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Robert Mach- 

 ray Conse 

 crated June 

 24th, 1865 



Died March 

 9th, 1904 



Alaskan borders. On his return to Fort Simpson 

 be found a colleague in the person of the Reverend 

 Robert McDonald, who proceeded as soon as 

 possible into the far North . 



Bishop Anderson s resignation brought two 

 men to the Canadian West, the influence of 

 whose lives and works will endure until the end of 

 Canadian Church history. 



The first of these was his successor-in-office, 

 Robert Machray, second Bishop of Rupert s 

 Land, first Archbishop of Rupert s Land, and 

 first Primate of the Church of England in all 

 Canada. lie found his charge a vast unorganized 

 area, stretching from the Ontario height- of land 

 to Hudson Bay, the Arctic Ocean, the Interna 

 tional Boundary, the Rocky Mountains, and the 

 borders of Alaska; he left it organized into nine 

 dioceses. He created sy nodical government 

 within his diocese and within his ecclesiastical 

 province. He was instrumental, largely, in the 

 formation of the General Synod for the Church of 

 England in Canada. He was the faithful Shep 

 herd of his flock, both white and Indian, the 

 true Father in God of his clergy, the kind but 

 strict educator of youth, the trusted adviser of 

 the civil power, the Joshua of the Church in the 

 Great Lone Land ; his mortal remains rest in Red 

 River soil, and on his memorial cross a grateful, 

 loving, and sorrowing people placed the fitting in 

 scription He fed them with a faithful and true heart, 

 and ruled them prudently with all his power.&quot; 

 The more intimate relation of the life and 



