File consists of the Fall 1957 issue of "The Challenge", a publication of the B.C. Diocese of the Anglican Church, containing a photograph of the church of St. John the Baptist in Whaletown taken by Doris Maclean, which was the winner of a picture contest.
File consists of the Fall 1957 issue of "The Challenge", a publication of the B.C. Diocese of the Anglican Church, containing a photograph of the church of St. John the Baptist in Whaletown taken by Doris Maclean, which was the winner of a picture contest.
Sous-fonds consists of records of the Whaletown Women's Auxiliary. It is arranged in seven series: Minutes, Administrative Records, Financial, Correspondence, Subject Files, Ephemera and Artifacts. See also Gilean Douglas fonds (1999.001) for related material.
The Whaletown Women's Auxiliary of the Anglican Church (ca. 1949 - 1974) was a group which provided support for the the Columbia Coast Mission and the Anglican Church. From 1949 to 1961, the CCM maintained a station at Whaletown comprising a mission house, clinic building and the church of St. John the Baptist, which opened on August 13, 1950. Mission properties on Cortes Island were transferred to the Diocese in 1967.
Custodial History
Records were donated to CIMAS by the Island Women's Club in 2009.
Scope and Content
Sous-fonds consists of records of the Whaletown Women's Auxiliary. It is arranged in seven series: Minutes, Administrative Records, Financial, Correspondence, Subject Files, Ephemera and Artifacts. See also Gilean Douglas fonds (1999.001) for related material.
