Charles Hamilton was the first Anglican Bishop of Ottawa, Ontario. He was a Canadian Anglican bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th.

Hamilton was born in 1834 and educated at University College, Oxford

University College, Oxford

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. He was a curate of Quebec

Quebec

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 cathedral and then incumbent of St Peter's Church in the same city. In 1884 he became the Bishop of Niagara

Anglican Diocese of Niagara

The Diocese of Niagara is one of thirty regional divisions in the Anglican Church of Canada. The see city of the diocese is Hamilton with the Bishop's seat being located at Christ's Church Cathedral on James Street North. Located within the ecclesiastical province of Ontario, it borders the...

. He was translated

Translation (ecclesiastical)

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 to become the Bishop of Ottawa

Anglican Diocese of Ottawa

The Diocese of Ottawa is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario of the Anglican Church of Canada, itself a province of the Anglican Communion.-Bishops of Ottawa:...

 in 1896 and was additionally elected as the Metropolitan of Canada

Ecclesiastical Province of Canada

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 in 1909 and then of Ontario in 1912. He died in 1919.

Family

Charles Hamilton and his wife, Frances Louisa Hume Thomson had three daughters. Miss Ethel Mary Hamilton, who was born and educated in Quebec, accompanied her parents on her father's election to the bishopric of the Ottawa, Ontario diocese in 1896. The family lived in Bishopscourt in Ottawa. On May Day, 1898, at Government House, Miss Ethel Mary Hamilton was elected and crowned "May Queen." She presided over the May Court Club, which had been established by their Excellencies the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen from 1896 until 1900.