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

• Published in: Annales Missiologici Posnanienses
• Main Author: ZAJĄC, PAWEŁ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Polish
• Published: Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan 2010
• Subjects: Kanada - Misje arktyczne; Chesterfield Inlet; Igluligaarjuk; Św. Teresa od Dzieciątka Jezus; Arctic Missions; St. Teresa of Child Jesus; Arctic; Canada
• Online Access: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/amp/article/view/7928

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.