Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia is the cathedral church of the Diocese of British Columbia of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Christ Church Cathedral
George Hills was consecrated as the first Bishop of British Columbia in 1859.
Charles Schofield oversaw the construction of the present church, as the Bishop of British Columbia.
The nave
Edward Cridge
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Edward Cridge was a British-Canadian clergyman and social reformer. Born and raised in England and ordained in the Church of England, Cridge—a low church evangelical Anglican—disagreed with the then-a
Christ Church Cathedral (Victoria, British Columbia)
…Staines had held Anglican services in the mess room of Fort Victoria and aboard visiting ships pending completion of a church. The Company appointed Edward Cridge, a college friend of Staines, as his replacement. Cridge and his new wife Mary arrived from England on April 1, 1855, via the new Panama Canal Railway…
Cridge in 1878
Cridge as a young clergyman
The B.C. Protestant Orphans' Home (1893), now the Cridge Center for the Family
Mary Winmill Cridge c. 1880