Frederick Du Vernet

Frederick Herbert Du Vernet was a Canadian Anglican bishop. He was the second Bishop of Caledonia and inaugural Metropolitan of British Columbia.
Du Vernet was educated at Wycliffe College, Toronto, and ordained in 1883. After a curacy at St. James the Apostle, Montreal, from 1883–1884, he was diocesan missioner for the Diocese of Montreal then professor of practical theology at Wycliffe College until 1895. From then until 1904, he was rector of St. John's Church, West Toronto, when he was appointed to the episcopate. He became a Doctor of Divinity.
In 1895, he married Stella Yates, with whom he had three children.
In July 1898, he embarked on a mission to the Rainy River area in Ontario, where he visited the Ojibwe people living in the area.
On 14 October 1904, William Bond appointed him to the Diocese of Caledonia. He was consecrated as bishop on 30 November that year at Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal. During his time in Caledonia, he lived and worked among the First Nations in the region, particularly the Nisga'a and the Haida. He often heard and addressed their concerns, and criticized colonial institutions such as the residential schools.
In 1915, he became the first Metropolitan of British Columbia, a position he held until his death in 1924.