Background
John Cragg Farthing was born in Toronto to an upper-class Anglican family.
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He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, England.
Career
He had a sister Ann Cragg Farthing. Ann Farthing became an Anglican missionary, working in the United States territory of Alaska for years during the early 20th century in the Yukon interior. After Farthing"s return to Canada from Cambridge, he was ordained and embarked on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Woodstock, Ontario, swiftly followed by elevation to vicar within the same parish.
Promotion followed rapidly and he was, successively, called as a Canon of Street Paul’s Cathedral, London, Ontario, and Dean of Ontario.
He left Ontario when called in 1909 as Bishop of Montreal, serving until 1939. A keen observer of Montreal life, he was a moderate prelate.
