STEWART OF UNGAVA [STEWART (Rev. Dr. Samuel Milliken, 1865-1954, Missionary in Ungava, Labrador)]

Unsigned postcard photo showing him full length, full face, in Eskimo costume, with one foot on a step, Colonial and Continental Church Society, London, 5½" x 3½", no date, circa

Dr. Stewart was the first Anglican missionary established at Fort Chimo, now Kuujjang, the North Inuit village, at the foot of Ungava Bay, in 1900. He remained there till he retired in 1930.
Stewart came from Co. Antrim. As a boy he had read that no Christian missionary had visited the area since 1497, and in 1895 went to study at Queen's College, Newfoundland. Ordained deacon in 1897, he was missioner at Forteau with Flower's Cove, and then chosen by CCCS to go to Ungava. For stirring accounts of his survival there and his translations into Eskimo, see Charles McConnell, 'The Carrickfergus Missionary to the Eskimos', Carrickfergus & District Historical Journal, Vol. 4, 1988/1989, pp. 55-59,

Item Date:  1900

Stock No:  53437      £75

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