British Columbia / B.C. Postal History - 27 September - 15 October 1896 - FORT SIMPSON, B.C. (second hammer / split ring & fancy cork cancel) to Toronto, Ontario / St. Joseph Street, Toronto via Victoria, B.C. redirected to Belleville, Ontario

Small Queen Cover...with fancy segmented cork cancels.

FORT SIMPSON was a fur trading post established in 1831 by the Hudson's Bay Company near the mouth of the Nass River in present-day British Columbia, Canada. In 1834, it was moved to the Tsimpsean Peninsula, about halfway between the Nass River and the Skeena River, and was later referred to as Port Simpson or as the native name Lax Kw'alaams. The fort was part of the HBC's Columbia Department.

- from "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada (1908)" - PORT SIMPSON, B.C., a post village on the Pacific, facing Dixon entrance, the water passageway that separates the north (Graham Island) is land of Queen CharlotteIs lands group from the southern (United States) extension of Alaska, on a land promontory immediately south of Portland Channel, on Hastings Arm, at the mouth of the Nasse River, and a little way north of Port Essington, at the mouth of the Skeena River, Cariboo district. The place has of late gained prominence as the projected terminus on the Pacific of the new Grand Trunk Pacific RR., the terminal city to be known as PRINCE RUPERT.

(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - PORT SIMPSON - a post office, native village and trading post, formerly a fortified trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company, on the northwest of Tsimpsean Peninsula, at entrance to Portland Canal, 27 miles north of Prince Rupert, in Prince Rupert Provincial Electoral District, reached by C.P. R., G. T. P. and Union S.S. Co.'s steamers. Has telegraph office. Anglican and Methodist missions. Population, 700. Local resources: Salmon fishing and boat-building. Has excellent harbour and water frontage. The Anglican mission boat, "Northern Cross," calls monthly at this point.

The FORT SIMPSON Post Office was established - 1 October 1885 - it became Port Simpson - 1 March 1900 - it became Lax Kw'alaams - 26 February 1987.

- sent from - / FORT SIMPSON / SP 27 / 96 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-2 / left arc - 3.5 mm / right arc - 2.5 mm) was not listed in the Proof Book - it was most likely proofed c. 1890 - (RF D) - an example of the second split ring hammer from FORT SIMPSON.

- via - / VICTORIA • B.C. / AM / OC 5 / 96 / CANADA. / - cds transit backstamp.

- via - / TORONTO / 18 / OC 12 / 96 / ONT. / - split ring transit backstamp

- arrived at - / ST JOSEPH • STREET / PM / OC 14 / 96 / TORONTO / - cds arrival frontstamp - redirected to Belleville, Ontario

St. Joseph Street Post Office
• Opened March 1, 1893
• Worden’s drug store at 918 Yonge Street (corner of St. Joseph St.)
• PM – H.P. Withers
• Renamed Carlton Street in 1899

- arrived at - / • BELLEVILLE • ONT • / 1 / OC 15 / 96 / CANADA / - cds arrival backstamp

Addressed to: Rev. A. Carman D.D. / Methodist Book Room / Toronto / Ontario - Redirected to: Belleville, Ontario - with note added - To be kept till called for.

The Methodist Book and Publishing House was founded in 1829 in Toronto, Ontario. By the 1890s the Methodist Book and Publishing House was responsible for the Christian Guardian, Sunday-school papers, textbooks, and undertaking jobbing printing. In 1919, Methodist Book and Publishing House became Ryerson Press. Ryerson Press, a Canadian book publishing company named after Egerton Ryerson, was founded in 1919. It was previously known as The Methodist Book Room, run by the Methodist Church of Canada. After the merger of the Methodist, Congregation and the Presbyterian Churches in 1925, Ryerson Press was operated by the United Church Publishing House. The publishing company was sold in 1970 to McGraw-Hill.

ALBERT CARMAN D.D. – Methodist Episcopal Minister, Educator Author - LINK - krassoc.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/albert-carman-d-d-method...

Albert Carman was born on 27 June 1833 in Iroquois, Ontario, Canada, son of Philip Carman and Emeline Shaver. His family on both sides were loyalists who settled in Matilda Township in 1784 on crown land grants after the American Revolutionary War. His father and mother were both grandchildren of soldiers of the King's Royal Regiment of New York. His father was a self-educated farmer and tanner. Carman attended the Matilda Common School and the Dundas County Grammar School. He was admitted to Victoria College, Cobourg in 1851. Carman was converted in the winter of 1854, and was encouraged by his father to join the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada. Carman joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1857 as a probationer. In September 1883 a provisional General Conference of the uniting churches elected Carman and Samuel Dwight Rice of the Methodist Church of Canada as the general superintendents. With the union of the Methodist churches, Albert College amalgamated with Victoria College to create Victoria University in 1884. The Albert College campus again became a private secondary school. Rice died in December 1884 and his successor John Æthuruld Williams died in December 1889. After this Carman was sole general superintendent until 1910. Carman was authoritarian and unwilling to share power. As he grew older he became increasingly abrasive. In 1910 the General Conference elected Samuel Dwight Chown as a second general superintendent. Chown's election represented a victory of the wealthy laymen allied with liberal theologians. At the 1911 Ecumenical Methodist Conference in Toronto Carman intervened in a debate on "The Permanent Results of Biblical Criticism". The British Methodist Recorder said, "Very pathetic it was to see this veteran stand up to plead against conclusions which he deemed harmful, in the presence of an assembly which in the main accepted them." The editor said that with his extreme conservatism he was "unwillingly singing the swan song of his views." Albert Carman retired in 1914. He died on 3 November 1917.

Carman's son was Albert Richardson Carman (1865–1939), who graduated from Albert College and became a journalist with the Toronto Globe and then the Montreal Star, where he became editor-in-chief. He wrote two novels that reflected his father's social radicalism. One was The Preparation of Ryerson Embury (1900).

LINKS to newspaper reports on - Obituary for Rev. Dr. Albert CARMAN - www.newspapers.com/article/the-leader-post-obituary-for-r... and - www.newspapers.com/article/the-victoria-daily-times-obitu...

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