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| | George Leslie Mackay - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | In 1871, he became the first missionary to be commissioned by the Canada Presbyterian Church (predecessor of both the Presbyterian Church in Canada and the United Church of Canada), arriving in Formosa (Taiwan) on New Year's Eve, 1871. |
 | | After consulting with Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell, Sr., a medical doctor serving as a Presbyterian Church of England missionary to southern Formosa (1865), Mackay arrived at Tamsui, northern Formosa in 1872, which remained his home until his death in 1901. |
 | | Starting with a dentistry practice amongst the lowland aborigines, he later established churches, schools and a hospital practicing Western medicine. |
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