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About Isaac Stringer
- Isaac O Stringer (April 19, 1866 – October 30, 1934) was a Canadian Anglican bishop.Stringer was born in Kingarf, Ontario.
- He attended University College and Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto and received a BA degree in 1891.
- While at University College he served as Recording Secretary of the University College Literary and Scientific Society. In 1892 he accepted a posting as a missionary to the Canadian Arctic and spent the majority of his life in northern Canada.
- In 1905 he was consecrated the second Bishop of Selkirk in the Yukon, a position he held until 1931 when he was named Archbishop of Rupert's Land and relocated to Winnipeg where he died on October 30, 1934.
- He was installed as diocesan bishop of Rupert's Land and as metropolitan of the province at the Cathedral of St.
- John (Winnipeg) on September 1, 1931.Stringer was known during his life as "The Bishop Who Ate His Boots" as a result of an incident during a tour of his diocese in 1909.
- Running low on provisions, he found that the seal skin of his boots was sufficient as emergency sustenance.
- This epithet became the title of a biography of the bishop by Frank A.
- Peake.One of Isaac O Stringer's great-grandsons is Todd Mayhew.
- Todd and his wife, Sivan Agam, are the Australian/ British alternative folk duo The April Maze; they have written a song about Stringer's boot-eating story called "The Bishop Who Ate His Boots". Canadian band Tanglefoot's song "Boot Soup" is based on the same incident.
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