Frederick John Gardiner was born in April, 1888 in Oreston, Devon, England and while initially a stonecutter, qualified as a local preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in that area. He emigrated to Canada in 1913 and was accepted as a student missionary by the Canadian Methodist Church and assigned to Southey, Saskatchewan. In Spring of 1914 he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry serving his two year probation at Southey, while also completing Arts studies at Regina College. During World War One, he served in the First Battalion C.M.R’s. Post-war, he moved to Toronto, receiving theological education at Victoria College and graduating in 1923. He was ordained by Saskatchewan Conference in 1923 and served many places in that conference (Rock Haven, Cutknife, Kipling, Griffin, Piapot, Eastend, Rouleau, Young pastoral charges) until he moved to Hamilton in 1948. He served in Hamilton Conference (Armou, Lyndoch pastoral charges) from 1948 until his retirement in 1958. After retirement, he continued as a chaplain at Green Acres Home for the Aged in Newmarket. He died November 7, 1972.
Gardiner’s wife Gladys was also active in the Church, and was a representative to York Presbytery from St. Paul’s Church.
Gladys Gardiner (1900-1995) was the wife of a minister and active in the United Church. She was born Gladys Cale in 1900 or 1901. In 1924, she married Rev. Frederick John Gardiner. Reverend Gardiner served various charges in Saskatchewan and Ontario, retiring in 1958. He died in 1972. Gladys Gardiner was active in the Church and was representative to York Presbytery from St. Paul's Church.
Clifton Gordon Gardner, Anglican clergyman, was born on September 29, 1915 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, son of W.J Gardner. After obtaining his BA from Trinity College in 1936, Gardner was deaconed in 1939 and earned a Bachelor of Divinity from King’s College at the University of London in 1940.
Gardner was on the clergy list of the Diocese of Oxford from 1939 to 1952, and began as a curate at St Luke’s, Maidenhead. His ministry there was superseded from 1941 to 1946 by service as Chaplain in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. With the help of the Newfoundland Trade Commissioner, Gardner obtained an interview with the Chaplain of the Fleet. Although only 25 years old in March of 1941 (younger than the chaplaincy age minimum of 28 years), he was appointed Probationary Temporary Chaplain to the Royal Naval Barracks at Chatham by mid-April and to the Third Destroyer Flotilla in the Home Fleet of the Royal Navy by mid-May. In 1942 he was appointed to the First Destroyer Flotilla and over the next three years he served as Chaplain on the fleet destroyers HMS Impulsive, HMS Inglefield, and HMS Intrepid and as Chaplain to Destroyers and Small Craft. Some of these destroyers acted as escorts to long-haul Arctic convoys between Britain, the US and Russia and Gardner was on board for four such trips through dangerous waters. In 1945 he was appointed Chaplain to the aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable of the British Pacific Fleet in Japan, but by the time Gardner reached the Indefatigable the war in the Far East was over. Upon his release from the Royal Navy in 1946, Gardner returned to his ministry at St. Luke’s for one year then became Vicar at St. Peter’s, Maidenhead for five years.
Gardner returned to Canada in 1952 when he became Rector of St. Luke’s Church in St. Thomas, Ontario. In 1956 he was appointed resident Anglican Chaplain at Westminster Veterans Hospital in London, Ontario, where he stayed for 18 years until 1974. While serving at Westminster Hospital, Gardner was active in many clerical areas. From 1960 to 1969 he was an examining Chaplain for Bishop of Huron, the Right Reverend George N. Luxton, and helped prepare candidates for Deacon’s orders. In 1964 he was one of five diocesan clergy appointed as Canons of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. He also acted as the Clerical Secretary of Huron Synod from 1964 to 1973. Additionally he served as the Secretary of the Diocesan Committee, where he drafted pamphlets on burials, marriage, baptism, confirmation and the duties of Church Wardens for consideration at clergy conferences. Also while at the Diocese of Huron, Gardner acted as Secretary of the Spiritual Advance Committee.
In June 1974, Gardner was inducted as rector of St. Peter’s Church in Dorchester and became Archdeacon of Middlesex, Ontario with 70 parishes to supervise. Two years later, in 1976, the Gardners retired to Saffron Walden in England. In 1977, however, Gardner was still at work in many area parishes and helping in the deanery of most. He officially retired in 1983, and he and his wife travelled extensively for the next ten years until her death in 1993. Gardner returned to helping with services and was an active member of a Bereavement Visiting Group.
