Robert J. McCue

ROBERT J. McClue teaches European history at the University of Victoria. The history of the Latter-day Saints in British Columbia has become a major interest for him in the two decades he has spent in Victoria. He has published previous articles on this subject in Dialogue, the Ensign, and B.C. Studies

Did the Word of Wisdom Become a Commandment in 1851?

Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 3

Joseph Fielding Smith, Apostle and Church Historian, once published an answer to an inquiry about when the Word of Wisdom became a commandment. His response, widely accepted as definitive both then and subsequently, was included…

The Restoration in British Columbia

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 1

Dialogue 22.1 (Spring 1989): 69–75
This essay focuses on the efforts of both groups to establish congregations in Canada’s far west and explores why the growth of the Latter-day Saint and Reorganized Latter Day Saint churches in British Columbia became so lopsided after World War II.

Anthony Maitland Stenhouse, Bachelor Polygamist

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 1

I have no intention of practicing polygamy,
but I accept and will firmly maintain it as a
doctrine, and am in no way ashamed of it.
—Anthony Maitland Stenhouse

So wrote Anthony Maitland Stenhouse (no relation to T. B. H. Stenhouse), a Scot transplanted temporarily to the western Canadian wilderness and an ardent nineteenth-century proponent of polygamy.