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 Author Walter Hamilton relates a story about the “O” in Stringer’s name. Apparently when he was in high school at Kincardine, a friend named Hugh Clark, who later became the parliamentary secretary under Sir Robert Bordon, borrowed lunch money and wrote out a note that said “I O Stringer one dollar.” The school boys started calling Stringer “I.O.” and he adopted the letter.((W.R. Hamilton, //The Yukon Story.// Vancouver: Mitchell Press Ltd., 1964: 149.)) Author Frank Peake thinks this story is ‘almost certainly’ apocryphal and Issac added the “O” to distinguish himself from the many Stringers that lived in the Kincardine area.((Frank A. Peake, D.D., //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots.// Anglican Church of Canada, 1966: 2-5.)) In any case, it is true that the “O” does not stand for a name. Author Walter Hamilton relates a story about the “O” in Stringer’s name. Apparently when he was in high school at Kincardine, a friend named Hugh Clark, who later became the parliamentary secretary under Sir Robert Bordon, borrowed lunch money and wrote out a note that said “I O Stringer one dollar.” The school boys started calling Stringer “I.O.” and he adopted the letter.((W.R. Hamilton, //The Yukon Story.// Vancouver: Mitchell Press Ltd., 1964: 149.)) Author Frank Peake thinks this story is ‘almost certainly’ apocryphal and Issac added the “O” to distinguish himself from the many Stringers that lived in the Kincardine area.((Frank A. Peake, D.D., //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots.// Anglican Church of Canada, 1966: 2-5.)) In any case, it is true that the “O” does not stand for a name.
   
-Stringer attended University College and Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto and graduated with a BA in 1892, and a diploma from Wycliffe College in 1892.((Frank A. Peake, D.D., //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots.// Anglican Church of Canada, 1966: 2-5.)) In 1891, he met Egerton Ryerson Young, a veteran Methodist missionary, whose book//By Canoe and Dog Team//(1890) had created wide interest. In 1882, Isaac got to know the Venerable William Day Reeve who addressed a Wycliffe College Missionary Society meeting and spoke of the needs and possibilities in working in the Mackenzie River valley. Isaac’s friend, Tom Marsh, was going to volunteer and Issaac decided to do so as well.((Frank A. Peake, D.D., //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots.//Anglican Church of Canada, 1966: 6-7.))+Stringer attended University College and Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto and graduated with a BA and a diploma in 1892.((Frank A. Peake, D.D., //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots.// Anglican Church of Canada, 1966: 2-5.)) In 1891, he met Egerton Ryerson Young, a veteran Methodist missionary, whose book//By Canoe and Dog Team//(1890) had created wide interest. In 1882, Isaac got to know the Venerable William Day Reeve who addressed a Wycliffe College Missionary Society meeting and spoke of the needs and possibilities in working in the Mackenzie River valley. Isaac’s friend, Tom Marsh, was going to volunteer and Issaac decided to do so as well.((Frank A. Peake, D.D., //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots.//Anglican Church of Canada, 1966: 6-7.))
   
 He did not get much local encouragement. Bishop Bompas told him the Inuvialuit were brute beasts and Stringer would first have to make them into human beings. He travelled down the Mackenzie River from Edmonton and traders and missionaries along the way told him the Inuvialuit were degraded and dishonest, and murder and infanticide were common. He visited Kittigazuit [Kitigaaryuit] and, although ordered away, he managed to stay for two weeks before returning inland.((Reverend I.O. Stringer, Bishop of Yukon, “Yukon, The Land of Snow, Furs and Gold.” Letter from Church House, Westminster, England. N.d. [circa 1920]. Old Log Church Museum vertical files.)) Kitigaaryuit is at the mouth of the East Channel of the Mackenzie River and was the gathering place of the Kitigaaryungmiut Inuvialuit who gathered there to hunt beluga whales.((Elisa Hart, “Kitigaaryuit (Kittigazuit).” //The Canadian Encyclopedia,// 2022 website: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kitigaaryuit-kittigazuit)) He did not get much local encouragement. Bishop Bompas told him the Inuvialuit were brute beasts and Stringer would first have to make them into human beings. He travelled down the Mackenzie River from Edmonton and traders and missionaries along the way told him the Inuvialuit were degraded and dishonest, and murder and infanticide were common. He visited Kittigazuit [Kitigaaryuit] and, although ordered away, he managed to stay for two weeks before returning inland.((Reverend I.O. Stringer, Bishop of Yukon, “Yukon, The Land of Snow, Furs and Gold.” Letter from Church House, Westminster, England. N.d. [circa 1920]. Old Log Church Museum vertical files.)) Kitigaaryuit is at the mouth of the East Channel of the Mackenzie River and was the gathering place of the Kitigaaryungmiut Inuvialuit who gathered there to hunt beluga whales.((Elisa Hart, “Kitigaaryuit (Kittigazuit).” //The Canadian Encyclopedia,// 2022 website: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kitigaaryuit-kittigazuit))
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