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- Title
HILARY PIT-A-PIT CLAPP (1894-1945): FROM "WILD" IGOROT FILIPINO BOY TO CHRISTIANIZED DOCTOR.
- Authors
Marshall, Alison
- Abstract
Arriving in Ontario in 1907, Hilary Pit-a-pit Clapp (1894-1945) was one of Canada's earliest Filipino migrants, so it is surprising that his story is little-known. An "uncivilized" Igorot boy from the mountainous region of the Philippines, Clapp was chosen for conversion and re-education by Episcopalian/Anglican missionaries who saw him as human raw material. Like other Indigenous children, he was given a new English name. Clapp's tragic story in many ways articulates the uncomfortable position of early Filipino migrants and sojourners. They dreamed of life in modern Western nations. Their Christian education had convinced them that Western life was better. But when they arrived in Canada, their experiences revealed a different, some might say un-Christian, truth of bigotry and exclusion. After three years, Clapp returned home, his life path permanently altered by his immersion in Canadian faith-based education. Many other Filipino migrants who had ventured to Canada before him have been forgotten, but surviving records allow us to preserve Clapp's important story.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CANADA; IGOROT (Philippine people); IMMIGRANTS; CHRISTIAN education; INTERNATIONAL economic relations; FILIPINOS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 2016, Vol 36, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
0715-3244
- Publication type
Article