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in Canada East from 1859 he became ordained in 1863, after which he served in numerous churches throughout Canada. By the mid-1870s he was in
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and secular histories, fiction, and poetry. Briggs promoted the works of
Canadian authors such as
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co-founders John McClelland and
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163:Metropolitan Church
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