Up and Down the North Pacific Coast, 1914

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UP AND DOWN THE

NORTH PACIFIC COAST

BY CANOE AND MISSION
SHIP


BY


REV. THOMAS CROSBY, D.D.


AUTHOR OF "AMONG THE ANKOMENUMS"
THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH
THE YOUNG PEOPLES FORWARD
MOVEMENT DEPARTMENT


F. C. STEPHENSON, Secretary.

Methodist Mission Rooms, Toronto, Canada

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The School Children at Skidegate, QCI - 1914

CHAPTER XIX. 

THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 

WHILE we were in the midst of house and Church building at Simpson, the people commenced to come in from all parts of the Coast, seeking for light and asking for a teacher or a Missionary. In 1876 a large party came over from Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, most of them painted and in their blankets. They wanted to take me back with them to see their people, most of whom, they said, wished to have a Missionary. It was impossible for me to leave my work at that time, and we thought that the Church Missionary Society, who had Missionaries along the Coast, should take that part of the Island, so we urged them to make application to that Society. The Church Missionary Society afterwards took up successful work at Masset.

A year or two later, an urgent call came from the Skidegate and other peoples in the south. These Indians made regular visits in the summer to Fort Simpson for business purposes, both with furs for the Company and to trade off their large canoes among the Indians for fish-grease and other food. On these occasions they generally spent one Sabbath or more with us; and we would have week evening services especially for them and also special services in Chinook in the Church on the Lord's Day. When they saw how the Tsimpshean people were improving and how many of their children were beginning to read and write, they began to urge for a teacher at Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands.

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