William Randall Stringer (b. 1909)
Randall Stringer was born in Kincardine, Ontario the youngest son of Sadie and Bishop Isaac Stringer. He was living in Dawson with his family in 1924.1)
Randall Stringer attended Ridley College and the University of Toronto and received a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manitoba. He entered Wycliffe College in Toronto and in 1938 worked at Christ Church in Oshawa, Ontario. He was ordained a priest in the Anglican Church in 1939. He married Edith Louisa Harding, daughter of Archbishop M.T.M Harding, Metropolitan of Rupert’s Land after Isaac Stringer.2)
Rev. Randall Stringer served at Fort Selkirk for four years, and then at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral in Dawson from 1946 to 1951. After the Yukon, he spent some years as rector of St. David’s in Powell River, British Columbia. He moved to the Diocese of Calgary to become rector of St. Benedict’s Church in High River, Alberta.3)