Canadian General Authorities

As we celebrated General Conference this week, I wondered how many Canadians have served as General Authorities.

I put together the following list from the 2007 Church News Almanac.  Please let me know if there are others I have missed.  (Organized by year of birth).

Name:

1832,  Marriner Wood Merrill Born in Sackville, Westmoreland County, New Brunswick.  Ordained an apostle 1889 by Wilfred Woodruff. 

Died 1906.

1883  Hugh B. Brown:  Born  in Salt Lake.

Sustained as first President of the Lethbridge Stake (1921)

Sustained as an Assistant to the Twelve in 1953. 

Sustained as an Apostle 1958. 

Sustained as Counselor in 1st presidency 1961,

Sustained as 2nd counselor in First Presidency 1961,

Sustained as lst  counselor in First Presideency1963. 

Died 1975

1898  N. Eldon Tanner born in Salt Lake City. 

Sustained as President of the Edmonton (Alberta) Branch 1939

Sustained as Assistant to the 12 in 1960. 

Sustained as an apostle in 1962. 

2nd Counselor in 1963. 

1st Counselor 1972.  Died 1982

1914 Victor L. Brown born in Cardston  

Sustained as 2nd Counselor to Presiding Bishop 1961

Sustained as Presiding Bishop 1972

Sustained to 1st Quorum of Seventy 1985

Granted Emeritus Status 1986

Died 1996

1921 Gerald Eldon Melchin born in Kitchener Ontario.

Sustained to First Quorum of Seventy in 1988. 

Sustained to Second Quorum of 70 1989. 

Died October 1, 1994

1925. Ted E. Brewerton Born in Raymond. 

Sustained to First Quorum of 70 in 1978. 

Named Emeritus General Authority in 1995

1926  Merlin Rex.Lybbert Born in Cardston. 

Sustained to Second Quorum of 70 1989. 

Released 1994.  Died 2001

1930 Alexander Baille  Morrison Born in Edmonton. 

Sustained to First Quorum of Seventy in 1987. 

Sustained to Second Quorum of Seventy in 1989.

Granted Emeritus Status 2000

1933, Lowell Dale Wood  Born in Cardston 

Called to Second Quorum of the Seventy 1992. 

Died 1997 Apia Samoa

1944 William R. Walker  Raised in Raymond, Alberta

Sustained to the 2nd Quorum of 70 in 2002. 

Young Women’s General President Ardath G. Kapp  served 1984-1992

Relief Society General President, Elaine Jack Served 1990-1997

Canadian Converts

John Taylor 1807-1887.  Joined the Church in 1836 in Toronto.

Ordained an apostle 1838

Became President of the Church 1880

Died 1887

Jacob De Jager born 1923 in Holland. Joined the Church in Ontario

Sustained First Quorum of 70 in 1976. 

Granted Emertius Status in 1993. 

Died in 2004,

Mission Presidents

Thomas S. Monson served in Toronto as Mission President from 1959-62 (

M. Russell Ballard served as Toronto Mission President.

Other Canadian Content

Robert Edward Sackley  born December 1922 New South Wales, Austrailia. 

Lived in Alberta – served as President of Medicine Hat (Alberta) College

Sustained to First Quorum of 70 1987; Second Quroum of  Seventy 1989. 

Died 1992