"Father Staff" Remembering

George Stavert Tan ton

“fee When the University of

King 's College conferred an

honorary Doctorate of

Divinity on Canon GS.

T anton in I 96 7 it described

_ , his rural ministry as

m "extraordinary", and

a ‘ referred to the "respect and

"‘ affection he inspired in the

people " of the Diocese of Nova Scotia. In this small book Canon Robert Tuck has brought together photographs, recollections, anecdotes, and Father Staff's own sermon notes and reminiscences to serve as a souvenir of a man

On June 25, 1978, four years after his retirement, Whom he descnbes as _ Father T anton returned to Prince Edward Island to "perhaps the outstanding

preach at the annual Anglican Rally at Camp Kingston, Anglican priest 0 f h is Crapaud, where he is shown above (second from left)

with Paul Kays (left), Canon Robert Tuck (his successor generafwn In N ova S can“ " as Archdeacon in I 97 9) and Clayton Mill (right). and Prince Edward Island.

ISB*N*O'921.74.7-24~ 1

9 195 $ 1 2 . 00 FA THE? S TAFF REMEME Maplewood Books, FUCK , R 1 4/0 42/9 .7 90 Maplewood Crescent, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada CIA 2X6

ISBN 0-921747-24-1