1822-1861+Sophia+Thomas+Mason

-She received an education at the Red River academy under John Mcallum.
===-She was offered the position of governess of the lady's section of the school in 1843, but then married the Wesleyan missionary william mason, who had arrived from Lac la Pluie to become a mussionary at Norway house.===

-Shortly after Evans left in 1845, a printing press arrived at the mission and Mason continued Evans' wrok in England.
===-in 1854 mason left the methodist church and joined the church of England at which time the family moved to York factory. in 1858 the masons moved to England where they oversaw printing of the new and old testament in Cree syllabic=== ===-Sophia’s husband’s journal entry on her death stated “She has been spared to accomplish a great work, the Cree Bible; and to bear such a testimony for Jesus amongst the heathen, by the patience with which she suffered, and her zeal and persevering labours to make known the glorious Gospel of salvation…” ===