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The Anglican Church in the North West
An Historical Bibliography

compiled by Mr. Bruce Russell
2002-2004


Allen, Richard, ed. Religion and Society in the Prairie West. Regina, 1974.

Archer, S.A. A Heroine of the North: Memoirs of Charlotte Selina Bompas.
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1929.

Barman, Jean. Indian Education in Canada. 2 vols. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986, 1987.

Batty, Beatrice. Forty-Two Years Amongst the Indians and Eskimo: Pictures from the Life of the Right Reverend John Horden, First Bishop of Moosonee.
London: Religious Tract Society, 1893.

Boon, T.C.B. The Anglican Church from the Bay to the Rockies: A History of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land and Its Dioceses. From 1820 to 1950. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1962.

Brown, J.S.H. Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country. Vancouver & London: University of British Columbia Press, 1980.

Budd, Henry. The Diary of Henry Budd 1870-1875. Katherine Pettipas, ed.
Manitoba Record Society Publications Vol. 4. Winnipeg: Hignell, 1974.

Carrington, Philip. The Anglican Church in Canada: A History. Toronto: Collins, 1963.

Cody, H.A. An Apostle of the North: Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas.
London: Seeley, 1910.

On Trial and Rapid By Dog-Sled and Canoe: The Life of Bishop Bompas.
Toronto: Musson Book Company. 1911.

Dyck, Noel. Differing Visions: Administering Indian Residential Schooling in Prince Albert 1867-1995. Halifax: Forward Publishing, 1997.

Evans, Karen. Masinahikan: Native Language Imprints in the Archives and Libraries of the Anglican Church of Canada. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1985.

Fast, Vera. Missionary on Wheels: Eva Hasell and the Sunday School Caravan Mission. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1979.

Fast, V.K. The Protestant Missionary and Fur Trade Society: Initial Contact in the Hudson's Bay Territory, 1820-1850. Ph. D. thesis, University of Manitoba, 1984.

Ferguson, Barry, ed. The Anglican Church and the World of Western Canada.
Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, 1991.

Goossen, Jay. The Relationship of the Church Missionary Society and the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land , 1821-1860, with a Case Study of the Stanley Mission under the Direction of the Rev. Robert Hunt. Master's thesis, University of Manitoba, 1975.

Gould, Sydney. Inasmuch: Sketches of the Beginnings of the Church of England in Canada in Relation to the Indian and Eskimo Races. Toronto: [n.p.], 1917.

Grant, John Webster. The Church in the Canadian Era. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972.

Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians of Canada in Encounter since 1534. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.

Hassell, Eva. Across the Prairies in a Motor Caravan. London: S.P.C.K., 1922.

Caravaning Through Prairie and Mountain. Westminster: S.P.G. Press, 1928.

Canyons, Cans and Caravans. London: SPCK 1930.

Heeny, Bertil. Leaders of the Canadian Church. Toronto: Musson, 1918.

Second Series, 1920.

Third Series, 1943.

John West and His Red River Mission. Toronto, 1920.

Higham, C.L. Noble, Wretched & Redeemable: Protestant Missionaries to the
Indians in Canada and the United States, 1820-1900. Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press, with University of Calgary Press, 2000.

J., M.E. Dayspring in the Far West, Sketches of Mission work in North-west America. London: Jackson & Halliday,1875.

Jaenan, C.J. "Missionary Approaches to Native People" in: Approaches to Native History in Canada. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, Mercury Series, 1977.

Long, John S. "Reverend Edwin Watkins: Missionary to the Cree, 1852-1857." in: Papers of the Sixteenth Algonquin Conference, Willliam Cowan, ed.
Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1985.

Machray, Robert A. Life of Robert Machray, Archbishop of Rupert's Land.
London: MacMillan, 1909.

MacDonald, Wilma. Guide to the Holdings of the Archives of the Ecclesiastical Province of and Dioceses of Rupert's Land. Winnipeg: Saint John's College Press, 1976.

Miller, J.R. Singwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

Mountain, George Jehoshaphat. The Journal of the Bishop of Montreal During a Visit to Church Missionary Society, North West America Mission. London: Seeley, Burnside and Seeley, 1845.

