Rev. AC Garrett's CJ manuscripts

[Dave Robertson]

The Book of Common Prayer among the Nations of the World
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Muss-Arnolt/part7c.htm

"The Chinook jargon is the Indian trade language of the Columbia river
region and the adjacent Pacific coast from California far up into Alaska. It
was first brought to public notice in the early days of the Oregon fur trade
— about 1810.

The Right Rev. Alexander Charles Garrett, bishop of Dallas, Northern Texas,
translated in 1862, while missionary . at Victoria (1861-67), on Vancouver’s
Island, portions of the Prayer Book into the Chinook jargon; but the jargon
was so hopeless that he never printed a line. The bishop informs me (July
29, 1912) that “the MSS. has long since disappeared.” Garrett was born in
Ireland, November 4, 1832. He was ordained priest in 1857. In September,
1859, he sailed as a missionary to British Columbia, where he remained for
ten years. The Indians in his charge were a small resident tribe (about 200)
of Songes or Tsau-miss, belonging to the great family of the Cowitchins
(Cowichan), a group of Salish tribes. Many other neighbouring tribes came to
the settlement. Thus the missionary was obliged to use Chinook. In later
years Mr. Garrett was a rector, and subsequently bishop of Dallas, Texas, in
the Episcopal Church of the United States."

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