One of his first works was the erection of a rude school-house, and the systematic education of a few children.

Chief among the names of the clergymen, who came out from England in the early days of the Settlement, after Mr.West's return, were Rev.Messrs.
Jones, Cochran, Cowley, McCallum, Smedhurst, James and Hunter.

William Cochran is universally regarded in the Colony as the founder of the English Church in Rupert's Land, and from the date of his arrival till 1849 all the principal ecclesiastical business done may be said to have received its impetus from his personal energy.

The church in which he began his ministrations was replaced by the present Cathedral of St.
John's.

Mr.Cochran then built the first church in St.Andrew's, at the Rapids, and besides gathered the Indians together and erected their church at St.Peter's." In 1849 arrived Bishop David Anderson, an Oxford man.