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| Consecration | 3 Feb 1929 by Samuel Matheson |
William Archibald Geddes was an Anglican priest in the mid 20th century. [1]
He was born in the Magdalen Islands on 18 February 1894 [2] and educated at Dalhousie University. He served in the Great War as a gunner in the 8th Canadian Siege Battery. He was ordained in 1920 as a missionary to the Eskimo at Herschel Island. He was appointed Archdeacon of Yukon in 1927 [3] and the next year became Bishop of Mackenzie River, a post he held for 5 years. In 1934 he was translated to Yukon. [4] He died in post on 16 April 1947. [5]
