Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 3
5. Part I. The Home Fields
6. 1. Cultivating Christians in Colonial Canadian Missions 21
7. 2. Mothers of the Empire: Maternal Metaphors in the Northern Canadian Mission Field 46
8. 3. The Picturesqueness of His Accent and Speech': Methodist Missionary Narratives and William Henry Pierce's Autobiography 67
9. 4. 'Eating the Angels' Food': Arthur Wellington Clah - An Aboriginal Perspective on Being Christian, 1857-1909 88
10. Part II. Over the Seas and Far Away
11. 5. Wallace of West China: Edward Wilson Wallace and the Canadian Educational Systems of China, 1906-1927 111
12. 6. 'Their Names May Not Shine': Narrating Chinese Christian Converts 134
13. 7. Shifts in the Salience of Gender in the International Missionary Enterprise during the Interwar Years 152
14. 8. Missions and Empires: A Case Study of Canadians in the Japanese Empire, 1895-1941 177
15. Part III. Bringing It All Back Home
16. 9. The Silent Eloquence of Things: The Missionary Collections and Exhibitions of the Society of Jesus in Quebec, 1843-1946 205
17. 10. Collecting Cultures: Canadian Missionaries, Pacific Islanders, and Museums 235
18. 11. 'Curios' from a Strange Land: The Oceania Collections of the Reverend Joseph Annand 262
19. 12. Finding God in Ancient China: James Mellon Menzies, Sinology, and Mission Policies 279
20. Contributors 307
21. Illustration Credits 311
22. Index 313