The Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage website's article on the Moravian Church documents the 1771 founding of Nain by a missionary party of three married couples and eight single men, the Moravian Church's subsequent Labrador stations, and the mission's teaching of reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography, Scripture and singing to Inuit converts.
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Reliability Tier3
A provincial heritage reference site, tier 3, used here for the mission party's composition and the content of Moravian mission schooling, corroborating the Dictionary of Canadian Biography's more precisely dated account above. NotesUsed for the mission party's composition and the subjects Moravian missionaries taught Inuit converts in Inuktitut.
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PublisherNewfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site
URLhttps://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/moravian-church.php
Source Typereference
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This source names Moravian Church directly: "Heritage website's article on the Moravian Church documents the 1771 founding of Nain by a missionary party of three married couples and eight single men, the Moravian Church's subsequent Labrador..."
Source The Moravian Church (Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador)
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- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Spread Events, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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