Joseph Lofthouse
Anglican bishop
Joseph Lofthouse, Sr., (18 December 1855 – 16 December 1933) was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the early 20th century.
He was born in Yorkshire, went to Canada in 1882, was ordained in 1883 and began his ministry as a missionary at York Factory. He was later Archdeacon of Moosonee before being appointed as the first Bishop of Keewatin in 1902 and receiving a doctor of divinity degree from St. John's College in Winnipeg.
The Hudson's Bay Company had neglected the spiritual welfare of its employees and the Indigenous people with whom they traded, so Lofthouse was sent out to found a church in Churchill, Manitoba. He and his guide Andrew Flett had to walk for eight days up the coast from York Factory through roadless country to meet Lofthouse's fiancée in Churchill. However, when the ship arrived a month late, Lofthouse found that Betsy Fallding had missed the boat. Since the ship had no proper accommodations for a lady, she had been refused passage. There being no more sailings that year, Lofthouse had to wait until the next year after the ice broke up.
He made another nine-day walk up the coast in 1885.
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