Anglican Journal Since 1875 anglicanjournal.com @anglicanjournal vol. 146 no. 2 february 2020 Anglican heraldry a ‘There is truth here’ rich, artistic expression Residential and day school student artwork of church identity displayed at exhibit Matt Gardner staff writer Matt Gardner About a year ago, Barry Hill was staff writer rummaging through old files at the historic In 1960, a child named Jim Wastasecoot Mohawk Chapel in Brantford, Ont., “just painted a picture. Originally from Peguis to see what was in the musty manuscripts,” First Nation, Jim was around 10 years when he made an exciting discovery: a old and a student at Mackay Dauphin letter postmarked by Buckingham Palace. Residential School in Manitoba, run by image: courtesy Dated June 7, 2005, the letter was sent the Anglican Church of Canada, when he of the anglican from the Chapel Royal at St. James Palace foundation and addressed to Hill’s predecessor as chair created his painting. The Anglican Fifty-five years later, Jim Wastasecoot, of the Mohawk Chapel Committee—a Military position Hill has held since 2013. The letter now a father and grandfather, stood Ordinariate’s apprehensively with his wife Karen and confirmed that as a result of petitions made coat of arms— in March 2005 by the chief of Six Nations adult daughter Lorilee in front of a box at an example of the University of Victoria anthropology and Tyendinaga, a grant had been made for Anglican heraldry lab. Inside the box was a collection of a coat of arms to represent “Her Majesty’s artwork from residential school students, Royal Chapel of the Mohawks.” including his own. With the passage of Hill enlisted the advice of the Rev. decades, however, Jim had forgotten the Canon David Bowyer, a member of the subject of his painting. Heraldry Society of Canada, to sketch up “I was absolutely sick to my stomach all some designs for a coat of arms, which morning, because I didn’t know what my the chapel sent to Ottawa. After some dad painted,” recalls Lorilee. “I didn’t know correspondence and suggestions, the coat how he would react, because we don’t of arms for Mohawk Chapel now has really talk about residential school a lot in a finalized design and has been sent to our family.” England for review and royal assent. Opening up the box, the family While Mohawk Chapel has a special began looking through the children’s status among Canadian Anglican paintings, which Lorilee says was “a very churches—being the first Anglican church powerful experience…like you opened in Upper Canada, the oldest surviving up a box of spirits or something.” As they church in Ontario and one of only three flipped through, University of Victoria See HERALDIC PRACTICE, p. 9 anthropologist Andrea Walsh warned them that Jim’s painting was coming up. rare examples of Indigenous children being When he finally gazed upon his long- 5 At centre, allowed to express their creativity and Michael Thompson to retire as lost painting, Jim let out what his daughter Jim Wastasecoot humanity in an otherwise dehumanizing described as a sigh of relief. Karen and stands with general secretary in June environment. Lorilee looked at the painting, and they too a childhood Art from students at three residential By Tali Folkins felt relieved. portrait of his staff writer schools and one day school could be seen “He painted something very beautiful, family, painted at the exhibit. Inkameep Indian Day School Archdeacon Michael and that was a picture of himself with while he was a was run by the Roman Catholic Church; Thompson, who has served as his mum and his dad and his little sister,” student at the Alberni Indian Residential School was general secretary of the General Lorilee says. Mackay Dauphin managed by the Women’s Foreign Mission Synod since 2011, will retire “He painted his family…. My mum and Residential Society of the Presbyterian Church and later June 30. I started crying. It was just so beautiful…. School. Flanking the United Church of Canada. Two of the In an email to General Synod By the end of the day, I felt happy and photo: saskia rowley Jim are wife schools—Mackay Indian Residential School staff on Jan. 6, Archbishop hopeful that these paintings had survived Michael Thompson Karen and in Dauphin, Man., and St. Michael’s Indian Linda Nicholls, primate of the all of these years, and that we have daughter Lorilee, Residential and Day School in Alert Bay, Anglican Church of Canada, Nicholls said she would work something very precious that my dad made co-curator of B.C.—were administered by the Anglican wrote that Thompson had told with the Council of General from the school with us today.” an exhibit of Church of Canada. her of his decision to retire Synod (CoGS) to form a search Jim Wastasecoot’s painting was one art created In a reflection on the University of shortly before beginning his committee with the purpose of many on display from April 2019 to in residential Victoria website, Jim Wastasecoot reveals current sabbatical leave, which of helping her nominate a January 2020 as part of an exhibit at the schools—art that he had no memory of painting the will run from January until the candidate. Museum of Vancouver. Entitled There is that was usually picture of his family. end of March. Thompson was principal Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in forbidden. “But,” he writes, “it makes sense that I “Michael has served as secretary to Archbishop Michael Children’s Art from Indian Residential and Peers, former primate of the photo: contributed would have painted that being a child and both Principal Secretary to the Indian Day Schools, the exhibit presented missing your parents a thousand miles Primate and General Secretary Anglican Church of Canada, away. Going to bed at night, after lights out. over many years,” Nicholls wrote from 2001 to 2004. He was I would hear the train whistle blow and I in her email. “His leadership of also principal author of Vision would be reminded of my home at mile 412 General Synod and work on the 2019, the church’s strategic plan, where my father worked on the Hudson Bay settlement regarding residential which concluded last year, and railway. And I would cry in longing for their schools have been unstintingly served on many General Synod c omp any.” offered with grace, compassion committees. Walsh is the Vancouver museum’s curator and wisdom. He now will have The general secretary over- PM# 40069670 for There is Truth Here. The collection of an opportunity to exercise other sees the day-to-day operations artwork in the exhibit marks a culmination gifts of ministry in new ways in of the Anglican Church of See RARE ART, p. 6 his retirement.” Canada’s national office. g 2 anglican journal • february 2020

