Voorhis, Ernest (1859-1933)

(1859 New York, NY - 1933 Toronto, Ontario) frequent visitor to Algoma while working on his thesis in 1920's; Educated at Private Schools & Princeton University; priested in the Diocese of New York (1886); Canon Precentor of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City; became a Canadian citizen in 1912; employed by the Interior Department in Ottawa (1919-1931); Married Isabelle, daughter of Canadian poet Archibald Lampman; Wrote: "Historic Forts and Trading Posts of the French Regime and of the English Fur Trading Companies", Princeton: PhD thesis (1930).