John Harkness Dixon (23 July 1888 – 1 April 1972) was the 7th
Anglican
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Bishop
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of
Montreal
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from 1943 to 1960 and then Metropolitan of the
Ecclesiastical Province of Canada
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(and thus
Archbishop
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of Montreal) for a further two years.
Born in
Iroquois, Ontario he was educated at the
University of Toronto
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before embarking on an