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• Interactive Map of West China Missionaries' Birth Places, USA
  The map presented here is based on birth place data for missionaries who served in West China, 1885-1952, researched and compiled by members of the Imaginaries and Modernities research team. It does not encompass all such missionaries, but enough of them to present clear trends in their places of origin. Here we present a still image of the USA map, which shows a wider geographic distribution than does the data from Canada, while still following the pattern of concentration in the northeast and midwest. Follow the "Source" link to an interactive version of the map where you can drill down to individuals' birth places. Click on a "pin" to see the name of the missionary and their hometown.
• Interactive Map of West China Missionaries' Birth Places, Canada
  The map presented here is based on birth place data for missionaries who served in West China, 1885-1952, researched and compiled by members of the Imaginaries and Modernities research team. It does not encompass all such missionaries, but enough of them to present clear trends in their places of origin. Here we present two still images of the data from Canada - the whole country and just Ontario. The first shows a strong concentration of birth places in central Canada while only a scattering of individuals in the east and west. The latter shows that a disproportionately large number of West China missionaries were born in Ontario, even when one includes those born in the USA or UK. Follow the "Source" link to an interactive version of the map where you can drill down to individuals' birth places. Click on a "pin" to see the name of the missionary and their hometown.
• Map of North American Birth Places of West China Missionaries
  This map is based on genealogical data Cory Willmott and Amy Kaler compiled for 500 missionaries who served in West China. The data for the map represents a subset of this data of the 382 missionaries who were born in North America. It demonstrates how in both Canada and the US, the majority of missionaries were born in the Northeast or the Midwest, while only few are born in the South or West. The anomoly is that almost half (48%) of the West China missionaries were born in Ontario. This is out of proportion to their numbers in West China where Canadians represent only about a third of the missionaries, the others being born in the various countries of the United Kingdom, China and other foreign countries. A likely explanation for the huge number of West China missionaries born in Ontario is that the Canadian Methodist Mission had only the West China mission, whereas other mission societies had missions in other parts of China, as well as in other parts of the world, which limited the number of missionaries they could send to West China. Another reason is that Ontario Protestant communities shared common origins and were extremely tight knit, providing the social environment in which ideas could easily be materialized into actions. Finally, funnel institutions such as Toronto's Victoria College and Ontario chapters of the Epsworth League and the Student Christian Movement efficiently recruited for the West China mission.
• Map of West China Mission Fields, 1902
  This map shows the regions assigned to each of the missions in Sichuan by the West China Advisory Board in 1902.
• Map of China Superimposed on the U.S.A.
  Figure that demonstrates an outline of China placed over the United States. Can be used to compare the sizes of the two countries. Olin Stockwell either used or planned to use this image in slide lectures that he gave in North America to promote their mission work.
• Topographic Map of China
  Topographic map of China that shows the Szechwan Basin and mountain ranges in the west of Szechwan. Olin Stockwell either used or planned to use this image in slide lectures that he gave in North America to promote their mission work.