Codex Historicus and everyday reality of the mission in Chesterfield Inlet (Igluligaarjuk) in Arctic Canada, 1912-1917

Different publications on missions very often use the letters of the missionaries as the source of their elaboration. This article presents vision of everyday life of the missionaries in the Canadian Arctic, precisely in the mission of Chesterfield Inlet (Igluligaarjuk) based on the perspective of t...

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Published in:Annales Missiologici Posnanienses
Main Author: ZAJĄC, PAWEŁ
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Polish
Published: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan 2010
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Online Access:http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/amp/article/view/7928
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Summary:Different publications on missions very often use the letters of the missionaries as the source of their elaboration. This article presents vision of everyday life of the missionaries in the Canadian Arctic, precisely in the mission of Chesterfield Inlet (Igluligaarjuk) based on the perspective of the Codex Historicus of given mission. Letters are written not so often as inputs in the Codex, therefore it seems that it is worth initiative to look on missionary life in the Arctic from such a perspective. Different publications on missions very often use the letters of the missionaries as the source of their elaboration. This article presents vision of everyday life of the missionaries in the Canadian Arctic, precisely in the mission of Chesterfield Inlet (Igluligaarjuk) based on the perspective of the Codex Historicus of given mission. Letters are written not so often as inputs in the Codex, therefore it seems that it is worth initiative to look on missionary life in the Arctic from such a perspective.