TRENDS4 More visitors seek cathedrals, historic churches The Rachel Farmer congregation is from cruise ships or from acns vacation tours,” he says. English way “ In a time when attention has begun to St. Anne’s Anglican Church, in Toronto, of doing focus increasingly on declining church while younger than Holy Trinity and St. Paul’s, nevertheless attracts some tourists cathedrals is attendance, some places of Anglican interested in heritage and the arts. Built in to be really worship in both England and Canada— 1907, the church borrows its dome from including English cathedrals—are seeing an carefully the tradition of Byzantine architecture, increase in visitors. engaged exemplified by the Hagia Sophia in Visitors to Church of England cathedrals Istanbul. During the 1920s, ten artists, stewards numbered 10 million in 2018—an increase including three future members of the of art of all of more than 10% on the previous year, Group of Seven, painted the murals that according to a November report published generations. grace the church’s interior—the Group’s by the church. —Canon Gary only known religious works. There were also more than a million van der Meer, didn’t also play a role in some tourist visits. Recently the church has been more visitors to Westminster Abbey, the report 5 Quebec City’s incumbent, St. A National Historic Site of Canada, Holy intentional about inviting these visitors, states, and attendance at some major Cathedral of the Anne’s Anglican Trinity became the first Anglican cathedral says Canon Gary van der Meer, incumbent Church, Toronto Christian festivals grew. Some 58,000 Holy Trinity saw built outside the British Isles when it was at St. Anne’s. It offers a monthly tour, people attended cathedrals at Easter and almost 100,000 completed in 1804. Generating income participation in which has grown over the more visitors in 95,000 during Holy Week—the highest through tourist visits is important to the last three or so years from two or three 2018 than five numbers recorded for a decade. cathedral, Byrne says, given its costs— people to a dozen or more. years previous. On the other hand, participation at including an estimated $4 million in repairs English cathedrals, van der Meer says, Christmas services in cathedrals slipped to photo: luc-antoine needed over the next decade. tend to attract visitors for a number of couturier 133,000 in 2018, from 135,000 the previous Another National Historic Site, St. Paul’s reasons: the appeal of choral evensong, the year, and the number of people attending Anglican Church in Halifax, has seen a history of the buildings and the art in them. usual cathedral services every week also fell gradually growing influx of tourist-visitors “What they have as an advantage over slightly to 36,700 from 37,000 in 2017. in recent years, says the Rev. Paul Friesen, us is the sheer age of those magnificent Some of the more historic Anglican rector. Visits to St. Paul’s—the oldest buildings,” he says. “And the English way churches in Canada, also, have been seeing continuous Anglican place of worship of doing cathedrals is to be really carefully brisk attendance by visitors in recent years. in Canada, as well as Halifax’s oldest engaged stewards of art of all generations, so Quebec City’s Cathedral of the Holy Trinity building—now total between 12,000 and they’ll have exhibits that are art installations had 240,000 visitors in 2018—up from 14,000 per year, Friesen says. or paintings all through the cathedral that 149,000 five years previously, says Tommy Tourist-visitors, Friesen says, are drawn are episodic—they’re there and then they’re Byrne, project manager at the cathedral. A to the 270-year-old church by an interest in gone. And so they really take the role of the 2013 marketing study showed that 96% of history. Some also come to worship. cathedral to another level of representation its visitors come for culture, heritage, music “A lot of the visitors come to liturgies of Christ in civilization.” g and other non-religious factors, he says— at St. Paul’s, so you might look out in —with files from Tali Folkins, Anglican Journal though this doesn’t suggest spirituality the middle of July and find half the Staff Writer

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Thanks to donors, AFC reachedIn addition its goal to infrastructure of $1,000,000 and restoration disbursements in disbursements to supportof $318,000, ministry AFC provided in Canada! $146,000 for innovative ministry projects, and $47,750 for theological education bursaries. Additionally, AFC reached its goal for 2019 of The Anglican Foundation of Canada (AFC) has announced giving away its $100,000th dollar from the Kids Helping $520,000 in funding to support new projects across Kids Fund to support before-school breakfast programs, Canada in its November cycle of awards. AFC’s board of after-school homework“When clubs, we support choir and camps nurture and our hospice children, directors met in Toronto on November 20–21, 2019 to care for children. review its strategic road map and begin to chart a new we inspire cartwheels in their hearts.”—Fred Rogers course for 2020–2023, in addition to awarding grants to over 40 applicants. From coast to coast to coast, the donations of Canadian Anglicans are making it possible to fund ministry of all kinds: “At a time when it is possible to feel discouraged about educational resources for children and youth, theological current statistics about the future of the Anglican Church education, musical composition, art installations, creative of Canada, AFC’s Board of Directors is inspired to receive liturgies reflecting new realities of worshippers, and applications from all across the country for project summer camps for young refugees to Canada. proposals that will build up faith communities,” says the Rev. Canon Dr. Judy Rois, AFC’s executive director. “I am encouraged by the resilience of Canadian Anglicans whose small buds of faith are springing up in imaginative and diverse ways to enhance ministry,” she said.www.anglicanfoundation.org anglican journal • february 2020 3

THE INTERVIEW4 ‘Something understood’ English poet Malcolm Guite on prayer, priesthood and sonnets

