Ryerson John 1800-1878 Born In Norfolk Ontario Educated At The

public schools. In 1818 became a Wesleyan preacher, and active for many

years in the establishment of missionary and other institutions of the

Methodist-Episcopal Church. In 1854 sent by the Canadian Conference of

that church on a visit to the missions of the London Wesleyan Committee

in the North-West Territories. The result of his investigation was the

transfer of the missions to Canadian control. =Index=: (Egerton Ryerson era) President of

Canada Conference Missionary Society, his views on proposed entry of

British Methodists into Upper Canada, 89-90; his essays on the

Methodists, 273; closely associated with Egerton Ryerson in Methodist

Conference, etc., 281. =Bib.=: Hudson's Bay, or, A Missionary Tour.