Gardner married Elizabeth Kathleen Baker from Yorkshire in 1942. They had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1944, and a son, Michael. Clifton Gardner died in March of 2009.
Source: Taken from information in selected newsclippings and a biography in a September 2000 Parish Magazine for St. Mary the Virgin in Saffron Walden, both on file in Series 1.
Fred Gariepy (1946- ) is a practising lawyer with Gariepy Murphy, 195 Sherbrooke Street, Peterborough. A graduate of Trent University, he has practised in Peterborough since 1974. His father, Alfred Richard Gariepy (1911-1991) was the founder of the Peterborough Tool and Machine Co. Ltd and ran it for 37 years.
John William Garland (1836-1910) was ordained deacon in Central New York, 1871 and priest in Montreal, 1873. He served for three years in the parish of Boscobel, Que. where he built St. John's Church, paid off the debt of the North Ely church, and completed St. John's parsonage. He then moved to the parish of South Stukely, Que., where he remained for twenty-nine years.
Garneau, Jean-François-Alfred. Traducteur et poète. La «Canardière» près de Québec (Québec), 20 décembre 1836 - Montréal (Québec), 3 mars 1904. Fils de François-Xavier Garneau (1809-1866) et de Marie Esther Bilodeau (1812-1893); frère d'Honoré (1847-1907), Eugène (1854-1919) et Joséphine (1845-1924), épouse de Joseph Marmette (1844-1895); marié à Élodie Globensky (1837-1927), fille de Léon Globensky et d'Angèle Limoges, 6 août 1862; père de dix enfants, dont Hector (1871-1954), et grand-père d'Édouard ([19--]-1984). Études au Séminaire de Québec, 1847-1853; publie son premier poème, «Mon songe», dans L'Abeille, journal des étudiants, 14 juillet 1852. Université Laval, Faculté de droit, 1856. Admis au barreau le 5 décembre 1860. Parlement du Canada : traducteur surnuméraire, mars 1861; traducteur adjoint, 1862; chef des traducteurs au Sénat, 1866-1904. Assiste son père, François-Xavier Garneau, dans la préparation des troisième et quatrième éditions de l'Histoire du Canada, parues respectivement en 1859 et en 1882. Publication : Poésies, recueil posthume publié par Hector Garneau, 1906.
Garneau, François-Xavier. Notaire, historien et poète. Québec (Québec), 15 juin 1809 - Québec (Québec), 2 février 1866. Fils de François-Xavier Garnault (1781-1831) et de Gertrude Amiot-Villeneuve (1781-1835); marié à Marie Esther Bilodeau (1812-1893), 25 août 1835, Québec; père de dix enfants, dont Alfred (1836-1904), Joséphine (1845-1924), Honoré (1847-1907) et Eugène (1854-1919); grand-père d'Hector (1871-1954) et arrière-grand-père d'Édouard ([19--]-1984). Études primaires à l'École du faubourg Saint-Jean à Québec et à l'École mutuelle dirigée par Joseph-François Perrault, 1821-1823. A l'emploi du greffe du protonotaire Joseph-François Perrault, 1823-1825. Cléricature chez Archibald Campbell, notaire, 1825-1831; reçoit sa commission de notaire, le 23 juin 1830. Voyage aux États-Unis et au Haut-Canada, 1828. Voyage en Europe (Angleterre et France), 1831-1833; secrétaire de Denis-Benjamin Viger, délégué par la Chambre d'assemblée auprès du ministère des Colonies. Retour à Québec, le 30 juin 1833; fait des travaux pour le notaire Louis-Théodore Besserer, puis entre au sein de son étude en février 1834; ils s'associent, le 6 mai 1834. Ouvre sa propre étude en mai 1836. Caissier : Banque de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1837; Banque de Québec, 1839. A partir de 1837, s'intéresse davantage à l'histoire et à la politique. Parution d'un article de François-Xavier Garneau dans Le Canadien, le 22 février 1841. Avec Louis-David Roy, fondation de L'Institut ou Journal des étudiants, 7 mars 1841. Assemblée législative, traducteur français, septembre 1842. Ville de Québec, greffier, 1844-1862. Parution du premier tome de l'Histoire du Canada de Garneau en août 1845; le deuxième en avril 1846; l troisième en mars 1849. Le 29 mars 1849, la Chambre vote une somme de 250 livres pour une réédition de l'Histoire du Canada qui paraît en 1852. Préparation de la troisième édition avec l'aide de son fils Alfred; cette troisième édition, qui paraît en 1859, assure le titre «d' historien national» à François-Xavier Garneau. Membre fondateur de la Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Québec, 1842. Participation à la fondation de l'Institut canadien (Québec), 1847. Membre du Conseil de l'instruction publique, 1859-1862. Publications, outre l'Histoire du Canada : plusieurs poèmes dans des périodiques, principalement Le Canadien, 1831-1841; dix-neuf poèmes dans le Répertoire national édité par James Houston, 1848; Voyage en Angleterre et en France dans les années 1831, 1832 et 1833, 1855; Abrégé de l'histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à 1840, 1856.