Joelle Kidd Part of your new book is in response I don’t staff writer to a George Herbert poem. Could you think of The Rev. Malcolm Guite is an English poet tell me more about what you find so “ and musician. He is an ordained Anglican compelling about Herbert, and how my priestly vocation as priest, a chaplain and teacher at Girton you think his work speaks to today? College, University of Cambridge, and has I think his work does speak to today— one thing and written nine books—including five books my poetic though obviously you have to get around of poetry. His sonnets have been praised the fact that he was writing in the early vocation as by former Archbishop of Canterbury 17th century. [His] book was published another. I think Rowan Williams as having “economy and posthumously—shortly after he died a pungency,” offering “deep resources for of them really friend of his published them in 1633 in a prayer and meditation to the reader.” book called The Temple, and [it’s] actually as two aspects His most recent collection of poetry, never been out of print since. [His poems After Prayer, was released through of the same are] very beautiful and very heartfelt. Canterbury Press in October and begins vocation. He’s a very honest poet, and a very, with a series of sonnets responding to what you might call comprehensive poet. George Herbert’s poem “Prayer.” In I’ve often found that religious discourse advance of Herbert’s feast day February 27, nowadays is quite often not only very the Journal spoke to Guite about his poetic limited in the topics it deals with, but influences and how his art and faith work photo: contributed certainly in some churches it’s all about together in his life. This interview has been having these upbeat experiences and edited for length. including George Herbert, who has now I was become a very significant person for me. smiling, you know, because you found Jesus. I find [Herbert’s] writing about faith You’re a priest, poet, a musician, a suddenly in an In the course of studying them, really, much more compelling than something that chaplain. How do all those different “ I began to discern that I might have a atmosphere doesn’t admit to its struggles or difficulties. things fit together in your life? vocation in myself to priesthood. I couldn’t in which I see many sort of priests or vicars in the But the poem that particularly inspired In a sense they’re all sort of linked— could be both church that it was then, looking around the new book is a poem of George Herbert’s particularly the songs and the poems, a priest and, me, that looked or felt remotely like me! called “Prayer.” It’s a sonnet, so it’s only although it’s a different kind of writing. 14 lines. But in the 14 lines he just gives if you like, a But on the other hand, in these two figures When you’re writing a poem, in a sense from the late 16th, early 17th century— you a series of little nuggets if you like, the language itself has to carry its own literary person. both Anglicans, both priests and poets—I little images, each of which is prayer if you music with it. You have to think more fully Suddenly, that found two distinctly compelling figures. So want to reflect on it. Some of the phrases about metre and the sound of it, whereas seemed to I began to test vocation, and indeed, that have become very famous, like “heaven in obviously if you’re writing a song, you’ve ordinary.” Or, at one point, he says prayer is almost open vocation was confirmed by the church. got the melody to do some of the meaning “the six-days world transposing in an hour.” the floodgates, I studied and came back to Cambridge for you. to do theology, having done English, and But he also has a section in the middle Unlike many contemporary poets, I’m and I began to then was ordained in 1990. where he talks about struggle in prayer, very interested in reviving and using the write again. In a sense the poet in me was partly and he says prayer is “engine against th’ old forms—the sonnet, the villanelle, using expressed and fulfilled just simply by Almighty, sinner’s tow’r” and “Christ-side- metre. I don’t want to write archaically; I being a priest. If you think, as a poet you’re piercing spear.” That’s quite sharp. don’t want to write a sort of Shakespeare trying to get in ordered shape a succession The poem finishes like this: pastiche. So I’m using modern language of words which will be transformative for The milkie way, the bird of Paradise, and, I hope, reasonably modern syntax. the people who take them up into their Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the But I’m still trying to preserve the beauty hearts and minds and change things, well, souls bloud, of the form of a thing like a sonnet or a of course that’s exactly what liturgy does. The land of spices, something understood. terza rima or a villanelle. There’s a sense in which at the end of every It just ends with those modest words, communion service more was happening “Something understood.” When did you start writing poetry? through beautiful language than I could I’d been reading this poem and actually I had various phases. I started writing have ever done in a poem anyway. using it [when leading] retreats. There are poetry with a great intensity in my late After about seven years, doing very 26 images plus the phrase “Something teens, as one does—partly kind of inspired, hard work without giving myself a lot of understood” in this short poem. I figured in fact, by Keats. What I was attracted to time for renewal and refreshment, I was that each one of these, if you explore it, immediately was the sound of Keats: the getting close to burnout, and so I had a is really rich. And I remember saying to very, very beautiful, mellifluous sound, a sabbatical. I had three months off, and some people on a retreat once, “Maybe you kind of music in the language itself—I’ve my bishop said, you can do what you like should pick the one that appeals to you the always tried to retain that. So I wrote a with this, really. And it was like suddenly most and see if it could be the beginning of lot of quite splurge-y, intense adolescent becoming aware of a deep thirst you’ve a new poem for you.” poetry. But that was also when I started been repressing. I thought, all I need is One day I was on retreat myself and to experiment with sonnets. I wrote a few poetry. I thought, maybe I should take a leaf out sonnets and those are the only things of I sat down—this was towards the end of my own book, try this out. So I began that period that, in a sense, survive. of the ’90s—and basically reread the main quietly to meditate on each of these phrases I carried on as an undergraduate body of English poetry. Not just religious and write an answering sonnet for each student at university, but then I [became] a poetry, but everything, all the stuff I’d one of these phrases, trying to think about teacher. I found that full-time teaching in a studied as an undergraduate. I didn’t what it meant for us now in a contemporary regular state high school did not leave a lot expect that to renew my faith, but it did. world. I realized as I did it not only how rich of time for writing poetry. So the creative Out of that eventually came a book they were, but actually they’re not a random side of me flowed into playing guitar, blues called Faith, Hope and Poetry. I began to jumble of phrases. They sort of tell a story. guitar—but mainly comic blues; I used to go, okay, I need to write again. I moved So as I sort of slowed the poem down, I make up topical blues songs about the life from parish ministry into university found that in writing I could not only open of the school. ministry, into chaplaincy, and that meant out the journey that’s in the poem, but I While I was teaching, I felt I needed I could do a bit of teaching in English. So realized it was also my own journey—and to sort of rekindle my academic life and I was suddenly in an atmosphere in which perhaps a lot of other Christians’ journey, deepen my faith a bit, so I began a PhD I could be both a priest and, if you like, a where you go through times of darkness about John Donne, the English poet, and literary person. Suddenly, that seemed to and difficulty. But when you recover, what Lancelot Andrewes, who was a sort of almost open the floodgates, and I began you recover is mature—and better than the older contemporary of his. It was about to write again. thing you had before. g how their preaching influenced the poetry I don’t think of my priestly vocation of T.S. Eliot. While I was working on that, as one thing and my poetic vocation as After Prayer is available on amazon.ca and I became deeply attracted to Donne, and another. I think of them really as two bookdepository.com. You can read and listen through Donne the other priest-poets, aspects of the same vocation. to Guite’s poetry at malcomguite.com. 4 anglican journal • february 2020

GUEST COLUMN4 Co-creating with the divine—in a classical sense Wayne A. Holst extensive theatre season centred in the guest columnist small community of Rosebud, Alta.—near I grew up BELIEVE THAT as humans become Drumheller, northeast of Calgary. This past year, we enjoyed the final string quartet in a Canadian ever more proficient in creating “ beautiful music, they grow as co- concert performed by wonderfully gifted cultural Icreators with God. For some this may seem Canada and Japan-born artists that played environment obvious, but for me it has taken a lifetime to an appreciative audience. The program consisted of works by Debussy, Beethoven where to recognize and appreciate. and Brahms, offered with great skill and classical I grew up in a Canadian cultural sensitivity. The fact that the event took place environment where classical music was music was under semi-religious auspices and in the not part of my ordinary experience. Even not part of local community church took nothing away though I had little encouragement, it from—indeed added to—the substance my ordinary slowly dawned on me over the years that of the experience. On the one hand, this experience. classical music had the special ability to event could be described as entertainment. connect me with the divine. Even though Yet in a true sense, it was also worship or While music of many kinds can do I had little praise, because of the setting and devotion this, I’d briefly like to suggest how that encourage- displayed by the performers. developed for me with classical music. photo: martin from secular and religious sources, and We also took in the final performance ment, it slowly I am not a musician myself, but over cambriglia/ shutterstockv yet speak to us in soul-enriching ways. of the Banff International String Quartet dawned on me the years, my partner and I have invested Now, though, we have reached a time Competition (BISQC). In all, nine quartets over the years in both an expansive home collection of life when it is possible to expand our had received invitations to compete that classical and many public events of classical appreciation for music that enriches and for a week; three remained for the final music. How did this develop for us—and music had the inspires us. In retirement, we have the time run-off. Groups came to the event from especially for someone like me, raised and desire to experience beauty where it special ability Europe, Asia and North America, all of far from any orchestra? There has likely can be found. them highly qualified. We enjoyed three to connect me been no single path to our connecting Whatever your age, you might consider of Beethoven’s string quartets during that with the divine. with God through these traditional seeking out classical music as a new (or final round. Two quartets (from the UK forms of music, but I can point to a even rediscovered) means of connecting and Canada/US) received first prizes, few strong candidates. First, we might with God. Perhaps, as I did, you’ll find unprecedented at the competition. have realized that the Judeo-Christian an unexpected love—and I think I’m not Events like BISQC are putting religious tradition has long viewed music alone in this. Canadians are blessed with Canada on the global cultural map, and as a way of enhancing faith experience. remarkable access to classical music across performances we saw were exquisite. Diving into Scripture, we could start with the length and breadth of our nation, and But Rosebud too was outstanding. What the Bible and recognize the Psalms as the number of artists and centres in which human co-creation with the divine these classical hymns that have long been used to enjoy them continues to expand in activities displayed! to enhance private and public devotion. quantity and quality. Whatever your musical preferences, I The Hebrew and Christian testaments While the notion of a growing classical hope they help draw you closer to God. g contain worship expressions that enrich music scene may seem counterintuitive and accompany a worshipper. to some readers, a few Calgary-area Wayne A. Holst was a Lutheran pastor Finally, our growing love of classical events we attended last year suggest to me (ELCIC) for 25 years; he taught religion music—and our understanding of the way that interest in classical music is, in fact, and culture at the University of Calgary for in which God interacts with it—might be strong. The first is the Rosebud Chamber a quarter-century and coordinates adult tied to our current season. We have long Music Festival, which has become an spiritual development at St. David’s United realized that a melody we love can emerge annual celebration and part of the more Church, Calgary. Talking about Israel and Palestine in a post-truth era LETTERS4 In “You weep before you get to Bethlehem” Since coming under the control of the (Dec. 2019, p.1), the article references Palestinian Authority, the economy of Re: Re: The people and tyranny the “West Bank” as “occupied land,” the Bethlehem has shrunk, and its Christian- I do not wish to abuse this public forum, inference being the Israelis have no right Arab population diminished—due but in response to Charles Demers to be there when in fact that territory had to Muslim encroachment, not Israeli (“Letters: Give voice to the people”, Dec. been designated for a Jewish state under policies. Christians, as Dhimmi, are being 2019, p.5), the so-called tyranny of the the League of Nations Mandate—and forced out of their towns by Muslims. majority, in my October letter (“Letters: Jews had lived there for millennia. Their Finally, Mahmoud Abbas is not the Our rules exist for a reason,” Oct. 2019, The Anglican numbers rose and fell depending upon president of Palestine—no such state exists p.5), was in reference to the majority vote Journal welcomes their treatment by various invaders, (outside of wishful thinking). But then, he in the House of Bishops at General Synod. letters to the editor. including Arabs, due to massacres and believed The Palestine Post was an Arab To Ken Wightman (“Letters: Tyranny of Since not all letters deportations. newspaper (it’s now The Jerusalem Post), the majority?”, Dec. 2019, p.5) and others can be published, In 1948, Jordan annexed the “West and he holds a doctorate in Holocaust who support a simple majority (50% + 1) preference is Bank” illegally, according to international given to short denial—all flags of the post-truth era we in votes of fundamental importance, I have correspondence (300 law. Israel, legally and under international now inhabit, pretending things which are one word: words or less). All law, retook it in the Six-Day War. Jordan real are not, and things which aren’t, are. Brexit! letters are subject to gave up all claims to the “West Bank” in Margaret Rouhani The Rev. Derek Perry editing. 1988. Saskatoon, Sask. Kitchener, Ont.

