Canadian clergyman and educator, born at Mount Pleasant, Brant County, ON, on the 22nd of April 1844. He was educated at Toronto University and Knox College, and on his ordination was chosen as assistant in Chalmers’s Church, PQ. His forte was in the line of missionary endeavor, and at the instance of the Presbyterian General Assembly he organized an educational institution on the Red River and founded a church at Winnipeg, in Manitoba. He was mainly instrumental in founding the University of Manitoba in 1871, and has since that date been inspector of schools, examiner in natural science in Manitoba University and moderator of his church synod. His writings concern the scene of his labors; among them are Manitoba (1882); Canada and the Northwest (1887); and A Short History of the Canadian People (1886).
