R.C. Scott papers

George H. Raley papers

Finding Aid 1-34

Updated June 22, 1997

Alaric Posey

Contents

R.C. Scott 1 George H. Ra/ey 5 Control List 6 Priv2 R.C. Scott fonds. - 1897-1978; predominant 1917-1960. - 40 cm textual records. - ca. 300 photographs. Robert Clyde Scott was born in Paisley, Bruce County, Ontario on November 15, 1879, the eldest son of Robert Scott and Euphemia McTaggart. He went to Alberta at around 1900, and worked for the C.P.R. as a brakeman and as a lay supply for the Methodist Missionaries in Red Deer. In 1907 he entered Victoria College, Toronto, and in 1911 graduated with a B.A.; he was received into full connexion at the Alberta Conference in 1912. In 1913 Scott came to British Columbia and began marine mission work on Howe Sound, with headquarters at Gibson's Landing. This work involved ministering to the physical as well as spiritual needs of those in the logging camps, Indian villages, fishing villages and lighthouses along the coast. He met Amelia Wakefield while he was stationed at Gibson's Landing, and they married on May 26, 1915. She gave birth to their only child, Robert Wakefield Scott on November 17, 1916. Amelia died in 1950. In 1917 Scott's headquarters were moved to Hazelton, and in 1919 he reopened the Indian Mission at Cape Mudge, the mission boat Iwill being brought to the coast for his use, and he remained there until 1925. From that point until 1933 he was stationed at Ocean Falls, with the mission boats Thomas Crosby II and Thomas Crosby IV; During the years 1933-1934 Scott was stationed on the West coast of Vancouver Island, with the mission boat Melvin Swartout. He left marine work in 1933, when he was appointed principal of the Coqualeetza Residential School (previously the Coqualeetza Institute), succeeding George H. Raley in that post. The following year, he was elected President of the B.C. Conference of the United Church. When the Coqualeetza school closed, and the Alberni Indian Residential School was opened, Scott moved to the new school as principal, and remained until 1944. For the next four years Scott was on disability leave due to a severe throat condition. In May of 1947, he completed his book My Captain Oliver (United Church Publishing House, 1947), about Captain William Oliver, who built and skippered the Thomas Crosby III. In 1948 Scott retired and took over the position of visiting chaplain to patients in the Coqualeetza sanitarium, and then to patients in the Hospital for Indians in Nanaimo; later that year, the United Church honored him with the addition of the Robert C. Scott to its fleet, and he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity by Union College of British Columbia in 1950. On October 5, 1951, Scott married his second wife, Eunice Phillips of Richmond, B.C. He continued his hospital visits until his death in Vancouver on June 4, 1960. The bulk of the records likely were received from Eunice Scott prior to her death in 1980; the smaller 1984 accession was passed on to Lawrence Sieber by Eunice' executor Grace Schutz in 1983, for transfer to the archives. Fonds consists of the following series: Vital records, 1930-1960; Marine mission records, 1919-1948; Committee and institutional records, 1897-1958; Financial records and fundraising, 1923-1957; Correspondence files, 1917-1960; Manuscripts and writings, 1919-1951; Published and collected materials, 1918-1959; and Photographs. Arrangement: Some records of George H. Raley, probably received by Scott around the time of Raley's death in 1958 and kept separately, are physically arranged with these records, but are described separately under Raley's name. Finding Aids: Series descriptions and folder list available. 1. Scott, Robert Clyde 2. Melvin Swartout I (Mission boat) 3. Thomas Crosby III (Mission boat) 4. Thomas Crosby IV (Mission boat) 5. United Church of Canada. West Coast Mission (B.C.) 6. Coqualeetza Institute (Residential school: Sardis, B.C.) 7. Alberni Indian Residential School (Port Alberni, B.C.) 8. Scott, Eunice M. 9. Sieber, Lawrence G. I. Scott, Amelia II. Raley, George H. III. Cape Mudge (B.C.) Outer Dates: 1897 - 1960 Fonds description. Private Records — Individuals and Families. Guide Entries: 1. Aboriginal Records Location: 1-34 1. Gate McNeely April 1986 2. Alaric Posey June 13, 1997

Priv 2 .01 Vital records. — 1930-1960. - 4.0 cm textual records. Series includes Baptismal records, 1930-1960; Burial records, 1939-1957; and Marriage records, 1940-1958, including some correspondence. 1. Scott, Robert Clyde I. Baptismal records II. Burial records III. Marriage records (Church) Outer Dates: 1930- 1960 Series description. Private Records ~ Individuals and Families. Location: 1-34: 1/4, 1/5, 1/6 1. Alaric Posey June 17, 1997

