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English: Frederick Elmer Leighton Abrey in Shanghai, 1912. Abrey was a Canadian Methodist missionary stationed in Chengtu, Szechwan. He was supported by the Sunday School and Epworth League of St. Paul's Church, Toronto. Abrey was also one of the mission's builders: "Up to 1910 we had no trained architect on the field. Plans had to be roughly drawn and results guessed at, or wait until letters could come and go from Canada, which often meant several months' delay in the erection of the much needed buildings. In that year the Board sent out Mr. F. E. L. Abrey, a trained architect, to superintend and advise the building operations in West China. Now a decision is arrived at in a short time and advice given so that mistakes are avoided and the best use obtained from the land and materials to hand. His WORK: — During his term here Mr. Abrey has drawn plans for three churches, sixteen residences, one college dormitory, one business depot, two Young Men's Guilds, one college building, one school for missionaries' children, three hospitals, three dispensaries, and numerous other buildings, prospective or actual." Source: Various authors (1920) Our West China Mission: Being a Somewhat Extensive Summary by the Missionaries on the Field of Work during the First Twenty-five Years of the Canadian Methodist Mission in the Province of Szechwan, Western China, Toronto: Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, pp. 423—424 . See also "Methodism in Szechwan".