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Jabez Waters Sims fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1842-[ca. 1984].

Reference:

R4176-0-0-E, MG24-J51

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105803

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Jabez Waters Sims fonds
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Fonds includes:

4 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1842-[ca. 1984].

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

8.3 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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The fonds consists of the journal of Rev. Jabez Waters Sims, the original and a photocopy, 1863-1868 (233 p. and 221 p.); an index to the journal, photocopy, ca. 1980-1984 (47 p.); correspondence and miscellaneous material, photocopy, n.d., 1864-1869 (81 p.); and research material, photocopy, n.d., 1842, 1859, ca. 1980-1984 (39 p.).

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Sims, Rev. Jabez Waters, 1831-1869

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Sims, Rev. Jabez Waters, 1831-1869 : The Reverend Jabez Waters Sims was born on 13 November 1831, the eldest child of a tailor of Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, Jabez Sims (d.1849), and his wife Susannah (née Waters). He became a schoolmaster. At Tickenham (near Bristol) on New Year's Day 1851, at the age of 19, he married Mary Ann Gladwin (b.1833) of Portbury, Somerset. After teaching for a while at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, he emigrated with his family to New Brunswick at some time after the spring of 1854. In 1857 he moved to Glen Williams, Canada West. There he gave gratuitous assistance in his ministry to the Reverend J.G.D. McKenzie. Benjamin Cronyn, the first Bishop of Huron, ordained him to the deaconate on 28 October 1862 and to the priesthood on 28 October 1863. From January 1863 to October 1864 he served as a missionary at Dungannon and parts adjacent in Huron County, and as Superintendent of Schools for the Townships of Ashfield, Colborne and Wawanosh.

After studing the Ojibway language under the Reverend Dr. Frederick A. O'Meara, a former missionary on Manitoulin Island, he took over the mission in that island in October 1864. There the Indians gave him the name of Muckadez Cunesse (Little Blackcoat). In 1868 he moved the mission's headquarters from Manitowaning to Sheguiandah. On the 18 August 1869, while travelling with his family to Killarney to baptize a child, he was drowned, and was buried in a corner of this own garden because there was no burial ground at Sheguiandah. He left a young family of five surviving sons and one daughter.

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(Paper) The photocopied material in files 2-9 of this collection are essentially aids to the use and understanding of the journal in file 1. Thematic Guide 1206 to Parish Registers, Volume 1, provides a summary description of the baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in the journal; the microfilm shelf list is supplied by Volume 2 of the Guide. (90: Open)

(Electronic) The fonds is available online. (90: Open)
https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_h1812/

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Custodial history:

The original journal of the Reverend Jabez W. Sims was presented in 1985 by Shelly Jeanne Pearen of Ottawa on behalf of her grandfather Wilfrid A. Sims of Little Current, Manitoulin District, Ontario, a grandson of the Reverend Jabez W. Sims. At the same time, Ms. Pearen made available for photocopying the additional material relating to her great-great-grandfather.
The fonds was microfilmed in 1987.

Availability of other formats note:

The entire fonds is available on microfilm reel H-1812, from reel image 213 to 755 (end of reel).
Subject heading:

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Dungannon (Ont. : Township), [186-]

Missionaries - Diaries, 1863-1865

Church of England - Missions, 1863-1865

William Barr, 1864

Saltern Givins, 1867-1869

Eleanor Jenkins, [n.d.]

The Settlement of Manitoulin Island, [n.d.]

Ashfield (Ont.), [18-]

Colborne (Ont. : Township), [18-]

Church of England - Clergy

Shelley Pearen, 1980-1984

Jabez Sims - Death and burial, 1869

Anglicans - Ontario, 1863-1869

Presbyterians, 1864

Temperance and religion, 1864

Land settlement - Ontario, 1864-1868

Demographic surveys - Ontario, 1864-1868

Manitoulin Island (Ont.) - Religion, 1864-1868

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain), 1865-1868

Postal service - Rates, [186-]

Church records and registers, [186-]

Drowning victims, 1869

Jabez Sims - Biography, [n.d.]

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Private

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MG24-J51
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG24 J 51] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation90 Open]

Microfilm reel [MG24 J 51] H-1812

[Consultation 90 Open]

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