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Correspondence, 1950, June.
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Jenny O'Hara Pincock, Canadian spiritualist, author and musician, was born in Madoc, Hastings County, Ontario in 1890, where her great-grandfather had been a settler. She studied music at the Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby, Ont. (ca. 1908) and at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (ca. 1912). On June 15, 1915 she married osteopath Robert Newton Pincock and moved with him to St. Catharines. Ont. where he maintained a practice. Newton Pincock died in 1928.
Jenny Pincock's sister Minnie O'Hara Maines, married Fred Maines in 1922. Fred Maines was educated at Victoria University, Toronto and was ordained to the ministry while serving with the YMCA overseas during the WWI. After the war he served as Boys' Work secretary for the Hamilton YMCA and as general secretary of the YMCA in Hamilton and Galt. He served during for five years with the YMCA War Services during WWII. He was minister of the Church of Divine Revelation in St. Catharine's, Ont. from 1930 to 1935. In 1935 he and Minnie moved to Kitchener, Ont. to pursue business interests. He died April 13, 1959.
In 1927, together with her sister Minnie and brother-in-law Rev. Fred J.T. Maines, Jenny Pincock began to organize seances with Mr. William Cartheuser, an American medium, in St. Catharines, Ontario. Notes were kept of these seances and much of that material appeared in published form in Pincock's Trails of Truth (Los Angeles: Austin Publishing Co., 1930). In 1930 they founded the Church of Divine Revelation in St. Catharines, Ont., with Fred Maines as ordained minister. In 1932 the Radiant Healing Centre was established. In 1935 Jenny Pincock ceased connection with William Cartheuser and with the Church of Divine Revelation. In 1937 she moved to Kitchener, Ont and in 1942 she purchased and moved to property formerly owned by her grandfather near Madoc. She died in 1948 or 1949.
A book of verse by Jenny Pincock entitled Hidden Springs was published posthumously (Privately printed, 1950) with an introduction by E.J. Pratt.
The Pincock/O'Hara/Maines circle of friends was wide, and included E.J. Pratt and his wife, Viola Whitney Pratt; B.F. Austin, the noted Canadian spiritualist; the widow of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts; Phoebe Watson; William Arthur Deacon; W.W.E. Ross; Mildred Ghent, wife of Toronto Telegram writer, Percy Ghent, and many others interested in spiritualism in Canada and elsewhere.
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- Date and Place from 1950 June Kitchener, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Augustine, Edna Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 23 Holland, Man. To Maines, Minnie From Holland, Ernie Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 22 St. Catharines, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Conradi., Margaret Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 12 Ottawa, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Copyright Office Attachments Includes a copy of a letter from the Commissioner to Minnie regarding the proper documentation needed to receive the patent for Jenny's "Hidden Springs". Includes a copy of the Copyright Act (of Sept. 2, 1948). Envelope, no stamp. Notes TLs Subject Re: Patent of "Hidden Springs"
- Date and Place from 1950 June 11 Columbus I. Ohio To Maines, Minnie From Dyck, Maria Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 3 Toronto Hospital, Weston, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Fairfall, Margaret (Smillie) Attachments Includes snapshot. Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 16 St. Paul, To Maines, Minnie From Fisher, Mildred J. Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 2 Long Branch, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Ghent, Harry Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 22 Pittsburgh, PA To Maines, Minnie From B., Beulah Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs. A card with a watercolour painting on front.
- Date and Place from 1950 June 6 Toronto, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Hunter Rose Co. Ltd. Attachments Statement of credit and balance owing included. Envelope, with stamp Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 8 Tweed, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Kerr, Margaret Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs. A card with a photo of a flower.
- Date and Place from 1950 June 14 Toronto, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Kincaid, Helen Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from [1950] June 28 St. Catharines, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Lois Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 10 Queensboro, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Manchester, E.A. Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 10 Milton, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Marcellus, Blanche Notes ALs. A card with the image of a flower on front.
- Date and Place from 1950 June 28 Niagra Falls, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Marg Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 24 Pittsburgh 26, Pa. To Maines, Minnie From Marion Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs. Image of flowers printed on front of card.
- Date and Place from 1950 June 29 Winnipeg, Man. To Maines, Minnie From Marion Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs. Images of flowers printed on paper.
- Date and Place from 1950 June 4 Niagra Falls, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Martin, Helen (Dafoe) Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 5 St. Catharines, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Meg Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs. A card with artwork of a cat and dog on front.
- Date and Place from 1950 June 8 Bay City, Mich. To Maines, Minnie From Pearsall, Sadie Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 14 Prospect Lake, B.C. To Maines, Minnie From Pincock, Margaret and Eric Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 26 Toronto, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Sanderson, C.R. Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes TLs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 9 Seattle, Wash. To Maines, Minnie From Seattle Public Library Notes PC Subject Re: donation of "Hidden Springs"
- Date and Place from 1950 June 12 Toronto, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Tye, Jean Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs. Card with painting of water flowers on front.
- Date and Place from 1950 June 2 St. Catharines, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Valentines Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 29 Toronto, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Walsh, Joan Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes ALs
- Date and Place from 1950 June 24 St. Catherines, Ont. To Maines, Minnie From Warren, Jessie Attachments Envelope, with stamp. Notes TLs
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Donated by Mrs. Colleen Gildner to the Library in 1985 through the efforts of Dr. Stan McMullin (St. Paul's College) and Stuart MacKinnon (Dana Porter Library).