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The to northern Taiwan , was born in Zorra Township , Oxford County , Canada West (now Ontario ), Canada , on 21 March 1844 . Mackay received his Theological training at Knox College in Toronto , Princeton Seminary in the United States , and New College, Edinburgh in Scotland , all Presbyterian institutions. In 1871 , he became the first missionary to be commissioned by the Canada Presbyterian Church (predecessor of both the Presbyterian Church In Canada and the United Church Of Canada ), arriving in Taiwan on New Year's Eve, 31 December 1871 . After consulting with Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell , Sr., a Medical Doctor serving as a Presbyterian Church Of England Missionary to southern Formosa ( 1865 ), Mackay arrived at Tamsui , northern Formosa in 1872 , which remained his home until his death in 1901 . Starting with an itinerant Dentistry practice amongst the Lowland Aborigines , he later established churches, schools and a hospital practicing Western biomedicine. He married Tiuⁿ Chhang-miâ (張聰明; known as "Minnie" in the West), a Taiwanese aborigine, and learned to speak the Vernacular Taiwanese fluently. Even today, some families in Taiwan, particularly of lowland-aboriginal Kavalan ancestry, trace their surname '偕' ('Kai' or 'Kay') to their family's conversion to Christianity by Mackay. The churches he planted later becoming the Northern Synod of the present Presbyterian Church In Taiwan . In 1896 , after the establishment of Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan, Mackay met with the Japan ese Governor-General Of Formosa , Maresuke Nogi . In Canada , he was honoured during his two furloughs home by the Canadian Church. In 1880 , Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario awarded him an honorary Doctor Of Divinity , presented by Principal George Monro Grant and Chancellor Sandford Fleming . Before departing in 1881 , he returned to Oxford County , where monies were raised to start Oxford College in Taiwan; a number of young people in the county were inspired to follow Mackay example and entered into missionary service with a number of Christian denominations. .]] In June and memoir of his missionary experiences (published 1895 ). Like many of the Western of Taiwan and an important contribution to the anthropological understanding of the culture and customs of the people of Taiwan during that period. In addition, Mackay's collection of various artifacts and specimens of local flora and fauna have become part of the ethnology department of the Royal Ontario Museum (Ontario, Canada) and the Aletheia University Museum (Tamsui, Taiwan). Although Mackay had suffered from Meningitis and Malaria , Mackay eventually died of Throat Cancer on June 2 , 1901 . He was buried near Oxford College (牛津學堂; now Aletheia University ) in Tamsui, Taiwan. The major private Christian hospital Mackay founded in downtown Taipei was named Mackay Memorial Hospital in honor of a sea captain surnamed Mackay, who was no relation of the missionary. In recent years, Mackay has been rescued from obscurity as part of the rise of Taiwanese nationalism and the associated state projects of constructing a Taiwanese identity and Taiwan-centred Histories . On 2004-06-30 , a large bust statue of George Leslie Mackay was dedicated outside the Oxford County offices in Woodstock, Ontario . There was a large delegation from Taiwan (including representatives from Aletheia University and the Presbyterian Church In Taiwan ), the Presbyterian Church In Canada , the United Church Of Canada , local, regional, and national dignitaries, and a number of his descendants from across North America . EXTERNAL LINKS
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