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George C. Wallis
Reverend George Wallis was posted to Rampart House, Alaska in 1886. John Ellington, ordained in the same year, was to have received some training from Reverend Vincent Sim but Sim died of starvation in 1885 so Ellington was sent to Rampart House with Wallis. The young missionaries shared the chores until Ellington left for Forty Mile in August 1887.1)
The winter of 1889/1890 was a harsh one and Wallis supplied some provisions to the Gwitchin. Inspecting Chief Factor Hardisty reported missionaries trading furs in the district in 1889. The missionaries traded the furs to the company but that did not pay the First Nation debts. Wallis took a furlough in 1891 and returned the following fall with a wife. Bishop Bompas spent from Sept. 1891 to July 1892 at Rampart house in his place. It was a hard winter to find food. Mrs. Wallis's health caused the couple to return to England within a year of their arrival.2)
1)
Old Log Church Museum, “The Northern Missionaries.” The Bishop Who Ate His Boots, 2019 website: http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/eveque-bishop/english/mission-ellington.html; The Church Missionary Review, Volume 49. Church Missionary Society, 1898: 17.
2)
Colin Beairsto, “Making Camp: Rampart House on the Porcupine River.” Prepared for the Yukon Heritage Branch, March 1997: 73, 94, 105-106, 108.
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