As the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario faces its last days, we were asked to organize a session remembering the past.  Of course, we wanted to honour our history.  The presence of a hope-filled shalom has often broken in on our congregations, by our actions, and through our people.  Justice and mercy have been […]

Task to Identify Authorship For a history course in 1995, Pat Hardy went sleuthing through an archival document “Historical Sketch of the Portage la Prairie Indian School and Mission 1886-1936” speculated by the Archivist to be written by a woman.  The handwritten manuscript proved not to be written by Jessie Ella (Phiney) Murray, but by […]

Researcher Jennifer S.H. Brown In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her husband of only five months, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville, at Norway House. Over the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at Rossville and then at the newly founded […]