Statement, Supplementary and Explanatory, in Connection With the Petition of Fifty-One Booksellers of Canada West Against the Alleged Interference ... Mode of Working the Educational Depository:
Excerpt from Statement, Supplementary and Explanatory, in Connection With the Petition of Fifty-One Booksellers of Canada West Against the Alleged Interference With Their Trade of the Superintendent of Education Through His Mode of Working the Educational Depository
In passing, we would notice the exceptions still made. It is said, that if par ties from Private Schools, and other seminaries, say that any particular thing is not in town, the Depository will continue to supply it to them.
John Cunningham Geikie was a minister and author. He worked as a Presbyterian missionary in Canada. In 1860 he returned to the U.K. and held a Presbyterian minister position at Sunderland and at Islington Chapel. In 1876 he was ordained deacon in the Church of England and priest next year. He was curate of St. Peter's, Dulwich (1876–79), rector of Christ Church, Neuilly, Paris (1879–81), vicar of St. Mary's, Barnstaple (1883–85), and vicar of St Martin at Palace, Norwich (1885–90). In 1890 he retired for health reasons.