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James Nisbet [textual record]

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Date:

1848.

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R3560-0-5-E, MG24-J25, Volume number: 1

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100424

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James Nisbet
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Date(s):

1848.

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No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3.4 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Item is a pocket diary recording a tour of Canada West, made in 1848 by James Nisbet, on behalf of the Canada Sabbath School Union. Places visited during the tour included Bytown, Smiths' Falls, Perth, Brockville, Prescott, Gananoque, Kingston, Belleville, Picton, Cobourg, Peterborough, Port Hope, Toronto, Oakville, Hamilton, Dundas, Brantford, Woodstock, London, St. Thomas, Stratford, Galt, Guelph, Fergus, Niagara. The diary contains a note of cash received from C.S.S.U., 24 May 1848; travelling expenses, 28 April to 26 September, 1848, pp. 1-4; collections for C.S.S.U., 30 May to 21 September 1848, pp. 5-7; notes of tour in behalf of the Canada S.S. Union, 30 May to 20 September 1848, pp. 11-125; draft report of the four, n.d., pp. 131-168, 170-173; index, n.d., pp. 169-170.

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Nisbet, James, 1823-1874

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Brockville (Ont.)

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Nisbet, James, 1823-1874 : The Reverend James Nisbet was the first Presbyterian missionary to the Indians in the Northwest, and founder of the settlement at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1866. He was born at Hutchisontown in the parish of the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Thomas Nisbet, a master shipbuilder, who brought his family to Canada West in 1844 and settled at Oakville. After a short period as a carpenter, he studied theology at Knox College, Toronto, from which he graduated in 1849. He was employed as an agent and missionary of the Sabbath School Society of Montreal until January 1850, when he was ordained and inducted as minister of the Oakville congregation.

In 1862, Reverend Nisbet was selected by the Foreign Mission Committee of the Canada Presbyterian Church, to assist the Reverend John Black at the Red River Mission, Manitoba, and to investigate the means of extending missionary work to the Indians in the territory of the Hudson's Bay Company. He died at Kildonan, Manitoba.

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Received in 1962.
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Prescott (Ont.)

Peterborough (Ont.)

Galt (Ont.)

Woodstock (Ont.)

Stratford (Ont.)

Port Hope (Ont.)

Brantford (Ont.)

Ontario - Description and travel, 1848 Canada Sabath School Union, 1848

Travel costs - Ontario, 1848 Bytown (Ont.), 1848

James Nisbet, 1848 Smiths Falls (Ont.), 1848

Gananoque (Ont.), 1848

Belleville (Ont.), 1848

Picton (Ont.), 1848

Cobourg (Ont.), 1848

Oakville (Ont.), 1848

Dundas (Ont.), 1848

St. Thomas (Ont.), 1848

Fergus (Ont.), 1848

Niagara (Ont.), 1848

Perth (Ont.), 1848

Toronto (Ont.)

Hamilton (Ont.)

Kingston (Ont.)

London (Ont.)

Guelph (Ont.)
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MG24-J25
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