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CLARK, HAROLD MARSTON (1876-1944)

CLARK, HAROLD MARSTON, Presbyterian missionary, Southwest Miramichi, 1901-03; b. St Stephen, N.B., 11 Jan 1876, s/o William Henry Clark and Cecilia Marston; m. 1st, 1906, Lillian E. O'Donnell, of Doaktown; 2nd, 1910, Millicent Armstrong, of Toronto, and 3rd, 1912, Edith McGill; d. Vancouver, 7 Sep 1944.

Harold M. Clark was educated at Dalhousie University (BA 1897) and did missionary work in Trinidad, B.W.I., before completing his training for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax. Ordained and inducted at Doaktown in 1901, as successor to the Rev. Alexander F. Robb, he ministered to "a mission field scattered thirty or forty miles up and down the Miramichi River." When he was a student at Dalhousie, R. Traven Aitken had introduced him to "The Ballad of Peter Emberley," and while he was engaged in the Boiestown area he visited both Peter Emberley's grave and the author of the song, John Calhoun.

After two years Clark, like his predecessor, left the Southwest Miramichi to be a missionary in the Far East. He first went to Honan, China, in July 1903. He later served at different Presbyterian mission stations in that country, until taking early retirement for health reasons in 1924. He had experienced much personal tragedy, inasmuch as the first two of his three wives died soon after their arrival in China. He had two children, one of whom died in childhood, and the other in a car accident as a young man. His third wife, Edith McGill, was herself a missionary in China who retired from active service prior to their marriage.

Upon their return to Canada, Clark and his wife settled in Vancouver. An article of his authorship which appeared in the Vancouver Province in 1937 shows that he had a flair for journalism. His wife was an expert on Chinese art, and through her activities they maintained links with the Chinese Canadian community on the West Coast.

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[b] UC archives (his submission) [m] Presb. Witness 29 Dec 1906 (1st) [m/d] annual 1945 (B.C.) / Advance 2 May 1901, 14 May 1903; Advocate 7 Apr 1937; Walkington


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