Fonds Number

143

Fonds

Henry Alford Naylor fonds

Material Type

Multiple media

Description Level

Fonds

Physical Description

4 folders of textual records.

17 photographs : b&w.

Typescript.

Dates

1895-1939

Administrative / Biographical History

Henry Alford Naylor (1873-1956) graduated from McGill University and took his theological training at the Montreal Diocesan Theological College. He was ordained deacon in 1896 and priest in 1897. He became the first missionary at Forty Mile, Yukon Territory where he worked among the miners for three years. In 1899, he became rector of St. Paul's, Dawson City. In 1901, Naylor returned to the Montreal diocese and became incumbent of Chelsea until 1905; Incumbent of Arundel, 1905-1910; Rector of Frehlighsburg, 1910-1915; Rector of St.Lambert, 1915-1926. Rural Dean, 1915-1927; Curate of St.Cyprus, Montreal, 1927-1933; Incumbent of Valleyfield, 1933-1945 (retired). H.A. Naylor was the son of Archdeacon W.H. Naylor of Clarendon, Quebec, and brother to Archdeacon R. Kenneth Naylor.

Scope and Content

Fonds consists of typescript copies of personal and professional correspondence and photographs regarding people and places in the Diocese of Yukon. Includes correspondence with members of the Naylor family; Bp. and Mrs. W.C. Bompas; Roland Palmer of the S.S.J.E. and other people working in the in the Yukon such as Benjamin Totty, John Hawksley, Isaac Stringer, H.A. Cody, R.J. Bowen.

Related Fonds

William Herbert Naylor fonds

Richard John Bowen fonds

Isaac O. Stringer family fonds

Main Entry

Naylor, H.A. (Henry Alford), 1873-1956.

Personal Name

Naylor, H.A. (Henry Alford), 1873-1956

Totty, Benjamin, d.1945

Stringer, Isaac O., 1866-1934

Hawksley, John, d.[ca.1941]

Bompas, William Carpenter, 1834-1906

Bompas, Charlotte Selina (Cox), 1830-1917

Palmer, Roland F. (Roland Ford), 1891-1985

Bowen, Richard John, 1868-1952

Loosemore, Robert, 1907-1951

Corporate Name

Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Yukon

Society of St. John the Evangelist

Subjects

Letters

Yukon Territory

Accession Number

M75-10

P8304

Custodial History

Photographs donated by Mrs. R.K. Naylor, sister-in-law of H.A. Naylor.

Title Proper Source

Title based on contents of fonds.

Originals and Reproductions

W.C. Bompas correspondence folder microfilmed. See Mf 77-3

General Notes

See also Episcopal collection.

See also entry under this heading in the classified catalogue.

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