"James Mellon Menzies (1885-1957) was a Canadian engineer, Presbyterian missionary, and archaeologist active in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Rejecting a tradition that saw archaeology as a means of gathering artefacts for the collections of Western museums, Menzies believed in …
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James Mellon Menzies (1885-1957) was a Canadian engineer, Presbyterian missionary, and archaeologist active in China in the 1920s and 1930s. In a tradition that saw archaeology as a means of gathering artefacts for the collections of Western museums, Menzies believed in collecti…
"James Mellon Menzies (1885-1957) was a Canadian engineer, Presbyterian missionary, and archaeologist active in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Rejecting a tradition that saw archaeology as a means of gathering artefacts for the collections of Western museums, Menzies believed in …
James Mellon Menzies (1885-1957) was a Canadian engineer, Presbyterian missionary, and archaeologist active in China in the 1920s and 1930s. In a tradition that saw archaeology as a means of gathering artefacts for the collections of Western museums, Menzies believed in collecti…
These fascinating memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola, a Corsican-born Oblatean who arrived in British Columbia in 1880, reveal the complexity of the work carried out by ordinary missionary priests.
Beginning with his arrival in B.C. in 1880, Father Coccola worked as a missionary for 63 years. After a brief posting to the Kamloops, Shuswap, and Nicola Valley Indian bands, Coccola spent 18 years as a missionary to the Kutenai before being transferred, in 1905, to Stuart Lake…
