Henry Alfred Naylor (1873 – 1956)
	
Harry Naylor was the son of Archdeacon W.H. Naylor of Clarendon, Quebec, and brother to Archdeacon R. Kenneth Naylor. He graduated from McGill University and took theological training at the Montreal Diocesan Theological College.((“H.A. Naylor fonds.” The Anglican Church of Canada, 2020 website: https://www.anglican.ca/archives/holdings/fonds/h-a-naylor-fonds/))

In February 1896, Isaac Stringer was commissioned by Bishop Bompas of the Diocese of Selkirk to find recruits for the north while Stringer was on a missionary tour through Montreal, Quebec and the Maritimes. In Montreal, Stringer met Naylor, then a student, who agreed to undertake work in the Yukon River drainage.((F.A. Peake, The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Biography of Isaac O. Stringer. Yukon Church Heritage Society, 2001: 45.))
	
Harry and Ada Esther Mount were married in May 1896.((F.A. Peake, The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Biography of Isaac O. Stringer. Yukon Church Heritage Society, 2001: 49fn9.)) Naylor’s station in the Yukon River drainage was supported by the Anglican Church Missionary Society.((Yukon Archives, Victoria Faulkner, 83/50 MSS 137 f.17.)) They arrived at Forty Mile less than a week before gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek.((Dan Davidson, “BC couple seeks to fill in family histories.” //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 7 October 2009.)) Naylor was ordained deacon in 1896 and priest in 1897. He worked with the miners at Forty Mile for three years before he was sent to Dawson to become the rector in town in 1899.((“H.A. Naylor fonds.” The Anglican Church of Canada, 2020 website: https://www.anglican.ca/archives/holdings/fonds/h-a-naylor-fonds/)) 
In February 1896, Isaac Stringer was commissioned by Bishop Bompas of the Diocese of Selkirk to find recruits for the north while Stringer was on a missionary tour through Montreal, Quebec and the Maritimes. In Montreal, Stringer met Naylor, then a student, who agreed to undertake work in the Yukon River drainage.((F.A. Peake, The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Biography of Isaac O. Stringer. Yukon Church Heritage Society, 2001: 45.))
	
Harry and Ada Esther Mount were married in May 1896.((F.A. Peake, The Bishop Who Ate His Boots: The Biography of Isaac O. Stringer. Yukon Church Heritage Society, 2001: 49fn9.)) Naylor’s station in the Yukon River drainage was supported by the Anglican Church Missionary Society.((Yukon Archives, Victoria Faulkner, 83/50 MSS 137 f.17.)) They arrived at Forty Mile less than a week before gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek.((Dan Davidson, “BC couple seeks to fill in family histories.” //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 7 October 2009.)) Naylor was ordained deacon in 1896 and priest in 1897. He worked with the miners at Forty Mile for three years before he was sent to Dawson to become the rector in town in 1899.((“H.A. Naylor fonds.” The Anglican Church of Canada, 2020 website: https://www.anglican.ca/archives/holdings/fonds/h-a-naylor-fonds/)) 

Rev. Naylor spearheaded the fundraising effort to build St. Paul's Anglican Church, completed in in 1902. Naylor’s grandson, Hugh, has a collection of letters that Reverend Naylor wrote back to his family during this time. Hugh left copies at the Yukon Archives and the Dawson City Museum.((Dan Davidson, “BC couple seeks to fill in family histories.” //The Klondike Sun// (Dawson), 7 October 2009.))
	
Naylor left the Yukon in 1901 to become the Incumbent of Chelsea in the Montreal diocese until 1905; Incumbent of Arundel, 1905-1910; Rector of Frehlighsburg, 1910-1915; Rector of St. Lambert, 1915-1926 and Rural Dean, 1915-1927.((“H.A. Naylor fonds.” The Anglican Church of Canada, 2020 website: https://www.anglican.ca/archives/holdings/fonds/h-a-naylor-fonds/)) The Naylors visited the Yukon in 1924 and travelled downriver to Alaska with Dawson chicken farmer Billy Anstett. Anstett sold his property in Dawson and took the boat to Nenana, Alaska where it was delivered to Bishop Rowe, an episcopal minister.((Michael Gates, “The Story of Chicken Billy Anstett.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 2 June 2017.)) Rev. Naylor continued to minister in the south being the Curate of St. Cyprus, Montreal, 1927-1933; and Incumbent of Valleyfield from 1933 to 1945 when he retired.((“H.A. Naylor fonds.” The Anglican Church of Canada, 2020 website: https://www.anglican.ca/archives/holdings/fonds/h-a-naylor-fonds/))