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Fourth Bishop of Nova Scotia.

Hibbert Binney was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1819, and educated at King's College, London. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University in 1842, and ordained deacon that same year. He was a lecturer at Worcester College, Oxford from 1842 to 1846, and was ordained priest in 1843. He received his Master of Arts from Oxford in 1844, and became a Tutor at Worcester College from 1846 to 1858. He became the bursar of the college from 1848 to 1851. He was consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia in 1851, and received an honourary Doctor of Divinity from Oxford that same year. He obtained a Doctor of Divinity from the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1852, and married Mary Bliss in 1855. The couple had two sons and one daughter. He passed away in New York in 1887.

First Bishop of the Arctic.

Archibald Lang Fleming was born in Greenock, Scotland in 1883, and attended Glasgow University. He married Elizabeth Lukens, and worked with J. Brown & Co. Ltd., shipbuilders in Clydebank,. In 1906, he travelled to Canada and attended Wycliffe College. He was ordained deacon in 1912, and served as a missionary to Baffin's Island until 1916. he was ordained priest in 1913. He worked for churches in Ontario and New Brunswick until 1918, when he became the Chaplain and the Financial Secretary of Wycliffe College. He received an L.th. there in 1919, and went to work as a rector in St. John, New Brunswick in 1921, where he stayed until 1927. He was an honourary captain and chaplain to the New Brunswick Heavy Brigade Artillery from 1924 to 1927, and published a book, The History of St. John's Church, Saint John, New Brunswick in 1925. In 1927, he was made the Archdeacon on the Arctic, until 1933, when he was consecrated Bishop of the Arctic. He was Examining Chaplain to the Bishops of Yukon, Moosonee, Keewatin and Mackenzie River, as well as Commissioner for Eskimo Work in the Dioceses of Yukon, Mackenzie River, Moosonee and Keewatin He was also made a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in 1930, and was known as "the Flying Bishop" because he travelled by airplane throughout his diocese. He resigned the See in 1929, and passed away in 1953. His widow published his memoirs, Archibald the Arctic, in 1956.

Second Bishop of Caledonia; First Metropolitan of British Columbia.

Frederick Herbert Du Vernet was born in Hemmingford, Quebec in 1860. He was educated at Clarenceville Academy, Quebec; at the University of King's College, Nova Scotia; and at the University of Toronto, Ontario. In 1883, he was ordained deacon, and spent his curacy in St. James the Apostle in Montreal, until he was ordained priest in 1884, and moved to be the curate of St. Paul's Church in Toronto, Ontario. From 1885 to 1895, he was a Professor of Practical Theology at Wycliffe College, and became assistant chaplain there from 1892 to 1895. While there, he completed a B.D., being admitted to the degree in 1893. He was the editor of the Canadian Church Missionary Gleaner from 1894 to 1901, and served as secretary-treasurer for the Canadian Church Missionary Society from 1895 to 1902. He was rector of St. John's Church in Toronto from 1895 to 1904, and associate editor of New Era from 1901 to 1904. He was consecrated Bishop of Caledonia in 1904. During his time as Bishop, he was also the president of the Anglican Theological College of British Columbia, as well as the House of Bishops of the Province of British Columbia. He became the Metropolitan of British Columbia and Archbishop of Caledonia in 1915. He received a honourary D.D. (1904) from the University of King's College, as well as the University of Trinity College (1904) and Wycliffe College (1921). He passed away in 1924.

First Bishop of Niagara.

Thomas Brock Fuller was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1810, and educated in Hamilton, York, and Quebec. He received a scholarship from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1828, and was ordained deacon in 1833. He was assistant minister of Christ Church in Montreal from 1833 to 1835, and was ordained priest in 1835. He married Cynthia Street, and the couple had nine children. He was curate of Adolphustown, Ontario from 1835 to 1836, then missionary in Chatham until 1840. He served as rector of Thorold, Ontario from 1840 to 1861. During his time as a rector, he published sermons, compiled the Canadian agricultural reader, became the first president of the Thorold mechanics' institute, as well as vice president of the Thorold Township Agricultural Society. He then became rector of St. George's Church in Toronto from 1861 to 1875, and was the vice-president of the Church of England Evangelical Association in 1868. He was consecrated Bishop of Niagara in 1875, and passed away in Hamilton, Ontario in 1884. He received two honourary degrees - one S.T.D. from Hobart Collage, New York in 1856, and one D.C.L. from University of Trinity College in 1857.

Fifth Bishop of Quebec.

Andrew Hunter Dunn was born in Essex, England, in 1839, and was educated in both England and Germany. He obtained a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1863, and was ordained deacon in 1864. He was curate of St. Mark's in Notting Hill, Kensington from 1864 to 1870, and ordained priest in 1865. He obtained an M.A. from Cambridge in 1866. He was the Priest in Charge of Mission of South Acton, England from 1870 to 1872, then became the Vicar of All Saints' in South Action until 1892. He was consecrated Bishop of Quebec in 1892. He received an honourary D.D. (1892) from the University of Bishop's College in Lennoxville, Quebec; an honourary D.D. (1893) from Cambridge; and an honourary D.C.L. (1907) from the University of Bishops' College. He resigned the See of Quebec in 1914, and died on board the S.S. Hesperian, en route to Liverpool, England.

Coadjutor Bishop of Fredericton; Second Bishop of Fredericton.

Hollingworth Tully Kingdon was born in London, England in 1835. He gained a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1858, and was ordained deacon the following year in Buckingham. He was curate of Sturminster-Marshall, Dorset until 1863, and was ordained priest in 1860. He obtained a B.A. from Cambridge in 1861. In 1863, he became curate of Devizes, Wiltshire, until he took on the role of Vice-Principal at Sarum Theological College in 1864, a position he held until 1869. He was then curate of St. Andrew's Church in London until 1878, when he became Vicar of Good Easter, Essex. In 1881, he was consecrated Coadjutor Bishop of Fredericton, and was granted an honourary D.D. from Cambridge. He received two more honourary D.D.'s, one from the University of Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, in 1885, and one from the University of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1890. He succeeded to the See of Fredericton in 1892, and received an honourary D.C.L. in 1893. He passed away in 1907 in Fredericton.

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.

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.

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.

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.