Hasted Dowker

George Hasted Dowker (27 February 1900 – 4 April 1986) was Dean of Montreal from 1953 to 1960.

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He was the son of English-born James Dowker of Winnipeg, educated at the University of Manitoba and ordained in 1927.^[1] His early career was in Vancouver. Later he was Rector of Holy Trinity Cathedral, New Westminster. In 1944 he became Rector of Grace Church-on-the-Hill, Toronto, and was subsequently Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal. He held further incumbencies in Winnipeg^[2] and Toronto^[3] before his time as Dean. After this he was Archdeacon of Bow Valley from 1960 to 1966.

He died in Victoria, British Columbia, on 4 April 1986 and was buried in the Royal Oak Burial Park, Saanich, B.C. He married Eva Ross McNaught on October 12, 1927^[4] and had two children, Phyllis Ord (Dowker) Bossiere, born September 16, 1929, and John Hasted Dowker, born September 6, 1933.

References

1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 p 273 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
2. Winnipeg Tribune
3. Rootsweb
4. "Registration of Death". Department of Health, British Columbia. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2014.