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in order that the Church might not fail her children 

 in their deepest need. The diocese of Qu'Appelle 

 was coextensive with the old district of Assiniboia, 

 its boundaries about five hundred by two hundred 

 miles ; the priests of its remote and far-scattered 

 parishes had sometimes to make journeys of over a 

 hundred miles on foot for the sake of the " two or 

 three gathered together " in the far corners of the 

 Empire. Among this gallant band the names of Rev. 

 the Hon. A. J. R. Hanson, sometime rector of Wool- 

 wich and afterwards Bishop of Qu'Appelle ; Bishop 

 Burn, formerly rector of St. Peter's, Jarrow; the Very 

 Rev. J. P. Sargent, the present Dean of Qu'Appelle 

 who was at one time an officer in the 6znd Foot 

 now 1st Batt. Wiltshire Regiment ; Archdeacon 

 Mackay, Archdeacon Tims, Archdeacon Dobie, 

 Canon Stocker, Canon Beal, now Secretary to the 

 Archbishop's Western Canada Mission and the Rev. 

 F. Palgrave, will never fade from the noble roll of the 

 Church of England's pioneer priests of the prairie. 



With the extension of the railway, the increase 

 of the population and prosperity, and the extra- 

 ordinary work of the archbishops, bishops and clergy 

 and the generous support of the laity, the establish- 

 ment of the Church of England along the beaten 

 track of Western Canada became firm and far- 

 reaching ; although in the diocese of Qu'Appelle, 

 now ruled by the Right Rev. Malcolm Macadam 

 Harding, priests and dignitaries are still subject 

 to the strain of incessant work, not always free from 

 sordid and distressing worry. Nor do cathedrals 

 and churches of Canada flatter the generosity of 

 those dwellers in the Mother Country who have the 

 privilege of the use of our common inheritance of 



