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New transcription: Whitchurch Preparative Meeting 1816-1841

Our intrepid transcription volunteer Carman Foster has completed another meeting book – Whitchurch Preparative (O-8-9). This document can now be found on the Transcriptions page, as well as right here. This is the first Whitchurch document we have ever shared! “Whitchurch meeting was established in 1805as an indulged meeting and asked in 1810 to become a Preparative meeting under Yonge St Monthly meeting.This was finally authorized in 1816. Property was secured in 1814 for a meeting house and in 1827 and new one was planned. Read more

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New transcriptions: Pickering and Norwich

We’ve just shared two new transcriptions! Pickering Prep Orthodox 1828-1852 minutes book (O-6-1) and Norwich Monthly Meeting Women’s 1819-49 (H-5-1) are now online. Thanks as always to our wonderful transcription team! Please note we’ve also made an update to the Pickering Orthodox Monthly Meeting 1842-1870. The committee to inspect into Phebe Dunkins Clearness in regard to marriage engagements report no obstructions Gilbert Stover and Phebe Dunkin appeared in this meeting in a public manner and renewed their intentions of marriage with each other they having Read more

By CFHA, ago

The Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists

The 2020 Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists will be held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, June 12th to 14th. Proposals are now being accepted: The Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists (CQHA) will hold its 23rd biennial conference at Earlham College on June 12-14, 2020. CQHA is a community that brings together those who study the history of Quakers and Quakerism with practitioners from cultural institutions that make records of the Quaker past available for scholarship. The Conference takes place every two years Read more

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In Memoriam: Kathleen Schmitz-Hertzberg (1916 – 2019)

Kathleen Schmitz-Hertzberg (nee Brookhouse) was born on Fourth Day, the sixteenth of Second Month in 1916. Her birth commenced a life of almost 103 years and one which made a difference in the lives of countless people who knew Kathleen or benefitted from one or more of the many aspects of the energy she devoted to Quaker service and concerns. Kathleen has been a member of Toronto Monthly meeting for many years. The following is summarized from information and excerpts taken from the announcement of Read more

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Randy Saylor to make Keynote Presentation: Quaker United Empire Loyalists: An Exploration

“At our preparative Meeting of Pelham the 29th of the 5th Mo. 1811             This Meeting was Inform,d that Benjamin Birdsall is Living in the Neglect of Attending meetings  Appears out of plainness both in Dress and Address and making use of the Vain Compliments of the World & that he is Concernd in the Distillation of Grain also that he has Reciev,d A tract of Land of land from Government under the Appelation of UE.  his Case is ordered up to Monthly Meeting.”     Read more

By CFHA, ago

Message from the Chair

    Dear members:     It has been almost a year since the previous issue of The Meetinghouse has been published.  The usual activities of CFHA have continued during this interval.  In addition, much effort has gone into upgrafing member on-line capability. This issue will provide details of these activities, plus some familiar features such as Canada Tells and Transcription Tidbits. You will also find information on the upcoming Annual General Meeting. This year, n addition to, another great program and keynote presentation, the business meeting Read more

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Two New Posters Added to the ‘Who are the Quakers?’ display set.

The Canadian Friends Historical Association is pleased to announce the creation of two new posters. The new posters have been added to the existing ‘Who are the Quakers?’ display sets. This brings the number of posters in the complete set to 10.     Beaver Harbour New Brunswick “No Slave Master Admitted” has been researched and compiled by members of New Brunswick Monthly Meeting. The poster incorporates images of original period documents, graphics and an historic photograph to illustrate the remarkable account of how a racially Read more

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Transcription Tidbits

The “Tidbits” included in this issue of The Meetinghouse are all taken from transcriptions of meeting minutes recorded at various times and location in the meetings then established in Upper Canada. The excerpts broadly relate to items of business which came before and “claimed the aattention” of the Preparative (PM) or Monthly (MM) meeting. Quaker meetings then, as now, applied considerable attention towards aligning meeting discernment with established principles. As can be seen below, earlier meetings maintained, by common consent, a diligent oversight of all Read more

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Middlesex Centre Archives, Delaware, Ontario Quaker Record Holdings

Contributed by David Zavitz Thanks to David Zavitz for compiling the following list of Quaker documents and family history records available at the Middlesex Centre Archives. David advises that at present none of these records are viewable online via the Archives. For additional information visit the archives website www.middlesexcentrearchives.ca or contact at [email protected] 1. Marsh Collection: Water Lilly Temperance Magazine 1891-93  Scattered Seeds 1892 Friends Intelligener 1887 What Should I Do Now?  How to Work For Canada at Peace  1910 From War to Peace -Repatriation Read more

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