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Bishop Walter Burd was the sixth Bishop of Saskatchewan (1933-39). Here he is with his wife Elizabeth and two sons, Oliver on the left and Fred on the right, having a formal portrait taken on a Christmas visit to England in 1925. (They would later have a third child, a daughter, Helen, in Prince Albert two years later).
Oliver died tragically in 1948 in a fire in a hut in Antarctica a few months after he had arrived there with a British Navy expedition, and is buried at the site. Professor Frederick Burd lives in British Columbia. Helen (St. Clair) lives in Newark, DE.
A moving account of Bishop Burd's life may be found here.