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Ralph Connor

Died in 1937

Charles William Gordon (1860-1937), who wrote as Ralph Connor, was born in Indian Lands, in Glengarry County, the son of a minister of the Free Church. A graduate of University College in Toronto in 1883, trained at Knox College, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1890 and served for three years among the lumberjacks and miners of the Banff region, before taking in 1894 the St Stephen's parish in Winnipeg, which he led until his retirement in 1925. A chaplain during the Great War, he discovered in 1916 that his financial adviser, fallen at the Somme, had let melt away the fortune that his books had earned him.

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