REV. HARRY LAMBERT MCCALL 
     
     1959 — 1962 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Rev. Harry Lambert McCall, son of Thomas James and Annie Lake (Cole) McCall, was 
     
     born September 13, 1906 in Carlisle, England. He was married in 1940 to Gladys Winifred 
     
     (Winnie) Vass who died in January 1973. They had five children: Hilary Ruth, born in 1940; 
     
     Barbara Angela, born in 1946; Christine Mary, born in 1948; Neil Edward James, born in 1953; 
     
     Nicola Elizabeth, died at birth in 1961 and was buried in St. James’ Cemetery, Port Hill. 
     
    

    
     Rev. McCall, A.K.C., Dip.Th., B.A. received his early education in Carlisle and studied 
     
     for the ministry at Clifton Theological College, Bristol, England. He was ordained in 1939 in 
     
     Chelmsford Cathedral, and thus began his ministry. From 1945 to 1956 he served as a chaplain 
     
     in the Royal Air Force and the British Army. He came to Canada in 1959 and was rector of 
     
     Port Hill Parish for three years before returning to England in 1962. Five years later he 
     
     returned to Canada and ministered in Marion Bridge, Cape Breton, until his retirement in 1979. 
     
     He began duties as a supply minister at Advocate Harbor, Nova Scotia in 1981, and remained 
     
    
   
   
    
     in this position until his death in August of the following year. 
     
    
   
   
    
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