Archbishops' Western Canada Fund
IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0109 MS 3984; Davidson 241-245
Held at: Lambeth Palace Library
Domain: archival
Title: Archbishops' Western Canada Fund
Date(s) of contents: 1908-1921
Level of description: Sub-fonds
Extent and medium: 5 volumes of archival material and one photograph album
CONTEXT
Name of creator(s):
Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Archbishops' Western Canada Fund was set up in 1910 by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Randall Thomas Davidson) and the Archbishop of York (Cosmo Gordon Lang), in answer to an appeal from the primate of all Canada to assist the Anglican Church's ministry to settlers in Western Canada. The fund closed in 1920.
See also:
The work of the Archbishops' Fund in Western Canada (1910).
Custodial history:
Immediate source of acquisition: Transfer from Lambeth Palace (Davidson 241-245); MS. 3984 presented by Mary Boyd, daughter of W.G. Boyd, 1991.
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Scope and content/abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence with the Archbishop of Canterbury about the work of the Fund, and of copies of minutes of the Fund, plus a photograph album of Reverend W. G. Boyd, missionary.
System of arrangement:
The collection forms part of the Davidson Papers (volumes 241, ff. 115-429, and 242-5).
ACCESS AND USE
Language: English.
Conditions governing access:
A full reader's ticket is required.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
Catalogue of the correspondence and papers of Randall Thomas Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury, 1903-1928, (typescript, 1993).
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: 22nd March 2002.
- INDEX ENTRIES
- Subjects
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- Missionary societies
- Missionary work
- Photographs
- Religious activities
- Religious organizations
- Visual materials
- Missionary societies
- Personal names
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- Boyd | W G | Reverend | missionary
- Davidson | Randall Thomas | 1848-1930 | Archbishop of Canterbury 1903-1928
- Boyd | W G | Reverend | missionary
- Corporate names
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- Archbishops' Western Canada Fund
- Archbishops' Western Canada Fund
- Places
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- Americas
- Canada
- North America
- Americas