In 1874 Whitfield was a thriving Canadian village that was enjoying prosperity from the lumbering trade and its strategic position on a busy transport route. But just a quarter of a century later, changes in farming and industry, and a general movement of population to cities had seen a big change of in the fortunes of the village.
25 July 2000
Christ Church Cathedral in British Columbia is building a seven circuit labyrinth to mark the new millennium. Labyrinths have been part of the Christian tradition since about the fourth century, an are designed to aid meditation and contemplation.
12 July 2000
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA, the Most Revd Frank Griswold, announced on Friday, 7th July, that the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief would from now on be known as Episcopal Relief and Development.
12 July 2000
The 73rd General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the Unites States is meeting in Denver, Colorado, from 5th to 14th July 2000. Around 200 active and retired bishops make up the House of Bishops, while there are a thousand deputies and alternates of the House of Deputies.
12 July 2000
I am Bishop Enock Lee Drati, the Bishop of Madi, West Nile Diocese bordering with Sudan and Congo. At the 1998 Lambeth Conference, Anglican bishops asked for the worldwide church to work with their governments to cancel the debts of the world's poorest countries. Since Lambeth, debt relief has become a priority for the Episcopal Church in the United States and throughout the Anglican Communion.
11 July 2000
The 24 member communities of the Conference on the Religious Life celebrated 50 years of ministry on Sunday afternoon in St John's Cathedral.
11 July 2000
Your Grace, the Presiding Bishop, Members of the General Convention, invited Guests, Sisters and Brothers: I once read of a Bishop who started his Charge to his Diocesan Convention as follows: "I feel rather like a swan. I look all calm and serene on the surface, but I am paddling like the dickens underneath!" And that's me today!
11 July 2000
I am delighted that both Houses of our General Convention have now passed "Called to Common Mission," the proposed revision of the Concordat of Agreement, together with the related constitutional and canonical changes.
11 July 2000
A Canadian MP has raised the issue of the serious financial situation faced by churches in Canada concerning lawsuits over the treatment of children in residential schools. "Surely it is important to make sure that the churches involved do not go bankrupt or are so severely damaged that much of their social services and social action work will have to be eliminated just to survive," said New Democratic Party member, Bill Blaikie, in a statement to the Canadian House of Commons.
07 July 2000
Two thousand people filled St Paul's Bloor Street in Toronto for the fifth annual service to celebrate the diocese's black heritage. The Revd Cecil Fletcher, who is minister of Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church in Toronto, preached at the service - the first non-Anglican to do so - and Bishop Michael Bedford-Jones was the chief celebrant.
03 June 2000