Career
A prominent clergyman who participated fully in the direction the church took, he was born in 1838 and educated at Bishop"s University. His ecclesiastical career began with a curacy at Clinton, Ontario, followed by stints at The Ascension Hamilton, Ontario, Street George’s Montreal, before he was appointed Dean of Montreal in 1883. In 1906 he became Company-adjuter to the elderly third Bishop of Montreal, William Bennett Bond, whom he eventually succeeded.
He died in 1908 in his 70th year, his obituary stating he was a “painstaking administrator rather than a brilliant leader”.