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Type of entity
Person
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McCaul, James, 1841-1906
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Description area
Dates of existence
1841-1906
History
Rev. James McCaul was born on December 25, 1841, in County Armagh or Monaghan, Ireland.
He was a Presbyterian clergyman. In 1849, his family moved to Kingston, Ontario, where he attended school, graduating in 1859. In 1864, he was ordained a minister and moved to Melbourne, Quebec. By 1873, he was the pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church in Trois Rivières, Quebec. In 1878, he relocated to Montreal to the Stanley Street Church. In the late 1880s, he did missionary work in Scotland and Birmingham, England. In 1891, he returned to Montreal and in 1893, he became a minister of the Church of the Covenant on Avenue Road in Toronto, Ontario.
In 1864, he married Barbara Peden (1842–1873) and in 1886, he married Charlotte Jane Fairbain (1861–1948). He died on November 8, 1906, in Toronto, Ontario.