Watton fund set up (for social outreach).Dian and John Wise of Toronto Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing have set up a fund in memory of Mrs. Wise's parents, the late Archbishop James Watton and his wife Irene. Archbishop Watton, who died in 1995, was a former bishop of Moosonee and metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Ontario The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario is one of the Anglican Church of Canada's four ecclesiastical provinces. It was established in 1912 out of six dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada located in the civil Province of Ontario, and the Diocese of Moosonee from the . The fund was created in Archbishop Watton's boyhood parish of St. Paul's
Mrs. Wise said the fund will be used for social outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. as a reflection of her parents' "deep social and spiritual commitment to people." She said she and her husband feel "there still may be many people across the country who have been touched" by her parents. |
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