George Exton Lloyd

Lloyd was born in London, England, and was educated privately and at St. John's College, London. He arrived in Canada in 1881, to study theology at Wycliffe College and the University of Toronto.{{cite web

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| first =W. F.

| title =An Historical Sketch of the Diocese of Saskatchewan of the Anglican Church of Canada

| work =Project Canterbury

| publisher =The Anglican Diocese of Saskatchewan

| year =1974

| url =http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/sk/payton1974/13.html

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Before graduating he joined the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada and fought in the North-West Rebellion, commonly known as the Riel Rebellion. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Cut Knife, near Battleford, Saskatchewan, by providing covering fire for Edward Acheson,{{cite web|url=http://www.qor.com/history/northwest4.html |title=The Rifleman Online - The QOR of C |accessdate=2007-12-25 |publisher=The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517104942/http://www.qor.com/history/northwest4.html |archive-date=2011-05-17 }} who was to be the father of future US Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Lloyd was severely wounded in this action.

Lloyd was ordained in Winnipeg in 1885 and married Marion Tuppen in the same year. They traveled to Rothesay, New Brunswick, where he took over a private co-educational day school known as Thompson's School. He renamed the school Rothesay College for Boys and eventually found a patron in the prominent local citizen James F. Robertson who established the school as Rothesay Collegiate School, later to become Rothesay Netherwood School.{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.com/~cansk/P-PP-SK/42.html |title=Pioneers and Prominent People of Saskatchewan: SGW Transcription Project |accessdate=2007-12-25 |date=2007-07-25 |publisher=Sask Gen Web Project }}

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In 1900 he returned to England. When he wrote a letter to The Times of London in 1902 proposing Western Canada as a good destination for emigration, he received thousands of replies. He became involved in an emigration project with Isaac Montgomery Barr{{cite news | title=Vanguard of Barr Colonists | date=1903-04-10 | publisher=Saskatchewan News Index | url =http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/beg9.html | work =Daily Phoenix | accessdate = 2007-12-25 }} and emigrated with his family with the Barr colonists. Although Barr was able to interest more than 2,600 colonists in emigrating, arrangements for their transportation and care were generally insufficient. For example, they crossed the ocean in a former troop carrier designed to hold a maximum of 900 passengers.{{cite news | title=Barr Colonists | year=1963 | publisher=Alberta Family Histories Society | url=http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/barr/index.html | work=Daily Phoenix (Commemorative Edition) | accessdate=2007-12-25 | archive-date=2010-09-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100917041411/http://afhs.ab.ca/data/barr/index.html | url-status=dead }} In Saint John, New Brunswick, Barr disappeared and Lloyd had to step in and arrange rail transportation to Saskatoon, where Barr turned up again. About 1,500 remaining colonists (the rest had stayed in Manitoba) made the rest of the 275 km (170 mile) trip by wagon and on foot.

By the time they reached Battleford (very near where Lloyd had been wounded in the North-West Rebellion 18 years earlier), the colonists' discontent with Barr came to a head. They asked Lloyd to take over leadership of the colony.{{cite web |url=http://www.lloydminster.net/Rev_Lloyd.htm |title=Reverend George Exton Lloyd |accessdate=2007-12-25 |last=Foster |first=Franklin |publisher=Lloydminster.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019032017/http://www.lloydminster.net/Rev_Lloyd.htm |archive-date=2007-10-19 |url-status=dead }} and eventually named their settlement "Lloydminster" in his honour. Lloyd and his family remained with the settlement for a few years, then moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and became principal of Emmanuel College (1908–1916) where he helped students erect Rugby Chapel.{{cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RugbyChapel-Plaque.jpg |title=Rugby Chapel Plaque |date=11 May 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-27 |via=Wikimedia Foundation }}

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In 1922, Lloyd was made Bishop of Saskatchewan, serving in that capacity until 1931, when he retired to British Columbia. He died in 1940.

