Dr. Stella Burry This is Me

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1. 1. www.lieuxpatrimoniaux.ca

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   Published on: 10/19/2007   Last Visited: 1/17/2008

   2. Stella Burry
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   Stella Burry: Determined fundraiser, dedicated deaconess, social activist with a sense of humour.
   
   Grand old house dodges a fire and goes on to provide a home for innovative social programs
   
   Credit: HFNL 2006 The stately Queen Anne style residence on Cochrane Street that has been known as Emmanuel House since 1946 has seen its share of excitement. The wooden building narrowly escaped the Great Fire which left most of St. John's in ashes in 1892. Since then, it has sheltered folks from all walks of life, including the tenacious social activist Stella Burry. She has left her mark on the building and beyond as the founder and first director of the social service centre operating there.
   
   Small town girl returns from the big city to do good in home province.
   
   St. John's in 1935 Stella Burry was born to a fishing family in the small island community of Greenspond in Bonavista Bay on Newfoundland's northeast coast in 1897. She spent the first eight years of her career as a teacher, but was compelled by the social needs to which that job exposed her to study at the Methodist National Training School in Toronto. Burry became a deaconess and worked in Toronto for more than a dozen years. She returned to Newfoundland to take on the role of social worker in 1938.
   
   A community hub - in just two small rooms
   
   HFNL 2006 Upon filling her new post in St. John's, Burry promptly established the United Church Community Service Centre, which she operated out of two humble rooms on Gower Street.
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   Stella Burry committed herself to securing a new place to carry on her work. The grand home at 38 Cochrane Street, next door to the United Church, was purchased in 1945 through fund-raising and an appeal to the Women's Missionary Society. The WMS turned over money from the sale of Emmanuel Church in Montreal. Hence, Stella Burry soon took up her post as director of Emmanuel House, a community centre and hostel for young women relocating to St. John's.
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   Emmanuel House became a model of community service and remained a flagship operation of Burry's many social programs over the years.
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   For this, the St. John's Junior Chamber of Commerce recognized Stella Burry as Citizen of the Year in 1967. And in 1971 she became Dr. Stella Burry when Pine Hill Divinity Hall of Halifax conferred upon her the honourary Degree of Doctor of Divinity.
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   When Dr. Stella Burry reached the fiftieth anniversary of her deaconship, K. Harriet Christie of the United Church of Canada's Division of Mission wrote to her in appreciation of her work at Emmanuel House and elsewhere, even after her "so-called 'retirement'."
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   Stella Burry Community Services

2. 2. St. John's Board of Trade

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   Stella Burry Community Services

3. 3. www.albertaequity.com

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   Stella Burry Community Services is an incorporated body of the United Church of Canada, and provides a range of housing, employment and education-related support services to vulnerable populations in the City of St. John's.
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   Stella Burry Community Services 709-738-5909