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Gower, Godfrey Philip
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Administration and Finance Committee sous-fonds

Sous-fonds consists of minutes and reports. Includes minutes of meetings dealing with various financial matters: the financing of parishes' construction, building of parsonage houses, release of mortgages, sales of church properties, rezoning requests, parish loans, grants allotted for different events and activities, approvals for building projects. Includes also reports of funding for special programmes (Continuing Theological Education Programme, Christian Education Programme); reports on allotted grants (Chinese Work grant, Missions to Seamen grant, Native Funds grant).

Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of New Westminster. Administration and Finance Committee

Diocesan Centennial Committee sous-fonds

Sous-fonds consists of minutes, correspondence, legal records, manuscripts, printed material. Includes press releases; material relating to publication of centennial history book, "Pacific Pilgrims" by Lyndon Grove; "Festival 100" event and special Eucharist celebration. Includes some earlier correspondence regarding upcoming centennial.

Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of New Westminster. Diocesan Centennial Committee

Every Member Visitation and Canvass Committee sous-fonds

Sous-fonds consists of correspondence with parishes, order forms, literature prepared by the committee, posters, printed material, such as "Parish chairman's guide", "The first investment", "Are you vitally concerned". Includes also few issues of "The Public Relations Newsletter of the Church of England in Canada".

Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of New Westminster. Every Member Visitation and Canvass Committee

Legal records

Series consists of property records, legal records, financial records, correspondence relating to property sales and mortgages, deeds of land. Includes a printed copy of the "Act to constitute the Bishops of British Columbia, Caledonia and New Westminster Corporations sole", as well as a printed copy of the New Westminster municipality by-law 1248, that enabled Bishop Adam U. de Pencier to acquire land for the purpose of a cemetery (1930). The agreement is known as "The Church of England Cemetery by-law 1930". Other legal records include mortgage payment agreements between Synod and Eldentrand Stroining (1980), Svend Aage Bach and Marie Immacolata (1981), and Mary Ann Dickhoff (1984). Includes also copies of mortgage agreements between the Diocese of New Westminster and the Society for the Property of Gospel (1913, 1915, 1923, 1924). Includes a list of parishes incorporations (1896 - 1931), bylaws relating to parishes' incorporations, a handwritten copy of the incorporation act of St. Thomas Chilliwack parish (1896). Series consists also of records relating to the following funds and trusts: E. Disney Farmer Memorial fund, J.C. Wetherell Estate trust, Rev. H. Bell-Irving Memorial fund, Bishops Endowment fund.

Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of New Westminster. Synod

Parish correspondence files

Series consists mainly of in and out correspondence between Diocesan parishes and the Synod office. Includes parishes' boundaries records approved by the Executive Committee (predominant 1900 - 1960), property records, financial statements and annual balance sheets, request for loans, fund requests for reconstruction, expansion or relocation of churches, petition for licensing or resignation of clergy, handwritten memos and reports, letters of incorporations, by-laws and regulations of churches, parishes' partnership reports, deaneries' financial statements, reports on state of ministry (Bella Coola, Squamish, Kingcome Inlet), ministry evaluation, personal letters on various matters, clippings, printed material, graphic material, architectural drawings, cartographic material, cartoons.

Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of New Westminster. Synod

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