Priv 2 .02 Marine mission records . — 1919-1978; predominant 1919-1948. — 7.5 cm textual records. Series includes Logs of the Iwyll, Thomas Crosby III and IV, and the Melvin Swartout I, the latter including related reports, 1919-1948; Invoices and correspondence relating to the construction of the Thomas Crosby III, 1926-1928; West Coast Missions correspondence, 1926-1934; and a Master's certificate, 1927. Arrangement: Many records relating to missions were kept in the financial records notebooks or in the correspondence files. Some of Eunice Scott's records (1960-1978) were filed with these records as well. 1. Scott, Robert Clyde 2. Iwyll (Mission boat) 3. Thomas Crosby III (Mission boat) 4. Thomas Crosby IV (Mission boat) 5. Melvin Swartout I (Mission boat) 6. United Church of Canada. West Coast Mission (B.C.) 7. Scott, Eunice M. Outer Dates: 1919- 1948 Series description. Private Records — Individuals and Families. Location: 1-34: 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 2/5, 3/8, 3/11, 3/12, 3/14 1. Alaric Posey June 17, 1997 Priv 2 .03 Committee and institutional records. — 1897-1958; predominant 1945-1958. — 5.0 cm textual records. Series includes records of the Coqualeetza Indian Hospital and Coqualeetza Fellowship, 1945-1957; of the Coqualeetza Institute and Alberni Indian Residential School, 1897-1900 and 1939-1944; of the Conference committee Sunday School in the Home, 1951-1958; and of Vancouver Presbytery, 1958. Arrangement: Many records relating to missions were kept in the financial records notebooks, or in correspondence files. 1. Scott, Robert Clyde 2. Coqualeetza Indian Hospital (Sardis, B.C.) 3. Coqualeetza Institute (Residential school: Sardis, B.C.) 4. Coqualeetza Fellowship (Alumni association) 5. United Church of Canada. British Columbia Conference. Sunday School in the Home Committee 6. United Church of Canada. Vancouver Presbytery Outer Dates: 1897- 1958 Series description. Private Records ~ Individuals and Families. Location: 1-34: 2/1,2/2,2/3,2/4,3/10 1. AlaricPosey June 17, 1997

Priv 2 .04 Financial records and fundraising. — 1923-1957. ~ 5.0 cm textual records. Scott kept many different kinds of financial records together in notebooks. The few birth and death records in the second volume appear to have been superseded by entries in another register. Includes four bound volumes of records, including personal and church accounts, mortgages, salaries, monies raised for home missions, mailing checklists, and books lent. 1. Scott, Robert Clyde Outer Dates: 1923 - 1957 Series description. Private Records ~ Individuals and Families. Location: 1-34: 2/6,3/1,3/2,3/3 1. AlaricPosey June 17, 1997

Priv 2 .05 Correspondence files. — 1917-1960. — 7.0 cm textual records. The correspondence files were kept on the basis of a subject filing system, with one file assigned to a correspondent, place, or type of business. Series includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, and related records. Finding Aids: Folder list available. 1. Scott, Robert Clyde Outer Dates: 1917-1960 Series description. Private Records — Individuals and Families. Location: 1-34: 1/13-1/23,2/7,3/4-3/7,3/13 1. Alaric Posey June 17, 1997

3 Priv 2 .06 Manuscripts and writings / Robert C. Scott. — 1919-1951; predominant 1925-1947. — 4.0 cm textual records. Series includes articles published by the church; a personal diary dated 1919-1945; a typescript of My Captain Oliver dated 1947; and records of services held and evangelism at Indian hospitals in Sardis, [Chilliwack?] and Nanaimo. 1. Scott, Robert Clyde Outer Dates: 1919-1951 Series description. Private Records — Individuals and Families. Location: 1-34: 1/9,1/10,1/11,1/12 1. Alaric Posey June 17, 1997

Priv 2 .07 Published and collected materials. — 1918-1959. — 3.0 cm textual records. Series includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets and periodicals, unpublished poems by W. Howey, and transcripts of Basil Mathew's sermons from August 1944 to October 1945. Topics of the published materials include the mission boats, the Indian and oriental missions in B.C. and abroad, and church stewardship. 1. Scott, Robert Clyde 2. Mathews, Basil 3. Howey, W. Outer Dates: 1918-1959 Series description. Private Records — Individuals and Families. Location: 1-34: 2/8-2/14,3/9 1. Alaric Posey June 17, 1997

