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 In 1903, Stringer was advised not to return to the arctic due to an eye condition resulting from snow blindness so the family moved to Whitehorse in the fall, and their third child was born there. In 1905, Stringer became the Second Bishop of Selkirk and, after a trip to Toronto, he and Sadie went to England to apply for more money. In 1907, the Stringers moved to Dawson.((Melanie Needham, "Bishop Isaac O. Stringer: Missionary to the Yukon." Yukon Church Heritage Society, 1999.)) His first charge to the Synod in 1907 called for the recognition of legal status for First Nation people, compensation of their land, legal protection for their right to hunt and fish, reservation of selected lands as a headquarters, and greater support for housing and medical supplies.((Morris Zaslow, //The Opening of the Canadian North, 1870 - 1914.// Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1971: 146.))
-In 1909, the Mackenzie Diocese was added to Reverend Stringer’s responsibilities when Bishop Reeve retired. Stringer visited Herschel Island that year and then he, Charles Johnson, and Enoch started for Fort McPherson. Stringer and Johnson ran out of food and became lost. It took them three weeks to reach the Peel River and they traversed the mountains instead of crossing them. They finally reached William Vittrekwa's camp on the Peel, twenty miles below the trading post. During the last few days, they were eating boiled sealskin boots.((Melanie Needham, "Bishop Isaac O. Stringer: Missionary to the Yukon." Yukon Church Heritage Society, 1999.))
-In 1913/14, the Stringers spend several months in England fundraising.  During the First World War Stringer applied to be a chaplain but was refused. ((Melanie Needham, "Bishop Isaac O. Stringer: Missionary to the Yukon." Yukon Church Heritage Society, 1999.))  He tried to persuade young men to volunteer for service during the war. He travelled to England in the fall of 1918 to the spring of 1920 to assist soldiers.((Colin Beairsto, "Making Camp: Rampart House on the Porcupine River." Prepared for the Yukon Heritage Branch, March 1997: 144, 195.))
+In 1909, Stringer visited missions along the Mackenzie and Herschel Island before stopping at Fort McPherson to prepare a trip further west to Fort Yukon and Dawson. The bishop left McPherson with lay missionaries Charles Johnson and W.H. Fry and guides Enoch Moses and Joseph Vittrekwa. They lost a week of travel time when Enoch fell ill and had to be escorted back to McPherson. It was getting cold by 20 September when the party reached Divide Lake and the boat supplies were transported halfway over the mountains. Stringer and Johnson carried on alone from this point. They were slow in travelling and ice was forming on the creek, so they decided to return to McPherson by taking what looked like the shortest way back, over the mountains instead of on the trail. They hoped to resupply at Lapierre House and cached supplies along the way to lighten their load but instead they became lost on the unfamiliar route. They had a compass but forgot to compensate for magnetic north. Johnson was unskilled but managed to make what worked as snowshoes. They ran out of food and ate their hide moccasins and mukluks. The finally reached the houses of the William Vittrekwa, Charlie Cluwetsit and Andrew Cloh families on the Peel River about 20 miles upstream from Fort McPherson. Their almost fatal journey lasted 51 days and Stringer became known as the “Bishop who ate his boots.”((F.A. Peake, //The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: A biography of Isaac O. Stringer.// Yukon Heritage Church Society, 2001: 114 – 126.))
+In 1913/14, the Stringers spend several months in England fundraising. During the First World War Stringer applied to be a chaplain but was refused.((Melanie Needham, "Bishop Isaac O. Stringer: Missionary to the Yukon." Yukon Church Heritage Society, 1999.)) Stringer travelled to England in the fall of 1918 to the spring of 1920 to assist the soldiers.((Colin Beairsto, "Making Camp: Rampart House on the Porcupine River." Prepared for the Yukon Heritage Branch, March 1997: 144, 195.))
-In 1919, Stringer was back in Ontario and feeling poorly. In 1920, Stringer established St. Paul’s Hostel in Dawson and it opened on September 21st. In 1924, the Stringers made a tour of the Diocese and Sadie was the first white woman to undertake such a trip.((Melanie Needham, "Bishop Isaac O. Stringer: Missionary to the Yukon." Yukon Church Heritage Society, 1999.)) She accompanied him on as many trips as she could, trying to slow down the guides who travelled too fast for her husband’s bad heart and poor vision. In 1927, she went on a thousand-mile trip they took from the Mackenzie Delta to Cambridge Bay.((Hannah Tolman, ed., //Women of the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: The Old Log Church Museum, 2019: 14-17.))
+In 1919, Stringer was back in Ontario and feeling poorly. In 1920, he established St. Paul’s Hostel in Dawson and it opened on September 21st. In 1924, the Stringers made a tour of the Diocese. (Melanie Needham, "Bishop Isaac O. Stringer: Missionary to the Yukon." Yukon Church Heritage Society, 1999.)) Sadie accompanied him on as many trips as she could, trying to slow down the guides who travelled too fast for her husband’s bad heart and poor vision. In 1927, she went on a thousand-mile trip they took from the Mackenzie Delta to Cambridge Bay.((Hannah Tolman, ed., //Women of the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: The Old Log Church Museum, 2019: 14-17.))
-In 1931, Stringer was named the diocesan bishop of Rupert’s Land and the metropolitan of the province and relocated to Winnipeg.((“Isaac Stringer.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Stringer.)) The last few years of Stringer's life were difficult ones. He was plagued by re-occurring illness and worried about the church's financial losses due to embezzlement by a trusted law firm.((//The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Full Story.// Old Log Church Museum, Virtual Museum 2018 website:  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/eveque-bishop/english/fullstory.html)) He died suddenly on the steps of his church and is buried there at St. John’s Cathedral in Winnipeg.((Hannah Tolman, ed., //Women of the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: The Old Log Church Museum, 2019: 14-17.))
+In 1931, Stringer was named the diocesan bishop of Rupert’s Land and the metropolitan of the province and the Stringers relocated to Winnipeg.((“Isaac Stringer.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Stringer.)) The last few years of Stringer's life were difficult ones. He was plagued by re-occurring illness and worried about the church's financial losses due to embezzlement by a trusted law firm.((//The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Full Story.// Old Log Church Museum, Virtual Museum 2018 website:  http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/eveque-bishop/english/fullstory.html)) He died suddenly on the steps of his church and is buried there at St. John’s Cathedral in Winnipeg.((Hannah Tolman, ed., //Women of the Anglican Church in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: The Old Log Church Museum, 2019: 14-17.))
 Bishop Stringer Park is located in Whitehorse between the Old Log Church Museum and Christ Church Cathedral.