ABSTRACT
European settlement in the Pacific Northwest began as a trading, or at any rate commercial, enterprise. As was customary in any place where European and British colonists settled, many institutions associated with the Western way of life sprang up, most notably schools, hospitals, and churches. The latter as administrative institutions, physical objects, and spiritual stewardship in historical retrospect and the present are the subject of this chapter, which traces Christian institutions, communities, and practices in the Canadian and American Pacific Northwest.
