969 Source type: Dissertation Subjects: Academic guidance counseling Publication Number: AAT 6905159 Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=756134301&sid=10&Fmt=1&cl ientId=2945&RQT=309&VName=PQD ProQuest document ID: 756134301

• MOTIVATION AND MOBILITY AMONG SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SECONDARY TEACHERS: A SURVEY EMPLOYING THE HERZBERG TWO-FACTOR THEORY

by COX, WALTER DALE, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1972, 117 pages; AAT 7303523 Indexing (document details) School: Texas A&M University School Location: United States -- Texas Source: DAI-A 33/08, p. 3991, Feb 1973 Source type: Dissertation Subjects: School administration Publication Number: AAT 7303523 Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=756316481&sid=3&Fmt=1&cli entId=2945&RQT=309&VName=PQD ProQuest document ID: 756316481

• TITLE(S): North American Division Committee on the role of inter-school sports in Seventh-day Adventist academies and colleges, February 12, 1987 : [papers]

AMICUS No. 19760474 Monograph NAME(S):*General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists. North American Division. Committee on the Role of Inter-school Sports in Seventh-day Adventist Academies and Colleges PUBLISHER: [Washington, D.C. : General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists], [1987] DESCRIPTION: 1v. (loose-leaf) ; 30cm SUBJECTS: Sports--Religious aspects--Seventh-day Adventists Intra-mural sports

• TITLE(S): A Proposal respecting amendments to the Alberta Labour

AMICUS No. 23125954 Monograph Relations Act : presented to The Labour Law Review NAME(S):*Alberta Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada Alberta. Labour Law Review Committee Committee for the Alberta Government / by The Alberta Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada PUBLISHER: [Canada] : The Alberta Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, 1986. DESCRIPTION: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 28 cm.

NOTES: "December, 1986."

SUBJECTS: Labor laws and legislation--Alberta Seventh-Day Adventists--Canada--Congresses

• Development, implementation, and evaluation of a seminar on positive resolution of interpersonal and substantive conflict in the Hazelton, British Columbia, Seventh-day Adventist church /--by Bruce B. Boyd. (1995)

Boyd, Bruce B.,--1951-

Abstract Vita.. Project report (D. Min.)--Andrews University, Seventh-Day Adventist Theological Seminary, 1995.. Bibliography: leaves 256-263.. Typescript (photocopy).

Details der Publikation Archiv OCLC's Experimental Thesis Catalog (United States) Keywords Interpersonal conflict., Interpersonal relations--Religious aspects--Seventh-Day Adventists.

Canadian Bill of Right

A brief concerning the Canadian Bill of rights

submitted to the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker, Q.C., P.C., M.P., and the Minister of Justice, the Honourable E. Davie Fulton, Q.C., P.C., M.P.

Seventh-Day Adventists. Canadian Union Conference. Dept. of Public Affairs 0 Reviews 1959 - 32 pages

Title A brief concerning the Canadian Bill of rights: submitted to the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker, Q.C., P.C., M.P., and the Minister of Justice, the Honourable E. Davie Fulton, Q.C., P.C., M.P. Author Seventh-Day Adventists. Canadian Union Conference. Dept. of Public Affairs Published 1959 Length 32 pages Subjects Civil rights

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Michael, Darren L. Canadian Bill of Rights Brief. Canadian Union Messenger, January 21, 1959, Volume 28 Issue 2, p. 1

More on the Bill of Rights

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Specific Politicians and Adventists

John G. Diefenbaker, 1957

PUBLIC AFFAIRS — It is worth noting that the Honorable John G. Diefenbaker, Q. C., M. P., newly-elected leader of the opposition, is a friend of Seventh-day Adventists. At one time he handled the legal affairs of the Manitoba- Saskatchewan Conference when he was a young lawyer in Prince Albert. For many years he has been a persistent advocate inside and out of the House of Commons, along with Senator David A. Croll, Q. C., and Major J. Coldwell, M. P., for a Canadian "bill of rights" that would assure all Canadians their funda- mental freedoms including that of religion. His elevation to this responsible post in our parliamentary system of government represents a real asset to the cause of liberty of conscience. We shall watch with interest to see if his heavy duties will still allow him time to champion the cause of freedom as elo- quently as he and others have done in the past!

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Adventist Thoughts on National Crises

Another year has slipped into history. And, what a year it has been! Canadians found themselves jolted out of their smug complacency as violence and terror crept into our way of life. No longer were we mere spectators looking out, from our safe and stodgy ring-side seats, on a world-wide stage of tense, grip- ping drama enacted by men and women in other lands. Now the footlights played on our country as the world watched.