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SINGING God’s story emerges in the power and beauty of WITH JOY4 artistic expression takes us into the power and majesty of spiritual harm offered by Archbishop Fred By Linda Nicholls Worship God, while simple Taizé chant sung in Hiltz last summer is a first step to opening AN YOU IMAGINE our church and the community draws us together more deeply. the door to let faith be expressed in the without the music, art, stained “ Sculptures express the human condition in unique ways God has given each nation. expression glass, hangings or sculptures that of our faith wood, bronze or stone in ways words alone Worship and the expression of our faith Cadorn our worship life? At the Reformation cannot accomplish. The homeless Jesus are meant to engage the whole person— some Christian communities, fearing are meant statue moves the plight of the poor past mind, body, emotions, and spirit. From that art was supplanting a focus on God, to engage our mental defences, challenging us to put the earliest days human beings used art, demanded a simple, unadorned manner the whole compassion into action. music, dance and designs to communicate of worship and plain buildings with little person— Every culture has its own ways of what is known and experienced. The walls expressing itself. The variety of artistic of caves share ancient stories or messages or no decoration. Anglicans retained mind, body, the possibility that music and art are not expression across the human community for those who come after. We use art to unnecessary distractions or idols but rather emotions, and reflects the creativity we share with God, tell our story and to share God’s story. As are vehicles to nurture and deepen faith. spirit. the Creator. The art and music of different a musician I know the power in music to The work of artists allows for the cultures uniquely express the hearts of engage us deeply in the meaning and soul expression of our deepest feelings and their people. When the church denied of those stories. I know the times I have longings. Stained glass windows tell the the spirituality of Indigenous peoples by been moved or challenged by art that stirs stories of our faith—so much so that a suppressing the music and art of their me out of complacency or nurtures me in child is purported to have exclaimed that “a communities, we took away unique hope. We would truly be poorer in faith saint is someone the light shines through,” expressions of the heart and soul of the without the gifts of artists who envision pointing to a stained glass window. Music peoples. Elsewhere in this issue of the our faith in new ways through their artistic moves the soul and draws us closer to Journal, the art of children at residential expression. Thanks be to God! g God through our emotions. The power schools is highlighted, a poignant of a full choral service or of worship with expression through the eyes of children of Archbishop Linda Nicholls is the primate of an organ filling the space of a cathedral the legacy of these schools. The apology for the Anglican Church of Canada.

