Smyth, Peter

Peter Smyth

Senior Chaplain Anglican Church of Canada (ACC)

The Mission to Seafarers

Born and grew up in Northern Ireland.

Lived and travelled in India, Nepal and Germany.

Ordained in Christ Church Cathedral Dublin (Church of Ireland - Anglican). Assisted at the Mission to Seafarers while a student reader at St Anns Dawson St in Dublin.

Served as Curate at St Brigids Stillorgan and All Saints Blackrock, Dublin. (Church of Ireland - Anglican)

Moved to Canada in January 2001 and served as incumbent  in St Michael and All Angels Anglican in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Diocese of Algoma. 

Two boys Isaac and Aedan born in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Moved to Sault Ste Marie, Ontario in 2011 and served as incumbent at Holy Trinity Anglican

Moved to and presently in Vancouver, British Columbia September 2016 to the position of Senior Chaplain with the Mission to Seafarers.

Mission to Seafarers

Enjoy reading British and European History, camping, model making,hiknig, canoeing,cross country skiing.

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Peter Smyth spoke to us in October 2018.

 

Midsummer Festival

Each June we have a booth at the Midsummer Festival on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre. In addition to handing out information about our club, we also sign up new members. Everyone is invited to come out to enjoy this fun annual event. If you have time available, why not consider volunteering to help with our booth?

Christmas Party

 

In December, instead of our usual monthly dinner meeting, we have our annual Christmas party. Our guests are welcomed into the hall by the cheerful sounds of the Runeberg Choir. We have a fabulous Scandinavian Christmas dinner, followed by dancing to live music.

Monthly Dinners

Our dinner schedule for 2024 will be: Feb 14th, Apr 10th, TBD. Social hour starts at 6:00pm, dinner at 7:00pm and the dinner speaker starts at about 8:00pm. The dinner is Scandinavian and usually starts with herring and salmon open-faced sandwich appetizers and ends with coffee/tea and delicious Scandinavian desserts. The theme for the after dinner talk is usually business related and hopefully with a Scandinavian connection but we also schedule other speakers of interest. Two meetings of the year we have no speaker. Instead, in February we have our Annual General meeting where we discuss business for the upcoming year and elect our new board of directors. In June, we have our annual joke-telling contest and discover who, among us, is the best teller of jokes.