Once more it is time to remind ourselves of our continuing commitment to liberty of conscience. Each January for years Seventh-day Adventists have taken time to renew their concern and involvement in the preservation of religious liberty. The week of January 16 to 23 has been designated as Religious Lib- erty Week for the Church this year.

Living in a relatively affluent society in North America we find it difficult to become concerned about freedoms that we have enjoyed for some time and taken for granted as well es- tablished. Perhaps we all paused a bit in October when at four o'clock in the morning the Cabinet proclaimed the War Meas- ures Act, and at one stroke many fundamental liberties were set aside and the operation of the Canadian Bill of Rights sus- pended. This grave step was taken by a Government and coun- try alarmed by the sudden appearance of violence, political assassination and terror. How quickly a small group of extrem- ists suddenly threatened the safety, tranquility and orderliness of our society. Could it happen again? Is it possible that people, small in number, who hold unpopular religious convictions with a fervour and intensity that irritates their neigbours will also be viewed as harmful to the body politics as was the hated F.L.Q.?

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Prohibition, 1919 vote

Ontario

Office address, 3 Awde St., Toronto. Out.

B. M. HEALD, President, 1114A Duffciiu St., Toronto. Ont.

LLCILLE MARIETTA, Treasurer ,, ,, (Tel. Junction999)

Campmeeting Resolutions File These Recommendations

The late conference session was an important one for Ontario. The following concludes tin-resolution!?, and it will really help you throughout the year to keep these on file.

The Lord helped the brethren to frame these plans, and if thej are cairicd out by our people, it will greatly help in building up the Lord's cause in this part of the field.

B. M. HEALD.

...

Temperance

Whereas, The liquor traffic has demonstrated itself to be a curse and a menace, to both public and private life, causing poverty, shame, idiocy, and in a thousand ways demoralizing1 society, and ruining the prospects of untold thousands of men and women of their hope of eternal lite, therefore be it

No. 16. Resolved, That we place ourselves on record as opposed to the manufacture, sale, and dispensing of all intoxicating beverages, and

Tbat this resolution be forwarded to Sir Robert Borden, Ottawa.

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It Is Written

In response to Canadian broadcasting regulations, It Is Written established a presence in Canada.

Speaking Like an Adventist re: The end is near, quotes

M. N. CAMPBELL, 1933

A storm is soon to break, relentless in its fury,

and what we do we must do quickly. So may the spirit ot earnestness take possession of our people,

and thus the work in this field be finished on time.

J. H. Roth, 1933

Finishing the I work

WE CANNOT truthfull} say that we have ful- filled our charge, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature," Mark 15:16, until every living person will have had a chance to accept or reject the message.

Our working force in Canada is 145. This includes ordained ministers, licensed ministers, licensed missionaries, and colporteurs. If each one of these would give the message to 1.000 persons a year for the next ten years there would still remain approximately 9,000,000 people unwarned in Canada at the close of 1943. The only possible solution to our problem of warning 10,500,000 people is by harnessing the latent talent of our 6,952 believers and send- ing them out to distribute our books, tracts, and periodicals, to make missionary visits, and to hold cottage and gospel meetings. If each layman in our territory would carry the message to 1510 individuals for the next ten years, or to 150 individuals a year, every soul in our field would have had a chance to hear the message when the year 1943 ends. This does not take into consideration the changes in population that come through deaths and births.

Now, we do not know if probation lasts until the close of 1943. The time of the close of probation is one of God's reserved secrets, but it is plain from these figures that the secret of success in fulfilling our duty to preach the gospel to every creature lies in a successful organization of our laity. The living preacher can never do the work alone. He, as a wise general, must depend on the men in the rank

and file of his army.

