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Victoria’s Grand Old Man of the Cloth

July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Victoria

Religion played an important role in the society of colonial Victoria. Perhaps the most important, and well known and controversial church men of the colony was Bishop Edward Cridge. A fixture in early Victoria, Cridge first arrived on the island  as the first chaplain of the HBC Fort. Islander author Leonard Myers, describes the life [...]

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