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Sixth Bishop of Nova Scotia; Eighth Metropolitan of Canada (and Archbishop of Nova Scotia); Acting Primate of All Canada; Fifth Primate of All Canada.

Clarendon Lamb Worrell was born in Smith Falls, Ontario in 1853. He received a B.A. from the University of Trinity College, Toronto in 1873, and became a teacher of mathematics at Bishop's College School. In 1874, he obtained a B.A. from the University of Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Quebec, and went on to be a master at Hellmuth College, London (1875), a teacher at Wentworth School, Hamilton (1876), and a mathematical master at Collegiate Institute, Cobourg (1877). In 1878, her entered Divinity School at Trinity College, and was ordained deacon in 1881. From there, he was curate of Christ's Church in Gananoque for a year, then of Holy Trinity Church in Brockville for two years. He received an M.A. from the University of Trinity College in 1883, and was ordained priest in 1884. He became rector of Williamsburg in 1884, then of Morrisburg in 1886. He received an honourary D.C.L. from the University of Trinity College in 1888, and became professor of English Literature at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario from 1891 to 1904. He was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Ontario from 1896 to 1901, and Archdeacon on Ontario from 1901 to 1904. He became Rector of St. Luke's Church, Kingston in 1903, and was consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia in 1904. He then became Metropolitan of Canada in 1915; Acting Primate of All Canada in 1930; and finally Primate of All Canada in 1931. He passed away in 1934.

Other honourary degrees received by Worrell included two D.D.s, one from the University of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1905, and one from the University of Bishop's College in 1913; and a D.C.L. from the University of Bishop's College in 1916.

First Bishop of Ontario; Fourth Metropolitan of All Canada.

John Travers Lewis was born in Cork, Ireland in 1825. He obtained B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin in 1847, and was ordained deacon in 1848 in Cambridge. He was ordained priest in 1849, and was curate of Newton Butler in County Fermanah, Ireland until 1850. He was an S.P.G. Missionary in West Hawkesbury, Ontario until 1854, when he became the Rector of Brockville. He was consecrated Bishop of Ontario in 1862. He was active in getting the British Association for the Advancement of Science to meet in Montreal and helped to found the Women's Auxiliary in 1885. He married Ada Maria Leigh in 1889, and was elected President of the House of Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, at Montreal, thus becoming Metropolitan of Canada and Archbishop of Ontario. He resigned this office in 1900, and passed away aboard the S.S. Menominee en route to England in 1901.

He held multiple honourary degrees from multiple colleges, including: LL.D. (1856), M.A., B.D., D.D. (all 1862) Trinity College, Dublin; LL.D. (1857), University of Trinity College, Toronto; D.C.L. (1858), D.D. (1895) University of Bishop's College, Quebec; and D.D. (1901), Oxford University, England.

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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.