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Second Bishop of Rupert's Land; First Metropolitan of Rupert's Land; First Primate of All Canada.

Robert Machray was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1831, and obtained an M.A. from University and King's College in Aberdeen in 1851. He attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, from 1852 to 1853, and received a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1855. He also became a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, and was ordained deacon that same year. He was curate of the Parish Church of Egham, England from 1855 to 1857, and was ordained priest in 1856. He then became curate of St. George's Church, Douglas, on the Isle of Man from 1857 to 1858. He obtained an M.A. from Cambridge in 1858, and became curate of Newton, England from 1859 until 1862. He was also Dean of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1859 to 1865, and was Vicar of Madingley, England from 1862 to 1865. He was consecrated Bishop of Rupert's Land in 1865. During his tenure, he decreed that Church of England services should conform to the Book of Common Prayer and that Presbyterian practices, traditionally tolerated in the colony, should be eliminated from the church; he reopened St. John 's College to train students for priesthood, and was a professor there for the rest of his life; he was a participant in negotiations to establish the provisional government during the Red River Uprising, but continued to advocate for the Government of Canada to quell it; and he reestablished the church's system of Parish Schools. From 1871 to 1890, he was Chairman of the Protestant section of the Board of Education, and in 1875, became the Metropolitan of Rupert's Land. From 1877 to 1904, he was Chancellor of the University of Manitoba. In 1893, he was appointed Prelate of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George and elected Primate of All Canada. He passed away in 1904.

He received various honourary degrees, including a D.D. (1865) from Cambridge; an LL.D. (1865) from Aberdeen; a D.D. (1881) from St. John's College; a D.D. (1888) from Durham; a D.C.L. (1893) from the University from Trinity College, Toronto; and a D.D. (1897) from Oxford University.

Malcolm MacLeod was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1918. He began working for the Canadian Press in 1937, managing the office in Cape Breton. In 1939, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a flight trainer in Ontario. He died in 1943 in Europe, at age 25, as a squadron leader.

William Marshall was a poet, born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia in 1859. He was admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar in 1881, and published A Book of Verse in 1909, in Nova Scotia only. In 1923, he passed away from cancer.

James Stuart Martell was born in 1911,and attended the University of King's College from 1928 to 1932, graduating with high honours in Political Science. He joined the staff of the Nova Scotia Provincial Archives in 1935, and was appointed Assistant Provincial Archivist in 1943. He passed away in 1946.

Assistant Bishop of Rupert's Land; Second Metropolitan of Rupert's Land (third Bishop and second Archbishop of Rupert's Land); Fourth Primate of All Canada.

Samuel Pritchard Matheson was born in Kildonan, Manitoba in 1852, and educated at St. John's College School in Winnipeg. He became a Master at St. John's College School in 1874, and remained there until 1882. He was ordained deacon in 1875, and priest in 1876. He was the Priest in Charge of services in Township of Victoria, Manitoba from 1875 - 1878, as well as Chaplain of the Provincial Penitentiary at Stony Mountain, Manitoba from 1875 to 1880. He married Seraphina Marie Fortin in 1879, and was a founding member of the Manitoba Scientific and Historical Society. He was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Manitoba from 1879 - 1880. In 1881, he became the Incumbent of St. Paul's Church in Middlemarch, Manitoba, which he held until 1886. He obtained a B.D. from St. John's College in 1882, where then taught Exegetical Theology until 1906. He was also a Canon of St. John's Cathedral from 1882 to 1902, and Secretary of the Synod of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land from 1883 to 1902. In 1892, he was made the Dean of Rupert's Land. He found the Havergal Ladies' College in Winnipeg in 1901, and was its first president. He became the Prolocutor of the Lower House of the General Synod of the Church of England in Canada in 1902, as well as as Prolocutor of the Lower House of the Synod of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land from 1902 - 1903. He was Deputy Warden of of St. John's College and Dean of Rupert's Land from 1902 to 1905. He was elected Assistant Bishop of to the Archbishop of Rupert's Land in 1903, then was consecrated Bishop that same year. He was the headmaster of St. John's College School from 1903 to 1905. In 1905, he became the Warden and Chancellor of St. John's College, and was elected to the See of Rupert's Land, thereby becoming the Archbishop and Metropolitan. He was also chairman of the Board of Education of the Province of Manitoba. He married Alice Talbot in 1906, and the couple had seven children. He was appointed honourary Captain and Chaplain of the 90th Regiment Winnipeg Rifles in 1908, as well as Chancellor of the University of Manitoba that same year. In 1909, he became the Primate of All Canada, a post he held until 1931. He passed away in 1942.

