b. 1830
d. 1905
The Rev. William Burton Crickmer received a BA degree from Oxford in 1855 and an MA
in 1858. He became a deacon in 1855 and was priested in 1856. Crickmer was curate
of St. Marylebone Church,
London, in 1858, when he was sent to
British Columbia by the Colonial Church and School Society. He arrived in
Victoria with
R. C. Moody on Christmas Day, 1858.
Crickmer began work on 8 May 1859 in the parish of St. John the Divine at
Fort Langley, whose church had been built by the Royal Engineers. But the decision to establish
the capital at
New Westminster instead of
Fort Langley quickly depopulated the latter centre and Crickmer moved to
Fort Yale in June 1860. He returned to England in 1862 and became secretary of the Colonial
and Continental Church Society until 1864, when he became vicar of Beverley Minster
in the Diocese of York.
Dorothy Blakey Smith, The Journal of Arthur Thomas Bushby, 1858-1859, BCHQ 21, (1957-58): 171. Crockford's 1870, p. 170. (& 1868, p. 159).BCPO 85.2 See Cyril Stackhouse, Churches of St. John the Divine, Vancouver Historical Journal, no. 2, 1959, pp. 77-104. SPCOLL.