Photograph of Reverend Garfield James Ferris, Tabea Ferris, Faye Ferris and Sharron Ferris (their brother, Lorne Garfield Ferris was at school at Red Deer College during the time this photograph was taken) standing in front of the Church of the Nazarene parsonage located at 577 Clarke Road in Burqu…
Photograph of Reverend Garfield James Ferris, Tabea Ferris, Faye Ferris and Sharron Ferris (their brother, Lorne Garfield Ferris was at school at Red Deer College during the time this photograph was taken) standing in front of the Church of the Nazarene parsonage located at 577 Clarke Road in Burquitlam. Reverend Garfield James Ferris served as minister of the Church of Nazarene from 1955 to 1959.
Photograph of the Church of Nazarene located at 577 Clarke Road, Burquitlam. Reverend Garfield James Ferris served as minister of the Church of Nazarene from 1955 to 1959.
Photograph of the Church of Nazarene located at 577 Clarke Road, Burquitlam. Reverend Garfield James Ferris served as minister of the Church of Nazarene from 1955 to 1959.
Fonds consists of a small collection of photographs documenting the Ferris family's time while Reverend Garfield James Ferris was a minister at the Church of the Nazarene, Burquitlam.
Fonds consists of a small collection of photographs documenting the Ferris family's time while Reverend Garfield James Ferris was a minister at the Church of the Nazarene, Burquitlam.
History
Reverend Garfield James Ferris and his family moved to Burquitlam from Red Deer, Alberta, in July 1955 to obtain a posting at the Church of Nazarene. Reverend Ferris and his wife Tabea (both aged 34 years) moved together with their three children, Lorne Garfield (age 13), Sharron Rose (age 10), and Faye Muriel (age 6). This was Reverend Ferris' first full-time church posting after having completed his Ministerial training at Canadian Nazarene College in Red Deer, Alberta.
The family moved themselves into the parsonage which was located right next to the Church of Nazarene at 577 Clarke Road, Burquitlam. The parsonage was a two-bedroom bungalow, so the three children shared a room with a bunk bed, single bed, and a peg board as a room divider. Tabea Ferris worked for their aunt Marion Johnston who ran the Buena Vista Senior's home in New Westminster and then the Salvation Army Sunset Lodge in New Westminter to augment her husband's salary of $30.00 per week from the church.
Reverend Garfield James Ferris was part of the New Westminster Ministerial Association, an Ecumenical group who took turns doing morning daily devotions on CKNW radio. The Ferris children attended Mountain View school, Winslow Junior High School, and Como Lake High School before the family moved to Lulu Island (now Richmond) in 1959.