CANADIAN QUAKER HISTORY CANADIAN FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ISSN 1180-968X 60 LOWTHER AVENUE, TORONTO, ONTARIO M5R 1 C7 Albert Schrauwers 594 Timothv Street Friends House Toronto Newmarket-, ON 1906 L3Y lR2 EXP/1 2/96/GM No. 60 Contents Fall 1996 From the Dorland Room by Jane Zavitz Bond................................................... ................................... 1 Western Friends: Experience of the Spirit in My Life Introduction by Joe Awmack................................................. ........................ 3 Victoria Monthly Meeting by Joe Awmack.................................................. .4 Pacific Life Community by Pashta Marymoon .............................................5 Why and how I came to Western Canada and became involved with the Queer folk called Quakers by Chrystal Kleiman .............................6 An Isolated Friend finds Quaker Community by Arnold Ranneris............... 6 Memories of Argenta Monthly Meeting by John Stevenson .........................7 Argenta Friends Meeting by Ruth Boyd........................................................ 8 Pacific Yearly Meeting and Argenta by Phillip Wells .................................. 8 Our Association with Friends by Sigurd Askevold........................................ 9 Formation of Vernon Monthly Meeting by Lesley Robertson ...................... 10 A History of Calgary Meeting by Margaret McGruther ...............................ll Edmonton and Calgary Meetings by Ron Mossman ..................................... 13 Another Glimpse of Early Friends Activities by Gordon Hirabayashi ......... 13 Learning with Calgary Friends by Margaret McGruther ..............................14 Nuclear Free Nanoose by Joy Newall ............................................................15 Teaching Japanese Children by Wilson Hunsberger ..................................... 16 Articles: Quakers in Early Prince Edward Island History by Nathan H. Mair .........................................................................................17 The Quakers of Yonge Street by Jane Zavitz Bond.................................................................................... 24 Report of the 24th Annual Meeting Chairperson's Reportby Kyle Jolliffe ............................................................ 35 Minutes ofthe 24th Annual Meeting ............................................................. 36 Financial Statement.......................................................................................40 The Canadian Quaker History Journal is published twice annually in spring and fall issues by the Canadian Friends Historical Association (as part of the annual membership sUbscription to the Association). Applications for membership may be made to the address listed below. Membership fees for 1996 are: Libraries and Institutions $20.00 General Membership $15.00 Seniors and Students $10.00 Life Membership $200.00 Contents of the published articles are the responsibility of the authors. Copyright © 1996 Canadian Friends Historical Association. ISSN 1180-968X G.S.T. No. R118831593 Editors: Jane Zavitz-Bond Alben Schrauwers Production: Alben Schrauwers Jane Zavitz-Bond Sandra Fuller Editorial Address: Dorland Room Pickering College 16945 Bayview Avenue Newmarket,Ont., L3Y 4X2 Letters and submissions from readers are always welcome. Subscriptions and Correspondence: Canadian Friends Historical Association Friends House 60 Lowther Ave., Toronto, Ont., M5R 1C7 From the Dorland Room ... "To Get Friends Into Upper Canada United" and new facets shine out After nearly fifty years of sharing in Canadian Quakerism, Welcome to the Fall issue of the this drawing together of many materials, Canadian Quaker History Journal. The and th.e history I have experienced directly, phrase from Timothy Rogers Journal, which including the accounts from older Friends led to his coming to Yonge Street, is recast will, I hope, give readers a fuller sense of to set this Fall Issue in a parallel context. the past and greater clearness to open the The article on Yonge Street is in the center way for more work in the future. Thoughts connecting the east, represented by Nathan opened doors and more had to be omitted! Mair's article on early Friends' settlement on Finally, after pondering the resources, I sat Prince Edward Island, and the west, repre­ and wrote. sented by the experiences of Friends in This is not the definitive history of meetings from the prairies to Vancouver Yonge Street, but I hope it is alive and Island shared at Sorento, B.c., during honest, and my perspectives are clear. Canadian Yearly Meeting. This Journal Perhaps some insights of truth may help to should assist in making members more make the next 200 years more