Simon Gibbons (priest)

[1] The first document about Gibbons shows him as a six-year-old child admitted to the Church of England Widows and Orphans Asylum in St John's in 1857 upon the death of his father, along with three brothers and a sister in law.

In 1875, Gibbons moved to Quebec to work as a lay reader, teacher and catechist, as well as to tutor the son of the Clarenceville rector for admission to the university.

[3][4] In 1881 and 1882, Gibbons travelled to England to solicit funds to build churches in his district, preaching in Westminster Abbey and being introduced to Queen Victoria.

[5] In 1885, Gibbons traveled to the West Indies to regain his health, then was relocated to the parish of Lockeport, Nova Scotia where he served three congregations in a circuit along 35 miles of coastline.

[1] The Canadian Calendar of Holy Persons of the Anglican Church of Canada remembers Gibbons on the anniversary of his death, December 14.