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#1662

Date: c.1895
Source: Lucy Chambers, donor (courtesy of Holy Trinity Cathedral)
Photographer: Okamura, P.L.

Information: Charles T. Woods was the Archdeacon of Columbia and the Third Rector of Holy Trinity from 1868-1889. He was inducted as Rector of Holy Trinity on July 25th, 1868. On August 7th, Mrs. Woods and their eight children came from Victoria to join him. Two more Woods children were born in New Westminster. In 1889 because of ill health he took charge of St. Mary's in Sapperton. See also photographs nos. 1406 and 1648. Charles T. Woods was born in 1825 and died in 1895. This photograph was probably taken in the year he died. 1895 is the first time the B.C. Directory lists Paul Okamura. At that time Okamura was a professor of drawing at St. Louis College.

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#1643

Date: c.1898
Source: Lucy Chambers, donor (courtesy of Holy Trinity Cathedral)
Photographer: Easthope, New Westminster, B.C.

Information: Reverend Alfred Shildrick, the fifth rector of Holy Trinity 1894-1910. He was the rector at the time of the 1898 fire in New Westminster. Shildrick piled the church records, the sacred vessels, altar cross, lectern and candlesticks in a wheelbarrow and wheeled them off to safety during the fire. Shildrick became rector of Holy Trinity Cathedral on April 22, 1894. After 1910 he left and went on to become vicar of Milton - under - Wyehwood. He died on December 24, 1927.
See "Memoirs of a Cathedral" R283.711 H747m

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#1659

Date: 1901
Source: Lucy Chambers, donor (courtesy of Holy Trinity Cathedral)
Photographer: Lafayette, p.

Information: Rev. John Sheepshanks, D.D. Bishop of Norwich. The First Rector of Holy Trinity, 1859-1866. He arrived in New Westminster in August 1859. Sheepshanks borrowed 1,000 pounds from friends in England, held a land-clearing bee, and laid the foundation for Holy Trinity Church in 1860. This church eventually burned in 1865 while Sheepshanks was soliciting funds in England for the church. He returned to New Westminster in April 1866, with funds he had collected for the church totaling 1,200 pounds. While planning the new church he was forced to resign due to the failing health of his aging parents. On his way back to England he crossed Northern China, 700 miles of Gobi Desert, through Siberian wilderness, over the Ural Mountains, and to Moscow. He traveled on foot and unarmed, and returned to England in 1867. In 1868 he became Vicar of Bolton, Yorkshire. In 1870 he married Miss Margaret Ryott. They had 13 children. In 1873 he was made Vicar of St. Mary's Anfield, Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool. In June 1893 he was consecrated Bishop of Norwich. He resigned in 1909 and died on June 3, 1912 at 78. This photograph was taken at the coronation of King Edward VII.

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