Mission to Seafarers

Volunteering is an integral part of Canadian culture. Approximately 41 per cent of all Canadians formally volunteer their time with one organization or another. The ...

Over 90 per cent of the world’s trade is carried by sea, thanks to the nearly two million seafarers working globally to ensure that we ...

Look around you the next time you’re riding a bus or subway, or sitting in a waiting room at the dentist, doctor or your hairdresser. ...

It is ironic that as I write this article, I am sailing past a long line of cargo ships anchored in the southern waters of ...

Jill Wyllie volunteers as a ship visitor for the Mission to Seafarers Southern Ontario, which has mission stations in the ports of Oshawa, Toronto and ...

Wars, it would seem, have their own set of rules. Which rules, and how they are followed, depend entirely on the side one finds oneself ...

Once again, the pictures said it all, only this time it wasn’t happening on the other side of the world but on the other side ...

The world paid a great deal of attention to a gigantic container ship that somehow swiveled in the middle of the Suez Canal and blocked ...

2020 provided new perspectives on the work that we do at the Mission to Seafarers, none of which we could have predicted or even expected. ...

Picture this: after a long 14-hour flight from Sydney, Australia, a huge aircraft lands in Vancouver, full of passengers and crew. The passengers happily deplane, ...