Tuesday morning was free time so Ron Harrison and I took a look at the Manitoba Museum, which has some great dioramas. This was the best.
A blog describing and picturing events at the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, June 19-26, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Neale Adams
- Retired after about 28 years in newspapers and television and for 9 years as Communications Officer for the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster.
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- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS.I really do think that the nat...
- In the evening, a grand installation ceremony for ...
- I sat besides Bonnie Fulton during the Synod and s...
- The final sessions dealt with a bunch of miscellan...
- Last day of Synod. Have I mentioned that the sessi...
- - By the way, that picture that shows Kevin sleep...
- It was a hard day. In the morning we were somewhat...
- General Synod got to us today. We are tired, and, ...
- We quit at about 8:45. There were some who wanted ...
- All this procedural stuff was pretty dry. The only...
- All these procedural motions meant we did a lot of...
- The day was spent mostly in parlimentary session, ...
- At lunch break I attended an informational meeting...
- Woke up to a beautiful day in Winnipeg, the sun ju...
- We're singing Gordon Light's song "Draw the...
- Primate Andrew Hutchison (who continues in office ...
- It went really well, thanks in part to two of our ...
- Today we spent most of the day in this church whic...
- We sang lots of hymns. The Lutherans have a great ...
- Sallie McFague from the Vancouver School of Theolo...
- We sat at tables of eight, Anglican and Lutheran (...
- Inside, a very large room, people setting up, the ...
- We and the Lutherans met at the Winnipeg Conventio...
- Today we got out of the Marlborough hotel for most...
- In the evening we ended with an Evensong, which ...
- At the neighboring table the Diocese of Edmonton h...
- Also at my table are (l-r) Steve Schuh, Kevin Dixo...
- Fellow lay delegate Bonnie Fulton is making good u...
- Wednesday was finally the first full day of Genera...
- After the ceremony and a brief reception at the ne...
- As one of the last smudged, I witnessed the openin...
- The outdoor ceremony was a smudging by elder Linda...
- That evening we went to the Cathedral which is awa...
- In the afternoon came an orientation session. This...
- Then Ron and I checked out the Science Museum ther...
- And they had some sociological displays, this one ...
- Of course they had great moose - I told Ron the st...
- Tuesday morning was free time so Ron Harrison and ...
- First Video
- But what I found remarkable was the sign - the fir...
- The oldest stone church in the west was St. Andrew...
- Here's Maggie Snyder who came under the fence on t...
- Again, here's most of us when we stopped to take p...
- In the front of the wall of the stone fort we had ...
- I liked the Victorian flower beds that were part o...
- Then off to Lower Fort Gary, a Hudson's Bay tradin...
- Lots of gravestones of First Nations people in the...
- Bishop Don Phillips of Rupert's Land, Mark MacDona...
- Here's a shot of St. Peter's, across the Red River...
- WE had a service at St. Peter's, Dynevor, a church...
- Much of the day (Sunday) was spent on the bus. Man...
- Sunset from the hotel window Saturday night.
- Then a talk from Bob Cox, editor of the Winnipeg F...
- Then to dinner at the house with the 12th Bishop o...
- Hidden upstairs was the first Primate of the Churc...
- Here's a picture of MacDonald, with his definitely...
- Great coloured glass in a house that was rather da...
- In the evening we walked to Dalnavert, the former ...
- As was Paul Sherwood amused. Paul is editor for th...
- It was a great deal of fun. Fiona Brownlee is high...
- The workshops were mostly about photography, today...
- A great contributor was Mary Ruth Snyder of the Di...
- Another day of the Anglican Editors. Jim Sweeney o...
- At dinner we had a very good beef dinner sponsored...
- In the afternoon we received critiques of our pape...
- At lunch we heard from Jamie Howison, a priest at ...
- Today, Friday, was taken up with the business and ...
- Night time, and the view from the window is full o...
- So here I am in Winnipeg. Here's the view from my...
- Well, I said the train is less polluting than air...
- This is Pyramid Falls on the way--you see a lot f...
- Off to Winnipeg
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