I discourse on the life-story of Rev. Newton in other blog so wanted to say a little about Rev. McQueen who also worked in Edmonton in the early days.
Oddly enough, in his memoirs, Rev. Newton does not mention his fellow minister REv. McQueen, whose career in Edmonton overlapped with his own.
In Bashir Mohamed's blog/expose of racist activities in Edmonton https://twitter.com/BashirMohamed/status/995794758265028608
Mohamed cites a 1920 report in the Edmonton Bulletin that many local Rotarians engaged in blackface. The report though says that McQueen and Samuel McCoppen (later a Labour Party alderman) refused to participate in the blackface activities of the local Rotary club. (Edmonton Bulletin, Oct. 22, 1920, p. 9)
So that at least is something.
It shows that even if a person lives in a certain time, there is nothing that says he or she has to abide by the times in all things.
E.A. Corbett, of Corbett Hall fame, wrote a biography of Rev. McQueen.
It is available for viewing at http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/5421.html
Somewhat oddly, his book does not mention Newton!
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