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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a vessel plying the coastal inlets and islands or the inland rivers carrying spiritual and medical services to isolated communities.

Quotations

1897

Mission scows, loaded with freight for Fort Chippewyan and other points, were expected, and free-traders' outfits were liable to arrive at any time.

1905

So this was the mission-ship! We had heard some talk of one coming, but had thought it only one of the idle rumours of the coast.

1958

Church and medical profession also join, by way of mission boats, to bring spiritual and physical aid to the coast.

1959

"Since 1933 there has been no ordained minister at Klemtu," he explains. "we had to depend on services from the mission boat Crosby IV and it had many places to serve."