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| (14 Oct. 1854-31 Oct. 1943), missionary. (Janet McKillican, Janet C. McKillican, Jennie McKillican) Born at Breadalbane, GC. Parents: William McKillican (1812-1906), son of the Rev. William McKillican and brother of Daniel McKillican), and his wife Mary McDermid (1819-1897), of Martintown. Janet McKillican trained as a nurse in Detroit. She was appointed a missionary by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, and arrived in China as a missionary in the fall of 1888. “Her entire service was spent in the North China Mission, in the station fields of Peiping, Paoting [sp thus] and Shunteh.” (“Memorial Minute”) At least twice she returned to Canada on periods of leave. Her work was partly in nursing, but much of her attention seems to have been given to providing religious instruction for Chinese women. She was one of the foreigners who were in the International Legation Compound in Peking during its celebrated seige by the Chinese insurgents during the Boxer rebellion of 1900. A false report reached North America that she had been killed in the rebellion. She nursed the sick and wounded in the International Hospital, Peking, at this time. | (14 Oct. 1854-31 Oct. 1943), missionary. (Janet McKillican, Janet C. McKillican, Jennie McKillican) Born at Breadalbane, GC. Parents: William McKillican (1812-1906), son of the Rev. William McKillican and brother of Daniel McKillican), and his wife Mary McDermid (1819-1897), of Martintown. Janet McKillican trained as a nurse in Detroit. She was appointed a missionary by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, and arrived in China as a missionary in the fall of 1888. “Her entire service was spent in the North China Mission, in the station fields of Peiping, Paoting [sp thus] and Shunteh.” (“Memorial Minute”) At least twice she returned to Canada on periods of leave. Her work was partly in nursing, but much of her attention seems to have been given to providing religious instruction for Chinese women. She was one of the foreigners who were in the International Legation Compound in Peking during its celebrated seige by the Chinese insurgents during the Boxer rebellion of 1900. A false report reached North America that she had been killed in the rebellion. She nursed the sick and wounded in the International Hospital, Peking, at this time. |
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| <tab>On 31 Oct. 1926 she retired from her long period of work in the North China Mission. Having remained in China till April 1927, she then returned to Canada, where in retirement she lived at Vankleek Hill with her brother and sisters. Janet McKillican died at Vankleek Hill, and is buried in the Breadalbane Cemetery. She never married. See the entry for C. G. McKillican, this dictionary, for her family relationships. | <tab>On 31 Oct. 1926 she retired from her long period of work in the North China Mission. Having remained in China till April 1927, she then returned to Canada, where in retirement she lived at Vankleek Hill with her brother and sisters. Janet McKillican died at Vankleek Hill, and is buried in the Breadalbane Cemetery. She never married. See the entry for [[mckillican_charles_gordon|C. G. McKillican]], this dictionary, for her family relationships. |
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| <tab>She was described in 1912 as writing “frequently” for the Montreal //Witness//. It has been stated, incorrectly, in a standard history of Canadian literature that she wrote a novel called //The Tragedy of Paotingfu//, published in 1902. However, she was one of the “score or more of missionaries” who contributed material to Isaac C. Ketler’s non-fiction //The Tragedy of Paotingfu// (1902). Her entry in Morgan’s biog. dict. of 1912 hints at dissatisfaction, by whomever felt, not necessarily herself, about her being given insufficient credit for her contribution to Ketler’s book. She appears in a large, fine group portrait of the American and British missionaries, described as being taken before they returned “to their posts after the siege,” which was included in the coverage of the Boxer uprising in a 1966 //Life// magazine series on China. | <tab>She was described in 1912 as writing “frequently” for the Montreal //Witness//. It has been stated, incorrectly, in a standard history of Canadian literature that she wrote a novel called //The Tragedy of Paotingfu//, published in 1902. However, she was one of the “score or more of missionaries” who contributed material to Isaac C. Ketler’s non-fiction //The Tragedy of Paotingfu// (1902). Her entry in Morgan’s biog. dict. of 1912 hints at dissatisfaction, by whomever felt, not necessarily herself, about her being given insufficient credit for her contribution to Ketler’s book. She appears in a large, fine group portrait of the American and British missionaries, described as being taken before they returned “to their posts after the siege,” which was included in the coverage of the Boxer uprising in a 1966 //Life// magazine series on China. |
