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Wilna Thomas fonds
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1934-1993 (Creation)
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60 cm of textual recordsphotographs
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Custodial history
Accession 94.053C was deposited by Jara Smith in April 1994. Smith had utilized material in writing, 'A tree planted by the water : the Wilna Thomas story,' Accession 94.129C was deposited by Mary Burgess in October, 1994.
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The fonds consists of personal records, 1934-1993, containing correspondence with her mother while overseas, student essays, and correspondence from Japanese friends following her retirement from active missionary work; Woman's Missionary Society records, 1939-1960, consisting of material on her field work as Secretary for Younger Groups, including reports on the work, and scrapbooks which highlight Thomas' work with new Canadians at Hamilton All People's Church, and her work with young people as WMS Secretary, lecture notes and reports from her teaching activitiy in Japan, and notebooks, correspondence, and notes from her tour of the mission fields in 1960-1961; Board of World Mission, 1963-1967, consisting of notebooks, correspondence, and notes of overseas trips to Korea and India, 1963-1965.
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