Wesleyan Methodism in Upper Canada. RYAN, HENRY
The first camp meeting was held on the south
shore of Hay Bay in 1805, and among the preachers
were Revs. Henry Ryan and William Case. Ryan
was quick at repartee. On one occasion a village
wag, one of a crowd, asked him if he had heard the
news. "What news ?” "Why," said the wag, “that
the devil is dead." "Ah, well,” responded Ryan,
looking around the crowd,“he has. indeed, left
a great many fatherless children.“
Henry Ryan began his itinerant life is 1800,
and after travelling for 5 yrs. in the New York
Conference, was sent to Canada, in company with
William Case.
