Английская Википедия:Addie Aylestock
Rev. Addie Aylestock (1909–1998) was a Canadian minister in the British Methodist Episcopal Church, the first woman minister to be ordained in that church,[1] and the first black woman to be ordained in Canada.[2]
Personal life
Aylestock was the daughter of William Aylestock and Minnie Lawson and was the eldest of eight children.[3] She was born in Glen Allan, near Elmira, Ontario, from one of the many black farming communities in the province of Ontario;[1] her family lived depending on where work was available.[4] Her family was descended from blacks who settled along the Conestogo River in Regional Municipality of Waterloo and Wellington County, Ontario.[5]
She was raised in the (white) Methodist Church; she moved to Toronto when the Great Depression struck, and got a job as a domestic servant, and later as a dressmaker.[2] While working as a domestic servant, she attended evening classes at Central Technical School in Toronto.[6] A desire to become a missionary (in Liberia) led her to enroll in the (transdenominational) Toronto Bible College, from which she graduated in 1945.[2] While a student in college, Aylestock became active with the youth and working with Sunday school in a BME (British Methodist Episcopal) church on Chestnut Street in Toronto. The pastor encouraged Aylestock to consider becoming a deaconess.[7]
She joined the British Methodist Episcopal Church (an offshoot of the African Methodist Episcopal Church) and became a deaconess in 1944. Her first position was in the church in Africville.[2] She also served as a deaconess in Halifax, Montreal, and Toronto.[6] After the BME allowed for the ordination of women in 1951 (prompted by the church superintendent's belief in Aylestock's capability), she was the first to be ordained,[2] and was assigned to the BME Church in North Buxton.[6] She served as pastor in three further churches, namely in Montreal, Toronto and Owen Sound.[2] Aylestock's obituary, published in the St. Catharines Standard, said she also presided over churches in Fort Erie and Niagara Falls.[8]
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 Шаблон:Cite book; Kim Brooks, Welcome to the revolution, in Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia ed., Reflections of Canada, 2017, p. 55
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
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