William Archibald Geddes (1894 - 1947)
	
William Geddes was born in the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and attended Dalhousie University.((“William Geddes.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Geddes_(bishop) )) He attended Wycliffe College and was a college friend of Reverend Henry Marsh, a future bishop of the Yukon.((Henry Marsh, “Yukon Bishops.” Unpublished manuscript in the Old Log Church Museum vertical files.)) 
	
Geddes was a gunner in the 8th Canadian Siege Battery during the First World War. He was ordained deacon and priest in the Yukon and became the curate of Herschel Island in 1920.((Wilma MacDonald, //Guide to the Holdings of the Archives of the Ecclesiastical Province and Diocese of Rupert’s Land.// St. John’s Press, 1986: 176.)) In 1923, he was working at Herschel Island and Shingle Point.((List of clergy attending the synod. “The Anglican Church in Yukon.” Old Log Church Museum research files.)) He was appointed Archdeacon of the Yukon in 1927.((“William Geddes.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Geddes_(bishop) )) 

In September 1928, Rev. Geddes was elected Bishop of Mackenzie River, and was ordained at Winnipeg at St. John's Cathedral on February 3rd, 1929. Later that same year he married Beatrice Terry, a nurse working in the Mackenzie River area. On June 1st 1933, Bishop Geddes took over the duties of Administrator of the Yukon Diocese following the transfer of Bishop Arthur Sovereign.((“Geddes. William A.” Yukon Archives, biographical sketch.)) He was transferred to the Yukon upon the dissolution of the Mackenzie River Diocese and became the Bishop of the Yukon from 1933 to 1947.((“William Geddes.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Geddes_(bishop) ))
	
Through the Depression and the Second World War years, Geddes managed a travel schedule that affected his health. By the mid-1940s, he was wintering in Vancouver and in the Yukon during the summer.((Dawson City Museum, “William Archibald Geddes.” Bio sketch, 2019 website:  http://www.dawsonmuseum.ca/archives/fonds-descriptions/?id=11))
Geddes died in Vancouver.(("The Anglican Church of Canada (Episcopal), Diocese of Yukon, Christ Church." Brochure.)) The Dawson Museum holds a collection of photographs and some textual documents collected by Bishop Geddes while he was in the Yukon.((Dawson City Museum, “William Archibald Geddes.” Accession 1991.49 (TD 253).)) The William A. Geddes fonds at the Yukon Archives includes images that mainly depict Anglican Church activities and clergy throughout the Yukon.((Yukon Archives, William A. Geddes fonds 77/47))