Shantymen's Christian Association

SHANTYMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (SCA) was a Toronto missionary organization formed in 1914 to evangelize the LOGGING camps in northern Ontario. Backed by the VANCOUVER businessman R.W. Sharpe, it spread to BC in 1919 when a missionary was brought in to minister to a logging camp north of Vancouver. The SCA opened an office in the city in 1920 and began organizing missionaries to work among loggers, fishers and miners in isolated camps and settlements along the coast. A VICTORIA committee was...

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