OTHER PROFILES 

Miss Bessie Irwin
Surname as Student: Irwin
Education: Methodist National Training School
Graduation Year: 1908
Designated: 1908
Denomination: Methodist Church in Canada, United Church of Canada

• 1885 - Born, January 13
• 1926 - United Church Deaconess
• 1941 - Retired
• 1974 - Died, February 24

MINISTRY HISTORY

• 1908 - 1910: Probationary Deaconess, Visiting Deaconess, Old Brewery Methodist Mission, Montreal, Quebec
• 1910 - 1914: Visiting Deaconess, Old Brewery Methodist Mission, Montreal, Quebec
• 1914 - 1915: Field Worker, National Methodist Training School, Toronto
• 1915 - 1918: Visiting Deaconess, Old Brewery Methodist Mission, Montreal, Quebec
• 1918 - 1924: Deaconess, Mountain Street Methodist Church, Montreal, Quebec
• 1924 - 1925: Leave of Absence
• 1925-1926: Deaconess, Italian Mission, Hamilton, Ontario
• 1926 - 1933: Deaconess, Maclean-Malpas Mission, Thorold, ON
• 1927: Leave of Absence: Illness
• 1933 - 1936: Retired Temporarily for Health Reasons
• 1936: Erskine United Church, Toronto (part time position until the Congregation could obtain an Assistant Minister)
• 1937 - 1938: Deaconess, Broadway Presbyterian Temple, New York City
• 1938: Awaiting appointment, temporarily at St. Mary's, ON
• 1938 - 1941: Deaconess, Carlton Street United Church, Toronto
• 1955 - 1956: Deaconess, Zion United Church, Brantford, ON
• 1956 - 1957: Deaconess, Colbourne Street United Church, Brantford, ON