Frederick Du Vernet

{{Infobox Christian leader

| name = Frederick Herbert DuVernet

| church = Anglican Church of Canada

| province = British Columbia

| diocese = Caledonia

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1860|01|20}}

| birth_place = Hemmingford, Province of Canada, British North America

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1924|10|22|1860|01|20}}

| death_place = Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada

| title = 1st Metropolitan of British Columbia
Archbishop of Caledonia

| term = 1915–1924

| successor = Adam de Pencier

| ordination = 21 January 1883

| ordained_by = William Bond

| alma_mater = Wycliffe College

| other_post = Bishop of Caledonia (1904–1924)

| spouse = {{marriage | Stella Yates | 1895}}

| children = 3

| honorific_prefix = The Most Reverend

}}

Frederick Herbert Du Vernet (20 January 1860 – 22 October 1924){{Cite book |last=DuVernet |first=Sylvia |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0969323808/ |title=Portrait of a personality : Archbishop Frederick Herbert DuVernet |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=1987 |isbn=0-9693238-0-8 |location=Toronto |language=en |access-date=2025-02-08 |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}}{{Rp|page=12}}{{Cite news |date=23 October 1924 |title=Death Of A Canadian Archbishop |work=The Times |page=13 |issue=43790}} was the second Bishop of Caledonia and inaugural Metropolitan of British Columbia (taking the title Archbishop of Caledonia whilst Metropolitan).

Du Vernet was educated at Wycliffe College, Toronto and ordained in 1883. After a curacy at St. James the Apostle, Montreal, from 1883–1884, he was Diocesan Missioner for the Diocese of Montreal then Professor of Practical Theology at his old college until 1895. From then until 1904, he was Rector of St. John Anglican Church, West Toronto, when he was appointed to the episcopate.{{Rp|page=16}} He became a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

In 1895, he married Stella Yates, with whom he had 3 children.{{Rp|page=16}}

In July 1898, he embarked on a mission to the Rainy River area in Ontario, where he visited the Ojibwe people living in the area.{{Cite web |date= |title=About the Diary |url=https://storynations.utoronto.ca/index.php/the-diary/ |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=Kiinawin Kawindomowin — Story Nations |publisher=University of Toronto |language=en-CA}}

On 14 October 1904, William Bond appointed him to the Diocese of Caledonia. He was consecrated Bishop on 30 November that year at the Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal.{{Rp|page=19}} During his time in Caledonia, he lived and worked among the First Nations in the region, particularly the Nisga'a and the Haida. He often heard and addressed their concerns, and criticized colonial institutions like residential schools.{{Cite web |last=Neylan |first=Susan |date=2019-05-17 |title=#548 On a wing & a telepathic prayer |url=https://thebcreview.ca/2019/05/17/548-on-a-wing-a-telepathic-prayer/ |access-date=2025-02-09 |website=The British Columbia Review |language=en-CA}}

In 1915, he became the first Metropolitan of British Columbia, a position he held until his death in 1924.{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1948 |title=Frederick Herbert DuVernet |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Canada |publisher=University Associates of Canada |location=Toronto |url=http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/encyclopedia/FrederickHerbertDuVernet.html |access-date=2025-02-08 |last=Wallace |first=W. Stewart |author-link=W. Stewart Wallace |volume=2 |page=411 |language=en}}