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Administrative records
CA ON00340 F503-1 · Series · 1962-1971
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes of Executive and annual meetings, 1962-1972 (official); general files arranged by year including, for example, records of internal and international ecumenical committees, and correspondence of Board staff, and records of Crossroads Africa, 1961-1968.

Missionary files
CA ON00340 F503-3 · Series · 1951-1971
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of correspondence with individual missionaries, concerning work in the field, their own positions, and reports on other missionaries. There is a good deal of the correspondence of Sid Gilchrist, mission doctor in Angola and Zambia.

This material was removed from the files of the Board of World Mission and the Woman's Missionary Society of the United Church at some point in the past, and is now restored.

CA ON00340 F503-6 · Series · 1888-1969
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of a collection of pamphlets and documents written by Canadian missionaries and others, both in China and foreign countries, which documents issues of relevance to the China mission field. It covers evangelistic, medical, educational, political, social, economic and cultural issues. The collection is divided both geographically (West China, Honan, South China), and by topic. The pamphlets are arranged in numeric order within geographic and topical subseries: West China Mission (76 pamphlets); Honan (North) Mission including Christian Literature Society for Canada, 1888-1948 (25 pamphlets); South China Mission, 1902-1952 (5 pamphlets); culture, society, religion, industry, (39 pamphlets); history, politics, and geography (32 pamphlets); education and medicine (40 pamphlets); miscellaneous missions and Chinese Christian Church (83 pamphlets); young people's mission material (35 pamphlets). The documents are arranged under the following headings: medical and educational work; mission work and the Christian Church in China; social and political. Also included are unlisted ephemera and publications in Chinese.

CA ON00340 F503-23 · Series · 1925-1973
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes of various committees, correspondence, research papers and reports, background documents, and speeches relating to the following bodies: Canadian Council of Churches Department of Overseas Missions, 1947-1970; Foreign Mission Conference of North America, 1925-1950; National Council of Churches of Christ USA--Division of Overseas Ministries, 1951-1974; International Missionary Council, 1925-1961; and World Council of Churches: Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, 1971-1973.

Records relating to Angola
CA ON00340 F503-4 · Series · 1962-1976
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes of Church of Christ in Angola General Assembly and Executive Committee and related committees; correspondence of Board Secretaries with missionaries; reports, news clippings. Much of this material documents the political struggle and the role of the church leaders and missionaries. Arranged primarily by year.

CA ON00340 F503-7 · Series · 1951-1974
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes of the Hong Kong Interboard Committee, 1961-1973; correspondence of the Board of World Mission with missionaries, other Western organizations, and the Church of Christ in China Hong Kong Council; and reports, pamphlets and topical papers.

Records relating to India
CA ON00340 F503-8 · Series · 1962-1974
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes of the Committee of Missionaries, 1966-1974, and correspondence and financial records, 1962-1964; records (financial, minutes, reports) of Indian institutions, including Malwa Economic Development Society, Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Indore School of Social Work, and Madras Women's Christian College, United/Church of North India; personnel files for missionary and lay workers; India property records.

Also includes uncatalogued and unlisted pamphlets, reports, publications and ephemera relating to the church in India in boxes 37-52.

Records relating to Jamaica
CA ON00340 F503-10 · Series · 1962-1972
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes of the Union Theological College of the West Indies, 1966-1968; correspondence with the Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, and the United Church of Jamaica and Grand Cayman; and correspondence with missionaries.

Records relating to Japan
CA ON00340 F503-11 · Series · 1880-1971
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of correspondence between the Secretary-treasurers of the mission and the Board Secretaries, 1926-1971; minutes and reports of committees and institutions, 1926-1971; architectural drawings; pamphlets re the Japanese church, missionaries, and institutions, 1884-1971; English copies of directives sent to Shizuoka Eiwa School by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers for the reform of the educational system; and records of the Kobokan Settlement House, 1935-1938.

Records relating to Korea
CA ON00340 F503-13 · Series · 1926-1974
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series includes office files, 1962-1974, including records of the Mission Committee and re educational institutions such as Ewha Women's University and Yonsei University in Seoul, Wonju Union Christian Hospital, and the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea; missionary files; scholarship files; minutes and annual reports of Mission Council, Committee and Group; and subject files. Partly unorganized.

Records relating to Nepal
CA ON00340 F503-15 · Series · 1954-1974
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists primarily of published minutes of the Executive Committee and of the Board of Managers of the Mission, 1959-1965 and 1968-1974; correspondence of the Executive Secretary with the Board of World Mission, 1961-1972, and of the missionaries stationed there, as well as some general files.