![]() ![]() In the Knox College Monthly of November 1886, he and a fellow student described mission work in Toronto, with Shearer reviewing the Elizabeth Street mission supported by the Central Presbyterian Church. It was there, as a student at Knox College, that he witnessed the realities of inner-city poverty and vice and began to see city missions as a means to spiritual and moral regeneration. He began preaching in Onondaga, near Brantford, and later worked as a missionary in Fort William (Thunder Bay) and then in Toronto. He went into teaching but in 1883, following a conversion experience, he decided to enter the Presbyterian ministry. He attended the public school in Ratho, the high school in Weston (Toronto), and the collegiate institute in Brantford. Shearer was born to Scottish settlers on a farm in an area of Oxford County known for its evangelical Presbyterianism. One of the most tireless moral reformers Canada has ever had, John G. Johnson in Northfield (Northfield Centre), Ont. 1859 near Bright, Upper Canada, son of John Shearer and Margaret - m. SHEARER, JOHN GEORGE, Presbyterian minister and reformer b. 9 Aug. Source: Library and Archives Canada/MIKAN 3448653 ![]()
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