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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 | + | 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// |
| 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, | 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, | ||
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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, " | 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, " | ||
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| - | 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' | ||
| - | In 1913/14, the Stringers spend several months in England fundraising. | + | 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.)) |
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| + | 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, " | ||
| - | In 1919, Stringer was back in Ontario and feeling poorly. In 1920, Stringer | + | 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, " |
| - | In 1931, Stringer was named the diocesan bishop of Rupert’s Land and the metropolitan of the province and relocated to Winnipeg.((“Isaac Stringer.” // | + | In 1931, Stringer was named the diocesan bishop of Rupert’s Land and the metropolitan of the province and the Stringers |
| Bishop Stringer Park is located in Whitehorse between the Old Log Church Museum and Christ Church Cathedral. | Bishop Stringer Park is located in Whitehorse between the Old Log Church Museum and Christ Church Cathedral. | ||
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