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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.

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.

Records relating to Trinidad
CA ON00340 F503-19 · Series · 1925-1975
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of minutes and correspondence of the Mission Council, 1925-1956; minutes and correspondence of the Committee of Missionaries, 1957-1963; minutes and reports of the Committee on Women's Work, 1962-1967; financial records, 1925-1957; reports and correspondence of missionaries, 1925-1974; and records of educational institutions.

Records relating to Zambia
CA ON00340 F503-21 · Series · 1952-1977
Part of United Church of Canada Board of World Mission fonds

Series consists of records relating to the Mission, 1952-1973, including, for example, minutes of the two uniting Churches, the newly established United Church of Central Africa in Northern Rhodesia/of Zambia, and other related bodies; reports of the Mindolo Ecumenical Institute; correspondence between missionaries and secretaries; correspondence between the United Church and the participating British and Zambian Churches; financial reports; and newspaper clippings and miscellaneous reports. Also included are records of the Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation which after 1962 developed apart from the United Church of Zambia, 1962-1974.

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.

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.

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.