On Sunday, June 19th, 1904, H. A. Cody arrived in Whitehorse and his first letter to come out the Yukon Territory was date Wednesday, June 22 and was sent to The Church Bell in Greenwich, New Brunswick. It was received in the summer and was published in the August issue for that year. [1] In Whitehorse Cody divided his time between two completely segregated groups of people - the Indians and the whites, going back and forth between the two communities. During the latter weeks of 1904 he made over forty-five church calls in the white community, each name being added to a carefully dated list in the back of his journal. [2] In the Yukon Cody was exposed to log cabin churches, Indians, Mounted Police, backwoods miner's cabins, dog teams, a primitive social life, and bitter cold winters. It was this period of Cody's life that gave him the experience for many of the best selling novels and popular lectures he would produce in later years. [3]
Since its construction the Old Log Rectory has been used almost continuously as a residence for clergy. The Old Log Church as become a quaint little museum, a fitting memorial to those pioneer clergymen who work so valiantly to establish the Church of England in the North at the turn of the century.
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