From the Pages of Three Ladies: Canadian Women Missionaries in Republician China

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From the Pages of Three Ladies: Canadian Women Missionaries in Republician China
Abstract
The author focuses on three Canadian women (Lena Jolliffe, Mary Lamb and Agnes Hilliard) who lived and worked in Sichuan, China as Christian missionaries during the chaotic first half of the twentieth century. The author's study is built around three overarching themes: the experiences of these three Westerners in China who were there as missionaries, as women and as Canadians; their contributions to China; and their impact back in Canada. Mary Letitia Lamb, a Methodist/United Church missionary, was born in 1879 in St. Andrew's East (today Saint-André d'Argenteuil) in Quebec's Argenteuil County, and cared for her widowed mother until 1918. She attended McGill University for one year as a young adult, and was active in young people's work in the Methodist Church. In 1920 she volunteered to be Matron of the Canadian School for Missionary Children in West China; she learned the Chinese language and in 1926 was appointed by the Woman's Missionary Society to evangelistic work. She remained in China until 1940, when she returned to Canada. She died in 1961.
Type
Master's thesis
University
Concordia University
Place
Montreal
Date
2008
# of Pages
x-192p.
Language
en
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Citation
Shulman, Deborah. “From the Pages of Three Ladies: Canadian Women Missionaries in Republician China.” Master’s thesis, Concordia University, 2008. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/975217/1/NR45679.pdf.
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