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Adventist Heritage, Winter 1992 The Journal of Seventh-day Adventist History Vo I • 1•111Pur wast clielitage Canada: The Early Years cAdventist Canada is the world's second largest country, surpassed only by the former Soviet Union. The name derives from cHeiltage an Iroquoian Indian term meaning "village" or "community." Editor Circulation Manager Dorothy Minchin-Comm Ronald D. Graybill On the cover: In 1932 a large group of Seventh-day Adventist believers attended La Sierra University La Sierra University the campmeeting held at Coquitlam, near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Associate Editors Managing Board Ronald D. Graybill Dorothy Minchin-Comm Adventist Heritage is published by La Sierra La Sierra University Steve Daily University and the Department of Archives and Special Collections of Loma Linda Univer- Gary Land Ronald D. Graybill sity, Loma Linda, CA 92350. Bulk postage rates Andrews University Fritz Guy paid at Loma Linda, CA. Copyright 1991 by La Frederick Hoyt Sierra University, Riverside, CA 92515-8247. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $12 for three is- Issue Editor John R. Jones sues (additional postage outside U.S.). Avail- Dorothy Minchin-Comm Stuart Tyner able back issues are sold at $5 each. Subscrip- tion orders, change of address notices, editorial Kenneth L. Vine correspondence and manuscripts should be sent Managing Editor to: Adventist Heritage, La Sierra University, Norman D. Ault, Jr. Editorial Board Riverside, CA 92515. AdventistHeritage invites manuscripts. Each will be considered, but no La Sierra University Ronald D. Graybill responsibility will be assumed for unsolicited Gary Land materials. Adventist Heritage is indexed in the Layout and Design S.D.A. Periodicals Index, and is available from Dorothy Minchin-Comm University Microfilms International. Lori Gulley ISSN 0360-389X. James Gulley WentagecAdventist Volume 14, Number 3 Winter, 1992 The Editor's Stump 3 Guest Editorial Myrna Tetz Rendezvous 4 Someone Has to Tell Them What it Was Like Jack Thorpe We Never Gave Up on Hope Elsworth Hetke Prelude 6 Beginning of the Organized SDA Church in Canada Myrna Tetz THE STORY OF THE SEVEN CONFERENCES Quebec (Est. 1880) 10 Quebec SDA Church Association Dennis Fortin The French Canadian Mission George Dronen Newfoundland/Labrador (Est. 1895) 17 The SDA church in Newfoundland and Labrador Trudy Morgan Ontario (Est. 1899) 19 The SDA Church in Ontario Myrna Tetz and Others British Columbia (Est. 1902) 22 Adventist Beginnings in the British Columbia Conference Dorothy Eaton-Watts Maritime Provinces (Est. 1902) 28 SDA's in the Maritime Provinces Douglas Hosking Manitoba/Saskatchewan (Est. 1903) 32 The Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference Ruth Bodrug Alberta (Est. 1906) 37 The Alberta Conference Dennis Braun and Others Education 46 About Canada's Schools Myrna Tetz and Others The Church Schools Canadian Union College and Kingsway College Pioneer 58 Canada East and Canada West: Two Pioneer Families Dorothy Minchin-Comm and Hervey Gimbel THE rDITOR's 5TU M P Our initial vision of devoting an entire issue of cluded in a single issue of Heritage? Well, we confess Adventist Heritage to the story of the Seventh-day to having made a mistake, for, after all, we are dealing Adventist church in Canada has almost overwhelmed only with finite space. Hence, you have before you us. While that nation may seem to be but a rather a double issue. (The next journal may, therefore, be thin line of "civilization" spread across the top of the a little slimmer than usual.) Here you will survey the North American con- history of the early years among Canadian churches, tinent, one should institutions, and their conferences. While our his- never make the mistake tory here does not, in the main, go beyond the 1930's, of thinking anything portions of the biographical sketches scattered "small" about this through the story may extend into more recent northern giant. What times. the Canadian church Dorothy Minchin-Comm, Editor may have lacked in numbers it has been compensated for by long tradi- tions of pioneering and endurance, of the practice of grass-roots Adventism, and of the independence ERRATUM: We apologize for a misnomer in our last issue. Wilton Clarke is always Wil—never bred in a huge, unforgiving land—which still teems Winston Clark. We know who Winston is too (former president of the Far Easter Division and with wild life living in clean air under high-domed sometime secretary to the president of the General Conference). Wilton, however, is day by day, to be blue skies. found in his mathematics classroom at La Sierra University. And so he had a second bad turn from us Knowing all of these things, then, how could we when, in the last issue on page 21, we name Wil as the husband of his mother Esther! That