WALKING TOGETHER4 The case for a just proportion of the church’s wealth By Mark MacDonald Indigenous communities and the social ills for the profit that the churches derived Can there that accompany it are overwhelming. The from appeals for funding Indigenous NDIGENOUS PEOPLES are not be a vision churches that serve those communities have missions. In grateful acknowledgement asking for a one-to-one compensation “ meagre resources. Quite often clergy serve of Indigenous and non-Indigenous of shared for past injustices, and there is all but wealth and sacrificially, with little or no pay. Many of interdependency, there must be a sharing noI interest in seeing others punished. the social and educational supports that in the blessings that God has given us. Given the urgent and pressing needs of opportunity, serve other Anglicans are lacking. Without There is a claim from vision: Indigenous their communities, Indigenous peoples a vision of the help of other Anglicans, the capacity for communities have a capacity for growth. are simply asking for a just proportion vitality and ministry will be stunted. Though they are unlikely to generate of the wealth of Canada and a fair well-being There is a claim from justice: The financial wealth in the near term, their opportunity to create well-being among poverty of Indigenous communities is the for all our spirituality and love of the gospel is their communities. People of goodwill and result of a history of injustice—injustice not only creating life in their churches; an historical consciousness recognize the churches? that has benefited the church and many Indigenous peoples are bringing the vitality justice of the claim. Can we seek of the church’s non-Indigenous members. of a new perspective to the larger church. There is a similar approach being that future Contrary to the prejudice and bias of The life that Indigenous communities can made by Indigenous Anglicans. A relative some non-Indigenous points of view, the together? embody can inspire the larger church to amount of wealth remains within the poverty of Indigenous peoples and the generosity and hope. larger body of the Anglican Church of accompanying social ills are related to There is much work to be done by all. Canada, despite its recent challenges in the policy and programs of government The Jubilee Commission has been tasked membership and support. Recognizing and church that displaced Indigenous with finding a path to sustainable and that there have been significant attempts communities, created massive societal equitable support for Indigenous churches. at charity and compensation towards disruption and disabled the capacity for Indigenous churches, themselves, are Indigenous churches in the past, there self-determination and self-sufficiency. The seeking for a self-determination in is still much to be accomplished. Can people and institutions that pursued these the gospel that will create a growing, there be a vision of shared wealth and policies and benefited from them need to sustainable, healing and joyful church. This opportunity, a vision of vitality and well- make amends. will be challenging work, and it begs for being for all our churches? Can we seek There is a claim from gratitude: A great dedicated, prayerful support. We are being that future together? In pursuit of that part of the Anglican church’s institutional called by Jesus into an uncharted future. future, I would like to state, very briefly, a and financial foundation was related to The love and hope of God, in the Holy case for a sharing of wealth. fundraising that based its appeal on the Spirit, can be our guide. g There is a claim from Christian need to serve Indigenous peoples. Though compassion and charity: Indigenous the story that is told often highlights the Archbishop Mark MacDonald is national churches struggle under the vast needs charity of non-Indigenous Anglicans to Indigenous archbishop of the Anglican of their communities. The poverty of Indigenous peoples, it neglects to account Church of Canada. Father Christmas is coming to town Why do you devote a whole page Nowhere—except in a valuable but oblique reference latest issue of Epiphanies, published in fall 2019. explaining the origins of the term in the guest column by Albert Dumont (“Considering Matthew Townsend LETTERS Editor “Santa Claus” (“St. Nicholas: A an Anglican apology,” Nov. 2019, p. 12)—was there legendary figure with contemporary relevance,” Dec. 2019, recognition of the catastrophic effects of climate change on CORRECTIONS health: personally, nationally and globally. Why? p.3) and its derivatives, and add nothing at all about Father g In “Lost connection: A conversation on Indigenous Christmas—which followed the British Empire, and the Frank Thompson Parry Sound, Ont. homelessness with scholar Jesse Thistle” (Dec. 2019, p. 9), Anglican Church around one-fifth of the world? note that Thistle is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar. Thanks Mark Sproule-Jones Dear Frank, to Cecile Suchal of Ottawa for catching our typo. Guelph, Ont. Last summer, Anglican Journal launched Epiphanies, a new g The article “Demographic, cultural changes key to digital magazine. Our first issue focused entirely on climate declining church membership: Sociologist of religion” in the Health and climate change? and ecology. If you don’t have a computer, a friend might be January 2020 issue should have stated that the title of Joel The November issue of the Journal brought us several able to print any articles that interest you—printable files are Thiessen at Ambrose University is professor of sociology. excellent statements on health and healing. linked from each article. And don’t forget to check out the The Journal apologizes for the error. 6 anglican journal • february 2020

ART, AGAIN SEEN4 Rare art offers insights into residential schools Continued from p. 1 atmosphere experienced by residential of work stemming from her research that school students, in which creativity was began almost 20 years ago. systematically snuffed out and children It was in 2000 that Walsh first began to were harshly punished for speaking their research the history of what at the time was own languages or expressing their own believed to be a small collection of drawings cultures. created at the Inkameep Indian Day School, In 1970, Daniel and Nancy Rubenstein located on the Osoyoos Indian Reserve, in were hired as child care workers at St. the late 1930s to early 1940s. Michael’s. Though the Department of Two other featured collections in There Indian and Northern Affairs had assumed is Truth Here began in the classroom of control of residential schools in 1969, most No matter Robert Aller, who served as a volunteer of the staff members and customs remained what these art teacher at Mackay Residential School unchanged from previous decades under “ and taught extracurricular art classes at Anglican administration. schools tried During their months at the school, the Alberni Residential School. In 2008, Aller’s to do to our Rubensteins expressed growing concerns at family donated artwork to the University of the conditions and treatment of students. people, they Victoria, which represented pieces that have In October 2020, the couple will publish couldn’t kill been returned to residential school survivors a book through Ronsdale Press, St. or their families. 5 There is Truth I think, that art [offered] a way of allowing the love that Michael’s Residential School: Lament and The fourth collection in the exhibit Here has allowed the children to express what they wanted. they had Legacy, detailing their experiences at the consists of art from students at St. Michael’s Canadians to “If you look at the paintings in that school. The book includes quotes from inside of Residential and Day School that was see life through collection, a lot of them are about love—the National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop them for their repatriated back to the U’mista Cultural the eyes of love that these kids had for their families, the Mark MacDonald and Melanie Delva, family, and Centre in Alert Bay. Indigenous love they had for their land, for their homes, reconciliation animator for the Anglican Before There is Truth Here came to the children forced where they came from. That’s the beauty of for who they Church of Canada. Museum of Vancouver, it first appeared at into residential it, that no matter what these schools tried to were…” On their first day at St. Michael’s, the the Legacy Art Gallery at the University of schools— do to our people, they couldn’t kill the love Rubensteins watched in shock as a matron — Lorilee Victoria, where Lorilee Wastasecoot served through works that they had inside of them for their family, took four “crying and terrified” Indigenous Wastasecoot, as curator along with Walsh. and for who they were, as Cree and Dene… of art they children into a basement, stripped off their curator and Lorilee’s involvement followed her Haida [and] Salish children. They never created while clothes, cut off their hair with heavy shears intergenerational first encounter with her father’s artwork. touched that.” residential school there. Recently and threw the clothes and hair into a boiler Describing herself as an intergenerational The artwork encompasses multiple survivor featured at fire—which the matron described as a residential school survivor, Lorilee notes themes, styles and influences. Pieces the Museum standard, necessary routine to get rid of lice. that her parents, grandparents and great- from the Mackay school reflect the Cree of Vancouver, Daniel, who was in charge of 25 boys grandparents all attended residential school. background of the students and their the exhibit has between ages five and seven, describes an Her parents met and fell in love while both longing for home, with images of the plains, also helped atmosphere in which children were seen as students at Mackay Residential School. cabins on the land and relatives. repatriate such “dispensable,” with no personal belongings “I am the fourth generation that has At St. Michael’s, art was produced by art to Indigenous and no family or medical records. Food was had to deal with residential schools and the students for a different purpose. Rather people. “not nourishing…grim…tasteless”, leaving trauma they’ve inflicted upon our lives,” than being handed pen and paper to draw photo: contributed children “perennially hungry.” Nancy says Lorilee says. what they wanted, students were trained that the administrator dismissed their In 2010, Lorilee moved to Victoria with in technical drawing for industrial art in concerns about a boy who walked into the her daughter and began studying business at B.C.’s emerging tourist economy. While the ocean with rocks in his pocket in a suicide the University of Victoria, later switching to students hailed from many different First attempt. The boy, the administrator said, political science. In her third year of study, Nations, their art assignments saw them was doing it just to get attention. Lorilee received a call from her parents that forced to draw generic images that would be The Rubensteins also witnessed the Andrea Walsh had gotten in touch with her recognizable by non-Indigenous people as school’s negative attitude to student art father to say that she had a painting of his. art by “Indians from the northwest coast.” and Indigenous cultures firsthand. When The discovery of Jim’s painting followed Students at the Inkameep Day School, students had no evening activities, a fellow research by his younger brother, Walter who were taught by a teacher named child care worker asked the couple to Wastasecoot, who had also attended Mackay Anthony Walsh (no relation to Andrea organize extracurricular activities. Residential School and learned that Walsh Walsh), were allowed to incorporate more Daniel and Nancy went to the general had begun repatriating paintings from of their own cultural traditions in their art. store and bought some papers, markers students. When Walter reached out to Their drawings include fanciful depictions of and coloured pencils. In the evening, they Walsh, he learned that she did not have any beings from Okanagan mythology known as invited students to come into the dining paintings by him, but Walsh did have one by the chaptik. room and draw. As a dozen children stood his older brother. Reflecting an intersection between around drawing, a child care worker they After the family viewed Jim’s painting, Christianity and Indigenous perspectives, call Edgar (not his real name) came in and Lorilee contacted Walsh to thank her for one series of paintings from Inkameep walked behind the children, who hunched the experience and offered help, if needed. depicts the Stations of the Cross. Jesus is over their drawings, attempting to hide Walsh invited Lorilee to travel with her to dressed in buckskin, and all the people them. Thomson, Man., to meet a group of Mackay around him are presented as Indigenous. Finally, they recall, Edgar seized the Residential School survivors, present the Despite such imaginative artwork, paper of one boy who had drawn an orca paintings to them and ask for guidance in Andrea Walsh stresses that children who in a traditional Kwakiutl design, said “We’ll moving forward with the project. were permitted to create art were exceptions have none of that in this school,” tore up the In 2016, Lorilee began working at the to the rule, representing an infinitesimal artwork and threw it in the trash. Nancy Legacy Art Gallery for a work study. The percentage of residential school students. confronted Edgar: “What was wrong with idea formed to present the artwork of “One of the questions that comes up in that picture? I thought it was beautiful.” residential school students for an exhibit, the exhibition is, ‘Well, if you have all this He responded, “Indian ways are not to be which became There is Truth Here. Walsh art, how does this fit in with the way that tolerated at St. Michael’s.” and Lorilee first presented the exhibit in residential schools were so bad?’” Walsh Nancy adds, “The other children then 2017 at the Legacy, respectively serving as says. “And the answer to that is that this crumbled their papers, dropped them in the curator and curatorial assistant. In 2019, was so, so, so rare, what happened in these garbage can, and walked out. I don’t think the Museum of Vancouver hosted the same classrooms. they ever came back to draw again.” exhibit. “Why we choose to show this work is In December, Reconciliation Animator Lorilee praises the role of teachers because it highlights the abilities of the Melanie Delva visited the Museum of such as Aller in providing an opportunity children in those spaces that were denied, Vancouver and took in There is Truth Here. for residential school students to express and that these pieces of artwork are the For Delva, whose work deals largely with themselves through art. only remaining material traces of children’s “legislation and policies and reports,” the “Art was not a part of the curriculum in experiences as expressed by the children exhibit “drives home in a very visceral and these schools, but [Aller] volunteered his themselves.” visual way that this is really about impacts time to do that,” she says. “He understood Accounts of life at St. Michael’s offer that the kids were lonely, and he understood, a sense of the bleak and oppressive See DELVA, p. 9 anglican journal • february 2020 7

