Painted by the Reverend James Spencer, M.A. Throughout the 1830s and 40s Peter Jones obtained great assistance at the Credit Mission from his uncle Joseph Sawyer, and his brother John Jones. What role does kinship play in a small community? How would Peter Jones's blood relationship with many at the Credit Mission have assisted him in his work? In reviewing the general topic of kinship, the instructor might find Robin Fox's Kinship and Marriage (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1967) of value. R.W. Dunning reviews the kinship patterns of the Ojibwa of Northwestern Ontario in his Social and Economic Change Among The Northern Ojibwa (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959, 1972), pp. 72-108.
Courtesy: John Ross Robertson Collection, Metropolitan Toronto Central Library