The Rest Haven years, 1912-1916, 1921-1978

Canadian Union Messenger, Volume XL, No. 13 Oshawa, Ontario, June 30, 1971 A Golden Jubilee . . ., Rest Haven Hospital Celebrates Fifty Years of Service By T. J. BRADLEY, Administrator, 1962-1970

Fifty years of medical service were recounted as Rest Haven Hospital, situated in Sidney, British Columbia, celebrated its Golden Jubilee on May 8-12 during National Hospital Week. Denominational Medical Beginnings

Rest Haven was founded in the formative years of our denominational medical history on the West Coast of the American Continent. In the East, Battle Creek Sanitarium and other health centres had established themselves as lights in a dark world of ill-health, and the Servant of the Lord directed that health institutions should be established on the West Coast. In 1901 she recorded her first vision in this regard in which she saw "a certain Sanitarium property in Southern California." This later proved to be Loma Linda, but as a result of Mrs. E, G. White's active and earnest counsels sanitariums were established in quick succession. In 1904 Paradise Valley Sanitarium was purchased. Its twenty acres and sixteen-year-old three-storey building worth approximately $40,000.00 were purchased for $4,000.00. In the same year the Glendale Sanitarium property of five acres with buildings worth $50,000.00 were purchased for $12,000.00. In 1905 Loma Linda, "The Hill Beautiful," with its buildings and property worth $150,000.00 was purchased for $40,000.00. In 1915, with the nations of Europe battering each other in war, divine counsel was given that plans should be laid for the construction of a hospital in Los Angeles. Following the death of Mrs. White this work was continued, and in 1916 the first buildings of the "Ellen G. White Memorial Hospital" as it was then called, were erected. Because of the small church membership on the American Coast at that time all of these advance moves were acts of faith, made with very little money in the church treasury but supported by abundant encouragement from the Servant of the Lord.

Rest Haven Building Constructed 1912-13

While all this divinely inspired activity was in progress in California events were shaping far to the north, in Canada, that would parallel the purpose if not the importance and scope of the Southern California developments. Rest Haven Hospital was being built in 1912-13 by an English doctor, and was destined to replace the work of the Bowness Sanitarium in Alberta, and for some considerable time be the only Sanitarium and Hospital the church would operate in Canada. In 1916 it became a Military Hospital, and after the close of World War I remained unoccupied until purchased in 1921 through the active interest of a layman, Brother J. McNaughton. Its nine acres and three-storey building were valued at $200,000.00, but they were placed on the market for $60,000.00 and purchased for only $40,000.00. Dr. A. W. Truman arrived in late summer of 1921 to commence a work at Rest Haven which has gone from strength to strength over the past 50 years.

What happened from 1971-1982?

Rest Haven General Hospital — Sidney, British Columbia.

The year '78 is a sad and a memorable date for the denomination and for the British Columbia Conference in particu- lar. After fifty-six years of Adventist direction and control. Rest Haven closed its hospitable doors, dictated by govern- ment fiat, and made way for the modern, active treatment facility. The Saanich Peninsula Hospital.

To Rest Haven, and to all who served in her we say, "Thanks for the memory!" — a blessed, a precious memory, indeed!

1981, Rest Haven Property sold.

Rest Haven Lodge began in 1982 See http://www.viha.ca/hcc/residential/locations/rest_haven_lodge.htm

History of individual SDA Canadians

James Russell and wife were missionaries nine years in Lebanon and Egypt. Mrs. Russell fled had to flee the Their daughter Janet attended Vincent Hill school in India. James Russell was from Port Hope, Ontario. During World War II they were on board the Zamzam when it was attacked by the Germans. James Russell spent four years in a German interm camp.

Spalding on Canada

"The North was Canada. In its political history that land did not receive its present status of a Dominion, with its constituent provinces, until 1867. Previous to that Quebec was known as Lower Canada, or Canada East, and Ontario as Upper Canada, or Canada West. Beyond the Great Lakes the territory was held by the Hudson's Bay Company, except that on the Pacific Coast the colony of British Columbia was organized in 1858.

Canada East and Canada West had strongly felt the Advent Movement of 1844. Various heralds of the message, including William Miller, had preached there; and Richard Hutchinson, an English clergyman settled in Canada, and one of the most prominent of the Adventist leaders, had not only preached but had also published a paper and other literature. There was thus a seedbed prepared for the sowing of the third angel's message.1

Early in 1850 (Spalding 1949, p. 224) Joseph Bates came into Canada East,2 and brought companies at Melbourne and Eaton, where the people "were so prompt and decided to move out on the Lord's side as soon as the truth was presented." 3 In the winter of 1851 he visited Canada West, and for several years thereafter he labored widely at times in both regions.

Preceding him in Canada West as heralds of the message were George W. Holt and Hiram Edson. With the latter, Bates also made some of his visits. George Holt was, in the first decades of the Sabbathkeeping Adventist mission, an indefatigable worker, widely known and dearly loved. In 1850 he preached the message at several points in Canada West, including Delaware and Ameliasburgh; and in the latter place at least he left a company which was afterward ministered to by Bates and Edson. Edson accompanied Holt on a second visit to Canada West in 1851.