He was granted several honourary degrees, including a D.D. (1903) from St. John's College; a D.C.L. (1908) from Cambridge; a D.C.L. (1908) from Durham; a D.D. (1910) from the University of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia; a D.D. (1914) from the University of Trinity College; a D.D. (1917) from the Wycliffe College); and an LL.D. (1927) from the University of Manitoba.

First Bishop of Saskatchewan.

John McLean was born in Portsoy, Banffshire, Scotland in 1828. He obtained an M.A. from University and King's College in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1851, and was ordained deacon, then priest in 1858. He became curate of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, Ontario that year, where he remained until 1866. He obtained an M.A. (ad eundem) from the University of Trinity College in 1859. He was Chaplain to the Garrison of London from 1861 to 1866, and Rector of St. John's Cathedral, Winnipeg from 1866 to 1874. During this time, he also became the Archdeacon of Assiniboia; Warden and Professor of Systemic Theology at St. John's College; and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Rupert's Land. He was consecrated Bishop of Saskatchewan inb 1874, and passed away in Prince Albert in 1886. He received three honourary degrees in his lifetime: a D.D. from Kenyon College in Ohio in 1871; a D.C.L. from the University of Trinity College in Toronto; and a D.C.L. from the University of Bishop's College in Lennoxville, Quebec.

First Bishop of Fredericton; Third Metropolitan of Canada.

John Medley was born in London, England in 1804, and obtained a B.A. from Oxford University in 1826. He married Christina Bacon that same year, and the couple would have seven children before Christina died in 1841. Medley was ordained deacon in 1828, then priest in 1829. He was Perpetual curate of St. John's, in Truro, England until 1831, and obtained his M.A. from Oxford in 1830. He published The Episcopal Form of Church Government in 1935, and assisted in translating the Homilies of St John Chrysotom on the Corinthians in 1938. He was a prebendery of Exeter Cathedral from 1838 to 1845, when he was consecrated Bishop of Fredericton, New Brunswick. He married again in 1863 to a woman called Margaret Hudson, and received a D.D. from the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1864. He also received several honourary degrees, including a B.D. and D.D. (both 1845) from Oxford; a D.D. (1888) from Durham; a LL.D. (1888) from Cambridge; and a D.C.L. (1890) from University of King's College. He became the Metropolitan of Canada in 1879, and passed away in Fredericton in 1892.

Journalist and poet Andrew Doane Merkel was born in New York State in the mid 1880s. He came to Nova Scotia as a boy when his father, Anglican Minister Rev. A. Deb Merkel, took over a parish in Digby. From 1904 to 1905, he attended the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, then moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia to attend the university's School of Engineering from 1905 to 1907. He did not complete this degree due to the closure of the engineering school, and represented his classmates to the King's Board of Governors while the school was closing. Merkel married Florence (Tully) E. Sutherland from Windsor and had three children: J. Arthur, Peggy, and Mary-Elizabeth. Merkel spent most of his adult life in Halifax and is known to have lived on South Park Street. He was a journalist for both the Philadelphia North American and the Sydney Record, in the 1900s, an editor for the Saint John Standard from 1908 to 1910 and of the Halifax Echo from 1910 to 1917, the Maritime News Editor for the Canadian Press from 1917 to 1919, and finally, the Superintendent of Canadian Press Atlantic Division from 1919 to 1946. He died in 1954.

Merkel was also a poet and avid historian. His first book length poem, The Order of Good Cheer, wasn’t published until 1944 although he completed it in the early 1920s. His second book length poem, Tallahassee, was published the following year. Both works illustrate his interest in Nova Scotian history; The Order of Good Cheer is about Nova Scotia’s first French settlers while Tallahassee is about Halifax during the American civil war. He published two works of non-fiction as well, Letters from the Front (1914), and Bluenose Schooner (1948). Merkel was also a member of the Halifax literary group called The Song Fishermen and often hosted meetings of the group, which included fellow writers such as Charles G.D. Roberts, Charles Bruce, Kenneth Leslie, and Robert Norwood.

Florence Merkel, nicknamed Tully, was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia around 1890. In 1914, she married Andrew Doane Merkel. She and her husband would go on to lead a group of poets called The Song Fishermen, hosting salons and meetings in the home in Halifax. They had three children. Tully Merkel passed away in 1950.