(1 Nov. 1791-15 Oct. 1870), clergyman. Born in Dublin, Ireland. Parents: Francis Gordon and his wife Margaret McKernan. He was converted to Roman Catholicism from Protestantism in 1811. He came to Canada in 1817. There he became a student at Bishop Macdonell’s college at St. Raphael’s. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Macdonell on 29 Jan. 1829. After a further year at St. Raphael’s, where he assisted with the seminary and with pastoral duties, he was appointed a pastor in Toronto, 1830. From this time, his career was in areas of the province mostly remote from St. Raphael’s. He served as pastor in Kingston, the Niagara Peninsula and Hamilton. He was vicar general of the diocese of Toronto and, later, of Hamilton where he died. For someone who was at St. Raphael’s at about the same time, and whose career in Canada was somewhat similar, see William Peter Macdonald.

Life by J. S. McGivern, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, IX, 324-325