Pannekoek, Frits. Protestant Agricultural Missions in the Canadian West to 1870. Master's thesis, University of Alberta, 1970.

The Churches and the Social Structure in the Red River Area, 1818-1870.
Ph. D. dissertation, Queen's University, 1973.

"The Anglican Church and the Disintegration of Red River Society, 1818-1870." In: Carl Berger and Ramsey Cook, eds. The West and the Nation: Essays in Honour of W. L. Morton. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976.

Payton, W.F. An Historical Sketch of the Diocese of Saskatchewan of the Anglican Church of Canada. Prince Albert: Anglican Diocese of Saskatchewan, 1974.

Ray, A.J. Indians in the Fur Trade: Their Role as Trappers, Hunters and Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson's Bay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974.

Stevenson, W.L. The Church Missionary Society Red River Mission and the Emergence of Native Ministry, 1820-1860. M.A. thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988.

Stock, Eugene. The History of the Church Missionary Society, Its Environment, Its Men, and Its Work. London: C.M.S., 1899-1916. 4 vols.

Thompson, Arthur. "John West: A Study of the Conflict Between Civilization and the Fur Trade." The Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society xii:3, September 1972.

Titley, E. Brian. A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986.

Tucker, Sarah. The Rainbow in the North; A Short Account of the First Establishment of Christianity in Rupert's Land by the Church Missionary Society. London: James Nisbet, 1851.

Usher, Jean. Apostles and Aborigines: The Social Theory of the Church Missionary Society. Social History iv

Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.

Walsh, H. H. The Christian Church in Canada. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1956.

West, John. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony... British North America; And Frequent Excursions Among the North-west Indians, in the Years 1820,1821, 1822, 1823. London, 1824.

additions, February 2003:

Alice Ahenakew, They Knew Both Sides of Medicine: Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing, Told by Alice Ahenakew. Edited and translated by H.C. Wolfart & Freda Ahenakkew Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, Publications of the Algonquin Text Society, 2000.

Edward Ahenakew. "The Story of the Ahenakews." Edited by Ruth Matheson Buck. Saskatchewan History, 17: 12-23, 1964.

Leonard Bloomfield. Plains Cree Texts. New York: American Ethnographic Society Publications, 16, 1934.

Jennifer S.H. Brown & Robert Brightman. "The Orders of the Dreamed": George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, Publications of the Algonquin Text Society, 1988.

Ruth Matheson Buck. "The Mathesons of Saskatchewan Diocese." Saskatchewan History 13: 41-62. 1960.

Martia Campbell. Halfbreed. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973.

Janet Hodgson & Jayant S. Kothare. Vision Quest: Native Spirituality and the Church in Canada. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1990.

Jean E. Murray. "The Early History of Emmanuel College." Saskatchewan History 9: 81-101, 1956.

Additions, February 2004

Church and Mission-School at the Red-River Colony.
Missionary Papers, for the Use of the Weekly and Monthly Contributors to the Church Missionary Society, number 44.
London: Church Missionary Society, 1826. 4 pp.

George Jehoshaphat Mountain.
The Journal of the Bishop of Montreal, during a Visit to the Church Missionary Society's North-West America Mission, to which is added, by the Secretaries, an Appendix, giving an Account of the Formation of the Mission, and Its Progress to the Present Time.
London: Seeley, 1845. 236 pp.

David Anderson.
The Seal of Apostleship: An Ordination Sermon preached at St. Andrew's Church, Red River, on Sunday, December 22, 1850. [ordination of Henry Budd]
London: Thomas Hatchard, 1851. 31 pp.

David Anderson
A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Rupert's Land at His Primary Visitation.
London: Thomas Hatchard, 1851. 48 pp.

David Anderson
Notes of the Flood at the Red River, 1852.
London: Hatchards, 1852. 124 pp.

David Anderson
A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Rupert's Land at His Triennial Visitation, in July and December, 1853.
London: Thomas Hatchard, 1854. 59 pp.

David Anderson
Children instead of Fathers: A Christmas Ordination Sermon preached at St. John's Church, Red River, on Sunday, December 25, 1853.
London: Thomas Hatchard, 1854. vii + 32 pp.

David Anderson.
The Winner of Souls: A New-Year Ordination Sermon, preached at St. John's Church, Red River, on Tuesday, January 1, 1856.
London: Thomas Hatchard, 1856. 32 pp.

