Crossing the Pacific
Crossing the Pacific
Departing from Utah, David O. McKay and Hugh J. Cannon began their year-long fact-finding mission on December 4, 1920, traveling northwest by railroad to the deepwater port of Vancouver, Canada. The two made a stop in the Pacific Northwest to visit church leaders and missionaries serving in Portland and Seattle. Arriving in Vancouver, McKay and Cannon boarded their steamship and spent two weeks at sea. Their journey to Japan was tempestuous at times; McKay tried to relate his ongoing struggle with seasickness in good humor, thinly disguising his discomfort on the high seas. Steamship travel became a staple of their journey; over the following year, McKay and Cannon recorded a travel distance of 37,819 miles by sea—well eclipsing the pair’s mileage by land.
Keywords: David O. McKay, Hugh J. Cannon, Northwest, mission, missionary, missionaries, steamship, ocean travel, Japan, interwar, transpacific travel
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