Priv 2 .08 Photographs . - [191-?]-[194-?] — ca. 230 photographs : b&w. - 70 glass plate slides : b&w. Subjects of the photographs include family, the marine missions, students of the Coqualeetza Institute. Some of the photographs were published in My Captain Oliver (Toronto: United Church Publishing House, 1947). 1. Scott, Robert Clyde Outer Dates: 1910- 1950 Series description. Private Records — Individuals and Families. Location: 1-34: Box 4 Notes: Date of creation needs fixing 1. Alaric Posey June 17, 1997 Priv3 George H. Raley fonds. - 1893-1954. - 3.0 cm textual records. George Henry Raley was born to George Jackson Raley and Ann Emsley Raley in Yorkshire, England in 1865. He came to Canada in the late 1870's, settling in Brockville, Ontario, and entered the Methodist ministry as a probationer in 1884, being ordained in 1889. In 1890 he married Maude Giles of Brockville. He transferred to British Columbia in 1897 to set up a permanent mission at Kitamaat. He and Maude built the mission home, the school, later named the Elizabeth Long Memorial Home after its first matron, and a residence for the school while he was stationed there; during this period he also began the printing of one of the first newspapers of Northern B.C., the Na-Na-Kwa, or The Dawn (of the Northwest Coast). In 1906 he was transferred to Port Simpson, where he helped rebuild the historic church built there by Thomas Crosby and the local Indians, and the mission house which had recently been destroyed by fire. He was elected President of the B.C. Conference in 1912. He was appointed Principal of the Coqualeetza Institute in Sardis in 1914, and served there until his retirement in 1933, the same year in which he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union College. Maude Raley died a few years later, in 1939. Raley wrote and published prolifically after his retirement, on the history, culture and economic problems of British Columbia's indiginous peoples, and on the legal and moral responsibilities of government and Canadian society to the indiginous peoples. He was a Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Society of the Arts, and also wrote for the Art, Historical and Scientific Association of B.C. He lived in Vancouver with his daughter Judith Charleston from 1939 until his death in 1958; he was survived by Judith and a son, George E. Raley. The records were probably passed on to Robert Scott at around the time of Raley's death, and were transferred to the archives as part of R.C. Scott's papers. Although Scott appears to have kept Raley's records separate from his own, they are physically arranged with the R.C. Scott fonds. Fonds consists of two files: Baptismal and death records, 1893-1954, and Marriage records, 1893-1951. Some of the records are written on the reverse side of pages from a draft essay on Indian arts and industry. Associated Material: The bulk of Raley's papers are currently at the British Columbia Archives and Records Service. 1. Raley, George H. 2. Scott, Robert Clyde I. Raley, Maude II. Charlton, Judith III. Elizabeth Long Memorial Home (Kitamaat) IV. Coqualeetza Institute (Residential school: Sardis, B.C.) V. Port Simpson (B.C.) VI. Baptismal records VII. Death records VIII. Marriage records (Church) Outer Dates: 1893 - 1954 Fonds description. Private Records — Individuals and Families. Guide Entries: 1. Aboriginal Records Location: 1-34: 1/7, 1/8 1. AlaricPosey June 18, 1997

r Control List

1-34: R.C. Scott and George H. Raley

Boxl Marine mission records (Priv 2 .02) £»x 5»'"73f 1 /I Log of the mission boat Twyll 1 9 1 9- 1 922

1/2 Log of the mission boats Thomas Crosby m and Thomas Crosby IV 1925-1948

1 /3 Log of the mission ship Mel vin S wartout I and related reports 1933-1934 Also - In Box 2: . 2/5 Invoices and correspondence regarding the construction of Thomas Crosby UI, 1 926- 1 928 (Some business regarding mission work in Queen Charlotte City and Hippa Island) In Box 3: .. &** 5~1S 3/1 1 Pages from the log of the Thomas Crosby April 1 93 1

3/1 2 Marine mission and other records 1926-1971 (Predominant 1926-1934 - records of Eunice Scott following note were in between folders)

3/1 4 Master's Certificate, 1 927

Vital records (Priv 2 .01) &>x &~7'3 1/4 Baptismal records 1930-1960

1/5 Burial records 1939-1957

1/6 Marriage and divorce records _ 1940-1958 £/S O.'W.H"] Qof^Ai Ca W; :,,;(,:: .. l^So Vital records of George Raley (Priv 3) r~y - "7,,% I II Baptismal and death records 1 893- 1 954

1/8 Marriage records 1893-1951 Box 1 continued . . .

