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==Biography==
John Henry Keen was born in England on 1851 and he graduated from a [[Bible College]] in Islington in 1873<ref name="keenbio">{{cite journal|last=Hatch|first=Melville H.|title=A Biographical Memoir of Rev. Keen|journal=The Coleopterists Bulletin|year=1957|month=Autumn|volume=XI|pages=62–64|jstor=3999009}}</ref> In 1874 he was sent by the Bishop of London<ref>Note: There are two possible Bishops of London, the obvious one and the one in Ontario</ref> as a missionary at [[Moose Factory, Ontario|Moose Fort]] in Ontario. He was ordained by the [[Anglican Diocese of Moosonee|Bishop of Moosonee]] in 1877.
From 1882 to 1889 he was in London where he was first a curate at [[Spitalfields]] and later in [[Islington]]. In 1890 he left again for Canada where he was based at the northern end of [[Graham Island]] in [[British Columbia]]. He lived at a village called [[Masset, British Columbia|Massett]] where several families would share a longhouse which typically had totem poles outside (illustrated).
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