Yukon who is who

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Henry Hooper Marsh (1898-1995)
	
Henry Marsh was born in Lindsay, Ontario.((“Bishops 1891 to Present.” Diocese of Yukon, 2019 website:  http://anglican.yukon.net/bishops-from1891.html)) His father was Canon C. H. Marsh, rector at St. Paul’s in Lindsay, and his uncle, Canon Tom Marsh, was the founder of the Indian Residential School at Hay River, NWT. Henry Marsh received his BA in 1921 and his MA in 1925 from the University of Toronto. After his ordination in 1924, he was an assistant at St. Anne’s and St. Paul’s in Toronto before founding St. Timothy’s parish in Toronto in 1930. While he was at St. Paul’s he was best man for Archdeacon Geddes’ wedding in 1929. They were students together at Wycliffe College.((“Yukon Bishop Consecrated Sunday.” Newspaper article – [1962] no reference information; “Henry Marsh (bishop)” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Marsh_(bishop).))
	
Canon Marsh was consecrated at Christ Church Cathedral in 1962 as the seventh Bishop of the Yukon. He wore a ring belonging to the late Bishop Geddes made from Yukon gold and a pectoral cross designed by Sylvia Hahn, staff artist at the Royal Canadian Museum. It was made of Canadian silver with a central Yukon nugget instead of the conventional stone. The cross and episcopal robes were gifts from parishioners at St. Timothy’s.  A Scottish shepherd’s staff, used by Bishop Tom Greenwod, was carried to Victoria from Whitehorse for the occasion by Reverend Privett, rector at the Christ Church Cathedral. Archdeacon Allen Haldenby of Dawson City attended the consecration, representing the Diocese of Yukon and acting as the new Bishop’s chaplain.((“Yukon Bishop Consecrated Sunday.” Newspaper article – [1962] no reference information.))
	
Mrs. Margaret Marsh called Henry Ukulele Yukon as he always carried his musical instrument to sing and teach songs to the Yukon children. They took it to the Carcross school on the last day before the children returned home for the holidays, and on their trips through the Yukon to settlements, camps, pump stations, and telecommunication centres.((Emily-Jane Hills Oxford, //Letters from Inside: The Notes and Nuggets of Margaret Marsh.// Baico Publishing Consultants Inc., 2006: 10.))
	
Henry March was Bishop of the Yukon for five years from 1962 to 1967 when he retired and moved to a small cottage outside Cobourg, Ontario. He and Margaret’s savings were depleted as they spent their own money helping the Yukon Diocese recurve from a deficit. The diocese had no funds to supply a pension and the Anglican Church slotted the position of Bishop of the Yukon as a missionary position and therefore outside its dominion.((Emily-Jane Hills Oxford, //Letters from Inside: The Notes and Nuggets of Margaret Marsh.// Baico Publishing Consultants Inc., 2006: iii, v-vi.))
	
Yukon Archives holds a copy of Henry Marsh’s 137-page manuscript “A Highway for our God” describing the seventy-five-year history of the Anglican Church in the Yukon, 1871 to 1966.((Yukon Archives, 82/56 MSS 004.))