ABSTRACT
The impulse to form a Canadian Fellowship arose from visits to Canada by Dr Richard Roberts, the Rev. Leyton Richards and Canon C. E. Raven, who described the European movement. ‘The Fellowship of Reconciliation is an association of men and women who believe in the non-violent settlement of all conflicts between individuals, groups, classes, nations, races, and religions. Some members of one influential Fellowship with which the Canadian movement had hoped to associate took the view that its enlightened liberal statement was not ‘Christian’ enough. The Canadian Fellowship has been largely an educational movement, working sometimes within the Churches but also apart from them. The South African Fellowship has roots which go back to 1919, when a Quaker Mission led by William Henry and Harriet Alexander visited South Africa with gifts of seed to enable dispossessed Boer farmers to start afresh.
