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Catalog Number |
BE2008.3.62 |
Object Name |
Book |
Title |
Life and Journals of Kah-ke-wa-quo-na-by |
Author |
Jones, Peter |
Summary |
A green hardcovered book entitled 'Life and Journals of Kah-Ke-Wa-Quo-Na-By' by Rev. Peter Jones. The cover is impressed with a scroll and medallion design. The spine has four horizontal lines and the title in gold letters. The back of the third fly leaf is an etching of Rev. Jones by Fuller and Bencke, Luk, Vict. Hall, Toronto. There is a single title page, a two page preface, and a detailed contents preceding the text. The first section in the autobiography is in 16 pages. The journal comprises 1825 to 1838, in 13 chapters and 392 pages. The final chapters comprises 1839 to 1855 plus information furnished by Mrs. Jones for 1860, along with her observations on his character. Published by Anson Green, at the Wesleyan Printing Establishment, King Street East. |
History |
Kahkewaquonaby (Sacred Waving Feathers) or Peter Jones (1802-1856) began his missionary career among the Ojibway of Upper Canada. In addition to his missionary work, Peter Jones acted as spokesman for the Mississaugas and was instrumental in the establishment and development of the Credit Mission along the Credit River. In 1833 Peter Jones was ordained and became the first Indigenous Methodist missionary in Canada. Ref: http://www5.mississauga.ca/heritage/new/docs/Jones.pdf Anson Green (1801-1879) came to Upper Canada in 1823 while en route to Ohio, but decided to remain, and obtained a teaching post at West Lake in Prince Edward County. Green was a Methodist clergyman. While working as an itinerant preacher he visited Lewis Bradley's home (now Bradley Museum) in 1826. He is credited with the introduction of the first steam newspaper press in Canada in 1851 for the use of the Methodists’ weekly newspaper, The Christian Guardian. Ref: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/green_anson_10E.html & Dorothy L. Martin, "The Families of Merigold's Point", Mississauga, 1984. |
Subjects |
Church Mission churches Methodist churches Aboriginals |
People |
Jones, Reverend Peter Green, Anson |