David Anderson.
A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Rupert's Land, at His Triennial Visitation, May 29, 1856.
London: Thomas Hatchard, 1856. 54 pp.

David Anderson
A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Rupert's Land, in St. John's Church, Red River, at His Triennial Visitation, January 6, 1860.
London: Hatchard, 1860. 58 pp.

David Anderson
The Truth and the Conscience: An Ordination Sermon, preached at St. Andrew's Church, Red River, on Sunday, July 21, 1861.
London: Hatchard and Co., 1861. 35 pp.

David Anderson
A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Rupert's Land, in St. John's Cathedral, Red River, at his Fifth and Last Visitation, January 6, 1864.
London: Hatchard and Co., 1864. vi + 64 pp.

David Anderson
The Gospel in the Regions Beyond: A Sermon preached in Lambeth Church, on Sunday, May 3, 1874, at the Consecration of the Bishops of Athabasca and Saskatchewan.
London: Hatchards, 1874. 16 pp.

John McLean
Notes from the Bishop of Saskatchewan's Journal, January to May, 1875.
Winnipeg: Printed at the Standard Office, 1875. 8 pp.

John McLean
The Principles of Church Action: A Sermon Preached before the Provincial Synod of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land in St. John's Cathedral, Winnipeg on 8th August 1883.
Winnipeg: Printed at the Office of the Manitoba Free Press, 1883. 4 pp.

John Horden
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Moosonee at His Primary Visitation.
London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1879. 36 pp.

Adelbert John Robert Anson
The Holy Catholic Church: Its Organization in the Time of the Apostles, A Lecture delivered by the Bishop of Qu'Appelle, Jan. 21, 1886.
London: SPCK, 1886. 40 pp.

Adelbert John Robert Anson
The Holy Catholic Church: Its Organization in the Time of the Apostles, A Lecture delivered by the Bishop of Qu'Appelle, Jan. 21, 1886.
New York: E. & J. B. Young, 1886. 40 pp.

John Horden
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Moosonee at His Second Visitation.
London: Seeley, 1887.

William Carpenter Bompas
Diocese of Mackenzie River (Colonial Church Histories)
London: SPCK, 1888. 108 pp.

William Carpenter Bompas
Diocese of Mackenzie River (Colonial Church Histories)
New York: E. & J. B. Young, 1888. 108 pp.

Report of the Synod of the Diocese of Athabasca, held July 6, 1888.
Winnipeg: Call Printing, 1888. 24 pp.

Richard Young
Journal of Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the Synod of the Diocese of Athabasca: North West Territories, Canada, September 29, 1891: Including the Bishop's Address.
Middle Church, Manitoba: Rupert's Land Indian Industrial School Press, 1891. 20 pp.

Richard Young
Diocese of Athabasca: Bishop's Annual Letter, 1892, St. Luke's Mission, Vermilion, December, 1891.
Rupert's Land Indian Industrial School Press, 1892. 8 pp.

Adelbert John Robert Anson
The Church and Her Work in New Settlements of Our Colonies. The Ramsden Sermon for 1893.
London: Skeffington, 1893. 16 pp.

William Carpenter Bompas
Northern Lights on the Bible: Drawn from a Bishop's Experience during Twenty-Five years in the Great North-West.
London: J. Nisbet, 1893. vi + 211 pp.

George Holmes
Lesser Slave Lake, Athabasca, North West Canada.
London: no publisher, 1896. 4 pp.

Richard Young
Circular Letter describing a Mission Journey through the Athabasca-Peace River Country.
Athabasca Landing: Mission Press, 1897.

Missions of the Church Missionary Society: The North West Canada Missions.
London: Church Missionary Society, 1907. 79 pp.

Missions of the Church Missionary Society: The North West Canada Missions.
London: Church Missionary Society, 1910. 79 pp.

Alfred Campbell Garrioch
A Hatchet Mark in Duplicate.
Toronto: Ryerson, 1929. vii, 282 pp

William Bertal Heeney
The Founding of Rupert's Land and Its First Bishop. An Address delivered on June 18, 1929.
Winnipeg: Douglass-McIntyre Printing, 1929. 33 pp.


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