OURNAL Millennium Edition
HISTORIC SITES & ARCHIVES Dedicated to preserving our religious heritage OURNAL Millennium Edition Native MissionarIes Make A Significant ContrIbution to Western Culture THE STEINHAUER BROTHERS: TWO FIRSTNATION METHODIST MISSION WORKERS IN THE NORTH WEST MISSION FIELD In the summer of 1879 Egerton and Robert Steinhauer arrived in Cobourg, a small port on Lake Ontario, with a population of about 5,000, located immediately east of Toronto. Egerton, then twenty-one years old, and Robert, nineteen, came from White Fish Lake, a Cree farming community just south of Lac La The Steinhauers: from left 10 right· Henry B. Steinhauer, Biche, in the distant North West Territories. Robert Steinhauer, Egerton Steinhauer. Probably taken in Cobourg, 1881. The Provincial Archives of Alberta/Ernest These two sons of Rev. Henry B. Brown Collection B. 9485 Steinhauer, the first First Nations Christian minister in what would later become Alberta, travelled 3,000 kilometres to attend THE FORMATION OF THE Cobourg Collegiate Institute, in preparation UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA for their future entry into Victoria University. The Ontario-born Rev. Steinhauer, one of the The spirit of fellowship, which has Methodists' early Ojibwa converts, had always been distinctive of Canadian life, himself attended Upper Canada Academy in found expression in the political union of the late 1830s, the predecessor of Victoria Canada in 1867, and in a succession of University. The veteran minister, who had unions within various branches of the spent over twenty years at the mission he Christian church from 1817 to the early founded at White Fish Lake, wanted two of years of the present century.
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