NAMES, AGAIN KNOWN4

photo: leigh anne williams A cloth naming 2,800 children who died in residential schools—an incomplete list—is carried through the Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Que. ‘Modicum of justice’ for residential school dead Tali Folkins she said. “It was much more than an staff writer intellectual exercise…. I think it impacted The three Anglicans who represented the people in a way that speeches, or op-eds or church at a ceremony last fall honouring other things just don’t.” children who died in Canada’s Indian Delva, too, said it was “heartbreaking” residential schools say they hope it will to know that many families were likely begin a process whereby the suffering of asking why their relatives who died in the Indigenous children will be fully recognized residential school system weren’t on the by Canadians. list. The ceremony, organized by the National The reasons for the incompleteness Centre for Truth and Reconciliation of the list, she said, are complex. During (NCTR), was held Sept. 30—Orange Shirt part of the time when the residential Day—at the Canadian Museum of History schools were run, a certain form would in Gatineau, Que., across the Ottawa River have been completed and sent to the from the nation’s capital. Former residential federal government when a child died at a school students, family, friends and residential school. But this process, even dignitaries gathered for the presentation of a during the years when it was in effect, 50-metre-long piece of red cloth bearing the was not always followed, creating gaps in names of 2,800 children who did not return the records. The archives of the churches from the residential schools. The event involved in the residential school system, also featured speeches, musical and dance however, contain information not always performances and prayer. found in government records. The NCTR Attending the event for the Anglican has been examining both government and Church of Canada were Mark MacDonald, church sources, but with a limited amount national Indigenous Anglican archbishop; of staff. Lydia Mamakwa, bishop of the Indigenous Delva’s past archival work involved her 5 Ceremony names being carried in, knowing that some researching the records of St. George’s Spiritual Ministry of Mishamikoweesh; and families have not had any closure—and not Melanie Delva, the church’s reconciliation participants form School in Lytton, B.C., a residential school a procession. knowing what happened to their child must that operated from 1902 to 1979. Building animator. be a hard thing to carry,” she said. Some “Finally there’s a modicum of justice photo: leigh anne a list of all the children who died at the williams families, she said, still don’t even know school was difficult because their deaths for the little ones and their families—a where their relatives are buried. recognition, and perhaps now those were not always recorded, she said. But Mamakwa said she also felt glad that “There were deaths that I found that children can rest in peace,” MacDonald said. steps were being taken to acknowledge the MacDonald said the presentation of the were recorded nowhere else but in the deaths of Indigenous children at the schools. ‘Notes’ column of a service register: ‘Buried red cloth hit him especially powerfully. Awareness of the residential schools, she “There have only been a few times in my a St. George’s child.’ Not even a name,” she added, needs to be raised—and not only life when I felt like that,” he said. “I felt this said. “I was able to match it with a name among non-Indigenous Canadians. based on some correspondence that I found tremendous amount of…compassion for the “We still have a lot of work to do in later, but that’s the kind of in-depth research young people, and the genocidal aspects of it terms of educating our people,” she said. that’s needed in order to do this work.” become clear in that moment.” “Our children don’t know the history of Trying to build a more complete list of Asked if this was because of the fact the residential schools, or not all of them the names of the dead children, Delva says, that the victims were children, MacDonald do…. On my reserve, I think this was the is about much more than just having more replied, “I used to visit communities when first time they had an Orange Shirt Day… facts—as might be suggested by reflection I started. They would always bring me to and kids were asking what it was for. A lot on scripture. the cemetery at the residential schools. “There were so many times when Jesus What kind of schools need cemeteries? That of education is to be done, not just in non- speaks the name of someone at this crucial really lays bare the pain and evil that—I Indigenous society, but everywhere.” point in their life. When Mary meets Jesus realize that there were many good people In recent years, students and staff in in the garden, the moment of recognition and many good intentions involved with it many Canadian schools have been wearing comes when he says her name,” she said. but, you know a school system that kills that orange shirts every Sept. 30 to mark the “There’s a recognition of humanity when many children is very problematic.” legacy of the Indian residential school someone is named…. You are no longer a The presentation of the cloth, he said, system. The orange shirts are in memory of concept, you are no longer a number in a was made still more poignant by the Phyllis Webstad, a former residential school final report. fact that the list of names it bore was not student. Webstad’s orange shirt—a gift from “There’s such a power in names, which is complete. The NCTR believes a total of her grandmother—was taken from her on why it’s so important that we continue this roughly 4,200 children died at the schools, her first day at a B.C. residential school in work so that as many names are spoken as but the Winnipeg-based organization is still 1976, and never returned. possible.” working to identify them all. Delva also said the event affected her That said, there’s yet another sadness to “It was very sombre and moving to powerfully, despite knowledge of residential the list of names, Delva added. Especially see all of the names—sad to think that school abuses she had accumulated over in the case of children who died during the they don’t have all of them,” MacDonald the years. (Before taking up her current earlier years of the residential school system, said. “But maybe this is the beginning of role with the Anglican Church of Canada the names recorded for them were often getting a final accounting, a beginning… in 2017, Delva served as archivist for the not even their real names, because in many of recognizing the personalities and the diocese of New Westminster, working cases, school administrators anglicized their suffering of these poor young people.” extensively in the collection of residential Indigenous names. Mamakwa also said the event left her school-related documents.) Most of the children died of disease, with deep and mixed emotions—again, “I spent over a decade immersed in Delva said, but some died from abuse or partly because of the missing names. the death of residential school children, “There was a feeling of grief, as I saw the and even for me it changed something,” See NATIONAL CHIEF, p. 10 8 anglican journal • february 2020