fruitfuL In "united", aware of Friends' history across 1953, Arthur Dorland spoke in Yearly the continent. We are grateful to all the Meeting stating he believed Quakerism held contributors and encourage others to write the approaches the world needed but he their Quaker-related histories to further feared Friends lacked the vision and the enrich the archival store and, perchance, a discipline to bring it to fruition. May we Journal's content. seek vision and follow Truth as we are led. This year, the 200th anniversary of the Timothy Rogers tried, so can we. 1796 survey and trail-blazing of Yonge Jane Zavitz-Bond Street led us to celebrate the Yonge Street Friends' Settlement in 1801. The varied § celebrations involved frequent archival use. The CYM Archives is functioning, and with Recent Additions to the Dorland Room the newly-established webpage on the inter­ net will be even busier. We hope to keep • Winterton, John V. and Laureen E. The up, and welcome opportunities for greater Vernon Family Records: Descendants of access and additional resources. (The hold­ Robert Vernon (1682) (Higginson Book ings at Swarthmore and Haverford Friends Co., Salem MA., 1995) 116 pp. (gift of the Libraries are already available.) authors). The annual meeting's focus on the ·Walton, Charles Gorman & Suzanne Kay Yonge Street Friends called for an overview Major Jesse Walton: A Loyalist and His article. The many individuals who have Descendants (privately published), 97 pp. researched in the Archives over the years (Gift of Charles Walton). have contributed to this paper. Many are -Starr, Francis Dream Dreams, Then Write members of CFHA whose papers have Them. Aye, but live them first (manuscript appeared in the Journal. (You may want to memoirs), 40 pp. reread some of these). To be invited to • Williams, Lloyd and Philip Martin Lloyd present this paper was a privilege and a Williams - Ouaker (Part of an Oral History) pleasure. It began as a contribution to the & Lloyd Williams - Scholar and Teacher OGS publication, Researching Y onge (Part of an Oral History) (2 pamphlets, pri­ Street, a shorter piece. This paper has also vately published) 37, 15 pp., with copies of been edited for space. the original tapes. Donated by his daughter, Writing is a creative and learning Christine Ayoub. process as pieces of history come together • Committee on Archives and History, 1 United Church of Canada Guide to Family and history. The interiors of the older meet­ History Research in the Archival Repos­ ings looked much like .Yong,e Street itories of the United Church of Canada Meetinghouse. A few are snll acnve meet­ (Toronto, OGS, 1996). ings, others were emptied by migration and dispersal. We must welcome the opportu­ nities changes make, rather than mourn for News and Notes the past. All are welcome to attend the Quaker Historian & Archivists Conference. • Jane Zavitz-Bond officially retires as The next will be at Baltimore (Stonyrun) Librarian at Pickering College at the end of Meeting in June, 1998. 1996. She will continue as Canadian Yearly • We're online. The Canadian Fnends Meeting Archivist, and welcomes the oppor­ Historical Association has established a tunity in the archives. Appoin~ents are website at http://www.interhop.netlmuseum important for researchers. There IS work to thanks to the generosity of Interhop do! Join us in the enterprise. Communications Services. The web site • The next issue of the Journal features the contains information on the Association, 50th anniversary of the receipt of the 1947 Quaker History, the Yearly Meeting Nobel Peace Prize by Friends Service Archives, our Publications, and an online bodies. Also included will be additional edition of the Journal. Check the site out. articles on the experiences of Friends in • The Toronto Historical Board has also western Meetings. established a web presence at http://www.­ • Albert Schrauwers is leaving immediately torontohistory.on.ca. Their site contains for Indonesia and further anthropological information on Toronto's history, as well as research. This issue of the Journal has been an interactive History Quiz. published in record time, t~o days ~ter the • Gordon Carder of Woodstock read the annual meeting, so that hIS techmcal and following short article dated 21 Jan. 1897 editorial expertize was available. ¥!e ~e from the Norwich Gazette at the Annual grateful and wish him a safe and satlsfymg Meeting. It seemed worthy of a wider audi­ trip. Surely we may take space for such an ence. The paper's editor, Tom Bartholomew important note! wrote: "The Toronto Globe recently • Researchers are at work on theses and remarked on the length of years attained by papers which cover Quaker women's sub­ members of the Society of Friends." Their culture of folk lore/life style patterns