FOREVER
Notes on the Canadian Mission to Trinidad, VI(d)
~ Iere Home for Girls
|
The first site of Rev. Morton's operations when he came to Trinidad was at Iere Village, two miles from Mission Village, in a region called Sabana Grande. Dr. Morton began operations there because modest facilities were donated to him by the Presbyterian Church of New England, who were withdrawing from a mission to the blacks in the area. In January 1890, Rev. Morton and his wife Sarah opened the Iere Girls Training School, patterned somewhat after the Halifax Ladies School. The Iere Home for Girls became a "feeder institution" for NGHS after the latter was opened in 1912. It is possible that this photo was taken in 1917, when the older girls at Iere were first relocated to NGHS.
(photo and info contributed) |
Mission Village was named thus after an early Roman Catholic mission there to the Arawaks. After the visit of two British princes in 1880, Mission Village was renamed Princes Town. |
Another Iere picture
Susamachar Church
Toward a Theological College
The Role of the Converted
The Rev. Dr. Kenneth James Grant in the field
Main NC-Forever Page