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New Light on an Old Scandal? Sex and Corporate Politics at the Norway House Methodist Mission of 1846

Did he do it? The question has hung like a dense fog over the history of the Methodist Mission at Rossville, near Norway House, Manitoba since the events of 1846. Reverend James Evans, the first superintendent of the western missions, the inventor of the Cree syllabic and the pioneer of the Rossville Press, was accused of sexual misconduct by three young Native women. Since then, several generations of church historians have come to varied conclusions about the truthfulness of these charges. A document recently recovered from files at the Pratt Library, Victoria University Archives, University of Toronto, mentioning a “deathbed confession” made by a Native woman to a subsequent Methodist minister posted at Norway House may shed new light on this cold case of sexual misconduct.