Alvyn Austin is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto and the Department of History at Brock University.Jamie S. Scott is Director of the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.

This interdisciplinary collection is a valuable contribution to the field of mission studies, and to the fields of native, religious, and cultural studies more broadly.- Jennifer Bonnell, History of Education Program, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (H-net - www.h-net.msu.edu/)

• PART 1: THE HOME FIELDS Jamie S. Scott, York University. 'Cultivating Christians in Colonial Canada'Myra Rutherdale, Simon Eraser University. 'Mothers of the Empire: Maternal Metaphors in the Northern Canadian Mission Field'Gail Edwards. University of British Columbia. 'The Picturesqueness of His Accent and Speech: Methodist Missionary Narratives and William Henry Pierce's Autobiography'Susan Neylan. Wilfrid Laurier University. 'Eating the Angel's Food: Arthur Wellington Clah - An Aboriginal Perspective on Being Christian, 1857-1909'PART 2: OVER THE SEAS AND FAR AWAY Alvyn Austin, University of Toronto. 'Wallace of West China: Edward Wilson Wallace and the Canadian Educational Systems of China, 1906-1927'Margo Gewurtz, York University. 'Their Names May Not Shine: Narrating Chinese Christian Converts'Ruth Compton Brouwer, King's College, University of Western 0ntario. 'Shifts in the Salience of Gender in the lnternational Missionary Enterprise During the lnterwar Years'A. Hamish Ion, Royal Military College. 'Missions and Empires: A Case Study of Canadians in the Japanese Empire, 1895-1941'PART 3: BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME France Lord. 'The Silent Eloquence of Things: The Missionary Collections and Exhibitions of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Quebec'Barbara Lawson, McGiil University and the Redpath Museum. 'Collecting Cultures: (Canadian Missionaries, Pacific Islanders, and Museums'Arthur Smith, Royal Ontario Museum. 'Curios from a Strange Land: The Oceania Collections of the Reverend Joseph Annand'Linfu Dong, 0cean University, Qingdao, China. 'Finding God in Ancient China.: James Mellon Menzies, Sinology and Missions'

Alvyn Austin is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto and the Department of History at Brock University.Jamie S. Scott is Director of the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.

This interdisciplinary collection is a valuable contribution to the field of mission studies, and to the fields of native, religious, and cultural studies more broadly.- Jennifer Bonnell, History of Education Program, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (H-net - www.h-net.msu.edu/)

• PART 1: THE HOME FIELDS Jamie S. Scott, York University. 'Cultivating Christians in Colonial Canada'Myra Rutherdale, Simon Eraser University. 'Mothers of the Empire: Maternal Metaphors in the Northern Canadian Mission Field'Gail Edwards. University of British Columbia. 'The Picturesqueness of His Accent and Speech: Methodist Missionary Narratives and William Henry Pierce's Autobiography'Susan Neylan. Wilfrid Laurier University. 'Eating the Angel's Food: Arthur Wellington Clah - An Aboriginal Perspective on Being Christian, 1857-1909'PART 2: OVER THE SEAS AND FAR AWAY Alvyn Austin, University of Toronto. 'Wallace of West China: Edward Wilson Wallace and the Canadian Educational Systems of China, 1906-1927'Margo Gewurtz, York University. 'Their Names May Not Shine: Narrating Chinese Christian Converts'Ruth Compton Brouwer, King's College, University of Western 0ntario. 'Shifts in the Salience of Gender in the lnternational Missionary Enterprise During the lnterwar Years'A. Hamish Ion, Royal Military College. 'Missions and Empires: A Case Study of Canadians in the Japanese Empire, 1895-1941'PART 3: BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME France Lord. 'The Silent Eloquence of Things: The Missionary Collections and Exhibitions of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Quebec'Barbara Lawson, McGiil University and the Redpath Museum. 'Collecting Cultures: (Canadian Missionaries, Pacific Islanders, and Museums'Arthur Smith, Royal Ontario Museum. 'Curios from a Strange Land: The Oceania Collections of the Reverend Joseph Annand'Linfu Dong, 0cean University, Qingdao, China. 'Finding God in Ancient China.: James Mellon Menzies, Sinology and Missions'