PEOPLE4 Former primate Hiltz to serve as assisting bishop of Moosonee Hiltz working with Archbishop bishop. This relatively unusual practice follows earlier discernment in which the Anne Germond during a “year diocese concluded that it could no longer of Holy Discernment” for the afford the office of a diocesan bishop. diocese Today, Germond says, Moosonee is once again facing financial challenges while she balances competing responsibilities. For Matt Gardner staff writer these reasons, Germond has invited the diocese to discern whether the metropolitan Archbishop Fred Hiltz, former primate functioning as diocesan bishop is still “the of the Anglican Church of Canada, will best model for us.” serve as assisting bishop for the diocese of As assisting bishop, Hiltz will reside in Moosonee throughout 2020. Toronto, but will likely make several visits With current assistant bishop Thomas to Moosonee as the diocese prepares for a Corston retiring at the end of 2019, Hiltz special synod in November to discuss its took over as assisting bishop for one year current episcopal model. starting on Jan. 1. “I’m very much looking forward to In this role, Hiltz is supporting working with Anne,” Hiltz says. “She’s a very Archbishop Anne Germond—currently his personal spiritual life and in the way he 5 Archbishop hardworking bishop, deeply pastoral and bishop for the dioceses of Algoma and leads…. As Moosonee enters this new time Fred Hiltz spiritual in her approach in every aspect Moosonee, as well as metropolitan for the of discernment, he is absolutely the perfect will support of her ministry. It’s a great privilege…to ecclesiastical province of Ontario—to help person to be working with me.” Archbishop journey with Moosonee through this time Moosonee navigate what Germond calls “a This period of discernment relates Anne Germond of discernment. year of Holy Discernment.” primarily to the diocese’s evaluation of its in 2020 as an “There are wonderful, wonderful people “I’m very excited to be working with current episcopal structures. assisting bishop across that diocese, and it’s going to be a real [Hiltz] because he’s a man of great stature For the last several years, the diocese of in the diocese of privilege to spend some very focused time and credibility in the church,” Germond Moosonee has been a mission area of the Moosonee. with them.” says. “He’s well-loved and well-respected. ecclesiastical province of Ontario, meaning photo: george cribbs Hiltz first offered his services to He has an incredible depth to him, both in that the metropolitan serves as diocesan Germond while attending the Algoma diocesan synod in May, when Corston announced his impending retirement. The need for a supporting bishop in Moosonee stems partly from the vastness of the diocese, which has an area of 560,000 Listen to the Lenten Gospels square kilometres (larger than Spain) that stretches across Ontario and Quebec up to the diocese of the Arctic. A series of podcasts with PWRDF In October, Germond invited Hiltz to become assistant bishop. Hiltz spent a week Travel through Lent with the weekly Gospel in discernment and then volunteered to readings as your guide. This year, seven support Germond as assisting bishop, a diverse writers and theologians will share position with slightly less authority. a recording of each Sunday’s Gospel Since his retirement as primate, Hiltz has reading. Then they will reflect on their spent time with his wife and granddaughter, attended a family wedding in October and relationship to that Gospel, and how it avoided travel. connects them to God and to PWRDF. “I have to be honest and say I don’t miss airports,” he jokes. “And I don’t miss living Our writers are: out of a suitcase.” Hiltz expresses enthusiasm at his new • Rev. Scott McLeod ministry in Moosonee. Refugee Sponsorship Coordinator “My primary focus is around gathering Diocese of Niagara folks and enabling them to tell their story, and to articulate their…concerns and hopes • Dorothy Marshall with respect to where God is leading them PWRDF Representative as a diocese,” he says. g Diocese of Edmonton • Joanne Minnett PWRDF Youth Council member • James Kornelsen Canadian Foodgrains Bank • Elsa Tesfay PWRDF staff member • Rev. Canon David Harrison PWRDF Board of Directors AN OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN AT A CROSSROADS • Archbishop Linda Nicholls Primate, Anglican Church of Canada Are you at a crossroads in your life? Searching for “something more” in life? Longing for a change in career? Thirsting for God? Hungry for prayer? Desiring a life of service?