should read have imagined that the whole story could be in- "Fred". Wil has been very patient with us! 2 ADVENTIST HERITAGE / Winter, 1992 Guest Editorial History Teaches Everything, Even the Future For years I've been fascinated by old, abandoned "the everlasting covenant between God and every houses. During our last trip into Bella Coola, an living creature" (Gen 2:12-17). (Not that He'd ever isolated coastal town of British Columbia, we stopped forget. But He speaks to us in our own language.) to photograph a few of them. As we would 3. Tabernacle. A holy place of witness leave the old homesites, I kept wondering in the wilderness. why this attraction. Why this fetish? What 4. Sabbath. Observance of the seventh did these empty, tumbledown old buildings day is a memorial to God's creation. so captivate me? With time to reflect as we 5. High Days. Great temple feasts and drove over those historic roads, I decided celebrations which rehearse God's that the reason for my fascination came providences and blessings. , rte from what many of those houses may have -C7 6. The Communion Service. A re- symbolized. Things, which, in varying de- minder pointing back to Jesus' sacrifice. grees, are lost to us today: 7. Nature. A reflection of the magnifi- *A father, mother and children, cence of God. representing happiness, To be sure, all of these enactments of God are for *Central heating, mandating togetherness, the purpose of our remembering. Indeed, "Heritage *Survival, symbolizing a united challenge for the does teach everything—even the future." It is not entire family, something which we can conscientiously ignore or *A wood cookstove, producing homemade bread, avoid. It's a topic we must address—lest we forget. berry pies and savory soup and suggesting commitment, To produce a magazine with a synopsis of the *Handmade clothes, representing resourcefulness, history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in *Family worship, indicating belief in God, and Canada has been a venture involving the efforts of *High days—like Thanksgiving, Christmas, town dozens of individuals. We thank the presidents of the days, birthdays, weddings and parties—showing Canadian conferences who made writing assign- community. ments. Appreciation also goes to Marilyn Pazitka at And what does all of this have to do with our the Union office who so cheerfully helped in the church? I believe it has everything to do. We must project, to those who told me stories and sent pic- decide what place the past will hold in our plans for tures, and to those who wrote articles. the future. Is heritage, in fact, God-ordained, or is it Heritage does teach everything—even the future. the erratic scheme of some long-forgotten personal- Myrna Johnson-Tetz ity? What would be lost if heritage is lost? And, what Vice President for Public Relations would be gained if heritage is preserved? Canadian Union College God has initiated so many rememberings.' (see College Heights, Alberta, Canada references) 1.Altars and Offerings. Aaron's breastplate bore References: (1) Ex 28:29; (2) Gen 2:12.17, PP106-107; (3) the names of the children of Israel. Acts 7:44, PP 343, Heb 9:23.24; (4)PP 48, 336; (5) PK 335, 405; 2. Rainbows. God's glorious remembrance of (6) Lk 22:19; (7) Ps 19:1,2, PP 48. THE EDITOR'S STUMP 3 RENDEZVOUS Hope Holds Memories for Both Youth and Age I. "Someone Has to Tell Them What It Was Like" By Jack Thorpe "A Request" Note: Although JackThorpe's (1990) mother was widowed when he was just five years old, she reared her son in the Adventist faith 0 Time, I've just left the campground dedicated to which she and her husband had recently accepted. the living God at Hope, British Columbia. This year From the start, Jack was an entrepreneur and his over 7,000 people came for seven days of campmeeting projects have ranged from buying and selling beer blessing in unspoiled nature. bottles when he was 13 to owning and Did you see, Time, the beauty of that managing several businesses. He and valley, nestled basket-like below the towering his wife Esther started the first Sev- scrags of rock and enclosed by thousands of enth-day Adventist church school in trees singing to the wind? Did you notice Oliver, British Columbia. He believes those campmeeting-lovers, your time- that his family has been blessed because touched aged and the fledglings together, of their commitments to the Lord. walking the ribbons of tar-topped roads When he was six years old, Jack between the Lodge and the auditorium and went to his first campmeeting, an event among the cabins? which made a lasting impression on Still, Time, with your invisible power him. Since then he has attended you touch all things . And today my lagging campmeetings almost every year of his Jack Thorpe body bewilders me, as the inevitable creeps life.
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