Collection MS-2-281 - Charlotte Geddie Harrington Collection

Photograph of Rev. J. Buzacott's mission house, Raratonga. L.M.S. Photograph of Rev. J. Copeland and family at mission house in Futuna, New Hebrides Photograph of a sketch of the Dayspring, Brigantine, which was built in 1863 in New Glasgow, by J... Photograph of missionary families on the deck of the "Dayspring" Photograph of three Head Chiefs of north of Santo with Rev. Watt and Rev. Goodwill Photograph of three Indigenous people on board the Dayspring Photograph of three unidentified children standing in front of Dayspring Cottage, in Aneityum, Ne... Photograph of Dayspring Cottage Mission Station at Aneityum, New Hebrides, South Pacific Photograph of three unidentified children standing in front of Dayspring Cottage, in Aneityum, Ne... Portrait of Charlotte Geddie and her son, John Williams Geddie Full carte de visite portrait of John Geddie Full carte de visite portrait of John Geddie Full carte de visite portrait of John Geddie, side-view Full portrait of John Geddie, side-view Composite portrait of the family of John Geddie Photograph of Rev. Goodwill and crew building Mission House on the island of Esperitu Santo, Vanuatu Photograph of Rev. John Inglis' mission house in Aneityum, New Hebrides, South Pacific Photograph of Rev. John Inglis' mission house in Aneityum, New Hebrides, South Pacific Carte de visite photograph of Chief Lathella of Aneityum, New Hebrides Carte de visite photograph of Chief Lathella of Aneityum, New Hebrides Portrait of Dr. Alexander MacDonald Photograph of Rev. J. McFarlane's mission house, Lifou, New Caledonia Photograph featuring Mrs. McNair and unidentified Indigenous people at the mission station in Dil... Photograph of the Matheson Grave on Maré, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia Photograph of Rev. Morrison and others at the mission house at Éfaté, New Hebrides Photographs of John Geddie, John Inglis, and other missionaries on Tanna, Vanuatu Photograph of unidentified Indigenous people standing in front of Rev. Thomas Nielson's mission h... Photograph of unidentified Indigenous people standing in front of Rev. Thomas Nielson's mission h... Photograph of unidentified Indigenous people standing in front of Rev. Thomas Nielson's mission h... Photograph of a mission station at Pango village, Éfaté, New Hebrides Photograph of Rev. J. G. Paton, his family, and several unidentified Indigenous people, at the mi... Photograph of Rev. J. G. Paton, his family, and several unidentified Indigenous people, at the mi... Photograph of an unidentified woman Print of a portrait sketch of John Geddie Print of an engraving of Indigenous houses, on Éfaté, New Hebrides Engraving of two unidentified Indigenous people, Tanna, New Hebrides Portrait of an unidentified woman Portrait of Charlotte Geddie Portrait of Helen Jessie Macdonald Geddie, daughter of John Geddie and Charlotte Geddie Harrington Photograph of the Geddie Memorial Church in Park Corner, Prince Edward Island

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Charlotte Geddie Harrington Collection

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MS-2-281

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20 cm of textual records; 45 photographs ; and 1 microfilm

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(1840-1906)

Biographical history

Charlotte Geddie Harrington (1840-1906) was a Presbyterian church worker and editor. She was born in 1840 in Prince Edward Island. Her parents were John Geddie and Charlotte Lenora Harrington MacDonald. She married William Harris Harrington on Sept. 21 1865, and they had two daughters and a son. She died in Halifax on March 7 ,1906.

Charlotte Geddie Harrington's early life involved accompanying her parents to the New Hebrides (Aneityum) where the family moved to pursue missionary work. She was sent to England for education for eight years, after which she returned to the New Hebrides and assisted her parents' missionary work in 1856. She returned to Halifax in 1859, where she settled to marry and raise a family.

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Collection was donated by Charlotte Geddie Harrington's granddaughter, Hope McHale, in 1977 and 1979.

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Collection includes correspondence between Charlotte Geddie Harrington and her parents, John and Charlotte Geddie, her sisters, Lucrecia Nielson and Ula Geddie and her brother John Williams Geddie. Correspondence was written between 1853 and 1902. Collection also contains photographs of the Geddie family and missionary activities in the New Hebrides (now the nation of Vanuatu), as well as miscellaneous newspaper clippings on John Geddie and the Geddie family, 1867-1957.

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Photographs are in the public domain.

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