THE VEN. E. H. KNOWLES..  
	The Ven. Edwin H. Knowles, archdeacon of the Qu'Apppelle diocese
of the Anglican church and lecturer at St. Chad's College of Regina, was
born in faraway Ceylon, at Badulla, on June 7, 1874, the son of English
parents.  His father and mother, Edwin and Jane (Bassett) Knowles,
were married in St. Philip and St. James' church, Oxford, and went out
to Ceylon, where the father had acquired a plantation before his mar-
riage. He was one of the early British planters there and died in that
country.   His widow now lives in Kamsack, Saskatchewan.   Edwin
Knowles gave his political allegiance to the Conservative party and both
he and his wife were communicants of the Church of England. They
were the parents of three children: Edwin H. Knowles of this review;
John, a farmer at Kamsack; and Mrs. Peter Fraser of Kelvington, Sas-
katchewan, whose husband is a merchant.
	Like the children of so many British people whose work takes them
out of the Colonies, Edwin H. Knowles received his early education in
England. In 1891, at the age of seventeen, he came to the Northwest
Territories and took up a homestead first in the Cut Arm district and
afterward in what is now Shillingthorpe district, Saskatchewan, being
one of the two settlers in that region. His "next-door neighbour" was
fourteen miles away; thirty-three long miles had to be traversed before
one could get the none too frequent mails; while at one time the impos-
sible distance of seventy-two miles stretched between him and the nearest
doctor. But the young man worked on his land and taught school until
he had "proved up." In 1893 he took a course at the Normal School at
Regina, the first institution ~f the kind in the province, following which
he taught school for ten years in the districts of Castleton, Cut Arm
and Grahame.
	It was in 1905 that Mr. Knowles first took up ecclesiastical work,
being ordained deacon in that year. In 1906 he was ordained priest. It
was not until after he had been ordained to the ministry that Mr. Knowles
completed his course at the University of Manitoba and graduated with
the LL.B. degree in 1909. His first charge was at Buffalo Lake, Sas-
katchewan, where he remained for five years, following which he was
in charge of the parish at Kamsack for two years before he came to Re-
gina. In 1911 he was made secretary of the Synod, a position he has
filled ever since, and three years later he became canon.  He was ap-
pointed to his present office of archdeacon in 1918. The same year wit-
nessed his appointment to the post of honorary chaplain of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police and he had nine years previously been made
examining chaplain to the Bishop of Qu'Appelle. In connection with his
work the archdeacon travels a great deal. Another of his duties is that
of lecturer in canon law at St. Chad's College, Regina.
	In 1898 Mr. Knowles was married to Miss Violet D. M. Mapleton,
in St. Augustine's church, Saltcoats. Mrs. Knowles was born in Surrey,
England, and is the eldest daughter of the late J. H. E. Mapleton, the
first homesteader in the Shillingthorpe district, and Mr. Knowles' sole
neighbor in the early pioneer days. One child has been born to Mr. and
Mrs. Knowles: E. H. M. Knowles, who graduated with the degree of B.A.
from the University of Saskatchewan, in the class of 1922, and is now
completing his law course in the office of Messrs. Gordon & Gordon of
Regina.

         
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