Isaac Stringer

Isaac Stringer

Isaac O. Stringer was born April 19, 1866 in Kingarf, Ontario. He attended University College and Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto and received a BA degree in 1891. While at University College he served as Recording Secretary of the University College Literary and Athletic Society.

In 1892 he accepted a posting as a missionary to the Canadian Arctic and spent the majority of his life in northern Canada. In 1905 he was consecrated the second Bishop of Selkirk in the Yukon, a position he held until 1931 when he was named Archbishop of Rupert's Land and relocated to Winnipeg where he died on October 30, 1934.

Stringer was known during his life as "The Bishop Who Ate His Boots" as a result of an incident during a tour of his diocese in 1909. Running low on provisions, he found that the sealskin of his boots was sufficent as emergency sustenance. ["Yukon Nuggets". http://www.hougens.com/yukonHistory/nuggets_year/2000s.aspx?nugget=1909]

External Links

[http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/BishopStringer Canadian Virtual Museum Site on Isaac Stringer]


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