Ella Maud Murray was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on March 6th, 1865. She worked in the newspaper industry until her retirement in 1934. She passed away July 30th, 1949.
First Bishop of Quebec.
Jacob Mountain was born in Norfolk, England in 1749, and attended Cambridge University from 1769 to 1777, where he obtained a B.A. in 1774 and an M.A. in 1777. He was ordained deacon in 1774 as well, then priest in 1780. He married Elizabeth Midred Wale Kentish in 1783. The couple had seven children, including George Jehoshaphat Mountain. He was perpetual curate of St. Andrews for seven years, as well as Caistor Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral for two, until 1790, when he became Rector of Holbeach, Lincolnshire, as well as Vicar of Buckden, Cambridgeshire, posts he held until 1794. He was also Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln during this time. He was consecrated Bishop of Quebec, a brand new See, in 1793, and he and his entire family moved to Canada. He was active there as a Bishop, taking great interest in the political and religious development of the province. Though he faced many obstacles, the Church of England in Canada did grow under his leadership, with parishes and missions established throughout the Colony. He passed away in 1825 in Marchmont.
Coadjutor Bishop of Quebec; Third Bishop of Quebec.
George Jehoshaphat Mountain was born in Norwich, England in 1789, and grew up in Quebec, Canada, after his father moved the family there. He attended Cambridge University and obtained a B.A. in 1810, then returned to Quebec and was ordained deacon in 1812. During the War of 1812, he volunteered for sentry duty on the walls of Quebec City, and served as Curate of Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity there until 1814. He was ordained priest in 1814, and married Mary Hume Thompson that same year. He was then appointed Rector of Fredericton, New Brunswick, as well as Chaplain to his Majesty's Troops and to the Legislative Council in the city. He and his wife stay in Fredericton until 1817, when Mountain became the Officiating Minister in the Parish of Quebec, as well as Commissary to the Bishop of Quebec. He was granted an honourary D.D. from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1819, and was appointed a member of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. He became the first archdeacon on Quebec in 1821. Mountain was also very interested in education, and established a system of national schools for children who could not afford grammar school education in 1817, and he was an honourary Professor of Divinity at McGill College from 1823 to 1835, as well as Principal of the college starting in 1829. He was also instrumental in obtaining a royal charter for the establishment of Bishop's College. He began assisting the Bishop of Quebec in 1835, officially receiving the appointment of Suffragan Bishop in 1836, for which he used the title Lord Bishop of Montreal. Despite succeeding to the See of Quebec in 1837, he continued to use this title until 1850, when the Diocese of Montreal was officially created. He travelled extensively throughout his diocese, and was a significant part of establishing the church government in Canada. He passed away in 1863 in Quebec.
William Inglis Morse was a clergyman, author, historian and bibliophile. He was interested primarily in the history of North American, specifically Canada and Nova Scotia.
Born in Paradise, Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia in 1874, Morse would go on to study at Acadia College (now University) in Wolfville, then at Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massechussets, obtaining both a B.A. from Acadia and a B.D. from Theological School. In 1904, he was married to Susan Alice Ensign, and would have one daughter with her. Morse was ordained priest in the Anglican Church in 1901, in Boston, and worked as an Assistant Minister at St. John's Church in Stamford, Mass. from 1902 to 1904, then as a rector of the Church of the Incarnation in Lynn, Mass. from 1905 to 1930. He began taking an interest in historical research and rare books in the 1910s, and took research trips to England and Europe through the 1920s. When he retired from the ministry in the 1930s, he was able to concentrate on Canadian history and on collecting rare books and manuscripts, especially those pertaining to the history of Nova Scotia in 17th and 18th centuries. He collected and donated multiple rare books and manuscripts to universities in the Maritimes, including Dalhousie University, Acadia University, and the University of King's College. He also donated Canadiana to Yale, and as the honourary curators of Canadian Literature at Harvard University, added 6 500 items, including a complete set of works by Thomas C. Haliburton. He passed away in 1952.
Morse published extensively, including:
1906-1950 -- Edited and published The Chronicle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, originally the newsletter
for his Lynn parish, but eventually the record of his collecting and scholarly interests4
1908 -- Acadian Lays and Other Verse. Toronto: W. Briggs.
1920 -- The Lady Latour, with Picture Poses Appended for Those Who Journey. Toronto, Ryerson.