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The cross of Christian church, as well as many Anglican dioceses, parishes, congregations, bishops and the St. George, for example, is a prominent iconography Anglican Military Ordinariate all possess element in Anglican coats of arms due “ to its associations with the origin of the has always their own coats of arms. been an “If you go to any Anglican church, Church of England. Along with general Christian symbols, many Anglican important you’ll probably find heraldry of some form in the churches,” says Ralph Spence, Albion dioceses incorporate symbols of episcopal aspect of Herald Extraordinary for the Canadian authority such as a mitre placed above the decoration Heraldic Authority and former bishop of shield. of churches the Anglican diocese of Niagara, who has The elements that distinguish coats of designed many coats of arms for churches arms are those with specific relevance to and how an individual or a corporate organization. as well as communities and organizations we express Spence points to his recent work in helping across Ontario. design the coat of arms for Bishop Susan aspects of the “Whether it’s the royal arms on the Bell, which was approved at the last faith through wall, which has happened in old historic diocesan synod in Niagara. churches, or a diocesan arms over the visual means. “When I worked on the arms of Bishop bishop’s chair…there’s a lot like that, and — Bruce Patterson, Bell, she loved cats, so I said to her, ‘Well, people will see it and ask about it or talk deputy chief herald listen, if you’re in Hamilton, there’s only about it,” Spence adds. of Canada one cat you can have, and that’s a tiger cat.’ Heraldry is a system of creating symbols photo chloé johnson : And that’s part of her arms,” Spence says. for the purpose of identification that has Bruce Patterson, deputy chief herald of Canada, shows the “There’s a phrase in heraldry called existed for many hundreds of years. Bruce diocese of Brandon’s coat of arms. canting, which means, if your name is Patterson, deputy chief herald of Canada Green or Greenwood, you’re going to have and a parishioner at St. Barnabas, Apostle green trees in your coat of arms. So with a and Martyr Anglican Church in Ottawa, name like Bell, we gave the tiger a sanctus says that heraldry “seeks to provide simple bell, which was kind of fun. If you look at and meaningful and beautiful emblems her arms, she’s very much in favour of the that can identify a person or a corporate Anglican Communion, so you’ll see two body” such as a municipality, university, Canterbury crosses, and [a] book in the military unit or church organization. arms which refers to her favourite [poet The main element of heraldry is a coat and author], which is George Herbert.” of arms. Patterson says that heraldry, as a At Mohawk Chapel, Hill described heritable system following certain design the design for their new coat of arms at principles, began in the late 12th century an October service marking the 100th in England, France and Germany and anniversary of a visit to the chapel by then- gradually spread to other parts of the Prince of Wales and future king Edward world. VIII. Archbishop and Primate Linda In Canada, heraldry in this form arrived establishment of the Canadian Heraldic Nicholls attended the service. with the first European explorers, and 5 Left: Coat Authority, which exercises the power to The design includes swords, a Bible, a there are many examples of coats of arms of arms of the grant arms in the name of the Queen by crown and a green “tree of peace,” with “four in New France or the early British colonies. Anglican Church the Governor General, receiving approval white roots of peace in the four directions,” Anglicans played a prominent role in the of Canada Hill says. As reported by Brantford for a coat of arms became considerably development of Canadian heraldry. Right: Bishop newspaper The Expositor, the design also easier for Canadians. One of the first official grants of a coat Susan Bell’s coat features the colour red, representing royalty, Spence describes heraldry as an of arms to a corporate body in Canada of arms and yellow, representing the east. A scroll photo contributed “exciting, expanding” practice in Canada, was to the Anglican diocese of Quebec : beneath the shield displays the words “Faith, one of the new developments of which is an in 1793—the first diocese outside the Hope and Charity.” British Isles to receive a grant of arms by increasing focus on Indigenous symbolism. Hill notes that the chapel still has royal assent. Other early examples include “More and more, the Canadian Heraldic a strong bond to the monarchy. Its Newfoundland and Toronto, which both Authority, we’re using Indigenous symbols status as a Chapel Royal denotes it as received formal grants of arms in 1839. of the Indigenous people[s] in the arms—so an establishment officially serving the “Christian iconography has always not just the usual lions and fleurs-de-lys, etc., spiritual needs of the Crown. been an important aspect of decoration of but wonderful First Nations symbols,” he “It’s part of our heritage in terms of churches and how we express aspects of the says. “Many of the First Nations themselves our support of the British crown in the faith through visual means,” Patterson says. have applied and got grants of arms for their pre-revolutionary times…. We basically “You’ll see in stained-glass windows groups, which is pretty exciting.” brought Anglicanism to this part of the symbols of saints, for example, and in some The process for designing a coat of arms country over 235 years ago,” Hill says. cases those symbols are actually on coats typically takes around a year. Heralds first sit The connection to the monarchy also of arms. The medieval heralds actually down with an individual or representative of bears relevance to discussions on treaties created coats of arms for saints…who lived an organization, discuss symbols for a coat with Indigenous peoples, he adds, which in the apostolic period, but centuries before of arms and draw up some ideas. were negotiated on behalf of the Crown. heraldry as we know it began…. There was Upon the completion of a design, “The chapel is somewhat of an icon in this kind of retrospective giving of heraldic applicants send their coat of arms to the this area…. It continues to reinforce what emblems to figures in the church.” Canadian Heraldic Authority, which has many of the leadership still adhere to, and Until 1988, Canadians had to apply a staff of professional artists skilled in that is our particular relationship as allies for grants of arms in England. With the heraldic artwork. In an average year, the of the Crown and our role in history.” g Delva: ‘One person, even in a genocidal system, can make a difference’

Continued from p. 6 “one person, even in a genocidal system, can and in systems that harm people, [can] be on children.” She was struck by the artistic make a difference to individuals…. Even if exceptions.” talent of the students and wondered how we find ourselves in systems of racism and Delva encourages non-Indigenous much of that potential remained unrealized systems of evil…we have the agency to do Anglicans to seek out exhibits of Indigenous after they left school. something different…. I would hope that it artwork or cultural events such as powwows, Delva also pointed to the positive would inspire other people who experience or to contact local galleries to inquire about g example of the teachers, who show how the exhibit that they, too, in systems of evil the possibility of hosting similar exhibits. 10 anglican journal • february 2020 National chief: Together, we can change future, build ‘a better country’

Continued from p. 7 response. continue to beset the country’s Indigenous genocide of First Nations peoples, forcibly neglect. Others died during attempts to “Clergy in Uruguay emailed me to say children. removing children from their homes and run away, succumbing to the elements as that they were praying,” she said. “Clergy “What I hope comes of this is not just inflicting harm and inflicting pain,” he they tried to find their way home. There’s in Nova Scotia told me about ringing their to say, ‘Never again,’ but to look at the said. “We still feel the intergenerational another category of children who seem to church bell 100 times and praying daily.” ways that it’s still happening,” she said. trauma of that genocide. We see it every have simply disappeared, the cause of their A copy of the list was placed by the altar “We are still failing Indigenous children, day in our communities.” deaths likely to remain forever a mystery. in the chapel at the church’s national office. and Indigenous children are dying because But Bellegarde said there is hope now On Sept. 24, a few days before the Whatever decision the church takes on they don’t have clean water, because and talk of being not only survivors, but ceremony, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, what else to do with the list, she said, will they’re neglected in care. So for me, that’s “thrivers.” “The people are standing up…. primate of the Anglican Church of come from Indigenous people themselves. an important portion of lament…to say, We are starting to thrive and be proud of Canada, released, jointly with MacDonald, Both the NCTR and the Anglican Council not just in words, ‘Never again,’ but in who we are as Indigenous peoples.” a pastoral statement on the soon-to-be- of Indigenous Peoples, she said, have made action.” “On Sept. 30, every child matters,” said released list, including an invitation to pray clear that future use of the list must involve Speaking at the event, Assembly of First Bellegarde. “We can’t change the past, but for the children. The same day, the church ceremony and prayer. Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde we all can be part of changing the future released a call from MacDonald for four Delva said she hopes the list will spur also addressed the future as well as the and building a better country. That’s what days of prayer in advance of the ceremony. Canadians not only to reflect on the past. today is all about.” g Delva said she was heartened by people’s past but consider injustices she believes “The residential school system was a —With files from Leigh Anne Williams,

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