Manuscripts and writings (Priv 2.06)

I /9 Articles written for religious publications (c. 1930)

1/10 Personal diary c.1919-1945 (One bound volume + five loose pages)

1/11 Typescript of My Captain Oliver 1947

1 /12 Record of services held, trips to Sardis Indian Hospital 1934-1951 (Also a Communion roll from Coqualeetza Indian Hospital)

Correspondence files (Priv 2.05)

1/13 Campbell Island 1956

1/14 CapeMudge 1920-1953

1/15 Dr. W.P. Bunt 1945-1949 (Also in Box 3:) A,> S~"! ,K" 3/4 Dr. Bunt, 1953 1953-1954

1 /16 Indian Hospital at Nanaimo 1945-1956 (Letters and circulars to patients and letters to the superintendent)

1/17 M.V. Melvm Swartout II 1951-1954 (Order of service and dedication of service, correspondence)

1/18 My Captain Oliver 1949-1954

1/19 Naramata 1942-1956

1 /20 Native associations c. 1942-1956 (Includes correspondence with The Native Voice and others)

1/21 Personal 1917-1957

1 /22 Stamps and missions 1932-1956 (Includes correspondence with Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa and others)

1 /23 Union College 1950-1957 (Primarily concerning Scott's honorary doctorate, convocation, etc.) Box 1, Correspondence files. Priv 2 .05 continued . . .

Also in Boxes 2 and 3: &.:„• C.~7l*r 2/7 Pension fund 1933-1960 (Primarily correspondence between Scott and the pension fund concerning his pension, disability leave, and retirement, with related records) &** 5T7.S" 3/5 Indian, Letters from 1924-193 3 (Also one circular from Indian Affairs)

3/6 Sanford, Rev. O.M., Chairman Van. W. District 1922-1925

3/7 White, Edward 1923 (On building of a mission launch, probably the Edward White)

3/13 Superannuation fund 1915-1937

Box 2 Committee and institutional records (Priv 2.03) 64 * 5-7 £j 2/1 Coqualeetza Indian Hospital and Coqualeetza Fellowship 1945-1957

2/2 Coqualeetza Residential (Institute) School and Albemi Residential School 1897-1944

2/3 Sunday School in the Home - by Mail and Air (Conference Committee) 1951 -1958

2/4 Vancouver Presbytery 1958 Also in Box 3: ft a x 5," ~~]

Financial records and fundraising (Priv 2 .04) £>** $7 if 2/6 Financial journal and receipts 1 928- 1 957 (Poem "Lucky Me (Child Philosophy)" was found here and removed to 2/9) (2/5 and 2/7 see Marine mission records and Correspondence files respectively) Also in Box 3: 3/1 Missionary subscriptions ("Record") 1922-1928 (Some births and deaths, likely superseded by records elsewhere)

3/2 Day Book, September 1923 1923-1932 (Including books lent, registers of outgoing correspondence and other records)

3/3 Letters to patients, mailing list of Sardis & Nanaimo, and Communion roll, July 3 1 , 1 950 1 929- 1951 (Includes mailing lists and outgoing correspondence, as well as financial records and roll) Box 2 continued . . .

Published and collected materials (Priv 2.07)

2/8 British Columbia newspaper clippings c. 1948-1959

2/9 Canadian Poets 1918-1922 (May have been a transcribed title; contents are poems by W. Howey)

2/10 Church of Christ 1923-1945 Clippings on Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa Evangelism, Vol.I, No.4. Duncan, B.C., 1945. RE. Fairbairn. The Simple Gospel and Why I Don't Preach It. Toronto: Methodist Church of Canada. Board of Evangelism and Social Service, 1923.

2/11 Disasters in B.C. newspaper clippings 1924-1945

2/12 Fellowship for a Christian Order 1932-1950 Pamphlets, booklets, clippings and circulars - authors include Winston Churchill, Toyohiko Kagawa, and William Fetler (Russian author); series include Ryerson Essays, The Christian Hope and The Quest for Peace.

2/13 Stewardship and tithing 1921 -1926 United Church of Canada. Stewardship material for Speakers. Toronto: UCC, 1926. S.W. Dean, Ed. The New Christian Steward, Vol.3, No.3. Toronto: Methodist Church of Canada, 1923. New Christian Steward, Vol.1, No.2 (1921).

2/14 Indians 1926-1958 Charles H. Questis. The Problem of the Indian in Alberta. Red Deer, 1911. Billy Oksak. "Lines on the Death of an Aged Blind Indian." Unpublished, 1924. Indian Time, Vol.3, No.3. (Vancouver, n.d.) . Vol.3, No.4. . Vol.3, No. 1. Also in Box 3: <§

3/4 - 3/7, 3/13 Correspondence (pp.7-8)

3/8, 3/11,3/12, 3/14 Marine mission records (p.6)

3/9 Published and collected materials (p.9)

3/10 Committee and institutional records (p. 8)

Box 4 ~ Photographs (Priv 2.08) fi> ^,x ••'•'•> / &

Box 5 — Photographs — Glass plate slides (Priv 2.08)

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