From here, my emphasis:
Dean Peter Elliott focused his opening remarks on the funeral of the Reverend Dr. Harry Robinson that took place that afternoon, 1pm at St. John’s Shaughnessy.
Peter said that Harry was one of the great figures of the Diocese of New Westminster and at the forefront of the Evangelical movement in Anglicanism.
Harry retired as the Rector of St. John Shaughnessy. There were many people from the D of NW at Harry’s funeral. In retirement, Harry attended a number of diocesan churches including St. Mary’s Kerrisdale and Christ Church Cathedral and for a number of years celebrated Morning Prayer at St. Mary’s. Up until his death Harry remained a Priest in the Anglican Church of Canada.
It’s interesting to note that Rev. Harry Robinson was appointed rector at St. John’s Shaughnessy in the late ‘70s when the parish was not faring too well. He helped build it into the largest Anglican parish in Canada and planted a faith in Jesus that would later provide the strength for St. John’s to follow its conscience and leave the Anglican Church of Canada.
The diocese’s drawing attention to the fact that Harry remained a priest in the ACoC couldn’t mean that they are using this circumstance to make a tawdry case for their claim that, all evidence to the contrary, evangelical priests really are welcome in the Anglican Church of Canada, could they?