Crosby, Thomas

CROSBY, Thomas, Methodist missionary (b 21 June 1840, Pickering, England; d 13 Jan 1914, Vancouver). He immigrated to Canada with his parents when he was 16 and settled in Woodstock, ON. In 1858 he joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church after a revivalist meeting. He became a preacher and in 1862 responded to a request for missionaries in BC. After teaching at a mission school in NANAIMO he became an itinerant preacher, carrying the Wesleyan message along the coast of VANCOUVER ISLAND and up the...

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