Garneau, Hector. Bibliothécaire. Ottawa (Ont.), 1871 - Montréal (Québec), 1954. Fils d'Alfred Garneau (1836-1904) et d'Élodie Globensky (1837-1927); petit-fils de François-Xavier Garneau (1809-1866); marié à Blanche Pillet en 1905; père d'Édouard ([19--]-1984) et de DeLisle (1906-[19--]); cousin de Marie-Louise Marmette-Brodeur. Études au Collège d'Ottawa; Université Laval à Montréal, bachelier en droit. Admis au barreau. Journaliste : Le Temps, Ottawa; Le Soleil, Québec; La Patrie, Montréal; Le Canada, Montréal. Chef du secrétariat de Louis-Philippe Brodeur, ministre du Revenu et de l'Intérieur du Canada de 1904 à 1906. Bibliothécaire en chef de la Ville de Montréal, 1916. Publie les Poésies d'Alfred Garneau en 1906. Prépare des rééditions revues, annotées et augmentées de l'Histoire du Canada de François-Xavier Garneau : entre autres, préparation avec son père, Alfred, de la cinquième édition, dont le premier tome paraît en 1913 et le second, en 1920; la huitième édition a été publiée en 1944. Tient, à la fin des années 1920, une chronique de cours de langue «Learn French» dans le Montreal Daily Star. Membre : American Historical Association; Société de l'histoire des colonies françaises.
Garneau, Pierre. [S.l.], 1922 - . Forces armées canadiennes, membre. Société royale du Canada, administrateur, à partir de 1970. Membre des Petits Chanteurs céciliens dirigés par Joseph Beaulieu, 1931-1943.
William L. Garner (b. 1894) was a Private in the Canadian army, and served as a Signaller during the first world war.
Garnet McPherson was born in Pickering, Ontario and spent much of his childhood exploring the nature surrounding his home in Ajax, Ontario. In school he worked for the school newspaper, was a member of student government, and president of the camera club. At 16, McPherson was hired by a local newspaper as a photojournalist and was freelancing for two national journals. By 18, he worked regularly for the Toronto Star.
McPherson graduated from the Commercial Photography program at Sheridan College in 1974. He then returned to freelancing and began working in aerial, editorial, landscape, and commercial photography. In 1975, he started a photography studio on Champlain Avenue.
Between 1975-1990, McPherson’s studio grew into a group of companies that included Insight Photo-Graphics, Vision Photo Labs, Aerial Photographics of Canada, a local paper called Entertainment Calendar, and Cinema Whitby, a movie theatre which regularly held screenings and workshops with local filmmakers. His company Insight Photo-Graphics created a photographic slide “film” about the town of Whitby, Ontario that screened at Cinema Whitby in 1987. While the master film has been lost, the photographic slides of which the film is comprised were donated to Archives at Whitby Public Library. Besides photography, Garnet loved sailing and flying. He kept his sailboat in Whitby Harbour, and his aerial photography aircraft at Oshawa Airport.
Beginning in the 1990s, McPherson closed his studios in Whitby, and began focusing on environmental sustainability. He wrote and edited for various magazines about the topic and produced documentaries about the impacts of sustainability. He also acts as a keynote speaker about environmental issues and has worked with David Suzuki and Al Gore. He is now semi-retired and resides in Victoria, British Columbia where he continues to support the eco film industry through a new film studio.