Cleric.
Born at Rathwell on 11 November 1912, son of Jacob Anderson and Edith Alice More, he graduated from St. John’s College and was ordained in 1937. He served many Manitoba parishes, including at St. Aidan’s Anglican Church and as a missionery-pastor at Snowflake. During the Second World War, he was an armed forces chaplain, and he was wounded in Holland when his jeep hit a land mine. He served as Rector of Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa (1949-1962) then returned to Manitoba as suffragan Bishop of Rupert’s Land, becoming Bishop of British Columbia in 1968. On 27 June 1941, he married Agnes Elizabeth Swalwell (?-?) at St. Vital and they subsequently had a daughter and a son. He died at Victoria, British Columbia on 21 November 1969.
Birth and marriage registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration, British Columbia Vital Statistics.
“Anglican bishop dies in Victoria,” Winnipeg Tribune, 21 November 1969.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 December 2021
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