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 On 30 November 1895, Pysha, a Point Hope Inuvialuit, beat his wife and killed his daughter. On December 3rd, a crowd of whaleman seized him and gave him 100 lashes and then banned him from the community. Whittaker gave him the first dozen lashes. The punishment further deranged Pysha who later murdered eight Inupiat at Flaxman Island, west of Barter Island. He was subsequently executed by the Inupiat at Point Barrow [Nuvuk].((John R. Bockstoce, //Whales, Ice & Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic.// Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986: 279.))  On 30 November 1895, Pysha, a Point Hope Inuvialuit, beat his wife and killed his daughter. On December 3rd, a crowd of whaleman seized him and gave him 100 lashes and then banned him from the community. Whittaker gave him the first dozen lashes. The punishment further deranged Pysha who later murdered eight Inupiat at Flaxman Island, west of Barter Island. He was subsequently executed by the Inupiat at Point Barrow [Nuvuk].((John R. Bockstoce, //Whales, Ice & Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic.// Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986: 279.)) 
  
-Whittaker had a reputation as a forthright, unpopular, and patronizing character.((Christopher R. Burns, //Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: a natural and cultural history of Yukon’s Arctic island.// Wildlife Management Advisory Council, 2012: 171-72.)) He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1898 by Bishop Reeve of the Diocese of Mackenzie River.((“C.E. Whittaker fonds. – 1945.” The Anglican Church of Canada, 2021 website: https://www.anglican.ca/archives/holdings/fonds/c-e-whittaker-fonds/))+Whittaker had a reputation as a forthright, unpopular, and patronizing character.((Christopher R. Burns, //Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: a natural and cultural history of Yukon’s Arctic island.// Wildlife Management Advisory Council, 2012: 171-72.)) He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1898 by Bishop Reeve of the Diocese of Mackenzie River.((“C.E. Whittaker fonds. – 1945.” The Anglican Church of Canada, 2021 website: https://www.anglican.ca/archives/holdings/fonds/c-e-whittaker-fonds/)) He married Emma Hatley on the same day as his ordination.((//The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Biography of Isaac O. Stringer.// Yukon Church Heritage Society, 2001: 37fn34.))
   
 Reverend C. E.  Whittaker was at Herschel Island in 1904 and wrote about his experiences in May of the next year. In May 1904, he had no help at the mission although his wife was in ill health. In June, some First Nation people came to visit and one girl, named Susan, stayed to help. During the summer, Whittaker spent his time fishing and managed to catch two thousand fish. The wintering ships left in July and new boats arrived from San Francisco in August, bringing the missionary’s annual supplies. The police arrived with the mail a few days before the ships and so Herschel did not see the ‘drunk and disorderly’ scene of past years. The whaleships returned in September and Whittaker hired a sailor, Walter Long, to help about the mission when Whittaker left for a fast visit to Fort McPherson. He went to retrieve a woman sent by the bishop to help at the mission, but the woman did not arrive.((Reverend C. E. Whittaker, "N. W. Canada." //The New Era,// February 1906, Vol. 4, No. 2.)) Reverend C. E.  Whittaker was at Herschel Island in 1904 and wrote about his experiences in May of the next year. In May 1904, he had no help at the mission although his wife was in ill health. In June, some First Nation people came to visit and one girl, named Susan, stayed to help. During the summer, Whittaker spent his time fishing and managed to catch two thousand fish. The wintering ships left in July and new boats arrived from San Francisco in August, bringing the missionary’s annual supplies. The police arrived with the mail a few days before the ships and so Herschel did not see the ‘drunk and disorderly’ scene of past years. The whaleships returned in September and Whittaker hired a sailor, Walter Long, to help about the mission when Whittaker left for a fast visit to Fort McPherson. He went to retrieve a woman sent by the bishop to help at the mission, but the woman did not arrive.((Reverend C. E. Whittaker, "N. W. Canada." //The New Era,// February 1906, Vol. 4, No. 2.))
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