B.C. and the Yukon

Archbishop Terrence Buckle of the diocese of the Yukon has appointed Douglas MacAdams of Abbotsford, B.C., as chancellor of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon.

The chancellor is the chief legal officer for the ecclesiastical (church) province. The province, one of four within the Anglican Church of Canada, includes four dioceses within British Columbia; the Parishes of the Central Interior, which made up the former diocese of Cariboo; and the diocese of Yukon.

Mr. MacAdams is a former delegate to the provincial synod, a former diocesan legal assessor, and chair of the resolutions committee for several sessions of the synod of the diocese of New Westminster. He is a lawyer with a practice in Abbotsford.