Rev. Tom York

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I went down a bit of a rabbit hole last night. I follow the Whistler Museum on Facebook, and they had a post about the Whistler Chapel, a long gone A-frame structure at the base of Creekside, but once ministered by Rev. Tom York of the United Church of Canada, who sounds like a fascinating individual:

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In honour of Valentine's Day, we are posting an image of the Whistler Skiers' Chapel - which opened in 1966 - at the base of the Creekside Gondola: the first non-denominational chapel in Canada. It...
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The bits about Tom are in the comments.

Continuing down the hole, I found that he was also a novelist and learned more about his life on the following page:

York, Tom - ABC BookWorld

TOM YORK, B.C. NOVELIST AND United Church minister, was killed in a traffic mishap in December of 1987. Born in Washington, D.C. in 1940 and raised in Little Rock., Arkansas, Thomas Lee York came to Canada in 1962. He retreated to the New Brunswick woods and immersed himself in the...Read...
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Anyone know of this man? He apparently died in a car accident in December of 1987.
 
We never met but I remember hearing about him and reading things by him in the university press and such when I was at University of Waterloo. He was the UCCan chaplain based at St. Paul's at the time. His death was a big event on campus, IIRC. I remember hearing about his book on the Mad Trapper, too, did not actually read it.
 
No I hadn’t heard of him. Sounds about right for Whistler/ Pemberton BC, especially at the time. My first thought when I saw the thread was that it was some kind of satirical reference to Thom Yorke from Radiohead lol I noticed mention in the article of Rev. John Cash, too lol - music on the mind.
 
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There are a number of myths about corrupt trapping ministers here in the east! Often then populace is skinned alive ... implications? These we are told to be blind to ...
 
Thanks chansen - that was an interesting read - and such an interesting sounding person. I'm curious to read a book or two of his as I have ties to both Yellowknife and Whistler/Pemberton.

It's not surprising that the original chapel was such a destination for weddings - most likely served by clergy or officiants from various denominations. Sad that it closed. I can imagine amazing Christmas eve services there.

Interesting (and a bit sad) that the only two churches now in Whis are Mennonite Brethren & RC. Both I think have a pretty big emphasis on regular weekly attendance, even while vacationing. Neither really supports LGBTQ marriage as far as I know - still the 'man/woman thing'. For a while I think there were regular Sunday services in the Arts Centre, presided over by a variety of clergy who rotated through. Not sure if that's still going on.
 
Mendalla said:
We never met but I remember hearing about him and reading things by him in the university press and such when I was at University of Waterloo. He was the UCCan chaplain based at St. Paul's at the time.
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This didn't register with me when I first read it, but St. Paul's became United College, which is now my daughter's res.

Wild.
 
chansen said:
This didn't register with me when I first read it, but St. Paul's became United College, which is now my daughter's res.

Wild.
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LOL. I took two RS courses there, one with the then-principal. He had been presbytery rep on the search committee I had been on a year or two before so I already knew him. Somewhat more nerve-wracking, he had worked for my grandfather.
 
I should have mentioned that my daughter went to weekly guitar lessons lead by the current principal of United. Some weeks, specifically around midterms and toward the end of terms, the lessons were poorly attended, and so my daughter would be sure to drop everything and go so that the principal wouldn't feel abandoned. Once, he didn't show. lol
 
Cool. Because I lived at home (being from K-W already), I didn't tend to have much a life on campus outside of actual courses and the odd department gathering. My extracurricular life was mostly hanging with the same friends as in high school and involvement with my family church.
 
I lived at home for Mac as well. My high school "friend" in engineering was a social pariah of his own doing, did better than me in high school, and thought he was brilliant. I tried helping him make friends late in high school and I was repaid by him being a jerk to my friends, who distanced themselves from both of us. I learned my lesson and avoided him by uni. He didn't make it out of second year.

The daughter struggles with making friends. And she's in a program that is not cohesive like engineering was. But psychology is what she's passionate about. I assume her class sizes will get smaller and she'll find herself with more like-minded people soon enough.
 
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I assume her class sizes will get smaller and she'll find herself with more like-minded people soon enough.
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Yep. First courses in any arts program can be huge because they tend to be more general in nature since you don't officially major until second year. I had two friends go through psych at Waterloo. Neither is working in the field even though they went on to grad studies at UofT, so take that for what it's worth. One is a consultant and executive for non-profits, the other is a teacher. But their wives are both psych profs (one at York, one at a college in the US). Go figure.
 
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I lived at home for Mac as well. My high school "friend" in engineering was a social pariah of his own doing, did better than me in high school, and thought he was brilliant. I tried helping him make friends late in high school and I was repaid by him being a jerk to my friends, who distanced themselves from both of us. I learned my lesson and avoided him by uni. He didn't make it out of second year.

The daughter struggles with making friends. And she's in a program that is not cohesive like engineering was. But psychology is what she's passionate about. I assume her class sizes will get smaller and she'll find herself with more like-minded people soon enough.
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Ha ... if you are left out and try and figure why ... it is a path ... but there is a sector that don't wish you to look there for what might be found out about about ... what they commonly wished to keep from you?

There are numerous examples and icons ... like signs in reality that there may be mores ... thus curiosity and interest in stange isolated entities ... memeson?

These may not be what you were told as a idiot innocent ... a type of savant ... it comes in due time ... maybe latent! Drags ...

Psyche is considered an odd study to those that would not to learn about great mysteries ... sages declare it cosmological ...
 
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Yep. First courses in any arts program can be huge because they tend to be more general in nature since you don't officially major until second year. I had two friends go through psych at Waterloo. Neither is working in the field even though they went on to grad studies at UofT, so take that for what it's worth. One is a consultant and executive for non-profits, the other is a teacher. But their wives are both psych profs (one at York, one at a college in the US). Go figure.
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She's doing it from the life sciences side, so she's been doing the calculus, chemistry and biology courses with the science types. She is low key annoyed that the arts psych students get to do the "math for dummies" courses while she takes the harder courses alongside CS students in some cases, though they can take an even harder version if they choose, that involves more proofs.

Hopefully the B.Sc. will help land her a postgrad. She'll need it in this field.
 
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But a bachelor's is not generally enough in any case. And some of those, like MSW, are still postgrad.
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I don't think I said a bachelor's degree would be enough. Just pointing out that a psychology degree is not the only route to counselling or psychotherapy if that's the goal.
 
I'm not sure where she's going. She shows the most interest in her cognitive and developmental courses. I don't know where you go with these things. I fix concrete.
 
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