Reeve, William Day

Second Bishop of Mackenzie River; Assistant Bishop of Toronto.

William Day Reeve was born in Harmston, Lincolnshire, England in 1844. He was educated in Harmston and Islington, England, and was ordained deacon in Winnipeg in 1869. He was missionary for the Church Missionary Society in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories from 1869 to 1879, and was ordained priest in 1874. From 1874 to 1879 he was the Registrar of the Diocese of Athabasca, Alberta, and was Chaplain to the Bishop of Athabasca from 1879 to 1884 and 1884 to 1891. He served as Incumbent of St. Paul's Church in Chipewyan, Northwest Territories from 1879 to 1889. He was Archdeacon of Chipewyan from 1883 to 1891. In 1891, he was consecrated Bishop of Mackenzie River, and was granted an honourary D.D. from St. John's College, Manitoba. He was the Bishop in charge of the Diocese of Athabasca, as Commissary for the Archbishop of Rupert's Land, from 1904 to 1907. In 1907, he resigned the See of MacKenzie River, and was appointed Assistant Bishop of Toronto, where he stayed until 1924, when he resigned that post. He passed away in Toronto in 1925.