Fonds glen-1658 - Canon Samuel Henry Middleton fonds

Samuel Henry Middleton, 1884-1964, was born in Burton-on-Trent, England, and came to Alberta in 1905 to take up ranching east of Pincher Creek. He became an Anglican missionary and Bishop Pinkham offered him the position of headmaster of St. Paul's Anglican Residential School on the Blood reserve. In 1911, he was ordained by the Bishop of Calgary, became Bishop's Chaplain in 1916, and was made Canon of Calgary Cathedral in 1924. From 1924 to 1939, he was Rural Dean of Lethbridge and in 1943 was Archdeacon of Lethbridge. While on the reserve, he studied the Blackfoot language and produced literature on both Blood and Blackfoot (Siksika) history and culture. Aided by his wife, Kathleen Underwood, a new St. Paul's School opened on the reserve in 1925 under his direction. The Middletons had three children, Charles Samuel, Sophie (Allison), ?-1999, and Verdun (Hunt). He was also an active Rotarian, involved with the Masonic Society, a leading figure in the creation of the International Peace Park at Glacier and Waterton in 1932, and an honorary Kainai Chief of the Bloods. He retired from St. Paul's in 1949, and from the church in 1951. For further biographical information, see Chief Mountain : The Story of Canon Middleton / Roberta Jean Forsberg. - Whittier, California, 1964.