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Alexander John William Myers was a Presbyterian minister, educator and writer. He was born in Lake Verde, Prince Edward Island, on 17 December 1877 to Margaret Sarah (Moore) and Charles Myers. He received his early education at West Kent School before earning a teaching diploma from Prince of Wales College in 1989. He taught school in Flat River before coming to Dalhousie University, where he obtained a BA in 1902, also studying divinity at Pine Hill College, Halifax, and Knox College, Toronto. In 1912 he was granted a PhD from Columbia University.
Myers wrote primarily on the subject of religious education. From 1912-1917 he was Educational Secretary of the Board of Sabbath Schools and Young People’s Societies of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He was subsequently appointed head of the Department of Religious Education at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, where he stayed until 1942, when he returned to Canada to take up church ministry in Belleville, Scarborough, and Toronto, Ontario. He retired in 1947.
In 1912 Myers married his first wife, Mae Ethel Dickenson; she died in 1948. In 1952 Myers married fellow islander Helen Penelope Ramsay. He died 2 December 1975.