Concordia College - Corona Borealis Yearbook (Edmonton, Alberta Canada)

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DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF PIONEERS OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA, AMONG WHOM WERE THE FOLLOWING: REV. RASMUS JENSEN, first Lutheran pastor in Canada (also North America), who accompanied the Jens Munck expedition to Churchill, Manitoba, 1619-20. JOHANN JORPEL , a teacher who conducted the first Lutheran confirmation in Canada, at Halifax, 1761. REV. FREDERICK SCHULTZ, first resident Lutheran pastor in Canada, at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, 1772-82. REV. SAMUEL SCHWERTFEGER, first Lutheran pastor in Upper Canada, serving from about 1789 until his death in 1803. REV. JOHN H. BERNHEIM, the apostle to the Lutheran settlers in Upper Canada, in 1835-36. REV. JOHANN ERNST, Father of the Ontario District, a charter member of the Missouri Synod, known as the who accepted a call to Floradale, Ontario, in 1863. REV. H. BUGEL, first resident pastor of the Missouri Synod in Western Canada, who began work in Winnipeg in 1891. REV. EMIL E. EBERHARDT, first resident pastor of the Missouri Synod in Canada west of Manitoba, who began work at Stony Plain, Alberta, in 1894. DR. ERNST NEUDOERFFER , the first Lutheran missionary from Canada, who went to India in 1900. SISTER MARIE GERNDT , the first Canadian-born Lutheran deaconess, who was consecrated in 1902 and served until 1942. This yearbook is also dedicated to DR. ALBERT H. SCHWERMANN, president of Concordia College, Edmonton, from its founding in 1921 until 1954.

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1867 I 1967 Concordia Colleoe LUTHERAN CHURCH - CANADA MISSOURI SYNOD EDMONTON

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