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Founders and Builders Series

Founders and Builders Series: Peter Brock

In this month’s Founders and Builders Series, we introduce you to Peter Brock, a gracious supporter of the CFHA and later honorary chairman. His legacy is remembered here by Jane Zavitz-Bond. Peter Brock: World Peace Historian 1920-2006 By Jane Zavitz-Bond Peter de Beauvoir Brock spent his life in the study, Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsNovember 18, 2020 ago
Coldstream Coldstream Series

Coldstream Series: The Marsh Store

This guest post was graciously contributed by Dave Zavitz. For generations the Marsh Store site has been the nucleus of activity in the Coldstream area. Its history began when John Moor Marsh and his wife, Sarah Zavitz, purchased the land in 1839 with encouragement from his brother-in-law Benjamin Cutler. Benjamin Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsNovember 5, 2020 ago
Events Friendly Fridays

Friendly Friday Session on October 30th

The Friendly Friday sessions are held via Zoom starting at 1:30 PM, every other Friday. The next session will be held on Friday, October 30th. Subsequent sessions will be held on Friday November 13th and 27th, and Friday December 11th. For each session the appropriate passages of the Nickalls edition of Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsOctober 22, 2020 ago
Founders and Builders Series Meetinghouse Resources

Founders and Builders Series: Fred Haslam

In this month’s Founders and Builders Series, we introduce you to an influential Friend and early contributor to the CFHA. Our fourth essay features Fred Haslam and is written by Dorothy Trimble. Dorothy passed in 2014 at the age of 91 but remembers the life of Fred Haslam here in Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsOctober 21, 2020 ago
Events Friendly Fridays Resources

Join us for ‘Friendly Friday’ on October 16th

Please join the Canadian Friends Historical Association in a “Friendly Friday” discussion of George Fox’s journal. This Zoom session will run on Fri. Oct. 16, from 1:30-3 pm. In the course of a little more than an hour, our group covered the first 8 pages of the Journal. We will Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsOctober 15, 2020 ago
Genealogy Questions

Research Inquiry – Doan and Wade Families

We recently received a genealogy question in regard to the ancestry of Jemima Camp Wade (1812-1895). In 1832, Jemima Wade married Solomon Doan, an active member of the Black Creek PM and Pelham MM. One of their children is listed in the Pelham Register as born in Crowland. We’re hoping Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsOctober 14, 2020 ago
Academic Resources

CFHA Student Essay Award and Scholarship Program

As students enter a fall semester full of new challenges, we want to highlight the CFHA Student Essay Award and Scholarship Program. The program was created to support students interested in Canadian Quaker history and promote awareness of local meetings among students. The CFHA encourages all students undertaking research related Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsOctober 8, 2020 ago
AGM Resources

Recording of Program Portion of AGM Available

For those of you who were unable to join us at the program portion of our AGM, we have a recording of Ben Pink Dandelion and Stephen W. Angell’s discussion. Ben and Stephen have been instrumental in the field of Quaker studies and we were so pleased to have them. Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsOctober 7, 2020 ago
Events

Robynne Rogers Healey to Speak at Freedom Forum’s Series on Faith, Race, and Civil Rights

Freedom Forum Institute is hosting the fifth program in their series, “Religious Resolve: Stories from Our Past, for Our Future,” on the Grimké sisters. The panel, “The Grimkés Speak Out on Faith, Race, and Civil Rights,” will take place Sunday, October 11th, at 3:00 pm (EST). The panel includes Dr. Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsOctober 1, 2020 ago
Academic Canadian Quaker History Journal Resources

Verifying a Quaker Presence in American Television Westerns

How many times have you seen a Quaker in a television program or movie? How often have Quakers, the Amish, and Mennonites been conflated into stock characters? We are thrilled to share this guest post from Stephen D. Brooks who is researching representations of Quakers in television and film as Read more

By CFHA, 5 yearsSeptember 30, 2020 ago

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