1922 -- Seeing Europe Backwards. Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1923 -- Interludes for Dust Eaters (Ancient and Modern) with a Monologue. Boston, Nathan Sawyer.
1924 -- Twisting Trails in the Auvergnes, Cevennes Alps of Provence, Belgium, Holland, and British Isles. Boston: Nathan Sawyer
1925 -- Genealogiae or Data Concerning the Families of Morse, Chipman, Phinney, Ensign and Whiting. Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1925 -- Ricordati, 1874-1924. Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1926 -- The Diary of a Musketeer. Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1926 -- Eccentrics in Paradise and Other Essays. Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1927 -- Sicilian Days and Other Journeys Round the Mediterranean and Adriatic. Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1927 -- Letters and Cartoons from FGC [ illustrator Fred G. Cooper] to WIM, 1916-1926, and Brief Reference to Caricature in Relation to Nature, Travel, Golf, the Bible, and Parochial Life. Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1929 -- Gravestones of Acadie and Other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. London: A. Smith.
1930 -- Nordic Trails: a Journey to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Czecho-Slovakia. Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1931 -- Catalogue of books, manuscripts, maps and documents in the William Inglis Morse collection, 1926-1931 / Acadia University. London: The Curwen Press.
1932 -- The Land of the New Adventure: The Georgian Era in Nova Scotia. London, Bernard Quaritch.
1933 -- The Narrowing Path, 1901-1920. London: Curwen Press.
1935 -- Acadiensia Nova (1598-1779); new and unpublished documents and other data relating to Acadia (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, etc.), the actors: Sir William Alexander, Jacques de Meulles, Gargas, Vincent de Saccardy, Marquis de La Roche, Delabat and J. F. W. des Barres (2 vols.). London: Bernard Quaritch.
1937 -- Local History of Paradise, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia (1684-1936). Boston: N. Sawyer.
1938 -- Supplement to Local History of Paradise, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia (1684-1936), Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1938 -- The Lord's prayer [notes of an address by W. Inglis Morse]. Cambridge, Mass. : The author.
1938 -- Catalogue of the William Inglis Morse Collection of books, pictures, maps, manuscripts, etc. at Dalhousie University Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia / compiled by Eugenie Archibald; with a foreword by Carleton Stanley and a preface by William Inglis Morse. London : Curwen Press.
1939 -- Pierre du Gua, Sieur de Monts, Records: Colonial and "Saintongeois." London: Bernard Quaritch.
1940 -- Ewart Gladstone Morse, 1892-1935: a Memoir. Boston: Nathan Sawyer.
1941 -- Bliss Carman: Bibliography, Letters, Fugitive Verses, and Other Data. Windham: Hawthorn House.
1944 -- Letters of D. Alexandra Malaspina (1790-1791), collected and edited by William Inglis Morse; translation of the letters by Christopher M. Dawson. Boston, Mclver-Johnson
1944 - 1949 -- The Canadian Collection at Harvard University. 6 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Printing Office.
1945 -- Published Autobiographical Records of William Inglis Morse, 1874-1905. Boston: Mclver-Johnson
1944 -- Diary of the Rev. Jacob Eliot, M.A., 1716-1764. Cambridge, Mass.: [s.n.], 1944.
Coadjutor Bishop of Ontario; Second Bishop of Ontario.
William Lennox Mills was born in Woodstock, Ontario in 1846. He attended Huron College and Western University in London, Ontario, and was ordained deacon in 1872. He served as Incumbent of Norwich, Ontario, and was ordained priest in 1873. In 1874, he became the Rector of Seaforth, Ontario; then of St. John's, Quebec in 1875; then Trinity Church, Montreal in 1882, which he held until 1896. He was also a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal from 1883 to 1896, and received a B.D. from the University of Trinity College, Toronto, in 1884. He lectured at the Montreal Diocesan College on Dogmatic Theology from 1884 to 1895, and was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Montreal from 1885 to 1900. Mills earned a D.D. from the University of Trinity College in 1894, and married Katharine Sophia Bagg in 1896. He was Archdeacon of St. Andrew's, Montreal from 1896 to 1900, and was granted a D.D. (ad eundem) from the University of Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec in 1897. He was consecrated Bishop of Kingston in 1900, and succeeded to the See of Ontario on the death of the Archbishop in 1901. It was then that he received honourary degrees from Queen's University (LL.D., 1901); the University of Trinity College (D.C.L., 1901); and the University of Bishop's College (D.C.L., 1903). He passed away in Kingston in 1917.
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.