%0 Journal Article
%T Martha Jane Cunningham: A WomenĄŻs Missionary Society Pioneer
%A Alexandria Dugal
%J International Bulletin of Mission Research
%@ 2396-9407
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2396939317700039
%X By the early twentieth century the Canadian womenĄŻs missionary movement had collectively become the largest womenĄŻs organization in North America. The WomenĄŻs Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of Canada (WMS), established in 1880, founded three girlĄŻs schools in Japan to help meet the need for female education and to evangelize through these students. One of these schools was Shizuoka Eiwa Jo Gakk¨­ of Shizuoka, whose first principal was Martha Jane Cunningham, a WMS missionary from Halifax, Nova Scotia. This article tells her life-story
%K Martha Jane Cunningham
%K Mission school
%K Japan
%K Canada
%K Shizuoka
%K womenĄŻs missionary society
%K womenĄŻs education
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2396939317700039