Lloyd believed that Canada should be populated by British immigrants. In 1928 he wrote a letter to The Globe and Mail stating that the Canadian Pacific Railway was "dumping aliens" into the West, and that government policies should be set restricting the numbers of "non-preferred Europeans".{{cite book | last = Kapica | first = Jack | title = Shocked and Appalled: a Century of Letters to The Globe and Mail | publisher = Lester & Orpen Dennys | year = 1985 | location = Toronto | pages = [https://archive.org/details/shockedappalledc00kapi/page/108 108–109] | isbn = 9780886190620 | url =https://archive.org/details/shockedappalledc00kapi| url-access = registration }} In his capacity as a rector and teacher in the West he took pains to ensure that the children of non-British immigrants were encouraged to learn English and to learn about British history.{{cite web|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/canada/sk/payton1974/20.html |title=An Historical Sketch of the Diocese of Saskatchewan of the Anglican Church of Canada |accessdate=2007-12-25 |last=Payton |first=W. F. |year=1974 |publisher=Project Canterbury (anglicanhistory.org) }} In a letter to his clergy, he characterized Eastern Europeans as "dirty, ignorant, garlic-smelling, and undesirable continentalists".{{cite book|author=Anthony Hlynka|title=The Honourable Member for Vegreville: The Memoirs and Diary of Anthony Hlynka, MP, 1940-49|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQ9CN1wIA48C&pg=PA47|year=2005|publisher=University of Calgary Press|isbn=978-1-55238-137-3|pages=47–}} Lloyd also stated that "the real question at stake is not whether these people can grow potatoes, but whether you would like your daughter to marry them" and declared that Canada was in danger of becoming a "mongrel nation".{{cite web|title=Racism against immigrants is nothing new in Saskatchewan, it just looks a little different|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/opinion-waiser-saskatchewan-racism-nothing-new-1.5287365|publisher=cbc.ca|accessdate=15 November 2019|author=Bill Waiser }}

Lloyd stated that he wanted Black and Asian Canadians shipped back to "where they came from",{{cite web|title=The Canadian Klan|url=http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2013/11/the-kanadian-klan/|publisher=reviewcanada.ca|accessdate=15 November 2019|author=Joan Sangster |date=23 October 2013 }} a proposal so extreme that not even the Ku Klux Klan in Canada supported it.{{cite book|author=James M. Pitsula|title=Keeping Canada British: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Saskatchewan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtJTCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA250|date=31 May 2013|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-2492-7|pages=250–}}

He started an initiative within the Anglican diocese of Saskatchewan that there be no distinction between the sexes in the choice of delegates or committee members.

He is described by Bishop Walter Burd, his successor, as follows: "an imposing figure in his gaiters and unusual hat and his cane — rather than invite discussion he made pronouncements, 'Young man, there is no hope for men who have holes in the seats of their trousers, but there is hope for men who have holes in the knees of their trousers.'"{{cite web |url=http://www.skdiocese.com/walter-saskatchewan |title=Walter Saskatchewan |accessdate=2007-12-25 |last=Burd |first=Frederick |year=2005 |publisher=Diocese of Saskatchewan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201135057/http://www.skdiocese.com/walter-saskatchewan/ |archive-date=2008-02-01 |url-status=dead }}

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• Lloydminster
• History of Saskatchewan

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071019032017/http://www.lloydminster.net/Rev_Lloyd.htm Lloydminster Centennial Website]
• [http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/beg9.html "Vanguard of Barr Colonists", Daily Phoenix, April 10, 1903]
• [http://library2.usask.ca/sni/stories/beg24a.html "Bishop Lloyd's Son Recalls Founding of Present Lloydminster by British", Star-Phoenix, July 22, 1953]
• [http://www.rootsweb.com/~cansk/P-PP-SK/P-PPofSK.html Pioneers and Prominent People of Saskatchewan]
• [http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/barr_colony.html Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan]

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