There was fruit from these early labors in the vineyard. Evidently a following comparable to the growing membership in the States was brought out. One of the early converts in Canada East was Niram W. Rockwell,5 from whom have descended five generations of Sabbathkeepers. Howard Lathrop, of Eaton, Canada East, developed into an evangelist who labored both in Canada and in New England."

But there were also sown seeds of dissension. George Holt and James White speak of "the withering influence of false impressions and wrong moves of some who have professed to teach the present truth."' What that influence was is not stated, but it is easy to surmise. Lillis, of Oswego (initials unknown), an erratic and violent man, who at first espoused the Advent faith but afterward joined the Messenger party and still later became a Spiritualist, was with Bates on his first visit to Canada West; and very likely his later contacts with the field were a "withering influence." The cause apparently languished in Canada, though various workers from the States continued through the years to visit and preach there, and there was always a faithful core of believers. A tent meeting, one of the earliest, was held in Canada in 1855 by A. S. Hutchins and C. W. Sperry.8 The field was also visited by James and Ellen White.

The somewhat intermittent labors in Canada of the brothers A. C. and D. T. Bourdeau, beginning soon after their conversion in 1856, were a strong influence in maintaining and; extending the cause.9 The son-in-law of the former, Rodney S. Owen, who was to become a great power in Adventist ranks, began his labors here.10 Yet until the late 1870's there appears no great development of the Canadian field.

In the month of September, 1875, A. C. Bourdeaui and R. S. Owen pitched a tent in West Bolton, Quebec. The next spring they gave a course of lectures in nearby South Stukely as the result of these efforts what is called the first organized church in Canada, the Stukely and Bolton church, was formed on September 30, 1877.11 John H. Hammond was chosen the first elder. This South Stukely church has been a sturdy pillar in the cause in Canada, producing some strong workers for the north country, the United States, and the world. Other churches were organized about this time, through vigorous prosecution of the work. Youth who grew up in Canada to give great contributions to the cause, there and elsewhere, include Walter J. Blake, George McCready Price, Clifton L. Taylor, G. Eric Jones, and Malcolm N. Campbell.

The first camp meeting in the Province of Quebec was held at Magog, in August, 1879. The following year, at a camp meeting on the same site, the first Canadian conference was formed, August 16, 1880. Elder George I. Butler, newly elected head of the General Conference, was present, and also Elder James White and Mrs. White. Elder A. C. Bourdeau was elected president, D. T. Bourdeau secretary, Andrew Blake treasurer.

Through the next two decades the cause in Canada main- tained and somewhat advanced its status. In 1899 a second conference, the Ontario, was organized. The South Stukely Select School was opened in 1885. As the only recorded church school in Canada before 1903, it developed through the years some fine young workers. Successive teachers in it were Mary Gushing, Edith Pierce, Rowena Purdon, and W. J. Blake. Further educational work and the medical work waited upon the new century, a period which belongs to the second volume of this history.

(Spalding 1949, pp. 223-227)

Notable Adventists of Canada

George A. King

The father of the colporteur work. A native of Canada, he first sought the ministry, but dis covering greater talent in selling literature, especially health literature, he advocated combining and illustrating Smith's Thoughts on Daniel and Thoughts on Revelation, to sell by subscription. (Spalding 1949 p. 388)

M. B. Czechowski

The first Adventist to Europe, a converted Catholic priest, M. B. Czechowski, a Pole....He attended Grande Ligne Mission, a French Protestant school in Canada, where D. T. Bourdeau also was a student. Thereafter (1858) for five or six years he worked with D. T. Bourdeau and alone among the French in Canada, Vermont, and New York. (Spalding 1949 p. 512)

D.T. Bourdeau

With brother, A.C. Bourdeau, the first French-speaking Seventh-day Adventists.

More good work here that could be merged in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DonaldRichardSands/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church_in_Canada Legacypac (talk) 05:11, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

An overdue massive edit

This wordy, unfocused article of 60k+ characters certainly did not deserve a B-class rating! It contained "Adventist" stuff that had little or no connection to Canada, uneven treatment of the "local conferences" and leaders within the SDACC, and out-of-date information. I have removed 2/3 of the material, focused the writing on the SDACC--an administrative unit of the SDA Church (the unit that manages denomination in Canada), provided up-to-date statistics, and significantly tightened up the writing and improved the organization. Wctrenchard (talk) 04:33, 30 August 2023 (UTC)