Thomas Crosby

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Thomas Crosby

1840–1914

An English Methodist missionary who spent decades on the coast of British Columbia, he became known for his work with First Nations communities and for writing about that world from firsthand experience. His life joins faith, travel, and the complicated history of mission work in 19th-century Canada.

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Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific Coast

Among the An-ko-me-nums, or Flathead Tribes of Indians of the Pacific Coast

by Thomas Crosby

About the author

Born in Pickering, Yorkshire, in 1840, Thomas Crosby later became a Methodist missionary in what is now British Columbia. Sources consistently describe him as especially associated with First Nations communities on the north coast, including work in and around Port Simpson.

He is remembered as a prominent missionary figure on the Pacific coast and as a writer whose books drew on years of travel and ministry. His most noted work is Up and Down the North Pacific Coast by Canoe and Mission Ship, which reflects the reach of his journeys and the practical, story-driven way he wrote.

Crosby died in 1914. Because the available sources in this search focused more on his public work than on personal detail, some parts of his life remain lightly documented here; still, he stands out as an important figure in the religious and colonial history of coastal British Columbia.