Edward Wix


Ven. Edward Wix was an English clergyman best known as an Anglican missionary in Canada.

Early life

The eldest son of Samuel Wix, he graduated from Trinity College, Oxford.

In Nova Scotia

Wix served in the Diocese of Nova Scotia with Bishop John Inglis, as Archdeacon of Newfoundland. According to the records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, Wix was in Halifax from 1826 to 1829 when he went to Bonavista, and to St. John's in 1830.
Wix first went to Newfoundland with Inglis in 1827, as his chaplain. H. W. LeMessurier, in a short history of St. Thomas Church, St. John's, describes him as an "indefatigable Missionary." Bishop Feild, in his 1848 Journal, had previously described Wix as "indefatigable". He was a missionary at Bonavista in 1830 before he went to St. John's, as cited in an 1830 report of the S.P.G.

Later life

In 1839 Wix went home to England and served as vicar of St. Michael's, Swanmore. He died November 24, 1866.

Evaluations

Archdeacon Edward Wix's presence in Newfoundland and Labrador had a lasting effect in unlikely places. In 1848 the Bishop of Newfoundland, sailing on the Hawk, visited the Venison Islands and made the following entry into his journal.
Again in 1849
Both entries in Bishop Feild's journal that place Archdeacon Wix in Labrador are place in Venison Islands.
Edward Jesse in , 1883, conveys a story told about the Archdeacon's Newfoundland dog.

Writings

Wix was married and dedicated his 1835 journal, Six Months of a Newfoundland Missionary's Journal, to his wife. His son, Richard Hooker Edward Wix, succeeded him in the Parish of St. Michael's.