Laying the Cornerstone of the Canadian School in West China, 1918
Item
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Title
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Laying the Cornerstone of the Canadian School in West China, 1918
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Caption
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1918 Corner Stone of CS Chengdu
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Identifier
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AEJ_151
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Description
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A large group of missionaries pose on a platform that appears to be the beginning of scaffolding. British, Canadian and American flags are hung behind them. Another unidentified flag hangs at the front of the platform. The caption explains that this was a ceremony for laying the cornerstone of the Canadian School in West China.
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Commentary
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The Canadian School in West China (CSWC) was completed in 1918. The first year there were twenty-eight pupils enrolled, nineteen of them in residence (Kilborn 1920b, 24). Enrollment in the CSWC had expanded to over 100 pupils before it closed for three years during the 1926 Nationalist Revolution (Simkin 1978, 84).
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Creator
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Alfred Johns
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Date Created
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1918
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Location
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West China Union University
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Original Format
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Photographic Print
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Source
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Ken Johns
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Provenance
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Johns Family Archives
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Publisher
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SIUE
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Record Date
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2025-04-02
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Contributor
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Cory Willmott
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Type
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Still Image
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References
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Kilborn, Omar. 1920b. “A Quarter of a Century and After.” In Our West China Mission. Frederick Stephenson, ed. Pp. 19-26. Toronto: The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, Young People’s Forward Movement.
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Simkin, Margaret. 1978. Letters from Szechwan, 1923—1944. Friend in the Orient Committee, Pacific Yearly Meeting of Friends.
