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Minnie Waugh (daughter of Robert Waugh and Adeline or "Annie Stewart") married Rev. James Frazer Smith (son of William and Maria) on April 18, 1888, in Hamilton, Ontario.
Minnie Waugh and James Smith had at least four children: James Cameron (born about 1889 in Chefoo, China); Margaret Lucinda (born about 1894 in Chefoo, China); Elizabeth M. (born 1895 in Sutton, Ontario); and George Munroe Grant (born April 27, 1902, in Bleinheim, Ontario). - 1911 Census of Canada & Ontario, Canada Births, Ancestry.com
James Smith's China experiences, along with those of his wife Minnie and their children — including Cameron, MD'1915, who was born at Chefoo
— are a truly remarkable story that is related in his autobiography, Life's Waking Part. Published in 1937, one year before he was honoured with a Doctor of Divinity degree from Queen's, this account also details the unwavering and meaningful support he enjoyed from his fellow students, and most particularly from Principal Grant. - Edward Smith, Peterborough, Ontario, Queen's University Alumni Review, 2010 Issue #1.
Goforth's interest was in China. He attempted to join the China Inland Mission, but decided that his Presbyterian thinking was incompatible with the Brethren ideas espoused by Hudson Taylor. And so, with the support of a newly-formed Presbyterian mission, he and his wife set out for China in 1888 and settled temporarily in Chefoo. His appointed coworker,
James Frazer Smith followed a few months behind. Two weeks after Smith arrived, on this day, September 13, 1888, Goforth and Smith began a tour of the North Honan region of China.
This is where they intended to work, and they felt they must get a feel for the region.
North Honan had flooded badly the year before and the damage was still being addressed.
Smith and Goforth observed first-hand the efforts to repair the breaches made by the Yellow River. Altogether the two traveled over 1,200 miles, assessing the entire region.
They gathered whatever data they could during their two and a half month tour and observed the Chinese in their home environment.
In December more missionaries arrived and soon four workers were busy translating and preaching.
- from Jonathan Goforth Went Forth, Christianity.com
The image of physician as evangelist predominates early literature on Canadian missionary medicine in China.
When James R. Menzies graduated in Toronto on 1895, his dual degrees in theology and medicine made him an ideal missionary candidate. The Presbyterian Church in Canada dispatched the reverend doctor to China to begin the first medical mission at Changte in Honan province (Anyang, Henan). In those years the practice of medicine by missionaries was considered an evangelistic strategy aimed at gaining the trust of prospective converts; the medical doctor was welcomed where the preacher and teacher were barely tolerated.
Canadian Methodist physicians in Szechwan (Sichuan) were reportedly winning their way to the hearts to the people, finding opportunities "multiplying" upon them "every day and hour, for preaching the Gospel in the most effective way."
Two of the earliest Honanese to embrace Christianity were Chou Lao-Chang and Li Chi Ching, blind patients cared for by Canadian doctors Frazer Smith and James Menzies.3,4,5 Such legendary conversions solidified support for medical missionaries within the Presbyterian community, and may explain the subsequent official emphasis on doctors' evangelistic role with their patients.
- from James R. Menzies: healing and preaching in early 20th-century China by Sonya J. Grypma
Only one physician in the early years actively supported nursing care. Dr. James Frazer Smith lobbied for the establishment of a position for a missionary nurse to assist him in his work – to help soothe patients, change dressings, manage medical instruments, and sit with ill patients in their homes or in Chinese inns. After an illness forced Dr. Frazer Smith to resign in 1894, there was little practical support for nursing. The other physicians were not interested in having nurses assist them in their work, and no efforts were made to develop organized nursing services.
Margaret MacIntosh, the sole nurse at the North China Mission between 1891 and 1914, turned to evangelistic work as her main focus after Frazer Smith left. Although later missionary nurses criticized MacIntosh for her emphasis on evangelism, her relative disregard for nursing practice seems inevitable. It was not until formal in-patient services were developed that the North China Mission formally accepted organized nursing services as essential to the aims of the mission.
- from Healing Henan by Sonya J. Grypma
Read more about Rev. James Frazer Smith in China from Honan Missions, The United Church of Canada Archives.
Minnie Waugh Smith (daughter of Robert Waugh & "Ann Stewart") died on March 9, 1924, in Hamilton, Ontario. When she was married, her mother's name was listed as "Adeline".
James Smith died in 1948.
See more at http://www.waughfamily.ca/Waugh/RobertWaugh.htm
Family links:
Parents:
Robert W Waugh (1835 - 1912)
Spouse:
James Frazer Smith (1858 - 1948)
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1858 - 1948 (89 years) 
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