Alexander John Doull: An Appreciation
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38971
- Author
- Esselmont, Harriett E.A. (Harriet Evelyn Amy Doull), 1911-2002
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society
- Date
- 1976 December
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1976 December
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 98-108
- Notes
- Alexander John Doull was born in Halifax to a Church of Scotland family. Orphaned within days of his birth, he received his higher education and ordination in England before returning to Canada, first to Montreal, before moving to Victoria B.C. as dean of the Cathedral in January 1910. On 25 November 1914 he was elected the first bishop of Kootenay, resigning in June 1933 to take up a position as assistant bishop and archdeacon in Sheffield before ill health compelled his resignation and return in the Okanagan Valley in 1935. "Alarmed by the vast number of non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants to British Columbia the bishop considered also that the province of Quebec was becoming injurious to Canada and he implored Anglo-Canadians to unite to counteract the influence of the French-speaking sections of the population" (p. 104). "The unemployment of the depression days was also of grave concern to him and he strongly supported the resolution brought forward at the diocesan synod (Vernon, 26-27 May 1931) which would establish movable camps as a means of relief" (p. 104). Bishop Doull attended the Lambeth Conferences of 1920 and 1930 and "was selected to serve with seventy others on the Committee for Church Union" (p. 105). "Throughout his entire ministry this matter of church union had been of utmost importance and he rejoiced when the United Church of Canada was formed in 1925, and he continued to speak for a union that would include all Christian people" (p. 106).
- Author "is a daughter of Bishop Doull". -- p. 108.
- Subjects
- Doull, Alexander John, 1870-1937
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Kootenay
- Quebec (Province) - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Unemployment - Canada
- Unemployment - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Labor camps - Canada
- Labor camps - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Christian union - Anglican Communion - 20th century
- Christian union - Anglican Church of Canada - 20th century
- Christian union - Canada - 20th century
- Location
- General Synod Archives