Burd, Walter

Sixth Bishop of Saskatchewan.

Walter Burd was born in Cork, Ireland in 1888, and was educated primarily at military schools in Colchester, England, and Athlone, Ireland, then attended secondary school and university in Sheffield, England. From 1914 to 1919, he served with 28th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force and 4th Worcesters (Imperial). He was granted the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1916 by King George V, and married Elizabeth Millington (d.1937) in Sheffield in 1918. The couple had two sons and one daughter. He was a student at Eycliffe College from 1919 to 1920, and General Secretary of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in Canada from 1920 to 1922. He was ordained deach in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1922, and then priest in Saskatoon that same year. He was a curate in Tisdale, Saskatchewa, then a rector from 1922 to 1926. In 1923, he became the Rural Dean of Melfort, Saskatchewan, and in 1926, a canon and precentor of St. Alban's Cathedral in Prince Albert until 1929, when he was made Archdeacon. In 1933, he was consecrated Bishop of Saskatchewan, and granted honourary D.D.'s from Wycliffee College and from the University of Emmanuel College in Saskatoon. He married Florence Marian Traill in 1939. That same year, he resigned the See of Saskatchewan and passed away in British Columbia.