George N. Gordon

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George N. Gordon (1822 – May 20, 1861) was a Protestant Canadian missionary and martyr.

George Gordon was born to Scottish parents near Alberton, Prince Edward Island in Canada. In 1848 he was converted to Christianity and began distributing Bibles and religious tracts. In 1850, he attended Presbyterian Theological Hall in West River, Nova Scotia. Gordon began his missionary work in Halifax City Mission where he would minister to the poor about the gospel of Christ.

He arrived on the coast of Erromango, an island near Vanuatu, in June of 1857 to evangelize the natives about Jesus Christ. About forty natives of Erromango were converted to Christianity. However, in March of 1861 sandalwood traders intentionally exposed the natives to measles, and Gordon spent most of his time caring for them, however, the two children of one of the island's chiefs had died in his care, and the chief thought that he had put a spell on his children, he banded together a group of warriors and killed both George and his wife on May 20, 1861. ^[1]