BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Andrew Roddan (Rev.)

July 6 1883 - April 25 1948

United Church Minister
Vancouver Art Gallery (Charter Member)


Andrew Roddan was born in Hawick, Scotland. He arrived in Canada c1906, and apparently moved to Vancouver in 1929, where he worked as a Minister of Vancouver's First United Church from December 1929 until just before his death. He was married to Jennie May Harrison. They had seven children.

He became renowned for his interest in the poor, the homeless, and the hungry, and worked tirelessly on their behalf. His church provided many thousands of free meals.

He also wrote books related to his work, including:
     God in the Jungles: The Story of a Man Without a Home (Vancouver: First United Church, 1931)
     Christ of the Wireless Way (Clarke & Stewart, 1932)
     Canada's Untouchables (1932)


Roddan (left) shows W.H. Malkin one of his paintings c1942.
City of Vancouver Archives CVA 136-462

Roddan was an amateur painter, whose work including paintings of large sailing ships. Although he did not appear to have exhibited work in any group exhibitions, he had solo exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1940 and 1942. After his death in 1948 there was a memorial exhibition of his work at the VAG.

There is a substantial amount of information available for Roddan, including a number of web pages listed below in References.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION LOCATION
1940 Nov. 19 - Dec. 1 Watercolours VAG
1942 Nov. 2 - Nov. 15 (solo exhibition) VAG
1948 June 29 - July 11 Memorial Exhibition VAG

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK

References

ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (refer to BCVS)

https://abcbookworld.com/writer/roddan-andrew/

British Columbia Historical News Spring 1997:
https://www.proquest.com/openview/607167f84eb9a660d609af4918740afb/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=28071

Andrew Roddan’s God in the Jungles:
https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/1765/1810

Hobo Preacher:
http://karen-magill.blogspot.com/2014/04/hobo-preacher.html

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