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Bryant, Cornelius
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Description area
Dates of existence
1838-1905
History
Cornelius Bryant was born in Netherland, Worcestershire. He came to Nanaimo in 1857 and was a schoolmaster there for several years. He became interested in church work and was eventually ordained in the Canadian Methodist Church ca. 1875. He preached first at Nanaimo then was transferred to Granville on Burrard Inlet in 1878. He returned to Nanaimo in 1881. He retired in Vancouver.