Dundas, Robert James (Anglican clergyman)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1832 - 1904
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Personal papers of Robert James Dundas.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13929/1-15
Scope and Contents
Dundas was chaplain to the first Anglican Bishop of British Columbia, Canada, and together the papers give a full account of missionary activity and relations with the Indigenous population, and of his own journey to and from North America. Dundas is particularly significant because of a collection of Tsimshian art he acquired as a result of a visit to Metlakatla, in northern British Columbia, which is now housed at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria. The papers consist of eleven volumes of...
Dates:
1859-1866.